Anjelica Huston
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Anjelica Huston | |
|---|---|
 Anjelica Huston in 2005, by Robin Linderborg |
|
| Born | July 8, 1951 Santa Monica, California |
| Occupation | actress, director. producer |
| Years active | 1967 - present |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Graham Jr. (1992-) |
| Domestic partner(s) | Jack Nicholson (1973-1989) |
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.
Contents |
[edit] Biography
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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]
[edit] 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]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Casino Royale | Agent Mimi's Hands | uncredited |
| 1969 | Hamlet | Court Lady | |
| A Walk with Love and Death | Claudia | ||
| Sinful Davey | uncredited | ||
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Woman in Crowd on Pier | uncredited |
| 1976 | Swashbuckler | Woman of Dark Visage | |
| The Last Tycoon | Edna | ||
| 1981 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Madge | |
| 1982 | Rose for Emily | Miss Emily Grierson | |
| The Comic Book Kids | The Princess | ||
| 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 | |
| The Ice Pirates | Maida | ||
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | Maerose Prizzi | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Nominated - BAFTA Award; Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1986 | Captain EO | The Supreme Leader | |
| Good to Go | |||
| 1987 | Gardens of Stone | Samantha Davis | |
| The Dead | Gretta Conroy | Independent Spirit Award | |
| 1988 | Mr. North | Persis Bosworth-Tennyson | |
| Lonesome Dove | Clara | ||
| A Handful of Dust | Mrs. Rattery | ||
| 1989 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Dolores Paley | Nominated - BAFTA Award |
| Enemies, a Love Story | Tamara Broder | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
| 1990 | The Witches | Eve Ernst/ The Grand High Witch | |
| The Grifters | Lilly Dillon | Independent Spirit Award; Nominated - Golden Globe; Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress; |
|
| 1991 | The Addams Family | Morticia Addams | Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1993 | Manhattan Murder Mystery | Marcia Fox | Nominated - BAFTA Award |
| Addams Family Values | Morticia Addams | Nominated - Golden Globe | |
| 1995 | The Perez Family | Carmela Perez | |
| The Crossing Guard | Mary | Nominated - Golden Globe | |
| 1998 | Phoenix | Leila | |
| 1998 | Ever After | Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent | |
| Buffalo '66 | Billy Brown's Mother | ||
| 1999 | Agnes Browne | Agnes Browne | |
| The Golden Bowl | Fanny Assingham | ||
| 2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Etheline Tenenbaum | |
| The Man from Elysian Fields | Jennifer Adler | ||
| 2002 | Blood Work | Dr. Bonnie Fox | |
| 2003 | Daddy Day Care | Ms. Harridan | |
| Kaena: La prophétie | Queen of the Selenites | voice: English version | |
| 2004 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Eleanor Zissou | |
| Iron Jawed Angels | Carrie Chapman Catt | ||
| 2006 | Art School Confidential | Art History Teacher | |
| Material Girls | Fabiella | ||
| These Foolish Things | Lottie Osgood | ||
| 2007 | Seraphim Falls | Madame Louise Fair | |
| The Darjeeling Limited | Patricia Whitman | ||
| 2008 | Choke | Ida Mancini | |
| Tinker Bell | Queen Clarion | post-production | |
| 2009 | The Fantastic Mr. Fox | TBA | filming |
| When in Rome | Guggenheim curator | filming |
[edit] Other awards
[edit] 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
_Awards
[edit] 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
[edit] Golden Globe television nominations
- 1990 - 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 - Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Family Pictures
| 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 |
[edit] 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.
[edit] External links
|
|||||
| 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 | |
