Anjelica Huston

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Anjelica Huston

Birth name Anjelica Huston
Born July 8, 1951 (1951-07-08) (age 56)
Santa Monica, California
Spouse(s) Robert Graham, Jr. (May 23, 1992-present)

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.

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Huston was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of film director John Huston (1906-1987) and his fourth wife, Italian American 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. 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.

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 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. Huston 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, Huston 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 by her father, John Huston and starring opposite Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner. Anjelica collaborated with her father again in The Dead, a film for which Anjelica was awarded an Independent Spirit Award. It would also be John Huston's final film before passing away from emphysema in 1987.

Huston 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). She received three Saturn Award nominations for arguably one of her most memorable roles, The Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990); later for Morticia Addams in Addams Family Values (1993) and for her role as Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent in Ever After (1998).

Over the years, Huston has received five Emmy Award nominations for her television work. 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. Currently, she is a recurring cast member in Wes Anderson films, starting with The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004), as well as The Darjeeling Limited (2007). Huston will narrate "Freedom from Fear"[citation needed], a documentary set for a Summer 2007 release, exploring the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and her leadership in the democracy movement in Burma.

Huston will guest star on Medium's fourth season for six episodes when the show resumes in January 2008.[2][3]

After a handful prominent roles in both television and in film, Huston soon 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 would be Agnes Browne (1999) in which she both directed and starred, and Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005).

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[4].

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.

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

For successful Academy Awards, see the Infobox.

Unsuccessful nominations were :

Unsuccessful nominations were  :

Unsuccessful nominations in the category of  :

For successful Golden Globe Awards, see the Infobox.

Unsuccessful nominations were :

Year Film Role
1967 Casino Royale Agent Mimi's Hands (uncredited)
1969 Hamlet'' Court Lady
1976 The Last Tycoon Edna
1981 The Postman Always Rings Twice Madge
1982 Frances An extra. Angelica played a mental patient rocking back and forth in her 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
1986 Captain EO The Supreme Leader
1987 Gardens of Stone Samantha Davis
1988 A Handful of Dust Mrs Rattery
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors Dolores Paley
1989 Enemies, a Love Story Tamara Broder
1990 The Witches Eve Ernst/ The Grand High Witch
1990 The Grifters Lilly Dillon
1991 The Addams Family Morticia Addams
1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery Marcia Fox
1993 Addams Family Values Morticia Addams
1995 The Perez Family Carmela Perez
1998 Phoenix Leila
1998 Ever After Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
1998 Buffalo '66 Billy Brown's Mother
1999 Agnes Browne Agnes Browne
2001 The Royal Tenenbaums Etheline Tenenbaum
2002 Blood Work Dr Bonnie Fox
2003 Daddy Day Care Ms Harridan
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Eleanor Zissou
2006 Art School Confidential Art History Teacher
2006 Material Girls Fabiella
2007 Seraphim Falls Madame Louise Fair
2007 The Darjeeling Limited Patricia Whitman

  1. ^ Cinema Italian Style. CinemaItalianStyle. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
  2. ^ Huston's Raring For 'Medium' Role. Zap2it.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-14.
  3. ^ Medium 's Big on Oscar Winner Anjelica Huston. TVGuide.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-14.
  4. ^ 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.

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Awards
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
Preceded 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 Angels		 Succeeded by
Sandra Oh
for Grey's Anatomy


Persondata
NAME Huston, Anjelica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actress
DATE OF BIRTH 8 July 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica, California
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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