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Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and former fashion model.

Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Oscar for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her director father, John, and actor grandfather, Walter. 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, 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, 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 Ireland and 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 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. With Anjelica's win, she became the first third-generation Academy Award winner, having been preceded by her father and by her grandfather, actor Walter Huston.

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 employs the psychic abilities of Allison DuBois. Her performance earned her a sixth Emmy nomination.

Directing

After a handful of 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).

Activism

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.

Personal life

Huston lived with Jack Nicholson from 1973 to 1989. She married sculptor Robert Graham Jr. in 1992. She has never had children and states that she does not regret it. She also has a ranch in Three Rivers Ca, just east of Visalia Ca. She visits often.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1967	Casino Royale	Agent Mimi's Hands	uncredited
1969	Hamlet	Court Lady
	A Walk with Love and Death	Claudia
	Sinful Davey		uncredited
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Woman in Crowd on Pier	uncredited
1976	Swashbuckler	Woman of Dark Visage
1976	The Last Tycoon	Edna
1981	The Postman Always Rings Twice	Madge
1982	Rose for Emily	Miss Emily Grierson
	The Comic Book Kids	The Princess
	Frances	An extra	Huston was a mental patient rocking back and forth on a 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	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Nominated - BAFTA Award; Nominated - Golden Globe
1986	Captain EO	The Supreme Leader
1986	Good to Go
1987	Gardens of Stone	Samantha Davis
1987	The Dead	Gretta Conroy	Independent Spirit Award
1988	Mr. North	Persis Bosworth-Tennyson
	Lonesome Dove	Clara
	A Handful of Dust	Mrs. Rattery
1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Dolores Paley	Nominated - BAFTA Award
1989	Enemies, a Love Story	Tamara Broder	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1990	The Witches	Eve Ernst/ The Grand High Witch
1990	The Grifters	Lilly Dillon	Independent Spirit Award; Nominated - Golden Globe; Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress;
1991	The Addams Family	Morticia Addams	Nominated - Golden Globe
1993	Manhattan Murder Mystery	Marcia Fox	Nominated - BAFTA Award
1993	Addams Family Values	Morticia Addams	Nominated - Golden Globe
1995	The Perez Family	Carmela Perez
1995	The Crossing Guard	Mary	Nominated - Golden Globe
1998	Phoenix	Leila
1998	Ever After	Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
1998	Buffalo '66	Billy Brown's Mother
1999	Agnes Browne	Agnes Browne
1999	The Golden Bowl	Fanny Assingham
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	Etheline Tenenbaum
2001	The Mists of Avalon	Viviane, Lady of Lake
2002	Blood Work	Dr. Bonnie Fox	Rapunzel	Dame Gothel	voice: English version
2003	Daddy Day Care	Ms. Harridan
2003	Kaena: La prophétie	Queen of the Selenites	voice: English version
2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Eleanor Zissou
2004	Iron Jawed Angels	Carrie Chapman Catt
2006	Art School Confidential	Art History Teacher
	Material Girls	Fabiella
	These Foolish Things	Lottie Osgood
2007	Seraphim Falls	Madame Louise Fair
	The Darjeeling Limited	Patricia Whitman
	Martian Child	Crass Publisher
2008	Choke	Ida Mancini
	Tinker Bell	Queen Clarion	awaiting release
	Spirit of the Forest	Mrs. D'Abondo	post-production
2009	When in Rome	Guggenheim Curator	post-production
2009	The Fantastic Mr. Fox	TBA	post-production