Anjelica Huston

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Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, writer, editor, and former fashion model.

When Huston received Best Support Actress for her role in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, she joined her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston.

She has been nominated for her work in Enemies: A Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990) for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively. She gained a BAFTA nomination for her appearance in two Woody Allen films: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and The Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).

She received two Golden Globe Awards for her role as Morticia Addams (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993), which received her acclaim for her portrayal of the Grand High Witch in Roald Dahl's 1990 film adaptation.

Buffalo 66 (1998), Ever After (1998), Blood Work (2002), Daddy Day Care (2003), Seraphim Falls (2006), 50/50 (2011), and The Cleanse (2016) were among the subpoenas for subsequent film credits.

She often collaborates with director Wes Anderson, who has worked on projects including The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic (2004) with Steve Zissou (2004), and The Darjeeling Limited (2007). Huston has appeared on television as Huff (2006), Medium (2008–09), and Transparent (2015–16).

Eileen Rand on Smash received a Gracie Award for her portrayal of her on Smash (2012-2013). Bastard Out of Carolina, Huston's first directorial debut.

Agnes Browne (1999), which she also appeared in, was a follower.

She has published two memoirs, A Tale Lately Told and Watch Me.

Early life

Huston was born at 6:29 P.M. on July 8, 1951, at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, to director and actor John Huston, prima ballerina, and model Enrica Soma. "The news of my arrival was rushed to the post office in Butiaba, Western Uganda, [and two] days later, a barefoot runner carrying a telegram [and two] days later, her father, who was filming The African Queen (1951)," Huston said. Walter Huston, a Canadian-born actor, was Huston's paternal grandfather. Huston has ancestry from her father, Scotland, English, and Welsh, as well as Italian from her mother. Her family immigrated to Ireland, where she spent significant part of her childhood and which she still considers home when she was 2 years old. Her parents rented "Courtown House" in County Kildare, a tall stone Victorian manor in County Kildare, for three years before John Huston bought St. Clerans, a 110-acre estate in County Galway in 1954. She attended Kylemore Abbey and then attended Holland Park School after relocating to England.

Huston is a complicated family because of her parents' multiple marriages and extramarital affairs. Tony, her older brother, and Pablo, an adopted older brother. Allegra, her younger maternal half-sister, and Danny Huston, a younger paternal half-brother. She is Jack Huston's aunt. "My brother Tony and I were never close, neither as children nor as adults," she said, but she was close to him. We were compelled to meet together because we were really alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, but we didn't see many other children. We were taught. Our father was mainly away [for filming]"

Personal life

Huston was a close friend of actor Gregory Peck, who starred in Moby Dick (1956). When Peck was in disguise as Captain Ahab, the two first met on the set of the film when she was four years old. Huston reunited with Peck a decade after her father's death and maintained a friendship that continued until his death.

Huston was an innocent witness in the Roman Polanski sexual assault case in March 1977, when she encountered Polanski and his 13-year-old victim by chance in her boyfriend Jack Nicholson's home. When investigators searched the house in connection with the allegations against Polanski, Huston was arrested for cocaine possession, but she was not arrested because the search and confiscation of her handbag had been unlawful. Despite being unaware of her innocence, Huston became embroiled in the media surrounding Polanski's conviction as a rumored witness for the lawsuit, even though she was not initially called.

At the age of 17, Huston began dating photographer Bob Richardson, then 41, and lived together from 1966 to 1973. She attended Jack Nicholson's 36th birthday party, and the pair began an on-again, off-again relationship that didn't last until 1990, when the media announced she had fathered a child with Rebecca Broussard. Huston was involved with Ryan O'Neal, who allegedly assaulted her during a Nicholson break in the late 1970s.

Following a two-year courtship, Huston married sculptor Robert Graham on May 23, 1992. The couple lived in a three-story house on Windward Avenue in Venice, California, designed by Graham until his death on December 27, 2008. She doesn't have any children, and she said in a Lifetime Intimate Portrait that she's tried to have a baby on several occasions.

Huston revealed her romances with James Fox, David Bailey, and Prince Albert of Monaco in her memoirs. She also admitted to an affair during the shooting of Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998), with a married man named simply as Dolyn in the book.

Huston said she did not have a lover nor does she search for one in a 2013 interview with Larry King.

In November 2007, Huston led a letter campaign arranged by the US Campaign for Burma and Human Rights Action Center in Burma. The letter, signed by over twenty five leading figures in entertainment, was sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and urged him to "personally intervene" to ensure the release of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma. Save the Chimps, the country's biggest chimp sanctuary and rescue center, has Huston currently serves on the advisory board. Huston narrated the educational video Save the Chimps History Video on YouTube, exposing the cruelty of chimpanzee abuse by laboratories, entertainment, and the NASA program Monkeys and apes in space, which sent primates into space and often resulted in death by impact and explosion.

In 1995, Huston donated $500 to Sinn Féin, the Irish republican political party. She has also attended Sinn Féin functions and aided Martin McGuinness in his unsuccessful bid for Presidency of Ireland in 2011.

Huston released a public service alert in December 2012 urging her colleagues in Hollywood not to use great apes in television, films, and advertisements. She was later named Person of the Year 2012 by the animal rights group. In 2018, she donated her fur coats to the homeless and animal shelters. She was the executive producer of Breaking the Chain, a 2020 documentary about the PETA fieldworkers who work to support homeless animals.

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Career

Huston appeared in A Walk with Love and Death (1969), in which she played Claudia opposite Assi Dayan, a 16-year-old French noblewoman. She had been preparing to perform Juliet in director Franco Zeffirelli's version of Romeo and Juliet (1968), but Huston pulled her from consideration after her father decided to cast her as Claudia in A Walk With Love and Death. Huston felt she was wrong for the role, and she has related on the fact that her father "miscast me first time out, which I assume he acknowledged. I was keen to act, but I wasn't able to do so... I was difficult, but I didn't want to show no makeup, although Franco would have tried it." On set, father and daughter had a tumultuous relationship, with the young Anjelica having trouble understanding her lines and focusing, while her father became more cynical and adamant in her instructions. Critics mocked her performance.

Arnaud De Rosnay — who was born in Switzerland at the age of 16 — captured Huston and her mother in October 1968 for Vogue. The young Huston family moved to New York City shortly after her mother died in a car accident; she didn't know what to do with myself, and I wasn't sure whether he'd put me in a convent or bring me as an actress. Well, he'd already tried to do it, but we'd had a rough time determining the first film we made together." Huston was inspired by models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, and she met Diana Vreeland, a friend of her parents, who suggested to Huston her first American Vogue photo shoot, which took place in Ireland, who was inspired by her first American Vogue photo shooter. "They were really pioneering because they previewed the whole look of Gypsy," she said.

Huston was a frequent guest of Bob Richardson, who lived with him until 1973. She was signed to Ford Models and began working in Europe in the 1970s. She walked the runway for brands including Zandra Rhodes, Yamamoto, Armani, and Valentino. Pat Cleveland, Pat Ast, Elsa Peretti, Karen Bjornson, and Alva Chinn were among fashion designer Halston's most popular troupe of models, nicknamed the Halstonettes. Huston met actor Jack Nicholson and moved to California to concentrate on acting after breaking up with Richardson. Although she "didn't do well for three years," she appeared in The Last Tycoon (1976), based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's book of the same name.

Bob Rafelson's remake The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), based on James M. Cain's book, featured Huston as the fling of a Depression-era drifter. She appeared in Frances (1982) and the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984), before landing a bigger part in the science fiction film The Ice Pirates (1984).

In the film adaptation of Prizzi's Honor (1985), which also starred Nicholson, Huston cast her father as Maerose, the daughter of a New York Mafia clan head whose love is scorned by a hit man. She was paid $114,000 per year for her service, according to SAG-AFTRA's scale rate. When her agent called up the movie's producer to ask if she should be paid more, she was told "Go to hell." Be my guest — ask for more money. We don't even want her to be in this film." "Her father is the producer, she boyfriend's the actress, and she has no talent," Huston, who was not only John Huston's daughter but also Jack Nicholson's girlfriend at the time, wrote in her book Watch Me. Nonetheless, Huston received accolades for her work. The New York Times described her character as a "wonderful character" in addition to her self-declaration wisecracks (I'm a family scandal). I have gotta keep up (I need a name). She's a riveting presence, and if Miss Huston, the director's daughter, does not receive an Oscar nomination for her role, I'm pleasantly surprised." In fact, she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the third generation of her family's to win an Oscar.

Huston appeared in the 17-minute, $30 million 3D film Captain EO, written by George Lucas and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which ran from 1986 to Disneyland and Epcot, and later in Tokyo Disneyland and Euro Disneyland. In Gardens of Stone (1987), Coppola's next film to explore the effects of the Vietnam War on the US homefront. In her father's The Dead (1987), she appeared as the wife of an academic, which was his last film as director. Despite her ill health, her father remained a filmmaking hero, but he could actually do it with his eyes closed," Anjelica Huston said. He knew we were going to get a shot well before the camera was rolling. I'm talking about the timing being so precise that he could tell everything, specifically how it was going to go." Anjelica Huston's own health was harmed by the pressures of filming and watching her father's health decline during production, who was diagnosed with Epstein-Barr syndrome.

Huston played the love interest of an engaging, multi-talented Yale University graduate in Mr. North, which was more of a family project, directed by half-brother Danny Huston and made a cameo appearance in the film version A Handful of Dust. Despite her brief screen time, Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised her role as the "most impressive performance" in the latter but said the film was "both too literal and devoid of real meaning." In the dramedy Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Woody Allen played Huston as a flight attendant having an affair with a respected family man, receiving a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress. Huston appeared in Enemies, A Love Story (also 1989) as the long-vanished widow of a Holocaust survivor. "Parts, especially the scenes with Huston, are heartwarming in a strange way because they portray one human being accepting the flaws of another," Roger Ebert wrote in a glowing review of the film. She was nominated for her role as the Best Supporting Actress in the Academy Awards.

Huston played The Witches (1990), based on Roald Dahl's 1983 book of the same name, as the world's witches' all-powerful leader. Marit Allen, the costume designer, and the actor originally wore a different costume for the role, but director Nicolas Roeg dismissed it as "not sexy." "I'd never imagined that this obnoxious creature in a children's film should have sex appeal," Huston recalled. It had not occurred to me. Nic was absolutely correct, of course. His vision was diabolical and sarcastic, as well as humular and amusing. If a witch was to be at the center of this story, she would have to be sexy to hold the gaze." "The Prosthetics for Miss Ernst's conversion to The Grand High Witch were extensive," Jim Henson's Creature Shop produced the character. The various functions—contact lenses, complete facial mask, hump, withered collarbone, and hands—took over six hours to apply and almost as long to remove at the end of the day. Despite a lackluster box office reaction, critics applauded the film and established a cult following over the years; it has also been one of Huston's favorite roles.

In the neo-noir drama The Grifters (1990), Huston portrayed a veteran con artist. When she first heard her about playing Lilly in 1989, she was unsure, but after reading the script, she was curious. Although she was "impressed" by the story and the characters, there was a scene in the script in which Lilly is beaten so violently by another character with a sack of oranges that she defecates alarmed by its explicitness. Frears called Huston again a few months later to see if she was still interested. Huston's talent agent Sue Mengers told her bluntly, "Anjelica, if Stephen Frears tells you he wants you to shit in the corner, then that's what you should do." Huston auditioned for the role in front of Frears at Chateau Marmont on the next day. Frears' initial resistance to Huston, who seemed too much like "a lady," was discarded with the option to cheapen her appearance with a bleached blond wig and "vulgar clothing." She investigated female dealers at card parlors in Los Angeles County, California, to study her role. Her appearance earned her a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards.

In The Addams Family (1991), Huston obtained the part of Morticia Addams, the stern, aloof matriarch of the titular family. In her 2014 book Watch Me, she based aspects of her character's appearance on her friend Jerry Hall to give the character more life, and she described the filming as "long and difficult." It was decided that Morticia's character should have eyes that slanted upwards at both ends, an effect that was achieved by stitching an elastic strap to Huston's head tied at her temples, which pulled the corners of her eyes upwards. To balance the appearance of the lower part of her face with the upper, a second strap was added. The bands brought extreme pain to Huston, and if she had them at lunchtime, she'd have severe headaches and rashes later that day. Hours of extra work was needed in both removing and reapplying her makeup and wig, as well as removing the bands for a break. On top of all this, the bands will snap at the slightest hint of Huston's head, causing even more grueling repair time. She learned to pivot and turn on her feet without lifting her head or head. Judith Malina's way of surviving being "embedded in latex for more than a day" was to "smoke an endless sequence of joints in her trailer throughout filming," according to Huston. The Addams Family was a commercial success, grossing over US$191 million globally, and it inspired Addams Family Values (1993), which inspired a sequel. For both of Huston's appearances, the actor received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. In 1993, she portrayed a mother trying to parent her autistic child in the ABC miniseries Family Pictures, for which she was named Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film at the 51st Golden Globe Awards.

Huston appeared on The Player (1992), a small role in the satire The Player (1992), in which she reunited with Woody Allen on the murder of a married couple examining the husband's wife's death. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Crimes and Misdemeanors by the BAFTA.

The Perez family and The Crossing Guard were not widely seen in, but Huston's miniseries Buffalo Girls, which starred her as frontierswoman Calamity Jane, earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special. Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), based on a Dorothy Allison novel about a poor, physically abused, and sexually molested girl, following in her father's footsteps. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special.

Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent, the new widower of Auguste de Barbarac, appeared in Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998), a contemporary, post-feminist interpretation of the Cinderella tale. Critics lauded the film, and it earned a respectable US$98 million globally. "Huston does a lot of eye narrowing and eyebrow lifting while stumbling around in an extraordinary collection of extreme headgear, accompanied by her two less-than-self-actualized children, the snooty, socio-climbing, nasty Marguerite, and the dark, lumpy, secretly lovely Jacqueline were all praised by Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum. "Nothing is final until you're dead," Mama Mama tells her children at the dinner table, "and even then I'm positive God negotiates."

The Irish dramedy Agnes Browne (1999), her next directorial effort, in which she also appeared as the title character, received mixed feedback. "Nothing more than a string of homey skits interwoven into a portrait of a working-class saint," Stephen Holden, a New York Times reviewer, discovered it.

Huston played the soft-spoken matriarch of an estranged family of former child prodigies in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), alongside Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, and Luke Wilson. Anderson provided Huston photographs of his mother, who, like Etheline, was an archaeologist. "We'll have photographs of his mother in aviator jackets or on archaeological digs," Huston said, and he particularly wanted me to wear a certain locket. "I'm playing your mother," I finally asked him. Anderson argued that this was not the case. Anderson and Huston had a tense relationship with Hackman, who wasn't always amiable on set. On the first day, Hackman and Huston were in a scene together, Huston had to slap him, and later said, "I hit him a really good one." I noticed the fingerprint of my hand on my cheek and thought, "He's going to kill me." Huston's hair caught fire from a birthday candle during young Margot's birthday performance in the opening scenes. Before Huston was seriously wounded, Anderson credited Kumar Pallana with extinguishing the fire. The Royal Tenenbaums, who earned US$71.4 million worldwide, received a positive critical response. She appeared in the film adaptations The Golden Bowl (2000), Blood Work (2002), and the romance The Man From Elysian Fields (2001).

Huston appeared in Daddy Day Care (2003), co-starring Eddie Murphy, as the ruthless head of an expensive and overacademic preschool. Huston "brings surprise to the role of a snailsing day care proprietress," Slant wrote in a critical analysis of the film. Daddy Day Care appears to exist solely to sedate a theater-going public's offspring. And although the film's sense of sobriety should be sufficient, don't expect The Witches. Nonetheless, the launch was a commercial success, with worldwide sales exceeding US$160 million.

Huston portrayed the estranged wife of an eccentric oceanographer in her second film with Wes Anderson, Steve Zissou (2004). She appeared in many critically and commercially flop films between 2005 and 2006, her most well-known film was Hilary and Haylie Duff, which was critically criticized Material Girls. Huston appeared in her third Wes Anderson film, The Darjeeling Limited (2005), in which she played three brothers who became a nun and moved to a Christian convent in the Himalayas. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found her to be "the complete expression of Anderson's talent as a complete filmmaker."

Huston was the hospitalized mother of a sex addict in Colonial America in Choke (2008), a black comedy directed by Clark Gregg and based on Chuck Palahniuk's 2001 book of the same name. The film's reviews were mixed, but Empire critic Philip Wilding wrote: "Huston is magnetic as [the] ailing mother Ida, whether you're looking for a lost child or a flashback. "She is the hook on which her son hangs his hopes and fears." Roger Ebert, on the other hand, said that her appearance "resembled the criminal character" she portrayed in The Grifters (1990). In 2008, Huston sang of Queen Clarion in Tinker Bell, which was also released on DVD with outstanding commercial success. She appeared in four sequels, a television special, and a short film, all of which were released between 2009 and 2015.

Huston appeared in three 2011 live-action films. In the 3D children's musical adventure comedy Horrid Henry: The Movie, directed by Nick Moore, the first was Miss Battle-Axe, a strict, sadistic schoolteacher who speaks with a Scottish accent. "It's very British stuff to me, and I've always been drawn to these bizarre characters," she said to The Guardian. Critics had the film sluggish, but in the United Kingdom, it was a commercial success. In the drama 50/50, directed by Jonathan Levine and co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, she was the mother of a man with a deadly cancerous tumor. On its debut, the film was a critical and commercial darling. David Schmader, a writer for Stranger, praised the "stellar" cast and said Huston "roars back to prominence with a strange appearance as Adam's barely contained mess of a mother." "Avid birder" is the protagonist of Huston's last live-action film of 2011, "captains ocean-going expeditions."

As Broadway producer Eileen Rand, Huston appeared in the NBC television series Smash (2012-2013). Huston credited Smash, her first regular television appearance in the series, with her husband's death in 2008, when she finally filled a void in her life. The series aired for two seasons and was the object of critical acclaim. Vic, a cisgender woman with a link to Maura, a former UCLA political science professor, appeared in the second and third seasons of Amazon's Transparent as Vic, a cisgender woman with a link to Maura. Huston appeared in Johnny Galecki's comedy The Cleanse (2016) as the director of a little-known self-help group, alongside Anna Friel and Oliver Platt.

Huston narrated the black comedy Thirst Street in 2017 and appeared alongside Bill Pullman as siblings competed over the ownership of their father's estate in the comedy Trouble. According to John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter, the latter film, in which Huston was an executive producer, "the cast goes a long way here, transforming Trouble at times into a small-town hangout film that will please fest auds." In John Wick: Chapter 3 – In addition to the director, a much befuddled Russian ballet instructor, and what Vulture described as a "small but memorable role," Huston played a "significant but memorable role."

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