Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston | |
|---|---|
 Anjelica Huston in 2005, by Robin Linderborg | |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Spouse | Robert Graham Jr. (1992–2008) (his death) |
Anjelica Huston (Template:PronEng; born July 8, 1951) is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She later was nominated in 1989 and 1990 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.
Early life
Anjelica Huston is the daughter of director and actor John Huston and Italian-American prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' Soma from New York. Huston spent most of her childhood in Ireland and England. She grew up in Saint Clerns House near Craughwell, County Galway. In 1969, she began taking a few small roles in her father's movies. In that same year, her mother, who was 39 years old, died in a car accident, and Huston relocated to the United States, where she modeled for several years. She has an older brother Tony, a younger maternal half-sister named Allegra, whom she called "Legs", and a younger paternal half-brother Danny.
Acting career
Deciding to focus more on movies, in the late 1970s she seriously studied acting. Her first notable role was in Bob Rafelson's remake of the The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). She costarred with Jack Nicholson, with whom she had a romantic relationship since 1973. Later, her father cast her as the calculating, imperious Maerose, daughter of a Mafia don whose love is scorned by a hit man (Nicholson again) in his film adaptation of Richard Condon's Mafia-satire novel Prizzi's Honor (1985). Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, making her the first person in Academy Award history to win an Oscar when a parent and a grandparent had also won one.
Huston thereafter worked prolifically, notably earning another Oscar nomination for her portrayal of an iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990), this time for Best Actress. A sentimental favorite was her performance as the lead in her father's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead (1987).
She then became Morticia Addams, in the hugely successful 1991 movie adaptation of The Addams Family, and later in 1993, revived that role of Morticia for the follow-up sequel: The 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 also starred in two highly lauded Wes Anderson films, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), as well as appearing in 2007's The Darjeeling Limited and voicing a character in the upcoming Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson's first time directing an animation film. She also does the voice of Queen Clarion in the Disney Fairies film series starring Tinker Bell.
Directing career
Huston has recently expanded her horizons, following in her father’s footsteps in the director’s chair. Her first directorial credit was Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), followed by Agnes Browne (1999), in which she both directed and starred, and then Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005).
Political activism
In 2007, Huston led a letter campaign organized by the U.S. Campaign for Burma and Human Rights Action Center. The letter, signed by over twenty five high-profile 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.[1]
Huston has donated $2000 to Democratic political candidates John Kerry and Dick Gephardt.
Huston has recorded a public service announcement urging her colleagues in Hollywood to refrain from using great apes as slave labour in television, movies and advertisements.[2]
Personal life
While working as a model in her teens during the late 1960s, Huston had a relationship with photographer Bob Richardson, who was 23 years her senior.[3] She was also involved with actor Ryan O'Neal. Her on-and-off relationship with actor Jack Nicholson spanned from 1973 to 1990 and included an incident in which she became a witness for the prosecution at Roman Polanski's 1977 trial regarding the rape of a 13 year old girl in Nicholson's home.[4] Her testimony, in which she arrived unexpectedly at the residence she had just recently shared with Nicholson, was used to place Polanski definitively in the bedroom with the victim.[5]
On May 23, 1992, she married sculptor Robert Graham Jr.. The couple lived in Venice, California until his death on December 27, 2008. She has never had children and states that she does not regret it.[citation needed]
She owns a ranch in Three Rivers, California, just east of Visalia, which she visits often.
Filmography
Television awards
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
- 2008 - Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series - Medium
Golden Globes
- 1990 - Nominated - 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 - Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Family Pictures
- 2004 - Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Iron Jawed Angels'
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ [1]. PETA Files, 18 February 2009. Retrieved 21 February 2009.
- ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020829/bio
- ^ Polanski arrested in connection with 1970s sex charge
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?lr=&id=ZkjtLnkozWQC&dq=roman+polanski+anjelica+huston+rape&q=+anjelica+huston+who+place#search_anchor
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