Anjelica Huston is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, when she won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She also received Academy Award nominations for Enemies, a Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990).Huston received British Academy Award nominations for her work in the Woody Allen films Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). Among her other roles, she starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), receiving Golden Globe nominations for both, and played the Grand High Witch in the children's movie The Witches (1990). She also played Mrs. Gwyneth Harrigan in Daddy Daycare (2003). She has frequently collaborated with director Wes Anderson, including The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
Daughter of John Huston and Ricki Soma.
Lived in Ireland when she was young.
Younger sister of Tony Huston.
She had a brief career as a model.
Currently lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
Is the third generation of Oscar winners.
Attended Kylemore Abbey High School in Connemara, Ireland.
Granddaughter of Walter Huston.
Cat lover -- during an appearance on "The Rosie ODonnell Show" , she divulged that she has eight outdoor cats and three indoor cats at her Venice, California home.
Was offered the role of Annie Wilkes in the horror film Misery , which she turned down. The role went to Kathy Bates.
In Blood Work , she works with Clint Eastwood. In White Hunter Black Heart , Eastwood plays a movie director based on her father, John Huston , in a story about his experiences making The African Queen .
Her deceased (died in 2008) husband, Robert Graham, was a famous sculptor.
Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990.
Former sister-in-law of Virginia Madsen. Sister-in-law of Pat Delaney.
Older half-sister of Danny Huston and Allegra Huston.
Was President of the International Jury of the 53rd San Sebastian Film Festival. Other members of the jury were actress Vernica Forqu , actor Enrico Lo Verso , directors Lone Scherfig and Claude Miller , production designer Dean Tavoularis and writer Antonio Skrmeta.
(September 2005) President of the Jury at San Sebastin International Film Festival. She decided the Silver Shell for the Best Actor: Juan Jos Ballesta.
Her father, John Huston , directed The African Queen with Katharine Hepburn and played Gandalf in The Return of the King . Anjelica herself later worked with her fathers successor, Ian McKellen , in And the Band Played On and with Cate Blanchett , who appeared in the trilogy, as well as playing Hepburn in The Aviator , in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou . Also appearing in The Aviator was her brother, Danny Huston.
In Addams Family Values , Wednesday and Pugsley are forced to watch childrens videos. Among them is Annie , which was directed by her father, John Huston.
There are three generations of Oscar winners in the Huston family: Anjelica, her grandfather Walter Huston and her father John Huston. They are the first family to do so, the second family were the Coppolas - Francis Ford Coppola , Sofia Coppola , Nicolas Cage and Carmine Coppola.
Her performance as Lilly Dillon in The Grifters is ranked #84 on Premiere magazines 100 Greatest Performances of All Time .
Was a member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1996.
Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2007 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in Material Girls ; however, she failed to receive a nomination.
Is an avid reader and will read anything she can get her hands on.
Was chosen for the role of Morticia Addams in The Addams Family above singer-actress Cher.
Was named one of Barbara Walters Ten Most Fascinating People of 1991.
Speaks French fluently.
Was born while her father was in Africa shooting The African Queen .
When she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 22, 2010, she became the third in the Huston family to do so after her father, John Huston , and her grandfather, Walter Huston.
Named after her biological maternal grandmother Angelica Soma, who died when Anjelicas mother Ricki was a child.
Parents had an age difference of 23 years and both had children from affairs with other people during their marriage (her fathers son, Danny Huston with Zoe Sallis and her mothers daughter, Allegra Huston with John Julius Norwich ). Despite this, they never divorced and remained legally married until her mother died in a car accident when Anjelica was age 18.
Was in a relationship with Jack Nicholson (late April 1973 - early January 1990).
Presented Myrna Loy with her honorary Oscar on March 25, 1991 at the 63rd Academy Awards ceremony.
Her father had English, Scottish, Northern Irish, distant German, and very remote Portuguese, ancestry. Her mother was of Italian descent.
Is one of 27 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for Prizzis Honor . The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert ( It Happened One Night ), Loretta Young ( The Farmers Daughter ), Josephine Hull ( Harvey ), Judy Holliday ( Born Yesterday ), Audrey Hepburn ( Roman Holiday ), Goldie Hawn ( Cactus Flower ), Glenda Jackson ( A Touch of Class ), Lee Grant ( Shampoo ), Diane Keaton ( Annie Hall ), Maggie Smith ( California Suite ), Mary Steenburgen ( Melvin and Howard ), Jessica Lange ( Tootsie ), Olympia Dukakis ( Moonstruck ), Cher ( Moonstruck ), Jessica Tandy ( Driving Miss Daisy ), Mercedes Ruehl ( The Fisher King ), Marisa Tomei ( My Cousin Vinny ), Dianne Wiest ( Hannah and Her Sisters & Bullets Over Broadway ), Mira Sorvino ( Mighty Aphrodite ), Frances McDormand ( Fargo ), Helen Hunt ( As Good as It Gets ), Judi Dench ( Shakespeare in Love ), Gwyneth Paltrow ( Shakespeare in Love ), Penlope Cruz ( Vicky Cristina Barcelona ), and Jennifer Lawrence ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
Was the 91st actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Prizzis Honor at The 58th Annual Academy Awards on March 24, 1986.
She appeared in five films directed by John Huston : Casino Royale , A Walk with Love and Death , Sinful Davey , Prizzis Honor and The Dead .
Appeared in Lonesome Dove as Clara. Two other actresses have played that character in her younger years: Jennifer Garner and Linda Cardellini. All three of them, however, have a connection to the role of the Joker from Batman. Huston had a long-term relationship with Jack Nicholson , who played the role in Batman . Garner was married to Ben Affleck , and had appeared in Dallas Buyers Club with Jared Leto. Cardelini appeared in Brokeback Mountain with Heath Ledger.
Is one of 15 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of California. The others are Fay Bainter , Gloria Grahame , Jo Van Fleet , Liza Minnelli , Tatum ONeal , Diane Keaton , Sally Field , Cher , Jodie Foster , Helen Hunt , Gwyneth Paltrow , Angelina Jolie , Marcia Gay Harden and Brie Larson.
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 22, 2010.
Revealed in her autobiography "Watch Me" that ex-boyfriend Ryan ONeal (whom she dated on the 70s) was physically abusive towards her.
Great aunt of Sage Lavinia Huston & Cypress Night Huston.
Aunt of Jack Huston , Laura Huston , & Matthew Huston.
You have to take it all with a grain of salt.
I think people become more watchable after 30, when they have something,between their ears.
About Hollywood. I feel like it’s a big ocean, full of bottom feeders, midlevel fish, the occasional shark, and some wonderful savvy whales, the elders, and the ones who guide you on your way. If you’re lucky enough, you get to be a dolphin and have your waves broken by the passage of these elders before you, but at the same time, you get an occasional shark bite in the tail and maybe one of the bottom feeders comes up and takes a little nibble. But I see myself as cresting a series of waves, dipping down, sometimes, lower than I’d like, but mainly kind of happily staying above. (smiles and takes a long drag of her cigarette) And, of course, I try to avoid the fishnets.
