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Danny Huston
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- #001
Danny Huston is the half-brother of Anjelica Huston, Allegra Huston and Tony Huston.
- #002
He is the son of film producer and actor John Huston and actress Zoe Sallis.
- #003
Danny Huston is generally known for his ear for accents, which change from role to role. This may be partly because his parents moved him to different places during his childhood, leading him to assimilate into various regions.
- #004
His divorce from Katie Evans was never finalized. She committed suicide in 2008.
- #005
He was born in Rome while his father, director John Huston, was shooting Freud (1962).
- #006
He has a daughter named Stella (b. 2002) with his wife Katie Jane Evans.
- #007
He is the grandson of Walter Huston.
- #008
His father was of English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, distant German and distant Portuguese descent. His mother was of English and Indian descent.
- #009
He is the former brother-in-law of Michael Madsen.
- #010
He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences [2007].
- #011
In The Aviator (2004), he works alongside Cate Blanchett, who plays Katharine Hepburn, the star of his father's film The African Queen (1951).
- #012
He is the uncle of Jack Huston.
- #013
He and his Hitchcock (2012) co-star Anthony Hopkins both played King Richard the Lionheart. Hopkins made his film debut in that role in The Lion in Winter (1968), while Huston appeared in Robin Hood (2010). Both also played members of the Adams political clan: Huston played Samuel Adams in John Adams (2008), while Hopkins played his cousin John Quincy Adams in Amistad (1997).
- #014
In 1943, his grandfather Walter Huston appeared in the film Edge of Darkness (1943). In 2009, Danny Huston starred in the film of the same name, Edge of Darkness (2010), adapted from the British miniseries.
- #015
He attended boarding school in Somerset.
- #016
In 2007, he was one of 115 people invited to join AMPAS.
- #017
In two of his films, The Proposition (2005) and 30 Days of Night (2007), he crushes a character to death.
- #018
He visited the 12th Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia) to promote The Proposition (2005).
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