Biography
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Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model. Among her roles, she starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). She received Golden Globe Award nominations for the part in both movies.
Biography
Early life
Huston was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of film director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston; her mother was an Italian dancer, prima ballerina Enrica Soma. Anjelica was raised mainly in Ireland and England. She attended Kylemore Abbey, a prestigious all-girl boarding school in Connemara, Ireland. Two of the first movies she appeared in, Sinful Davey (1969) and A Walk with Love and Death (1969), were directed by her father even though he did not want her to be an actress. She also starred in The Dead (1987), which was her father's last film. She appeared in few films in the 1970s, choosing to try fashion modeling instead.
Career
Huston won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Prizzi's Honor (1985 and again directed by her father). She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for The Grifters (1990). She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Enemies, a Love Story (1989). Huston has received five Emmy Award nominations for her television work over the years. She won a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actress in a TV Program for Iron Jawed Angels. It was her first win, after eight nominations.
Huston directed Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), which depicts a young girl suffering from sexual abuse by her stepfather, Agnes Browne (1999) (for which she also was the producer) and the TV movie Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005).
Personal life
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.
Filmography
As performer
- Casino Royale (1967) (double for Deborah Kerr's hands)
- Sinful Davey (1969)
- Hamlet (1969)
- A Walk with Love and Death (1969)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (cameo)
- Swashbuckler (1976)
- The Last Tycoon (1976)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
- Rose for Emily (1982) (short subject)
- The Comic Book Kids (1982)
- Frances (1982)
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- The Ice Pirates (1984)
- Prizzi's Honor (1985)
- Good to Go (1986)
- Captain EO (1986) - made with Walt Disney Imagineering for Disney parks worldwide
- Gardens of Stone (1987)
- The Dead (1987)
- John Huston and the Dubliners (1988) (documentary)
- A Handful of Dust (1988)
- Mr. North (1988)
- Lonesome Dove 1989 - television
- John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) (documentary)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
- Enemies, a Love Story (1989)
- Lonesome Dove (1989)
- The Witches (film) (1990)
- The Grifters (1990)
- The Addams Family (1991)
- The Player (1992) (cameo)
- Family Pictures 1993 - television
- Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
- Addams Family Values (1993)
- Buffalo Girls 1995 - television
- The Perez Family (1995)
- The Crossing Guard (1995)
- Buffalo '66 (1998)
- Phoenix (1998)
- Ever After (1998)
- Agnes Browne (1999) (also director and producer)
- The Golden Bowl (2000)
- The Mists of Avalon (2001) - television
- The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
- Blood Work (2002)
- Daddy Day Care (2003)
- Kaena: The Prophecy (2003) (voice in English dubbed version)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
- Art School Confidential (2006)
- Huff (2006) - television
- These Foolish Things (2005) (currently in post-production)
- Material Girls (2006)
- Seraphim Falls (2006)
As director
- Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
- Agnes Browne (1999)
- Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005)
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