Huston, Anjelica (1951– )
| US film actor. She gained critical acclaim for her part in Prizzi's Honor (1985), for which she won an Academy Award. Her films include The Dead (1987), The Grifters (1990), The Addams Family (1991), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Buffalo 66 (1998), and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). |
| In 1996 she moved behind the camera to direct Bastard Out of Carolina from a novel by Dorothy Allison and then Terrible Beauty, based on the life of the Irish actor and feminist Maud Gonne. |
| Anjelica Huston was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of the director John Huston and granddaughter of the actor Walter Huston. She was brought up in County Galway, Ireland, and educated in London. Her film debut was in her father's A Walk with Love and Death (1969). Disparaged by critics, she turned to modelling instead and became the companion of the actor Jack Nicholson. She returned to acting in the 1980s. |
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