Anjelica huston biography
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Anjelica Huston
American actress (born )
Anjelica Huston (HEW-stən; born July 8, ) is an American actress, director and model known for often portraying eccentric and distinctive characters. She has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three British Academy bio Awards and six Primetime Emmy Awards. In , she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[1][2]
The daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston, she reluctantly made her big screen debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death (). Huston moved from London to New York City, where she worked as a model throughout the s. She decided to actively pursue acting in the early s, and subsequently, had her breakthrough with her performance as a mobster moll in Prizzi's Honor (), also directed by her father, for which she became the third generation of her family to receive an Academy Award, w
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Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston (born July 8, ) is an American stage, television, voice, movie actress, and movie director.
Career
[change | change source]Huston is mostly known for her role as Morticia Addams in the movie The Addams Family and its sequelAddams Family Values, as well as her role as the Grand High Witch in The Witches.
Personal life
[change | change source]She is the daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston. She won a Golden Globe Award in
She was born in Santa Monica, California on July 8, She dated Jack Nicholson from until they separated in Huston was married to Robert Graham, Jr. from until his death in They had no children. Her career started in She now lives in Three Rivers, California.[1]
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Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 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 first dipped her toe into the world of show business, taking on the lead role of her father's movie A Walk with Love and Death (). 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 The Postman Always Rings Twice () (in which Jack Nicholson, with whom Huston had been living since , was the star). After a few more years of on-again,