Anjelica Huston
Known for Acting · 140 credits
- Born
- 1951-07-08 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Santa Monica, California, USA
Biography
Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director, producer, author, and former fashion model. She is the daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston. After reluctantly making her big screen debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Huston moved from London to New York City, where she worked as a model throughout the 1970s. She decided to actively pursue acting in the early 1980s, and, subsequently, had her breakthrough with her performance in Prizzi's Honor (1985), also directed by her father, for which she became the third generation of her family to receive an Academy Award, when she won Best Supporting Actress, joining both John and Walter Huston in this recognition.
Huston received Academy Award nominations for Enemies, A Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990), for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively, BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the Woody Allen films Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for starring as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993). She also received acclaim for her portrayal of the Grand High Witch in Roald Dahl's film adaptation The Witches (1990). Huston has frequently worked with director Wes Anderson, starring in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007). Her other notable credits include The Dead (1987), Ever After (1998), Buffalo '66 (1998), Daddy Day Care (2003), 50/50 (2011) and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019). She has lent her voice to several animated films, mainly the Tinker Bell franchise (2008–2015).
On television, Huston has had recurring roles on Huff (2006), Medium (2008–2009), and Transparent (2015–2016). She won a Gracie Award for her portrayal of Eileen Rand on Smash (2012–2013). Huston made her directorial debut with the film Bastard Out of Carolina (1996). This was followed by Agnes Browne (1999), in which she also starred. She has written the memoirs A Story Lately Told (2013) and Watch Me (2014).
Known For
TV Shows (34)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
American Dad!
2005
as Superintendent Ellen Riggs (voice)
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Smash
2012
as Eileen Rand
The View
1997
as Self
Medium
2005
as Cynthia Keener
BoJack Horseman
2014
as Angela Diaz (voice)
The Reichen Show
2005
as Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Omnibus
1967
as Self
Star Wars: Visions
2021
as Sith Mother (voice)
All Hail King Julien
2014
as Julienne (voice)
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
Angie Tribeca
2016
as Anna Summour
Laverne & Shirley
1976
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
2021
as Isa Durand (voice)
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self - Guest
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
Transparent
2014
as Vicki
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Primrose / Marguerite
The Mighty Nein
2025
as Deirta (voice)
Huff
2004
Towards Zero
2025
as Lady Tressilian
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
The Adventures of Disney Fairies
2010
as Queen Clarion (voice)
Lonesome Dove
1989
as Clara Forsythe Allen
The Mists of Avalon
2001
as Vivianne
Covert One: The Hades Factor
2006
as Mrs. President
Family Pictures
1993
as Lainey Eberlin
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Teen Choice Awards
1999
as Self
Movies (106)
Ballerina
2025
as The Director
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019
as The Director
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975
as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
Secret of the Wings
2012
as Queen Clarion (voice)
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
2014
as Queen Clarion (voice)
The Addams Family
1991
as Morticia Addams
Addams Family Values
1993
as Morticia Addams
Tinker Bell
2008
as Queen Clarion (voice)
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy
2014
as Queen Clarion (voice)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Mute Poodle (voice)
Casino Royale
1967
as Agent Mimi's Hands (uncredited)
Arctic Dogs
2019
as Magda (voice)
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
as Etheline Tenenbaum
Pixie Hollow Games
2011
as Queen Clarion (voice)
The Darjeeling Limited
2007
as Patricia
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
2009
as Queen Clarion (voice)
Daddy Day Care
2003
as Miss Gwyneth Harridan
EverAfter
1998
as Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
Barbie as Rapunzel
2002
as Gothel (voice)
The Man from Elysian Fields
2001
as Jennifer Adler
The Witches
1990
as Miss Eva Ernst
50/50
2011
as Diane Lerner
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
as Eleanor Zissou
The Player
1992
as Anjelica Huston
Wick Is Pain
2025
as Self
This Is Spinal Tap
1984
as Polly Deutsch
Buffalo '66
1998
as Jan Brown
The Big Year
2011
as Annie Auklet
The Grifters
1990
as Lilly Dillon
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
as Dolores Paley
Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993
as Marcia Fox
Pixie Hollow Bake Off
2013
as Queen Clarion (Voice)
Seraphim Falls
2007
as Madame Louise
When in Rome
2010
as Celeste
The Dead
1987
as Gretta Conroy
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011
as Miss Battleaxe
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
Prizzi's Honor
1985
as Maerose Prizzi
Mr. North
1988
as Persis Bosworth-Tennyson
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
as Madge
Waiting for Anya
2020
as Horcada
Art School Confidential
2006
as Art History Teacher
The Crossing Guard
1995
as Mary
Choke
2008
as Ida J. Mancini
And the Band Played On
1993
as Dr. Betsy Reisz
Captain EO
1986
as Witch
Material Girls
2006
as Fabiella
These Foolish Things
2006
as Lottie Osgood
Always at The Carlyle
2018
as Self
Martian Child
2007
as Mimi
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
as Carrie Chapman Catt
The Last Tycoon
1976
as Edna
Phoenix
1998
as Leila
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2003
as Self
Enemies, a Love Story
1989
as Tamara Broder
The Perez Family
1995
as Carmela Perez
The Ice Pirates
1984
as Maida
The Making of "The Addams Family"
1991
as Self
The Nightingale
1983
as Primrose
Gardens of Stone
1987
as Samantha Davis
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
A Handful of Dust
1988
as Mrs. Rattery
The Watcher in the Woods
2017
as Mrs. Aylwood
Frances
1982
as Mental Patient
The Cleanse
2018
as Lily
Swashbuckler
1976
as Woman of Dark Visage
The Making of Captain EO
1986
as Self
This Is an Adventure
2005
as Self
Blood Work
2002
as Dr. Bonnie Fox
Buffalo Girls
1995
as Calamity Jane
Dreams Come True: A Celebration of Disney Animation
2009
Sinful Davey
1969
as (uncredited)
A Walk with Love and Death
1969
as Claudia
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004
as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
Beauty and the Beast
1984
as Marguerite
A Rose for Emily
1983
as Miss Emily Grierson
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016
as Self
Thirst Street
2017
as Narrator (voice)
The Kreutzer Sonata
2008
as Elinore
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
as Self
Pablo
2012
as Self
Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
2017
as Self
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
as Self
Burma: A Human Tragedy
2012
as Narrator (voice)
Trouble
2018
as Maggie
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012
as Self
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005
as Self
The Most Glamorous Women
1972
as Self
The Cowboy and the Ballerina
1984
Agnes Browne
1999
as Agnes Browne
The Golden Bowl
2000
as Fanny Assingham
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
2005
as Self / Eleanor Zissou
Rabbit Ears - Rip Van Winkle
1991
as Narrator (voice)
The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana
as Befana
Cleopatra: The First Woman of Power
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Hamlet
1969
as Court Lady
Ride This Way Grey Horse
1970
as Claudia
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
2011
as Self
Good to Go
1986
as Charlemaigne
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
2017
as Self - Host / Actress
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
as Self (archival footage)
Legacy
as Ruth
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories
1996
as Narrator (voice)
About Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director, producer, author, and former fashion model. She is the daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston. After reluctantly making her big screen debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Huston moved from London to New York City, where she worked as a model throughout the 1970s. She decided to actively pursue acting in the early 1980s, and, subsequently, had her breakthrough with her performance in Prizzi's Honor (1985), also directed… With 140 credits spanning from 1953 to 2025, Anjelica Huston has appeared in 106 films and 34 TV shows.
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- Ballerina (2025) — as The Director
- John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) — as The Director
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) — as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
- Secret of the Wings (2012) — as Queen Clarion (voice)
- Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014) — as Queen Clarion (voice)
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