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Anjelica Huston

Birth date: 08.07.1951

Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951, to director and actor John Huston and italian american (from New York) prima ballerina Enrica (Ricki) Soma. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 1969 first dipped her toe into the acting profession, taking a few small roles in her father's movies. However, in that year her mother died in a car accident, at 39, and Huston relocated to the United States, where the very tall, exotically beautiful young woman modeled for several years. While modeling, Huston had a few more small film roles, but decided to focus more on movies in the late 1970s, studied acting and began to get roles. The first notable part was in Bob Rafelson's remake of the classic 1940s noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) (in which Jack Nicholson, with whom Huston had been living since 1973, was the star). After a few more years of on-again, off-again supporting work, her father perfectly cast her as calculating, imperious Maerose, the 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 (her father and grandfather Walter Huston) had also won one. Huston thereafter worked prolifically, notable roles including co-star billing in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Barry Sonnenfeld's film versions of the Charles Addams cartoons The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). Probably her finest performance on-screen, however, was as Lilly, the veteran, iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990), for which she received another Oscar nomination, this time for Best Actress. A sentimental favorite is her performance as the lead in her father's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead (1987) -- with her many years of residence in Ireland, Huston's Irish accent in the film is authentic. Endowed with her father's great height and personal boldness, and her mother's beauty and aristocratic nose, Huston certainly cuts an imposing figure, and brings great confidence and authority to her performances. She clearly takes her craft seriously and has come into her own as a strong actress, emerging from under the shadow of her father, who passed away in 1987. Huston married the sculptor Robert Graham in 1992, and the couple live in the Los Angeles area.

Filmography

# The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) # Spirit of the Forest (2008) .... Mrs. D'Abondo # Tinker Bell (2008) .... Queen Clarion # Choke (2008) .... Ida Mancini # "Medium" .... Cynthia Keener (2 episodes, 2008) - But for the Grace of God (2008) TV episode .... Cynthia Keener - And Then (2008) TV episode .... Cynthia Keener # Martian Child (2007) .... Mimi # The Darjeeling Limited (2007) .... Sister Patricia Whitman # Seraphim Falls (2006) .... Madame Louise # Material Girls (2006) .... Fabiella # "Huff" .... Dr. Lena Markova (4 episodes, 2006) - Which Lip Is the Cervical Lip? (2006) TV episode .... Dr. Lena Markova - A Cornfield Grows in L.A. (2006) TV episode .... Dr. Lena Markova - So... What Brings You to Armageddon? (2006) TV episode .... Dr. Lena Markova - Used, Abused and Unenthused (2006) TV episode .... Dr. Lena Markova # Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006) (TV) .... President # Art School Confidential (2006) .... Art History Teacher # These Foolish Things (2006) .... Lottie Osgood # The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) .... Eleanor Zissou # Iron Jawed Angels (2004) (TV) .... Carrie Chapman Catt # Kaena: La prophétie (2003) (voice: English version) .... Queen of the Selenites ... aka Kaena: The Prophecy (USA) # Daddy Day Care (2003) .... Mrs. Gwyneth Harridan # Barbie as Rapunzel (2002) (V) (voice) .... Gothel # Blood Work (2002) .... Dr. Bonnie Fox # The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) .... Etheline Tenenbaum # The Man from Elysian Fields (2001) .... Jennifer Adler # The Mists of Avalon (2001) (TV) .... Vivianne ... aka Nebel von Avalon, Die (Germany) # The Golden Bowl (2000) .... Fanny Assingham ... aka Coupe d'or, La (France) # Agnes Browne (1999) .... Agnes Browne # Ever After (1998) .... Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent # Phoenix (1998) .... Leila # Buffalo '66 (1998) .... Jan Brown # The Crossing Guard (1995) .... Mary # The Perez Family (1995) .... Carmela Perez # Buffalo Girls (1995) (TV) .... Calamity Jane # Addams Family Values (1993) .... Morticia Addams # And the Band Played On (1993) (TV) .... Dr. Betsy Reisz # Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) .... Marcia Fox # Family Pictures (1993) (TV) .... Lainey Eberlin # Rabbit Ears: Rip Van Winkle (1992) (V) .... Storyteller # The Addams Family (1991) .... Morticia Addams # The Grifters (1990) .... Lilly Dillon # The Witches (1990) .... Miss Eva Ernst / Grand High Witch # Enemies: A Love Story (1989) .... Tamara Broder # Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) .... Dolores Paley # "Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini) TV mini-series .... Clara Allen # Mr. North (1988) .... Persis Bosworth-Tennyson # A Handful of Dust (1988) .... Mrs. Rattery # The Dead (1987) .... Gretta Conroy # Gardens of Stone (1987) .... Samantha Davis # Captain EO (1986) .... The Supreme Leader # "Saturday Night Live" .... herself - Guest Host (1 episode, 1986) ... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title) ... aka SNL (USA: informal title) ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) ... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title) ... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title) - Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin/George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic (1986) TV episode .... herself - Guest Host # Good to Go (1986) ... aka Short Fuse # Prizzi's Honor (1985) .... Maerose Prizzi # The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984) (TV) # "Faerie Tale Theatre" .... Marguerite / ... (2 episodes, 1983-1984) ... aka Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre (USA) - Beauty and the Beast (1984) TV episode .... Marguerite - The Nightingale (1983) TV episode .... Primrose # The Ice Pirates (1984) .... Maida # This Is Spinal Tap (1984) (also as Angelica Huston) .... Polly Deutsch ... aka This is Spinal Tap®: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi (USA: complete title) # "Laverne & Shirley" .... Geraldine / ... (2 episodes, 1982-1983) ... aka Laverne & Shirley & Company (USA: syndication title) ... aka Laverne & Shirley & Friends (USA: syndication title) - The Fashion Show (1983) TV episode .... Model - A Affair to Forget (1982) TV episode .... Geraldine # Frances (1982) .... Mental Patient # The Comic Book Kids (1982) .... The Princess # Rose for Emily (1982) .... Miss Emily Grierson # The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) .... Madge ... aka Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt (West Germany) # The Last Tycoon (1976) (as Angelica Huston) .... Edna # Swashbuckler (1976) .... Woman of Dark Visage ... aka Scarlet Buccaneer (UK) # One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (uncredited) .... Woman in Crowd on Pier # A Walk with Love and Death (1969) .... Claudia # Hamlet (1969) .... Court Lady ... aka Shakespeare's Hamlet (USA: complete title) # Sinful Davey (1969) (uncredited) # Casino Royale (1967) (uncredited) .... Agent Mimi's Hands ... aka Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale