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Birth Place: Santa Monica, CA, USA

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Academy Award-winning actress and director, Anjelica Huston continues her renowned family’s legacy in film, which began with her grandfather, Walter Huston and her father, John Huston. Huston received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Prizzi’s Honor, and in 2005, Huston received a Golden Globe Award for her role in HBO’s original movie “Iron Jawed Angels.” Huston most recently starred in the musical drama series “Smash” on NBC. Huston continues to voice the role of Queen Clarion in Disney’s “Tinker Bell” franchise, and has starred in Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Royal Tenenbaums. Other film credits include 50/50, Gardens of Stone, Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery and Crimes and Misdemeanors, Enemies: A Love Story, The Witches, The Grifters, Addams Family, Addams Family Values, The Perez Family, The Crossing Guard, Buffalo ‘66, Ever After and Choke. She also collaborated with her director/father on his final film, The Dead. Her directorial debut was “Bastard Out of Carolina,” which garnered Huston critical acclaim, an Emmy Award nomination, and a Directors Guild Award nomination. Huston directed, produced and starred in Agnes Browne. Huston’s television credits include “Covert One: The Hades Factor,” “Huff,” “American Dad,” and Emmy nominations for “Medium,” “Buffalo Girls,” “Lonesome Dove,” “Family Pictures” and “The Mists of Avalon.” Anjelica Huston’s memoir A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York was published by Scribner in November 2013. A Story Lately Told ends as she launches her Hollywood life. The second part of her story—Watch Me—opens in Los Angeles in 1973 and will be published in Nov 2014.


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STAGE CREDITS

Love Letters Love Letters
[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 2014
Melissa Gardner [Replacement]
Hamlet
[Broadway]
1969
Ensemble
Ophelia (Understudy)

Movies

A Walk with Love and Death
[ 1969 ] Claudia
Hamlet
[ 1969 ] Court Lady
Swashbuckler
[ 1976 ] Woman of Dark Visage
The Postman Always Rings Twice
[ 1981 ] Madge
Frances
[ 1982 ] Mental Patient
The Ice Pirates
[ 1984 ] Maida
This Is Spinal Tap
[ 1984 ] Polly Deutsch
Prizzi's Honor
[ 1985 ] Maerose Prizzi
Good to Go
[ 1986 ] Charlemaigne
The Dead
[ 1987 ] Gretta
Gardens of Stone
[ 1987 ] Samantha Davis
A Handful of Dust
[ 1988 ] Mrs. Rattery
Mr. North
[ 1988 ] Persis Bosworth-Tennyson
Crimes and Misdemeanors
[ 1989 ] Dolores Paley
Enemies, A Love Story
[ 1989 ] Tamara
The Grifters
[ 1990 ] Lilly Dillon
The Witches
[ 1990 ] Miss Ernst, Grand High Witch
The Addams Family
[ 1991 ] Morticia Addams
The Player
[ 1992 ] Anjelica Huston
Manhattan Murder Mystery
[ 1993 ] Marcia Fox
Addams Family Values
[ 1993 ] Morticia Addams
The Perez Family
[ 1995 ] Carmela Perez
The Crossing Guard
[ 1995 ] Mary
Buffalo '66
[ 1998 ] Jan Brown
Phoenix
[ 1998 ] Leila
Ever After: A Cinderella Story
[ 1998 ] Rodmilla
Agnes Browne
[ 1999 ] Agnes Browne
The Golden Bowl
[ 2000 ] Fanny Assingham
The Royal Tenenbaums
[ 2001 ] Etheline Tenenbaum
The Man from Elysian Fields
[ 2001 ] Jennifer Adler
Blood Work
[ 2002 ] Dr. Bonnie Fox
Daddy Day Care
[ 2003 ] Mrs. Gwyneth Harridan
Kaena: The Prophecy
[ 2003 ] Queen of the Selenites
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
[ 2004 ] Eleanor Zissou
Art School Confidential
[ 2006 ] Art History Teacher
Material Girls
[ 2006 ] Fabiella
These Foolish Things
[ 2006 ] Lottie Osgood
Seraphim Falls
[ 2006 ] Madame Louise
The Darjeeling Limited
[ 2007 ] Patricia
Martian Child
[ 2007 ] Tina
The Kreutzer Sonata
[ 2008 ] Elinore, Edgar's'sister
Choke
[ 2008 ] Ida J. Mancini
Spirit of the Forest
[ 2008 ] Mrs. D Abondo
When in Rome
[ 2010 ] Celeste
A Cat in Paris
[ 2010 ] Claudine
The Big Year
[ 2011 ] Annie Auklet
50/50
[ 2011 ] Diane
Horrid Henry: The Movie
[ 2011 ] Miss Battleaxe
Secret of the Wings
[ 2012 ] Queen Clarion
James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty
[ 2014 ] Narrator
The Cleanse
[ 2016 ] Lily
Trouble
[ 2017 ] Maggie
Thirst Street
[ 2017 ] Narrator
Isle of Dogs
[ 2018 ] Mute Poodle
Arctic Dogs
[ 2019 ] Magda
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
[ 2019 ] The Director
Waiting for Anya
[ 2020 ] Widow Horcada
The French Dispatch
[ 2021 ] Narrator

TV Shows

American Dad!
Superintendent Ellen Riggs
BoJack Horseman
Angela Diaz
Laverne & Shirley
Miss Paris, Geraldine
Medium
Cynthia Keener
Smash
Eileen Rand
Transparent
Vicki
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Queen Usurna

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