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Representing the third generation of Hustons to win an Academy Award, Anjelica Huston finally emerged from... (Learn more)

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Anjelica Huston’s Milestones
Moved to Ireland as a young child and lived in an estate in Galway
1961 Moved to London at age ten
1967 Auditioned for the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of "Romeo and Juliet"
1969 Feature acting debut, an uncredited appearance in her father, John Huston's "Sinful Davey"
1969 First starring role, "A Walk with Love and Death"; directed by her father (who also co-starred as her uncle)
1969 Moved to NYC after mother's death and was an understudy for Marianne Faithful in the Broadway production of "Hamlet"
1971 Modeled for photographer (an old friend of Huston's mother) Richard Avedon in a 30-page fashion shoot for Vogue magazine
1973 Moved to Los Angeles to live with off-screen love, Jack Nicholson
1976 Returned to the screen in Elia Kazan's "The Last Tycoon"; first film with Jack Nicholson
1981 Second film with Nicholson, Bob Rafelson's remake of "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
1982 - 1983 Acted in episodes of "Laverne and Shirley" (ABC)
1984 Appeared in Rob Reiner's feature directing debut, "This Is Spinal Tap"
1984 Career received a boost when she was cast as an Amazon with guns in "The Ice Pirates"
1984 TV-movie debut, "The Cowboy and the Ballerina" (CBS)
1985 Breakthrough screen role as the Mafia princess in John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor"; third on-screen collaboration with Nicholson
1985 Played title role in the Los Angeles stage production of "Tamara"
1986 Joined Michael Jackson and Dick Shawn in Francis Ford Coppola's 17-minute, 3-D musical "Captain Eo" (produced for the Disney theme parks)
1987 Played a woman in a loveless marriage in John Huston's final film, "The Dead"; screenplay was adapted by brother, Tony from the short story of the same name by James Joyce
1987 Re-teamed with Coppola in her first leading role, "Gardens of Stone"
1988 Acted in half-brother Danny Huston's "Mr. North"; co-adapted by father, John Huston
1989 Cast as as Clara Allen in the CBS miniseries, "Lonesome Dove" (adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel); received an Emmy nomination for Lead Actress in a Miniseries
1989 First film with director Woody Allen, "Crimes and Misdemeanors," playing the desperate mistress of Martin Landau
1989 Received a Best Supporting Oscar nomination as a Nazi concentration camp survivor in Paul Mazursky's "Enemies, a Love Story"
1990 Acted the part of the Grand High Witch in Nicolas Roeg's "The Witches"
1990 Received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Lily Dillon in "The Grifters"
1991 Portrayed matriarch, Morticia Addams in "The Addams Family"
1992 Appeared as herself in Robert Altman's "The Player"
1993 Offered a strong performance as the mother of an autistic child in the ABC miniseries "Family Pictures"
1993 Portrayed Doctor Betsy Reisz in the acclaimed HBO movie, "And the Band Played On" that follows the course of the AIDS crisis
1993 Re-teamed with Woody Allen for "Manhattan Murder Mystery"
1993 Reprised role of Morticia for "Addams Family Values"
1995 Portrayed Calamity Jane in the CBS miniseries "Buffalo Girls" (adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel); received an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actress in a Miniseries
1995 Re-teamed with Nicholson to play an estranged couple in Sean Penn's "The Crossing Guard"
1996 Made directorial debut with "Bastard Out of Carolina" (originally filmed for TNT, but they would not air it due to its content; later aired on Showtime); received an Emmy nomination for Directing
1998 Acted in Danny Cannon's mediocre crime film "Phoenix" (HBO), portraying Ray Liotta's love interest
1998 Played Vincent Gallo's Buffalo Bills-crazed mom in Gallo's "Buffalo 66"
1998 Portrayed the evil stepmother in Andy Tennant's take on the Cinderella story "Ever After"
1999 Directed, co-produced and starred in "Agnes Browne" as a widowed mother of seven in 1960s Ireland
2000 Appeared in James Ivory's "The Golden Bowl" (based on the Henry James novel)
2001 Played the matriarch in a family of failed geniuses in Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums"
2001 Portrayed the Lady in the Lake in the TNT retelling of the Arthurian legend "The Mists of Avalon"
2002 Starred opposite Clint Eastwood in "Blood Work"
2003 Co-starred with Hilary Swank in the HBO movie "Iron Jawed Angels," about the American women's suffrage movement during the early 1900s; received an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actress
2004 Co-starred with Bill Murray in Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" as Zissou's (Murray) estranged wife
2005 Directed Rosie O'Donnell and Andie MacDowell in the CBS movie "Riding the Bus With My Sister"
2006 Cast in Terry Zwigoff's adaptation of Daniel Clowes' comic story "Art School Confidential"
2006 Guest-starred as an unorthodox psychiatrist in a four episode stint on the Showtime series "Huff"
2007 Co-starred with Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan in the western "Seraphim Falls"
2008 Cast as Sam Rockwell's mother in the film "Choke," based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
2008 Played a missing persons investigator in a six-episode story arc on "Medium" (NBC); received an Emmy nomination for Guest Actress in a Drama

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Also known as

AKA : Anjelica

Born

July, 08 1951 in Santa Monica, California, USA

Education

  • Holland Park School, London, England:
  • Kylemore Abbey, Connemara, Ireland: A prestigious all-girl boarding school
  • Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, London, England:

Professions

actor, director, producer