Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951 in Santa Monica, California) is an American film and television actress who starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). She received Golden Globe Award nominations for the part in both movies.

Biography

Huston is the daughter of film director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston. She grew up in Ireland, England and Europe. Two of the first movies she appeared in, Sinful Davey (1969) and A Walk with Love and Death (1969), were directed by her father even though he did not want her to be an actress. She also starred in The Dead (1987), which was her father's last film. She appeared in few films in the 1970s, choosing to try modeling instead.

Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Prizzi's Honor (1985 and again directed by her father). She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for The Grifters (1990). Huston received five Emmy Award nominations for her television work over the years.

Huston directed Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), Agnes Browne (1999), for which she also was the producer and Riding the Bus with my Sister (2005).

Huston lived with Jack Nicholson from 1973 to 1989. She is married to the sculptor Robert Graham Jr. (1992 - present), has no children, and lives in Venice, California.

Selected filmography

• Sinful Davey (1969)
• A Walk with Love and Death (1969)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Prizzi's Honor (1985)
• Captain EO (1986)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
• Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
• The Witches (1990)
• The Grifters (1990)
• The Addams Family (1991)
• Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
• Addams Family Values (1993)
• The Crossing Guard (1995)
• Bastard Out of Carolina (1996, director)
• Ever After (1998)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• Blood Work (2002)
• Daddy Day Care (2003)
• Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

External links

• Anjelica Huston and Doris Day Forum