ANJELICA HUSTON
Name: Anjelica Huston
Born: 8 July 1951 Santa Monica, California
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, a prima ballerina Enrica Soma (1930-1969).
Her grandfather, Walter Huston, a stage and screen star, won an Oscar for The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. She has Scots-Irish, Scottish, Canadian, English,
and Welsh ancestry on her father's side, and Italian on her mother's side. 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 small roles in films in
the early 1980s; one in which she would star alongside Jack Nicholson and
Jessica Lange in Bob Rafelson's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and
Frances (1982) which would also star Jessica Lange. Huston would also appear in
television series, Laverne & Shirley and Faerie Tale Theatre.
After taking on several small but prominent roles in both film and in television,
Huston landed her big role, 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.
Huston collaborated with her father again in The Dead, a film for which she was
awarded an Independent Spirit Award. It was John Huston's final film before
passing away from emphysema in 1987.
Huston was nominated for 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 one of her most memorable roles,
The Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990). Later she received nominations for
her role as Morticia Addams in Addams Family Values (1993) and for her role as
Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent in Ever After (1998).
Over the years, Huston received five Emmy Award nominations for her television
work. She won a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actress in a TV Program for
Iron Jawed Angels (2004). It was her first win after eight nominations. She
appeared in several films by Wes Anderson, starting with The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004), as well as The Darjeeling Limited
(2007).
In January 2008, Huston joined the cast of Medium at the start of its fourth
season for a six-episode story arc. Her character is a missing persons
investigator who apparently shares the psychic abilities of Allison DuBois.
After a handful prominent roles in both television and in film, Huston 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 was
Agnes Browne (1999), in which she both directed and starred, and Riding the Bus
with My Sister (2005).
In 2007, Huston led a letter campaign organized by the US Campaign for Burma and
Human Rights Action Center. The letter, signed by over 25 other Hollywood
profiles, was addressed to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and
urged him to "personally intervene" to secure the release of Nobel Peace Prize
recipient Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma.
Name: Anjelica Huston
Born: 8 July 1951 Santa Monica, California
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, a prima ballerina Enrica Soma (1930-1969).
Her grandfather, Walter Huston, a stage and screen star, won an Oscar for The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. She has Scots-Irish, Scottish, Canadian, English,
and Welsh ancestry on her father's side, and Italian on her mother's side. 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 small roles in films in
the early 1980s; one in which she would star alongside Jack Nicholson and
Jessica Lange in Bob Rafelson's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and
Frances (1982) which would also star Jessica Lange. Huston would also appear in
television series, Laverne & Shirley and Faerie Tale Theatre.
After taking on several small but prominent roles in both film and in television,
Huston landed her big role, 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.
Huston collaborated with her father again in The Dead, a film for which she was
awarded an Independent Spirit Award. It was John Huston's final film before
passing away from emphysema in 1987.
Huston was nominated for 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 one of her most memorable roles,
The Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990). Later she received nominations for
her role as Morticia Addams in Addams Family Values (1993) and for her role as
Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent in Ever After (1998).
Over the years, Huston received five Emmy Award nominations for her television
work. She won a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actress in a TV Program for
Iron Jawed Angels (2004). It was her first win after eight nominations. She
appeared in several films by Wes Anderson, starting with The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004), as well as The Darjeeling Limited
(2007).
In January 2008, Huston joined the cast of Medium at the start of its fourth
season for a six-episode story arc. Her character is a missing persons
investigator who apparently shares the psychic abilities of Allison DuBois.
After a handful prominent roles in both television and in film, Huston 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 was
Agnes Browne (1999), in which she both directed and starred, and Riding the Bus
with My Sister (2005).
In 2007, Huston led a letter campaign organized by the US Campaign for Burma and
Human Rights Action Center. The letter, signed by over 25 other Hollywood
profiles, was addressed to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and
urged him to "personally intervene" to secure the release of Nobel Peace Prize
recipient Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma.