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| Birth name | Anjelica Huston | |||||||||
| Born | July 8 1951 Santa Monica, California |
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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.
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.
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,
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]
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 (
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.
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| Year | Film | Role |
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| 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 |
| Awards | ||
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| 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 |
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| NAME | Huston, Anjelica |
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| 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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