Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston was born on Jul 08, 1951 in USA. Anjelica Huston's big-screen debut came with Casino Royale directed by Val Guest in 1967. Anjelica Huston is known for The French Dispatch directed by Wes Anderson, Benicio Del Toro stars as Moses Rosenthaler and Adrien Brody as Julian Cadazio. Anjelica Huston has got 38 awards and 60 nominations so far. The most recent award Anjelica Huston achieved is Gracie Allen Awards. The upcoming new movie Anjelica Huston plays is Ballerina which will be released on Jun 07, 2024.

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 Promenade avec l'amour et la mort (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 Le facteur sonne toujours deux fois (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 L'honneur des Prizzi (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 Jardins de pierre (1987), Barry Sonnenfeld's film versions of the Charles Addams cartoons La famille Addams (1991) and Les valeurs de la famille Addams (1993), in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia, Wes Anderson's La famille Tenenbaum (2001) and La vie aquatique (2004). Probably her finest performance on-screen, however, was as Lilly, the veteran, iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears' Les arnaqueurs (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 Gens de Dublin (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.