Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston in 2005, by Robin Linderborg Born July 8, 1951(1951-07-08) (age 56)
Santa Monica, CaliforniaOccupation actress, director. producer Years active 1967 - present Spouse(s) Robert Graham Jr.(1992-) Domestic partner(s) Jack Nicholson(1973-1989) Awards won Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress
1985 Prizzi's Honor Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or TV Movie
2005 Iron Jawed AngelsOther Awards BSFC Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985 Prizzi's Honor
BSFC Award for Best Actress
1990 The Witches ; The Grifters
LAFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985 Prizzi's Honor
LAFCA Award for Best Actress
1990 The Witches ; The Grifters
NBR Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985 Prizzi's Honor
NSFC Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985 Prizzi's Honor
1989 Enemies: A Love Story
NSFC Award for Best Actress
1990 The Witches ; The Grifters
NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985 Prizzi's Honor

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.

1 Biography
2 Filmography
3 Other awards
4 References
5 External links

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).[1] 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 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.

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.[citation needed] 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.

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.[2]

Personal life

Huston lived with Jack Nicholson from 1973 to 1989. She married sculptor Robert Graham Jr. in 1992.

In 2003, Huston was one of the many famous people protesting the invasion of Iraq, frequently appearing at anti-war rallies.[citation needed]

Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes 1967 Casino RoyaleAgent Mimi's Hands uncredited 1969 HamletCourt Lady A Walk with Love and DeathClaudia Sinful Daveyuncredited 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestWoman in Crowd on Pier uncredited 1976 SwashbucklerWoman of Dark Visage The Last TycoonEdna 1981 The Postman Always Rings TwiceMadge 1982 Rose for Emily Miss Emily Grierson The Comic Book Kids The Princess FrancesAn 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 TapPolly Deutsch The Ice PiratesMaida 1985 Prizzi's HonorMaerose Prizzi Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Nominated - BAFTA Award; Nominated - Golden Globe1986 Captain EOThe Supreme Leader Good to Go1987 Gardens of StoneSamantha Davis The DeadGretta Conroy Independent Spirit Award1988 Mr. North Persis Bosworth-Tennyson Lonesome DoveClara A Handful of DustMrs. Rattery 1989 Crimes and MisdemeanorsDolores Paley Nominated - BAFTA Award Enemies, a Love StoryTamara Broder Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1990 The WitchesEve Ernst/ The Grand High Witch The GriftersLilly Dillon Independent Spirit Award; Nominated - Golden Globe;
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress; 1991 The Addams FamilyMorticia Addams Nominated - Golden Globe1993 Manhattan Murder MysteryMarcia Fox Nominated - BAFTA Award Addams Family ValuesMorticia Addams Nominated - Golden Globe1995 The Perez FamilyCarmela Perez The Crossing GuardMary Nominated - Golden Globe1998 PhoenixLeila 1998 Ever AfterBaroness Rodmilla de Ghent Buffalo '66Billy Brown's Mother 1999 Agnes Browne Agnes Browne The Golden BowlFanny Assingham 2001 The Royal TenenbaumsEtheline Tenenbaum The Man from Elysian FieldsJennifer Adler 2002 Blood WorkDr. Bonnie Fox 2003 Daddy Day CareMs. Harridan Kaena: La prophétieQueen of the Selenites voice: English version 2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve ZissouEleanor Zissou Iron Jawed AngelsCarrie Chapman Catt 2006 Art School ConfidentialArt History Teacher Material GirlsFabiella These Foolish ThingsLottie Osgood 2007 Seraphim FallsMadame Louise Fair The Darjeeling LimitedPatricia Whitman 2008 ChokeIda Mancini Tinker BellQueen Clarion post-production 2009 The Fantastic Mr. FoxTBA filming When in RomeGuggenheim curator filming

Other awards

Emmy Award Nominations

1989 - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special - Lonesome Dove
1995 - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special - Buffalo Girls
1997 - Outstanding Directing In A Miniseries Or A Special - Bastard Out of Carolina
2002 - Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie - The Mists of Avalon
2004 - Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie - Iron Jawed Angels

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Academy Award Nominations

1985 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Prizzi's Honor
1989 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Enemies, a Love Story
1990 - Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Grifters

Golden Globe television nominations

Awards Preceded by
Peggy Ashcroft
for A Passage to India Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985
for Prizzi's HonorSucceeded by
Dianne Wiest
for Hannah and Her SistersPreceded 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 AngelsSucceeded by
Sandra Oh
for Grey's Anatomy

References

^ Cinema Italian Style. CinemaItalianStyle. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
^ United States Campaign for Burma. Hollywood: UN Should Act on Burma. United States Campaign for Burma's homepage, 6 September 2007. Received 6 November 2007.

External links

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PersondataNAME Huston, Anjelica ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Actress DATE OF BIRTH 8 July 1951PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica, CaliforniaDATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH