Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston | |
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 Huston at the Metropolitan Opera opening night of Das Rheingold | |
| Born | July 8, 1951 Santa Monica, California, US |
| 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. More recently, she is known for her frequent collaborations with director Wes Anderson.
Early life
Anjelica Huston was born in Santa Monica, California, and is the daughter of director and actor John Huston and Italian-American prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' (née Soma), from New York.[1] 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. While she modelled, she worked with photographers such as Richard Avedon and Bob Richardson. On the photoshoots with Avedon, her hair was often done by Ara Gallant.
Huston has an older brother Tony, a younger maternal half-sister named Allegra, whom she called "Legs", and a younger paternal half-brother Danny. She is the aunt of "Twilight" actor Jack Huston.[2]
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 Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). She costarred with Jack Nicholson, whom she had been romantically linked with 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 the 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 earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of an iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990). She also starred as the lead in her father's final directorial film, The Dead (1987), an adaptation of a James Joyce story.
She was then cast as Morticia Addams, in the hugely successful 1991 movie adaptation of The Addams Family. In 1993, she revived the Morticia role for the movie 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 highly lauded Wes Anderson films, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), as well as in 2007's The Darjeeling Limited. She voiced the role of Queen Clarion in the Disney Fairies film series starring Tinker Bell. On January 22, 2010, Anjelica was honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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.[3]
Huston has donated $2,000 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.[4]
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.[5] 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 thirteen-year-old girl in Nicholson's home.[6] Her testimony, which was reportedly made in exchange for dropping charges of cocaine possession,[7] in which she had arrived at the residence she had just recently shared with Nicholson, was intended to be used against Polanski to place him in the bedroom with the victim, but once a plea bargain was struck her testimony became unnecessary.[8]
On May 23, 1992, she married sculptor Robert Graham Jr.. The couple lived in Venice, California until his death on December 27, 2008.
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
- ^ Oppelt, Phylicia (1998-10-19). "Ciao Time; Italian Americans Toast Fallen Heroes". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
- ^ "Jack Huston Interview, Details Magazine".
- ^ 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.
- ^ PETA Files, 18 February 2009. Retrieved 21 February 2009.
- ^ "Anjelica Huston Biography - Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. 1951-07-08. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
- ^ "Polanski arrested in connection with 1970s sex charge". CNN. 2009-09-28. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
- ^ Mozingo, Joe (2009-10-25). "How a girl's stark words got lost in the Polanski spectacle". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
- ^ The Roman Polanski story - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
External links
- Anjelica Huston at IMDb
- Anjelica Huston at the Internet Broadway Database
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