Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston

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Birthday: 
8 July 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA
Height: 
178 cm
Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, to prima ballerina Enrica "Ricki" (Soma) and director and actor John Huston. Her mother, who was from New York, was of Italian descent, and her father had English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish ancestry. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, a... Show more »
Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, to prima ballerina Enrica "Ricki" (Soma) and director and actor John Huston. Her mother, who was from New York, was of Italian descent, and her father had English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish ancestry. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 1969 first dipped her toe into the acting profession, taking a few small roles in her father's movies. However, in that year her mother died in a car accident, at 39, and Huston relocated to the United States, where the tall, exotically beautiful young woman modeled for several years.While modeling, Huston had a few more small film roles, but decided to focus more on movies in the early 1980s. She prepared herself by reaching out to acting coach Peggy Feury and began to get roles. The first notable part was in Bob Rafelson's remake of the classic noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) (in which Jack Nicholson, with whom Huston was living at the time, was the star). After a few more years of on-again, off-again supporting work, her father perfectly cast her as calculating, imperious Maerose, the daughter of a Mafia don whose love is scorned by a hit man (Nicholson again) in his film adaptation of Richard Condon's Mafia-satire novel Prizzi's Honor (1985). Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, making her the first person in Academy Award history to win an Oscar when a parent and a grandparent (her father and grandfather Walter Huston) had also won one.Huston thereafter worked prolifically, including notable roles in Francis Ford Coppola's -Gardens of Stone (1987), Barry Sonnenfeld's film versions of the Charles Addams cartoons The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). Probably her finest performance on-screen, however, was as Lilly, the veteran, iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990), for which she received another Oscar nomination, this time for Best Actress. A sentimental favorite is her performance as the lead in her father's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead (1987) -- with her many years of residence in Ireland, Huston's Irish accent in the film is authentic.Endowed with her father's great height and personal boldness, and her mother's beauty and aristocratic nose, Huston certainly cuts an imposing figure, and brings great confidence and authority to her performances. She clearly takes her craft seriously and has come into her own as a strong actress, emerging from under the shadow of her father, who passed away in 1987. Huston married the sculptor Robert Graham in 1992, The couple lived in the Los Angeles area before Graham's death in 2008. Show less «

Anjelica Huston's FILMOGRAPHY

Finding Your Roots - Season 10

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch - Season 3 (HDR)

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 21

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The Talk - Season 14

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Finding Your Roots - Season 9

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American Masters - Season 37

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American Dad - Season 20

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Star Wars: Visions - Season 2

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 20

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Finding Your Roots - Season 8

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American Dad - Season 19

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 19

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The Talk - Season 13

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Finding Your Roots - Season 7

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American Dad - Season 18

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The French Dispatch

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Star Wars: Visions - Season 1 [Audio: Eng]

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 18

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American Dad - Season 17

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Waiting for Anya

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 17

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BoJack Horseman - Season 6

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Finding Your Roots - Season 6

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Anjelica Huston'S roles

Eleanor Zissou
Eleanor Zissou
Dolores Paley
Dolores Paley
Queen Clarion
Queen Clarion
Etheline Tenenbaum
Etheline Tenenbaum
Mrs. Gwyneth Harridan
Mrs. Gwyneth Harridan
Celeste
Celeste
Fabiella
Fabiella
Morticia Addams
Morticia Addams
Diane
Diane
Jan Brown
Jan Brown
Annie Auklet
Annie Auklet
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt
Ida J. Mancini
Ida J. Mancini
Lilly Dillon
Lilly Dillon
Queen Clarion
Queen Clarion
Madge
Madge
Lady Tremaine
Lady Tremaine
Madame Louise
Madame Louise
Miss Eva Ernst
Miss Eva Ernst
Eileen Rand
Eileen Rand
Cynthia Keener
Cynthia Keener
Superintendent Ellen Riggs
Superintendent Ellen Riggs
Vicki
Vicki
Dr. Bonnie Fox
Dr. Bonnie Fox
Queen Usurna
Queen Usurna