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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