Danny Huston
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| Danny Huston | |
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.png) Huston as Colonel William Stryker |
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| Born | May 14, 1962 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor/Director |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse(s) | Virginia Madsen (1989-1992) Katie Jane Evans (2001-2008) |
Danny Huston (born 14 May 1962) is an American actor and director.
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[edit] Life and career
Huston was born in Rome, Italy, the son of legendary director John Huston, the half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston, Allegra Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston, uncle of actor Jack Huston and the grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. His mother, author Zoe Sallis, was an actress of Anglo-Iranian descent;[1] his parents never married.[2] Huston's second wife, Katie Jane Evans, to whom he had been married since 2002, leapt to her death from a California rooftop in October 2008.[3] It was publicised that their marriage had collapsed amid allegations that Evans was a drug and alcohol addict.[3] A divorce case was filed but was never seen through due to Evans's death.
His father John Huston produced Danny's first feature as a director, an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's last novel Theophilus North, called Mr. North. In 1995's Leaving Las Vegas, he moved in front of the camera and has since acted in over 20 films. He gave his breakthrough acting performance in the independent film Ivansxtc. The Bernard Rose feature was nominated for several Independent Spirit Awards in 2003, including Best Male Performance for Huston’s portrayal of Hollywood talent agent Ivan Beckman. Huston has worked nonstop as an actor ever since.
Soon after Ivansxtc, he worked on Martin Scorsese's The Aviator alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Alec Baldwin, for which the ensemble cast was nominated for a 2004 SAG Award. In 2006, Huston received the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Sandy Woodrow in Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener. That same year, Huston starred in the critically acclaimed Australian western The Proposition alongside Guy Pearce and Emily Watson. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Huston also starred in the British independent features Alpha Male and Oliver Parker’s Fade to Black, in which he played Orson Welles alongside Christopher Walken and Paz Vega. He has collaborated several times with British directors Mike Figgis and Bernard Rose, most recently with Rose on The Kreutzer Sonata, which premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
His other film credits include Birth, Silver City, Marie Antoinette, The Number 23, The Kingdom, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People and 30 Days of Night. He most recently portrayed Samuel Adams in the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams. He also portrayed Colonel William Stryker in X-men Origins: Wolverine, a spin off of the original trilogy.
Huston currently has four films in the works, Boogie Woogie and The Laundry Warrior to be released in late 2009, as well as the thriller Edge of Darkness and the adventure films Clash of the Titans and Robin Hood to be released in 2010. Recently, he has joined the cast of HBO's You Don't Know Jack to play the famous lawyer Geoffrey Fieger.
He lives in Los Angeles with his daughter Stella.
[edit] Filmography
- Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- Anna Karenina (1997)
- Spanish Fly (1998)
- Susan's Plan (1998)
- Rockin' Good Times (1999)
- Timecode (2000)
- Ivans XTC (2000)
- Eden (2001)
- Hotel (2001)
- Torture TV (2002)
- The Bacchae (2002)
- 21 Grams (2003)
- Birth (2004)
- The Aviator (2004)
- Silver City (2004)
- The Constant Gardener (2005)
- The Proposition (2005)
- Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
- Alpha Male (2006)
- Fade to Black (2006)
- Marie Antoinette (2006)
- Children of Men (2006)
- I Really Hate My Job (2007)
- The Number 23 (2007)
- The Kingdom (2007)
- 30 Days of Night (2007)
- The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
- John Adams (2008)
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
- Boogie Woogie (2009)
Upcoming
- The Warrior's Way (2010)
- Edge of Darkness (2010)
- Clash of the Titans (2010)
- Robin Hood (2010)
- You Don't Know Jack (2010)
- The Conspirator (2010)
[edit] References
- ^ Madsen, Axel (1978). John Huston. University of Michigan: Doubleday. pp. 201,210. ISBN 0385110707. http://books.google.ca/books?q=%22ZOE+SALLIS%22&as_brr=0.
- ^ Danny Huston Biography - Yahoo! Movies
- ^ a b English beauty dies in roof plunge after her marriage split from John Huston's son
