- Born
- Nicknames
- Angel
- Anjel
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 to director and actor John Huston and Russian prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' Soma. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 1968 first dipped her toe into the world of show business, taking on the lead role of her father's movie A Walk with Love and Death (1969). However, before it was released, 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 made sporadic cameo appearances in a couple films, but decided to pursue it as a career in the early '80s. She prepared herself by reaching out to acting coach Peggy Feury and began to get roles. The first notable part was in Bob Rafelson's remake of the classic 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, including notable roles 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. The couple lived in Venice Beach until Graham's death in 2008.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Larry-115
- SpouseRobert Graham(May 23, 1992 - December 27, 2008) (his death)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsEnrica Soma
- RelativesDanny Huston(Half Sibling)Allegra Huston(Half Sibling)Angelica Soma(Grandparent)Jack Huston(Niece or Nephew)Laura Huston(Niece or Nephew)Matthew Huston(Niece or Nephew)Walter Huston(Grandparent)Tony Huston(Sibling)Walter Huston(Grandparent)
- Contended with Cher for roles in films. Huston auditioned for the role of Alexandra Medford in The Witches of Eastwick (1987) but Cher won the part, and Huston was chosen over Cher for the roles of the Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990) and Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991).
- At the end of her 17 year relationship with Jack Nicholson, Nicholson gifted her a pearl and diamond bracelet which had once been a gift from Frank Sinatra to Ava Gardner. It was Nicholson's way of concluding their relationship. Huston appeared with Nicholson in five films: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Last Tycoon (1976), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Prizzi's Honor (1985) and The Crossing Guard (1995).
- Third generation in her family to receive the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, after her father, John Huston and grandfather, Walter Huston.
- As a child she wanted to be a nun because the idea of wearing a veil was aesthetically pleasing to her.
- Her parents separated in the early 1960s and had children by other people: Danny Huston, her father's son with Zoe Sallis; and Allegra Huston, her mother's daughter with John Julius Norwich. Despite this, they never divorced.
- There were many times when my father [John Huston] and I didn't agree, but we always became close again because I tended not to stand up to him for long. I seem to have been drawn to dominating men, like my father and Jack [Jack Nicholson].
- Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.
- I have a very full life and I am very happy with where I am now. I don't want to change anything. I once wanted to have children and it was not my choice not to have children but it hasn't broken my heart that I haven't. I think unless you're truly, wholeheartedly prepared to make a full-time commitment, you have to really think about it. I certainly wouldn't adopt children just because everybody in show business seems to be doing it.
- I like to dance. I probably would have been a dancer. I love music, it's good for the soul and dancing is good for people. I dance on my own, I go to classes, I have that sort of energy. I need to dance. People only need to dance to make them feel happy.
What do I think of the Yankees? I'm sorry, I don't follow football. - I can't help feeling the world is on this terrible roller coaster where nobody can get it up since the atom bomb.
- Buffalo '66 (1998) - $300,000
- The Addams Family (1991) - $1,000,000
- Prizzi's Honor (1985) - $14,000
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