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Anjelica Huston, daughter of John Huston, is an Academy Award winning actor and acclaimed director in her own right. Born in California on July 8, 1951, and raised in Ireland, Anjelica won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the Mafia princess Maerose Prizzi in the film Prizzi's Honor (1985), directed by her father. Some of her other film credits include The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981); her father's last film, The Dead (1987); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989); Enemies: A Love Story (1989); The Grifters (1991); The Addams Family Values (1993); Agnes Browne (2000), which she also produced and directed; The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and Daddy Day Care (2003).

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Anjelica Huston

  • Born: Jul 08, 1951 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California
  • Occupation: Actor, Director
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: The Grifters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Prizzi's Honor
  • First Major Screen Credit: A Walk With Love and Death (1969)

Biography

The daughter of director John Huston and his fourth wife, ballerina Ricki Somma, Anjelica Huston spent a privileged but troubled childhood in Ireland. Although her father didn't really want her to be an actress, he gave her substantial roles in his films Sinful Davy and A Walk With Love and Death (both 1969). The actress did little movie work during the '70s, choosing instead to pursue a successful, albeit short-term, career as a model before returning to films with a vengeance in the '80s, diligently studying with famed drama coach Peggy Feury.

In 1985, Huston earned an Oscar for her performance as the vengeful girlfriend of hit man Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor, making her the first third-generation Academy winner in history. Other worthwhile roles followed in her father's final directorial effort, The Dead (1987), and Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). She was also rewardingly directed by her half-brother Danny Huston in Mr. North (1988). Huston earned additional Oscar nominations for her outstanding dramatic work in Enemies: A Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990). On a lighter note, she was ideally cast as Morticia Addams in the two Addams Family movies in the early '90s; neither was recognized by the Academy, although both earned her Golden Globe nominations. Despite her breakup with long-time companion Nicholson (she went on to marry Robert Graham in 1992), Huston still occasionally acted opposite him, most notably in Sean Penn's The Crossing Guard (1995). Other notable roles for the actress during the late '90s included her turn as the wicked stepmother in Ever After (1998) and a hilarious portrayal of a football-obsessed, dysfunctional mother in Buffalo '66.

In addition to her work on film, Huston accumulated an impressive roster of television credits during the 1980s and '90s, including her powerful performances as frontier woman Clara Allen in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove and the beleaguered mother of an autistic child in the two-part Family Pictures (1993). She also had a supporting role in the widely acclaimed 1993 production of And the Band Played On. In 1996, Huston made her directorial debut with Bastard out of Carolina, a praised adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel of the same name, and followed that up with another behind-the-camera effort, Agnes Browne, in 1999. She played Gene Hackman's estranged wife in the critically-acclaimed The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001. She appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in his police drama Blood Work. She continued to appear in a wide variety of films including an officious antagonist in Daddy Day Care. In 2004 she reteamed with Wes Anderson for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and played in the made for cable historical drama Iron Jawed Angels. In 2006 Huston took on a small role in Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential, and appeared in Martha Coolidge's Material Girls opposite Hilary and Haylie Duff. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

 
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Anjelica Huston
Anjelica_Huston_cropped.jpg
Birth name Anjelica Huston
Born July 8 1951 (1951--) (age 56)
Santa Monica, California
Spouse(s) Robert Graham, Jr. (May 23, 1992-present)

Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and former fashion model. Huston won an Oscar for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor. She later was nominated in 1990 and 1991 for her acting in Enemies, a Love Story and The Grifters respectively. Among her roles, she starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), receiving Golden Globe nominations for both.

Biography

Early life

Huston was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of film director John Huston (1906-1987) and his fourth wife, Italian American prima ballerina Enrica Soma (1930-1969).[1] Her grandfather, Walter Huston — a stage and screen star — won an Oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. One of four siblings, she was raised mainly in the Republic of Ireland and in England. She attended Kylemore Abbey, a prestigious all-girl boarding school in Connemara, Ireland as well as Holland Park School.

Acting career

Two of Huston's first movies, Sinful Davey (1969) and A Walk with Love and Death (1969) were directed by her father. Although he disapproved of her ambitions to act, Anjelica received crucial but hurtful reviews for her performances. She would lose her mother in a car accident the same year; her father remarried Celeste Shane three years later. She appeared in only a few films over the next decade, moving to United States and pursuing a successful career in modeling.

Huston would again retreat to familiar roots, taking on very small roles in films in the early Eighties; one in which she would star alongside Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange in Bob Rafelson's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and in Frances (1982) which would also star Jessica Lange. Huston would also appear in critically acclaimed television series, Laverne & Shirley and Faerie Tale Theatre.

After taking on several small but prominent roles in both film and in television, Huston would land her big break, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi's Honor (1985), a film directed by her father, John Huston and starring opposite Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner. Anjelica collaborated with her father again in The Dead, a film for which Anjelica was awarded an Independent Spirit Award. It would also be John Huston's final film before passing away from emphysema in 1987.

Huston would also be nominated another Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Tamara Broder in Enemies, a Love Story (1989) and another for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role as Lily Dillon in The Grifters (1990). She received three Saturn Award nominations for arguably one of her most memorable roles, The Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990); later for Morticia Addams in Addams Family Values (1991) and for her role as Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent in Ever After (1998).

Over the years, Huston has received five Emmy Award nominations for her television work. Winning a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actress in a TV Program for Iron Jawed Angels (2004). It was her first win, after eight nominations. Currently, she is a recurring cast member in Wes Anderson films, starting with The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004). Huston will narrate "Freedom from Fear", a documentary set for a Summer 2007 release, exploring the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and her leadership in the democracy movement in Burma.

Huston will guest star on Medium's fourth season for six episodes when the show resumes in January 2008.[2][3]

Directing

After a handful prominent roles in both television and in film, Huston soon stepped away from acting, following in her father’s footsteps in the Director’s chair. The first film she directed was Bastard Out of Carolina (1996); another would be Agnes Browne (1999) in which she both directed and starred, and Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005).

Personal life

Huston lived with Jack Nicholson from 1973 to 1989. She married sculptor Robert Graham Jr. in 1992, and resides in an unusual dwelling in Venice, Los Angeles, California. She refused to move to the bohemian area unless Graham built them a fortress in which to live. The result was a giant, windowless structure behind an opaque 40-foot fence.

In 2003, Huston was one of the many famous people protesting the invasion of Iraq, frequently appearing at anti-war rallies.

Award nominations

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Filmography

Year Film Role
1967 Casino Royale Agent Mimi's Hands (uncredited)
1969 Hamlet'' Court Lady
1976 The Last Tycoon Edna
1981 The Postman Always Rings Twice Madge
1982 Frances An extra. Angelica played a mental patient rocking back and forth in her bed under a blanket. View DVD, Frances (2001), chapter 23.
1984 This is Spinal Tap Polly Deutsch
1984 The Ice Pirates Maida
1985 Prizzi's Honor Maerose Prizzi
1986 Captain EO The Supreme Leader
1987 Gardens of Stone Samantha Davis
1988 A Handful of Dust Mrs Rattery
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors Dolores Paley
1989 Enemies, a Love Story Tamara Broder
1990 The Witches Eve Ernst/ The Grand High Witch
1990 The Grifters Lilly Dillon
1991 The Addams Family Morticia Addams
1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery Marcia Fox
1993 Addams Family Values Morticia Addams
1995 The Perez Family Carmela Perez
1998 Phoenix Leila
1998 Ever After Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
1998 [[Buffalo '66]] Billy Brown's Mother
1999 Agnes Browne Agnes Browne
2001 The Royal Tenenbaums Etheline Tenenbaum
2002 Blood Work Dr Bonnie Fox
2003 Daddy Day Care Ms Harridan
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Eleanor Zissou
2006 Art School Confidential Art History Teacher
2006 Material Girls Fabiella
2007 Seraphim Falls Madame Louise Fair
2007 The Darjeeling Limited Patricia Whitman

References

  1. ^ Cinema Italian Style. CinemaItalianStyle. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
  2. ^ Huston's Raring For 'Medium' Role. Zap2it.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-14.
  3. ^ Medium 's Big on Oscar Winner Anjelica Huston. TVGuide.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-14.

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Awards
Preceded by
Peggy Ashcroft
for A Passage to India		 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985
for Prizzi's Honor		 Succeeded by
Dianne Wiest
for Hannah and Her Sisters
Preceded by
Mary-Louise Parker
for Angels in America		 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
2005
for Iron Jawed Angels		 Succeeded by
Sandra Oh
for Grey's Anatomy


Persondata
NAME Huston, Anjelica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actress
DATE OF BIRTH 8 July, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica, California
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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