ANJELICA HUSTON

Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951, in Santa Monica, California. She was the eldest child in the family of the director and actor John Huston and the ballet dancer Enrica Soma. Huston spent her childhood in Galway, Ireland. In 1962 her parents divorced, and she moved to England with her mother to study at Holland Park School. Her first role in acting was the lead of her father's movie A Walk with Love and Death (1969). In 1969 her mother died in a car crash, and her father took the family to the United States. Huston began modeling, and made sporadic cameo appearances in a couple films, but decided to pursue it as a career in the early '80s. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She later was nominated in 1989 and 1990 for her acting in Enemies, a Love Story and The Grifters respectively. Among her roles, she starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), receiving Golden Globe nominations for both. More recently, she is known for her frequent collaborations with director Wes Anderson. Huston married the sculptor Robert Graham in 1992. The couple lived in Venice Beach until Graham's death in 2008.