Anjelica Huston biography and movies
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.While modeling, Huston had a few more small film roles, but decided to focus more on movies in the late 1970s, studied acting and began to get roles. The first notable part was in Bob Rafelson's remake of the classic 1940s noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) (in which Jack Nicholson, with whom Huston had been living since 1973, was the star). After a few more years of on-again, off-again supporting work, her father perfectly cast her as calculating, imperious Maerose, the daughter of a Mafia don whose love is scorned by a hit man (Nicholson again) in his film adaptation of Richard Condon's Mafia-satire novel Prizzi's Honor (1985). Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, making her the first person in Academy Award history to win an Oscar when a parent and a grandparent (her father and grandfather Walter Huston) had also won one.Huston thereafter worked prolifically, notable roles including co-star billing in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Barry Sonnenfeld's film versions of the Charles Addams cartoons The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). Probably her finest performance on-screen, however, was as Lilly, the veteran, iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990), for which she received another Oscar nomination, this time for Best Actress. A sentimental favorite is her performance as the lead in her father's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead (1987) -- with her many years of residence in Ireland, Huston's Irish accent in the film is authentic.Endowed with her father's great height and personal boldness, and her mother's beauty and aristocratic nose, Huston certainly cuts an imposing figure, and brings great confidence and authority to her performances. She clearly takes her craft seriously and has come into her own as a strong actress, emerging from under the shadow of her father, who passed away in 1987. Huston married sculptor Robert Graham in 1992, and the couple live in the Los Angeles area.

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Rate: 3.8 Riding the Bus with My Sister

Year: 2005

Genres: Drama

Director: Anjelica Huston

Artists: Diane Bald, Vijay Mehta, Simon Reynolds, Shauna MacDonald, Boyd Banks, Allegra Fulton, Stephanie Morgenstern, Jayne Eastwood, Tom Barnett, Peter Cockett, Roberta Maxwell, Andie MacDowell


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Rate: 3.8 Riding The Bus With My Sister

Year: 2005

Genres: Drama

Director: Anjelica Huston

Artists: Diane Bald, Vijay Mehta, Simon Reynolds, Shauna MacDonald, Boyd Banks, Allegra Fulton, Stephanie Morgenstern, Jayne Eastwood, Tom Barnett, Peter Cockett, Roberta Maxwell, Andie MacDowell


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Rate: 7.3 Medium S05E16 The First Bite Is The Deepest

Year: 2009

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Crime

Artists: Patricia Arquette, David Cubitt, Anjelica Huston, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber


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Rate: 9.7 When In Rome

Year: 2009

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Artists: Will Arnett, Anjelica Huston, Josh Duhamel, Kristen Bell, Jon Heder


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Rate: 6.6 Choke

Year: 2008

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Artists: Kate Blumberg, Jonah Bobo, Anjelica Huston, Paz de la Huerta, Clark Gregg


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Rate: 5 The Kreutzer Sonata

Year: 2008

Genres: Drama

Director: Bernard Rose

Artists: Stella Huston, Julia Sandberg Hansson, Matthew Yang King, Anjelica Huston, Danny Huston


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Rate: 7.9 Medium S04E01: And Then

Year: 2008

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Director: Aaron Lipstadt

Artists: David Cubitt, Jake Weber, Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Anjelica Huston


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Rate: 7.9 Medium S04E02: But for the Grace of God

Year: 2008

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Director: Peter Markle

Artists: Patricia Arquette, Anjelica Huston, David Cubitt, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber


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Rate: 7.6 Medium S04E04: Do You Hear What I Hear?

Year: 2008

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Director: David Arquette

Artists: Patricia Arquette, David Cubitt, Anjelica Huston, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber


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Rate: 7.6 Medium S04E07: Burn Baby Burn: Part 1

Year: 2008

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Director: Leon Ichaso

Artists: Anjelica Huston, David Cubitt, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber, Kathy Baker


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Rate: 7.3 Medium S04E08: Burn, Baby, Burn: Part 2

Year: 2008

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Director: Vincent Misiano

Artists: Anjelica Huston, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber, Kathy Baker, David Cubitt


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Rate: 7.8 Medium S04E09: Wicked Game: Part One

Year: 2008

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Director: Peter Werner

Artists: Anjelica Huston, Lily Rabe, Miguel Sandoval, David Cubitt, Jake Weber


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Rate: 8.5 Medium S04E10: Wicked Game: Part Two

Year: 2008

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Director: Arlene Sanford

Artists: Anjelica Huston, Lily Rabe, David Cubitt, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber


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Rate: 7.3 The Darjeeling Limited

Year: 2007

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Comedy

Director: Wes Anderson

Artists: Kumar Pallana, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray


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Rate: 6.3 Art School Confidential

Year: 2006

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Artists: Adam Scott, Anjelica Huston, Nick Swardson, Joel Moore, Ethan Suplee, Isaac Laskin, Monika Ramnath, Eno, Jeremy Guskin, Scoot McNairy, Jack Ong, Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar


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Rate: 6.8 Seraphim Falls

Year: 2006

Genres: Western, War, Thriller, Drama

Director: David Von Ancken

Artists: Xander Berkeley, Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan, Angie Harmon, Ed Lauter, John Robinson, Robert Baker, Michael Wincott, Nate Mooney, Anjelica Huston, Wes Studi, James Jordan, Tom Noonan, Jimmi Simpson


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Rate: 5.5 Daddy Day Care

Year: 2003

Genres: Family, Comedy

Director: Steve Carr

Artists: Nicky, Arthur Young, Max, Max Burkholder, Khamani Griffin, Anjelica Huston, Leila Arcieri, Laura Kightlinger, Lacey Chabert, Lisa Edelstein, Siobhan Fallon, Jonathan Katz, Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King, Kevin Nealon


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Rate: 6.3 Blood Work

Year: 2002

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Crime

Artists: Jeff Daniels, Clint Eastwood, Anjelica Huston, Paul Rodriguez, Rick Hoffman


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