Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston (/hjustn/; born July 8, 1951) is an Boardwalk Empire actor Jack Huston.[4]
American actress, director and former fashion model.
Huston became the third generation of her family to win
an Academy Award, when she won Best Supporting Ac- 2 Career
tress for her performance in 1985s Prizzis Honor, joining
her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor
Walter Huston. She also received Academy Award nomi- 2.1 Acting career
nations for Enemies, a Love Story (1989) and The Grifters
(1990).
Huston received British Academy Award nominations for
her work in the Woody Allen lms Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).
Among her other roles, she starred as Morticia Addams
in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), receiving Golden Globe nominations for both,
and played the Grand High Witch in the childrens movie
The Witches (1990). She has frequently collaborated with
director Wes Anderson, including The Royal Tenenbaums
(2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). She
is also the author of the book A Story Lately Told.

Early life

Anjelica Huston was born in Santa Monica, California,

and is the daughter of director and actor John Huston
and ItalianAmerican prima ballerina and model Enrica
Soma.[1] Hustons paternal grandfather was Canadianborn actor Walter Huston. Huston has Scots-Irish, En- Anjelica Huston with her brother Danny Huston at the 62nd Anglish and Welsh ancestry from her father.
nual Academy Awards in 1990
She spent much of her childhood in Ireland, particularly
near Craughwell, County Galway, and England, where
she attended Holland Park School.[2] In the late 1960s,
she began taking a few small roles in her fathers movies.
She started very small indeed, substituting her hands for
Deborah Kerr's in the British Casino Royale and advanced
to bigger roles in 1969, starring, for example, in A Walk
with Love and Death, where she played the 16-yearold French noblewoman Claudia. In the same year, her
mother, who was 39 years old, died in a car accident,
and Anjelica relocated to the U.S., where she modeled
for several years. While she modeled, she worked with
photographers such as Richard Avedon and Bob Richardson.[3]

Deciding to focus more on movies, in the early 1980s she

studied acting. Her rst 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 Maa
don whose love is scorned by a hit man (Jack Nicholson)
in the lm adaptation of Richard Condon's Maa-satire
novel Prizzis Honor (1985). Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, making her
the rst 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 fathers nal diHuston has an older brother, Tony, a younger mater- rectorial lm, The Dead (1987), an adaptation of a James
nal half-sister named Allegra, whom she called Legs, Joyce story.
a younger paternal half-brother, actor Danny Huston, She was then cast as Morticia Addams, in the hugely sucand an adopted older brother, Pablo. She is the aunt of cessful 1991 movie adaptation of The Addams Family. In
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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 lms, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life
Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), as well as appearing in
a minor role in 2007s The Darjeeling Limited. She voiced
the role of Queen Clarion in the Disney Fairies lm series starring Tinker Bell. On January 22, 2010, Huston
was honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2011,
Huston was in the lm Horrid Henry: The Movie. Huston later appeared on the NBC television series, Smash,
portraying Broadway producer Eileen Rand.[5]

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Rights Action Center. The letter, signed by over twenty

ve high-prole 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.[6]
Huston has donated $2,000 to Democratic political candidates John Kerry and Dick Gephardt.
Hustons biggest donation has been a yearly commitment
to Transgender Law Center for over a decade. TLC has
a growing number of locations throughout California.
In December 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.[7] Later, the animal rights organization named her their Person of the Year 2012.[8]

Huston has recently expanded her horizons, following in

her fathers footsteps in the directors chair. Her rst directorial credit was Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), fol4 Personal life
lowed by Agnes Browne (1999), in which she both directed and starred, and then Riding the Bus with My Sister
(2005).
Huston began dating photographer Bob Richardson in
1969 when she was 18 and he was 41; their relationship
lasted almost four years.[9]

Political activism

Huston lived with actor Jack Nicholson, on and o, from

1973 until 1990.[10] During one of their separations, in
the late 1970s, she was involved in a relationship with
Ryan O'Neal.
On May 23, 1992, Huston married sculptor Robert Graham. The couple lived in a ve-story house designed by
Graham at 69 Windward Avenue in Venice, California,
until his death on December 27, 2008. They did not have
any children.
Hustons home went on the market for $18 million in
2010, but initially failed to sell. In September 2012, the
New York Post reported that Huston was planning to transform her house into a private social club;[11] the actress
was said to have accepted $12 million for the property and
to serve on the advisory board for a new private club to
be based there.[12] In April 2014, Huston sold the house
for $11.15 million.[13]
Huston was close friends with actor Gregory Peck, whom
her father directed in Moby Dick (1956). The two of them
rst met on the set of the lm when she was four years old
as Peck was in costume as Captain Ahab. Decades later,
after her fathers death, Huston reunited with Peck and
maintained a friendship that lasted until his death.[14][15]
Huston wrote her memoirs as one 900-page book; she
split it into two books at her publishers urging.[16]

Huston in 2005.

In November 2007, Huston led a letter campaign organized by the U.S. Campaign for Burma and Human

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Awards and nominations

Huston, Anjelica (2014). Watch Me: A Memoir.

Scribner. ISBN 978-1476760346.

References

[1] Oppelt, Phylicia (October 19, 1998). Ciao Time; Italian

Americans Toast Fallen Heroes. Pqasb.pqarchiver.com.
Retrieved May 3, 2010.
[2] Moorhead, Joanna (June 27, 2011). Holland Park comprehensive to become an academy. The Guardian.
Guardian News and Media. Retrieved October 30, 2013.

9 External links
Anjelica Huston at the Internet Movie Database
Anjelica Huston at the Internet Broadway Database
Anjelica Huston at the Internet O-Broadway
Database

[3] Huston 2013

[4] Jack Huston Interview. Details Magazine.
[5] Breaking News:
SMASH

Huston, Anjelica (2013). A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York. Scribner. ISBN 978-1451656299.

NBC Picks Up Broadway-themed

[6] United States Campaign for Burma. Hollywood: UN

Should Act on Burma. United States Campaign for
Burmas homepage, September 6, 2007. Received
November 6, 2007.
[7] Ken Wheaton, "PETA, Anjelica Huston Go After CareerBuilder for Chimp Ad, AdAge.com, 27 January 2012.
[8] Marc Malkin, "Smashs Anjelica Huston Named PETAs
2012 Person of the Year, eonline.com, 28 December
2012.
[9] Anjelica Huston to write memoir. The Guardian.
March 2, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
[10] Rose, Charlie (26 November 2013). Anjelica Huston:
Anjelica Huston on her memoir A Story Lately Told.""
(VIDEO INTERVIEW). Charlie Rose. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
[11] Anjelica Huston to turn home into private club New York
Post, September 24, 2012.
[12] Brandon Kirby (September 24, 2012), Anjelica Huston
Planning to Turn Venice House Into Private Social Club
The Hollywood Reporter.
[13] Lauren Beale (April 2, 2014), Anjelica Huston parts with
her longtime Venice home Los Angeles Times.
[14] Tribute to Gregory Peck. CNN.com. 13 June 2003. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
[15] Adrian, Wootton (11 December 2006). Anjelica Huston. The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
[16] Galanes, Philip (2015-02-20). For Soa Coppola and
Anjelica Huston, Oscars a Family Friend. The New York
Times (New York: NYTC). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved
28 March 2015.
[17] Dave McNary (April 22, 2015). Documentary Unity
Set for Aug. 12 Release with 100 Star Narrators.
Variety. Retrieved May 1, 2015.

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