ACTOR
Anjelica Huston
- Known for
- Buffalo '66 (1998), When in Rome (2010), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), The Witches (1990)
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Anjelica Huston is an actor best known for Buffalo '66, When in Rome and Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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- #001
Anjelica Huston competed with Cher for film roles. Huston auditioned for the role of Alexandra Medford in The Witches of Eastwick (1987), but Cher won the part, and Huston was later cast instead of Cher as the Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990) and as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991).
- #002
At the end of her 17-year relationship with Jack Nicholson, Nicholson gave her a pearl and diamond bracelet that had once been a gift from Frank Sinatra to Ava Gardner; this was how Nicholson ended his relationships. Huston appeared in five films with Nicholson: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Last Tycoon (1976), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Prizzi's Honor (1985) and The Crossing Guard (1995).
- #003
She is the third generation of her family to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, following her father John Huston and her grandfather Walter Huston.
- #004
Andy Warhol captured her in one of his famous Polaroid photographs.
- #005
A cat lover, Huston revealed on The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996) that she had eight outdoor cats and three indoor cats at her home in Venice, California.
- #006
As a child she wanted to become a nun because the idea of wearing a veil appealed to her aesthetically.
- #007
She was born while her father was in Africa shooting The African Queen (1951).
- #008
While filming The Addams Family (1991), she turned Raul Julia's frightening medical problem into something to laugh about when Julia's eye suddenly dropped out of his head. Despite the shocking injury, Julia was able to come to the set the next day. Huston played a joke on her much-loved co-star, buying a novelty shop's worth of fake dangling eyeballs; the next day, these fake eyeballs came out of everyone's head on the film set.
- #009
She survived a nearly fatal car accident. Driving down Coldwater Canyon at dusk, a BMW came toward her too fast and hit the bumper of the car in front of her. Huston's face struck the windshield and she was admitted to Cedars-Sinai, where she underwent a long operation to remove bone fragments from her forehead and skull and to reconstruct her nose. When she woke up, Jack Nicholson was there with flowers. In an interview, Huston shared that the accident changed her life.
- #010
John Steinbeck, a family friend, visited the Hustons in Ireland one Christmas and was assigned the role of Santa Claus for Anjelica and her brother Tony.
- #011
Her parents separated in the early 1960s and had children with other people: Danny Huston, her father's son with Zoe Sallis, and Allegra Huston, her mother's daughter with John Julius Norwich. Despite this, they never divorced.
- #012
She was offered the role of Annie Wilkes in the horror film Misery (1990) but turned it down because she was taking the role of Lilly Dillon in The Grifters (1990); the part went to Kathy Bates. In 2013, Huston described Lilly Dillon as the most difficult role of her career. The performance ranked 84th on Premiere magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
- #013
She served as a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival.
- #014
To study the character Maerose Prizzi and learn the accent and characterization of a mafia daughter, she went to a church in Brooklyn.
- #015
While filming a scene for The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), her hair briefly caught fire.
- #016
Although the Grand High Witch is one of Huston's most memorable performances, Roald Dahl, the author of the book, initially wanted Cher, who was unavailable because she was filming Mermaids (1990). Frances Conroy, Liza Minnelli, Eartha Kitt, Olivia Hussey, Geneviève Bujold, Sigourney Weaver, Starr Andreeff, Linda Blair, Fiona Fullerton, Faye Dunaway, Jodie Foster and Vanessa Redgrave were considered for the role before it went to Huston. In the end, Dahl was pleased with the result.
- #017
Richard Avedon, a friend of Huston's parents, told Ricki, Anjelica's mother, when he first shot her that Anjelica's shoulders were too big for her to be a model. He would later photograph her for Vogue.
- #018
She is the third generation of her family to win an Oscar, after her father John Huston and her grandfather Walter Huston.
- #019
On March 25, 1991, at the 63rd Academy Awards ceremony, she presented the honorary Oscar to Myrna Loy.
- #020
Anjelica Huston served as a jury member at the Venice Film Festival.
- #021
In 1992 she married the renowned sculptor Robert Graham. Their wedding was attended by Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, Meryl Streep, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joe Pesci, Carrie Fisher, Lauren Hutton, Harry Dean Stanton, Lauren Bacall, Carol Kane, Michelle Phillips, Mick Jagger and Penny Marshall. Jerry Hall and Joan Juliet Buck were at the wedding party. Graham died in 2008; Sharon Stone and Harrison Ford attended the funeral.
- #022
She worked with Christina Ricci on four different films: The Addams Family (1991), Addams Family Values (1993), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) (Huston's directorial debut) and Buffalo '66 (1998).
- #023
She was named after Angelica Soma, her mother Ricki's biological grandmother, who died when Ricki was a child.
- #024
She appeared in five films directed by John Huston: Casino Royale (1967), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Sinful Davey (1969), Prizzi's Honor (1985) and The Dead (1987).
- #025
She and Alicia Silverstone were first cast in Heartbreakers (2001). For unknown reasons they were replaced by Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
- #026
She worked with Clint Eastwood on Blood Work (2002). In White Hunter Black Heart (1990), Eastwood plays a film director based on her father John Huston in a story recounting the experience of making The African Queen (1951).
- #027
Contrary to what many people assume, her childless status was not by choice. In a 1998 episode of Lifetime Intimate Portrait (1990), she said she had tried several times to have a baby. Elaborating on the subject in her autobiographies, Huston wrote that she was unable to conceive with her husband Robert Graham as well as with her former boyfriends Bob Richardson and Jack Nicholson. She began trying to conceive with Richardson while still a teenager and continued trying occasionally into her mid-forties, even undergoing IVF treatment.
- #028
PETA gave her its 'Person of the Year' award for her volunteer work helping great apes and for petitioning the New York City Council in support of a bill that would phase out the city's horse-drawn carriage industry. She also sent a letter to the Irish government calling on it to honor its commitment to ban fur farms in the country.
- #029
She turned down the role of Madison in Splash (1984), and the part went to Daryl Hannah.
- #030
She was offered the role of Jennifer in Backdraft (1991), but she was committed to The Addams Family (1991). The role went to Jennifer Jason Leigh.
- #031
She was chosen as one of Barbara Walters' Ten Most Fascinating People.
- #032
She has worn Jean Patou's "1000" fragrance since 1986.
- #033
She was set to direct Million Dollar Baby (2004), but when producer Albert S. Ruddy acquired the rights to 'Rope Burns,' Huston was busy with another project and Clint Eastwood took the job.
- #034
She established the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at NUI Galway.
- #035
(March 24, 1986) She is the 31st actress to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. At the 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986) she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Prizzi's Honor (1985). Marsha Mason and Richard Dreyfuss presented her with the Oscar. After her speech, with tears streaming down her cheeks, she left the stage and went into the audience to stand for her father, who was seated in the middle of the middle row. Tzetzi Ganev designed her green silk Oscar dress in honor of her upbringing in Ireland.
- #036
After losing the role of Ophelia in a production of Hamlet to Marianne Faithfull, she became Faithfull's understudy. Later, after Huston's mother's fatal car accident, Faithfull gave her a "long red fox coat" and took her to a pharmacy.
- #037
She is the aunt of Jack Huston, Laura Huston and Matthew Huston. She is the great-aunt of Sage Lavinia Huston and Cypress Night Huston (born to Jack Huston and his wife, Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated model Shannan Click).
- #038
Jena Malone made her film debut in Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), Anjelica Huston's first directorial effort.
- #039
Anjelica Huston served as President of the International Jury at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2005. Other jury members included actress Verónica Forqué, actor Enrico Lo Verso, directors Lone Scherfig and Claude Miller, production designer Dean Tavoularis and writer Antonio Skármeta.
- #040
From 1969 to 1973, Anjelica Huston lived with photographer Bob Richardson (father of Terry Richardson). When their relationship began, Bob was 41 and she was not yet 18.
- #041
Anjelica Huston was considered for the role of "Catherine Tramell" in Basic Instinct (1992), which went to Sharon Stone.
- #042
Rosie O'Donnell was wanted for the lead in Agnes Browne (1999), Huston's second directorial effort, but after O'Donnell turned the offer down, Huston decided to play the role herself. O'Donnell would later appear alongside Andie MacDowell in Huston's third directorial film, the TV movie Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005).
- #043
On an episode of Finding Your Roots (2012), Anjelica Huston discovered that she is a distant relative of Bernie Sanders and Larry David.
- #044
On January 22, 2010, Anjelica Huston was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- #045
For her performance in Material Girls (2006), Anjelica Huston was listed as a potential nominee in the Razzie Awards' Worst Supporting Actress category. She did not receive the nomination.
- #046
In her 2014 memoir "Watch Me," Anjelica Huston revealed that during the filming of Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) she had an affair with a married man referred to in the book as Dolyn.
- #047
Anjelica Huston and legendary writer Joan Juliet Buck have been close friends since childhood.
- #048
Anjelica Huston appeared as Clara in Lonesome Dove (1989). Two other actresses played the character in her younger years: Jennifer Garner and Linda Cardellini. All three, however, have a connection to the Joker role in Batman. Huston had a long relationship with Jack Nicholson, who appeared in Batman (1989). Garner was married to Ben Affleck and had appeared with Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club (2013). Cardellini appeared with Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (2005).
- #049
Anjelica Huston was offered the female lead in Mac and Me (1988) but turned it down.
- #050
Anjelica Huston was to direct Julia Roberts in A Time to be Born for Revolution Studios, but the film was never released for unknown reasons.
- #051
Anjelica Huston was considered for the role of Annie Wilkes in "Misery" (1990), but she turned it down when it was offered to her.
- #052
Anjelica Huston has dated James Fox, Arnaud de Rosnay, Jeremy Railton, David Bailey, Ryan O'Neal and Prince Albert of Monaco.
- #053
Anjelica Huston was born at 18:29 (PDT).
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