Oscar-winning performance as Maerose Prizzi, the vengeful mob daughter in Prizzi's Honor (1985).
Sometimes Called :
Angelica Huston
Daughter of John Huston
Her mother's name was Rikki Soma; she was a Russian ballet dancer
She was born under the astrological sign of Cancer.
Lived in Ireland when young.
Has two brothers.
She had a brief career as a model.
She currently lives in Venice, California
Third generation of Oscar winners
She appeared as her Addams Family character in Hammer's "Addams Groove" music video.
Lived with Jack Nicholson from 1973 to 1989.
Attended Kylemore Abbey High School in Connemara Ireland
Sister of Tony Huston, half-sister of Danny Huston, granddaughter of Walter Huston, sister-in-law of Pat Delaney.
Half-sister-in-law of Virginia Madsen.
Cat lover -- during an appearance on the "Rosie O'Donnell Show" she divulged that she has 8 outdoor cats and 3 indoor cats at her Venice, California home.
Was offered the part of Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990), but turned it down. The role went to Kathy Bates.
Her father, John Huston, directed The African Queen, with Katherine Hepburn, and played Gandalf in The Return of the King (1980). Anjelica herself later worked with her father's successor, Ian McKellen, in And the Band Played On...(1993); and with Cate Blanchett, who appeared in the trilogy, as well as playing Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator, in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
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 husband is a famous sculptor.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990
The daughter of director John Huston and his fourth wife, ballerina Ricki Somma, Anjelica Huston spent a privileged but troubled childhood in Ireland. Although Anjelica Huston's father didn't really want her to be an actress, he gave her substantial roles in his films Sinful Davy and A Walk With Love and Death (both 1969). Anjelica Huston did little movie work during the '70s, choosing instead to pursue a successful, albeit short-term, career as a model before returning to films with a vengeance in the '80s, diligently studying with famed drama coach Peggy Feury.
In 1985, Anjelica Huston earned an Oscar for her performance as the vengeful girlfriend of hit man Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor, making her the first third-generation Academy winner in history. Other worthwhile roles followed in Anjelica Huston's father's final directorial effort, The Dead (1987), and Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). She was also rewardingly directed by her half-brother Danny Huston in Mr. North (1988). Anjelica Huston earned additional Oscar nominations for her outstanding dramatic work in Enemies: A Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990). On a lighter note, Anjelica Huston was ideally cast as Morticia Addams in the two Addams Family movies in the early '90s; neither was recognized by the Academy, although both earned her Golden Globe nominations. Despite her breakup with long-time companion Nicholson (she went on to marry Robert Graham in 1992), Huston still occasionally acted opposite him, most notably in Sean Penn's The Crossing Guard (1995). Other notable roles for Anjelica Huston during the late '90s included her turn as the wicked stepmother in Ever After (1998) and a hilarious portrayal of a football-obsessed, dysfunctional mother in Buffalo '66.
In addition to her work on film, Anjelica Huston accumulated an impressive roster of television credits during the 1980s and '90s, including her powerful performances as frontier woman Clara Allen in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove and the beleaguered mother of an autistic child in the two-part Family Pictures (1993). Anjelica Huston also had a supporting role in the widely acclaimed 1993 production of And the Band Played On. In 1996, Anjelica Huston made her directorial debut with Bastard out of Carolina, a praised adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel of the same name, and followed that up with another behind-the-camera effort, Agnes Browne, in 1999. Anjelica Huston played Gene Hackman's estranged wife in the critically-acclaimed The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001.
