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Anjelica Huston
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Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director, producer, author, and former fashion model. She is the daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston. After reluctantly making her big screen debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Huston moved from London to New York City, where she worked as a model throughout the 1970s. She decided to actively pursue acting in the early 1980s, and, subsequently, had her breakthrough with her performance in Prizzi's Honor (1985), also directed by her father, for which she became the third generation of her family to receive an Academy Award, when she won Best Supporting Actress, joining both …
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Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director, producer, author, and former fashion model. She is the daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston. After reluctantly making her big screen debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Huston moved from London to New York City, where she worked as a model throughout the 1970s. She decided to actively pursue acting in the early 1980s, and, subsequently, had her breakthrough with her performance in Prizzi's Honor (1985), also directed by her father, for which she became the third generation of her family to receive an Academy Award, when she won Best Supporting Actress, joining both John and Walter Huston in this recognition. Huston received Academy Award nominations for Enemies, A Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990), for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively, BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the Woody Allen films Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for starring as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993). She also received acclaim for her portrayal of the Grand High Witch in Roald Dahl's film adaptation The Witches (1990). Huston has frequently worked with director Wes Anderson, starring in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007). Her other notable credits include The Dead (1987), Ever After (1998), Buffalo '66 (1998), Daddy Day Care (2003), 50/50 (2011) and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019). She has lent her voice to several animated films, mainly the Tinker Bell franchise (2008–2015). On television, Huston has had recurring roles on Huff (2006), Medium (2008–2009), and Transparent (2015–2016). She won a Gracie Award for her portrayal of Eileen Rand on Smash (2012–2013). Huston made her directorial debut with the film Bastard Out of Carolina (1996). This was followed by Agnes Browne (1999), in which she also starred. She has written the memoirs A Story Lately Told (2013) and Watch Me (2014).
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Anjelica Huston's Filmography
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Ballerina
as The Director
Wick Is Pain
as Self
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Narrator (voice)
Waiting for Anya
as Horcada
Arctic Dogs
as Magda (voice)
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
as Self
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
as Narrator (voice)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
as The Director
Trouble
as Maggie
Always at The Carlyle
as Self
The Cleanse
as Lily
Isle of Dogs
as Mute Poodle (voice)
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
as Self - Host / Actress
The Watcher in the Woods
as Mrs. Aylwood
Thirst Street
as Narrator (voice)
Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
as Self
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
as Self
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
as Queen Clarion (voice)
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy
as Queen Clarion (voice)
Pixie Hollow Bake Off
as Queen Clarion (Voice)
Pablo
as Self
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
as Self
Secret of the Wings
as Queen Clarion (voice)
No Poster
Burma: A Human Tragedy
as Narrator (voice)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Pixie Hollow Games
as Queen Clarion (voice)
The Big Year
as Annie Auklet
50/50
as Diane Lerner
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
as Self
Horrid Henry: The Movie
as Miss Battleaxe
When in Rome
as Celeste
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
as Queen Clarion (voice)
Choke
as Ida J. Mancini
Tinker Bell
as Queen Clarion (voice)
The Kreutzer Sonata
as Elinore
Martian Child
as Mimi
The Darjeeling Limited
as Patricia
Seraphim Falls
as Madame Louise
Material Girls
as Fabiella
Art School Confidential
as Art History Teacher
These Foolish Things
as Lottie Osgood
This Is an Adventure
as Self
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
as Self
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
as Self / Eleanor Zissou
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
as Eleanor Zissou
No Poster
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Iron Jawed Angels
as Carrie Chapman Catt
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
Daddy Day Care
as Miss Gwyneth Harridan
Barbie as Rapunzel
as Gothel (voice)
Blood Work
as Dr. Bonnie Fox
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
as Narrator (voice)
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
as Self (archival footage)
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Etheline Tenenbaum
The Man from Elysian Fields
as Jennifer Adler
The Golden Bowl
as Fanny Assingham
Agnes Browne
as Agnes Browne
Cleopatra: The First Woman of Power
as Narrator (voice)
Phoenix
as Leila
EverAfter
as Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
Buffalo '66
as Jan Brown
Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories
as Narrator (voice)
The Perez Family
as Carmela Perez
Buffalo Girls
as Calamity Jane
The Crossing Guard
as Mary
Addams Family Values
as Morticia Addams
And the Band Played On
as Dr. Betsy Reisz
Manhattan Murder Mystery
as Marcia Fox
The Player
as Anjelica Huston
No Poster
The Making of "The Addams Family"
as Self
The Addams Family
as Morticia Addams
Rabbit Ears - Rip Van Winkle
as Narrator (voice)
The Grifters
as Lilly Dillon
The Witches
as Miss Eva Ernst
Enemies, a Love Story
as Tamara Broder
Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Dolores Paley
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self
Mr. North
as Persis Bosworth-Tennyson
A Handful of Dust
as Mrs. Rattery
The Dead
as Gretta Conroy
Gardens of Stone
as Samantha Davis
Captain EO
as Witch
The Making of Captain EO
as Self
Good to Go
as Charlemaigne
Prizzi's Honor
as Maerose Prizzi
The Cowboy and the Ballerina
Beauty and the Beast
as Marguerite
The Ice Pirates
as Maida
This Is Spinal Tap
as Polly Deutsch
A Rose for Emily
as Miss Emily Grierson
The Nightingale
as Primrose
Frances
as Mental Patient
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Madge
The Last Tycoon
as Edna
Swashbuckler
as Woman of Dark Visage
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
The Most Glamorous Women
as Self
No Poster
Ride This Way Grey Horse
as Claudia
Hamlet
as Court Lady
A Walk with Love and Death
as Claudia
Sinful Davey
as (uncredited)
Casino Royale
as Agent Mimi's Hands (uncredited)
The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana
as Befana
No Poster
Legacy
as Ruth