Anjelica Huston Biography

NAME: Anjelica Huston

OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress

BIRTH DATE: July 08, 1951 (Age: 60)

PLACE OF BIRTH: Santa Monica, California

ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951, to director and actor John Huston and Italian American (from New York) prima ballerina Enrica (Ricki) Soma. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 1969 first dipped her toe into the acting profession, taking a few small roles in her father's movies. However, in that year 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.

In 1985, 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 her 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). Huston earned additional Oscar nominations for her outstanding dramatic work in Enemies: A Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990). On a lighter note, she 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 the actress 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 2005, Huston won her first Golden Globe Award in eight tries for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her performance in "Iron Jawed Angels." Turning to series television, she had a short recurring guest starring role as an unorthodox psychiatrist in the cable comedy, "Huff" (Showtime, 2004-06). After supporting turns in "Material Girls" (2006) and "Seraphim Falls" (2007), she had a six-episode stint on "Medium" (NBC/CBS, 2004- ) as a missing persons investigator, a role that earned her an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2008. Following her third go-round with director Wes Anderson in his uninspired dramedy, "The Darjeeling Limited" (2007), she was the mentally ill mother of a sex addict (Sam Rockwell) who scams money at restaurants by pretending to be a choking victim in "Choke" (2008).