Angelica Huston

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ANJELICA HUSTON is an Academy Award® -winning actress and critically acclaimed director. Raised in Ireland, Huston is part of the third generation of a renowned cinematic legacy that began with her grandfather Walter and her father John. She will next be seen in Terry Zwigoff’s “Art School Confidential" alongside John Malkovich, Martha Coolidge’s "Material Girls," and Julia Taylor-Stanley’s "These Foolish Things," starring Lauren Bacall. She is busy moving from one prestigious role to the next, having recently completed the CBS min-series, “Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor” and a recurring role on the Showtime original series “Huff,” starring Hank Azaria. She starred in Wes Anderson’s ensemble comedy, “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” for Touchstone Pictures released in 2004. Huston received a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy® Award for her role in HBO’s original movie “Iron Jawed Angels” in which she starred with Hilary Swank and Julia Ormond.

Last fall she directed Rosie O’Donnell and Andie MacDowell in the Hallmark/CBS television movie “Riding the Bus with my Sister” which aired in May 2005. Huston received an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress, as well as Los Angeles and New York Film Critics Awards for her role as “Maerose Prizzi” in the black comedy “Prizzi’s Honor” (1985). Prizzi’s Honor was her first adult collaboration with her father, John Huston. Additionally, Huston has made extraordinary characters come to life with her memorable performances in films such as Disney’s “The Royal Tenenbaums” (2001), Paramount’s “The Addams Family” (1991) and “Addams Family Values” (1993), and Nicholas Roeg’s “The Witches” (1990). Ms. Huston made her directorial debut in 1996 with her unflinching adaptation of Dorothy Allison’s best-selling memoir, “Bastard Out Of Carolina” (1996). She was nominated for a Director’s Guild of America Award and an Emmy® Award for her work on the controversial drama. Huston directed, produced and starred in “Agnes Browne” (1999) presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival. Other feature film credits include “Ever After” (1998) with Drew Barrymore, for which she won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actress, and “The Crossing Guard” (1995), directed by Sean Penn with Jack Nicholson, for which she received a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Huston has been honored with Academy Award® nominations for her roles in Paul Mazursky’s “Enemies: A Love Story” (1989), and Stephen Fears’ “The Grifters” (1990). Additional film credits 19 include: “These Foolish Things” (2005) with Lauren Bacall and Terrence Stamp, “Daddy Day Care” (2003), Clint Eastwood’s Blood Work (2002), Woody Allen’s “Manhattan Murder Mystery” (1993), and “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (1989), Frances Ford Coppola’s “Gardens of Stone” (1987), “Buffalo‘66” (1998), “The Golden Bowl” (2000), “A Handful of Dust” (1988), “Mr. North” (1988), directed by Danny Huston, “The Perez Family” (1995, directed by Mira Nair, and her father’s last film, “The Dead” (1987). In television, she received an Emmy® nomination for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a SAG Award nomination for TNT’s mini-series “The Mists of Avalon.” She received Emmy® nominations for her performance as “Calamity Jane” in the mini-series “Buffalo Girls” and for her performance opposite Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones in the mini-series “Lonesome Dove.” She was nominated for a Golden Globe® Award for her performance opposite Sam Neill in the television film “Family Pictures.”

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