Anjelica Huston Biography

Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She later was nominated in 1989 and 1990 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 also played the Grand High Witch in the children's movie ' in 1990 and is, more recently, known for her frequent collaborations with director Wes Anderson.

Early life

Anjelica Huston was born in Santa Monica, California, and is the daughter of director and actor John Huston and Italian"American prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' (née Soma), from New York. Huston's paternal grandfather was Canadian-born actor Walter Huston. Huston spent most of her childhood in Ireland and England. She grew up in Saint Clerans House near Craughwell, County Galway. In the late 1960's, she began taking a few small roles in her father's movies. She started very small indeed, substituting her hands for Deborah Kerr's in the British Casino Royale (1967 film) and advanced to bigger roles in 1969, starring, for example, in A Walk with Love and Death, where she played the 16 year old French noblewoman Claudia. In the same year, her mother, who was 39 years old, died in a car accident, and Anjelica relocated to the US, where she modeled for several years. While she modeled, she worked with photographers such as Richard Avedon and Bob Richardson.

Huston has an older brother, Tony, a younger maternal half-sister named Allegra, whom she called "Legs", and a younger paternal half-brother, actor Danny Huston. She is the aunt of Boardwalk Empire actor Jack Huston.

Career

Acting career

Deciding to focus more on movies, in the early 1980s she studied acting. Her first notable role was in Bob Rafelson's remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). Later, her father cast her as Maerose, daughter of a Mafia don whose love is scorned by a hit man (Jack Nicholson) in the 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 had also won one.

Huston earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990). She also starred as the lead in her father's final directorial film, The Dead (1987), an adaptation of a James Joyce story.

She was then cast as Morticia Addams, in the hugely successful 1991 movie adaptation of The Addams Family. In 1993, she reprised the role for the sequel Addams Family Values. Anjelica also starred in the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster, Ever After: A Cinderella Story alongside Drew Barrymore and Melanie Lynskey as the Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent. She starred in two Wes Anderson films, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), as well as appearing in a minor role in 2007's The Darjeeling Limited. She voiced the role of Queen Clarion in the Disney Fairies film series starring Tinker Bell. On January 22, 2010, Huston was honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2011, Huston was in the film Horrid Henry: The Movie. Huston later appeared on the NBC television series, Smash, portraying Broadway producer Eileen Rand.

Directing career

Huston has recently expanded her horizons, following in her father's footsteps in the director's chair. Her first directorial credit was Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), followed by Agnes Browne (1999), in which she both directed and starred, and then Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005).

Political activism

In 2007, Huston led a letter campaign organized by the U.S. Campaign for Burma and Human Rights Action Center. The letter, signed by over twenty five high-profile individuals from the entertainment business, 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.

Huston has donated $2,000 to Democratic political candidates John Kerry and Dick Gephardt.

In 2012, Huston recorded a public service announcement for PETA, urging her colleagues in Hollywood to refrain from using great apes in television, movies and advertisements. Later the animal rights organization named her their Person of the Year 2012.

Personal life

While working as a model in her teens during the late 1960s, Huston had a relationship with photographer Bob Richardson, who was 23 years her senior. Her on-and-off relationship with actor Jack Nicholson spanned from 1973 to 1989.

On May 23, 1992, she married sculptor Robert Graham. The couple lived in Venice, California, until his death on December 27, 2008. They never had children.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1967	Casino Royale	Agent Mimi's Hands	uncredited
1969	Hamlet	Court Lady
1969	'	Claudia
1969	Sinful Davey		uncredited
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Woman in Crowd on Pier	uncredited
1976	Swashbuckler	Woman of Dark Visage
1976	'	Edna
1981	'	Madge
1982	Rose for Emily	Miss Emily Grierson
1982	'	The Princess
1982	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	credited as Angelica Huston
1984	'	Maida
1985	Prizzi's Honor	Maerose Prizzi	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated "? BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated "? Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1986	Captain EO	The Supreme Leader
1986	Good to Go
1987	Gardens of Stone	Samantha Davis
1987	'	Gretta Conroy	Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female Nominated "? National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress (3rd place) Nominated "? New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (2nd place)
1988	Mr. North	Persis Bosworth-Tennyson
1988	Lonesome Dove	Clara Allen	Nominated "? Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated "? Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress " Series, Miniseries or Television Film
1988	'	Mrs. Rattery
1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Dolores Paley	Nominated "? BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1989	Enemies, a Love Story	Tamara Broder	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated "? Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated "? Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress (2nd place)
1990	'	Miss Eva Ernst/The Grand High Witch	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated "? Saturn Award for Best Actress
1990	'	Lilly Dillon	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated "? Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated "? Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated "? New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
1991	'	Morticia Addams	Nominated "? Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1993	Family Pictures	Lainey Eberlin	Nominated "? Golden Globe Award for Best Actress " Miniseries or Television Film
1993	Manhattan Murder Mystery	Marcia Fox	Nominated "? BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1993	Addams Family Values	Morticia Addams	Nominated "? Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated "? Saturn Award for Best Actress
1993	And the Band Played On	Dr. Betsy Reisz
1995	'	Carmela Perez
1995	Buffalo Girls	Calamity Jane	Television film Nominated "? Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated "? Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
1995	'	Mary	Nominated "? Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Nominated "? Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
1998	Phoenix	Leila
1998	Ever After	Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress " Drama/Romance Nominated "? Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
1998	Buffalo '66	Billy Brown's Mother
1999	Agnes Browne	Agnes Browne	also directed San Sebastián International Film Festival's Youth Jury Award
1999	'	Fanny Assingham
2001	'	Etheline Tenenbaum	Nominated "? Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated "? Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress " Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2001	'	Viviane, Lady of Lake	Nominated "? Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress " Miniseries or a Movie Nominated "? Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
2002	Blood Work	Dr. Bonnie Fox
2002	Barbie as Rapunzel	Madame Gothel	voice: English version DVD Exclusive Award for Best Animated Character Performance
2003	Daddy Day Care	Ms. Harridan
2003	Kaena: The Prophecy	Queen of the Selenites	voice: English version
2004	'	Eleanor Zissou	Nominated "? Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Ensemble Cast (2nd place) Nominated "? Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
2004	Iron Jawed Angels	Carrie Chapman Catt	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress " Series, Miniseries or Television Film Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress " Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated "? Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress " Miniseries or a Movie
2006	Art School Confidential	Art History Teacher
2006	Covert One: The Hades Factor	President Castilla
2006	Material Girls	Fabiella
2006	These Foolish Things	Lottie Osgood
2006	Huff	Dr. Lena Markova
2007	Seraphim Falls	Madame Louise Fair/Lucifer
2007	'	Patricia Whitman
2007	Martian Child	Mimi
2008	Medium	Cynthia Keener	7 episodes Nominated "? Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress " Drama Series
2008	Choke	Ida Mancini	Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize (shared with the ensemble cast) Nominated "? Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress " Motion Picture
2008	Tinker Bell	Queen Clarion	voice only
2008	Spirit of the Forest	Mrs. D'Abondo
2009	Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure	Queen Clarion	voice only
2010	When in Rome	Celeste
2011	50/50	Diane	Nominated "? Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
2011	Horrid Henry: The Movie	Miss Battle-Axe
2011	The Big Year	Annie Auklet
2011	Pixie Hollow Games	Queen Clarion	voice only
2012-2013	Smash	Eileen Rand	Series Regular
2012	Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings	Queen Clarion	voice only

Television and 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
• 2008 " Outstanding Guest Actress " Drama Series " Medium

Golden Globes

• 1990 " Nominated " Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television " Lonesome Dove
• 1994 " Nominated " Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television " Family Pictures
• 2004 " Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television " Iron Jawed Angels'

Other

• 1996 " Recipient " Women in Film [[Women_in_Film_Crystal_+_Lucy_Awards#THE_CRYSTAL_AWARD|Crystal Award]]- for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.