Anjelica Huston

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Anjelica Huston
Image:S640x480.jpg Anjelica Huston by: Hary Winston
Birth name	Anjelica Susan Huston
Born	July 8 1951 (age 57) Santa Monica, California, USA
Other name(s)	Angel
Spouse(s)	Robert Graham, Jr. (May 23, 1992-present)
Awards Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress Prizzi's Honor (1985)

Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model. Among her roles, she starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). She received Golden Globe Award nominations for both films.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and career 1.2 Actress 1.3 Director 1.4 Personal life 2 External links

Biography

Early life and career

Huston was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of film director John Huston and Italian prima ballerina Enrica Soma.
Raised mainly in Ireland and in England, attending Kylemore Abbey, a prestigious all-girl boarding school in Connemara, Ireland and also Holland Park School.

Two of the first movies she appeared in, Sinful Davey (1969) and A Walk with Love and Death (1969) were directed by her father considering from the start, he disapproved of her ambitions to act and for her performances in both films, Anjelica received crucial and hurtful reviews.

Unfortunate news already, Anjelica lost her mother in a car accident the same year at the age 39 years old.

Anjelica would appear in less than few films in the next decade, moving to United States and pursuing a successful landing career in Modeling,

Anjelica would meet actor, Jack Nicholson in 1973.

Actress

Anjelica 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. Anjelica 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, Anjelica 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 John Huston, starring opposite Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner.

Anjelica collaborated with her father in The Dead, a film for which Anjelica was awarded an Independent Spirit Award, would also be John Huston's final film before unfortunately passing away from emphysema.

Anjelica 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).

Over the years, Huston has received five Emmy Award nominations for her television work over the years. 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.

Also receiving three Saturn Award nominations in which she was nominated for one of her most memorable roles, The Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990). For her trademark role, Morticia Addams in Addams Family Values (1991). And for her role as Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent in Ever After (1998).

Acting in this century, she is a recurring cast member in Wes Anderson films, starting with The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004).

Director

After a handful prominent roles in both television and in film, Anjelica soon stepped away from acting, following her Father’s footsteps in the Director’s chair, her first film she would direct would be 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.

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

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