Biography for Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston as Morticia
To recreate Charles Addam's macabre cartoon, Paramount assembled a superb cast: Raul Julia as Gomez, Anjelica Huston as Morticia and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester. Sets and costumes provide an additional touch that keeps faith with Addam's graveyard humor. The plot concerns a con woman trying to steal the Addams fortune and planting a Fester lookalike in the ghoulish clan. Still to be savored: morbid love dialogues between Gomez and Morticia; Christina Ricci's wonderful rendering of daughter Wednesday; hilarious sight gags; one liners and the appearance of Thing, a severed hand that runs all over the landscape.
Biography for Anjelica Huston
Date of birth
8 July 1951
Santa Monica, California, USA
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Trivia
Her mother's name was Rikki Soma; she was a Russian ballet dancer
Lived in Ireland when young.
Has two brothers.
She had a brief career as a model.
She currently lives in Venice, California
Third generation of Oscar winners
She appeared as her Addams Family character in Hammer's "Addams Groove" music video.
Lived with Jack Nicholson from 1973 to 1989.
Attended Kylemore Abbey High School in Connemara Ireland
Sister of Tony Huston (I), half-sister of Danny Huston, granddaughter of Walter Huston, sister-in-law of Pat Delaney.
Cat lover -- during an appearance on the "Rosie O'Donnell Show" she divulged that she has 8 outdoor cats and 3 indoor cats at her Venice, CA home.
Was offered the part of Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990), but turned it down. The role went to Kathy Bates.
Her father, John Huston, directed The African Queen, with Katherine Hepburn, and played Gandalf in The Return of the King (1980). Anjelica herself later worked with her father's successor, Ian McKellen, in And the Band Played On and with Cate Blanchett, who appeared in the trilogy, as well as playing Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator, in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
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Personal quotes
"There were many times when my father and I didn't agree, but we always became close again because I tended not to stand up to him for long. I seem to have been drawn to dominating men, like my father and Jack."
"Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt."
"I have a very full life and I am very happy with where I am now. I don't want to change anything. I once wanted to have children and it was not my choice not to have children but it hasn't broken my heart that I haven't. I think unless you're truly whole-heartedly prepared to make a full-time commitment, you have to really think about it. I certainly wouldn't adopt children just because everybody in show business seems to be doing it."
"I like to dance. I probably would have been a dancer. I love music, it's good for the soul and dancing is good for people. I dance on my own, I go to classes, I have that sort of energy. I need to dance. People only need to dance to make them feel happy."
"I can't help feeling the world is on this terrible roller coaster where nobody can get it up since the atom bomb."
"Of course, drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns - they don't admit that."
"I was never happily hedonistic. There's no hedonism without a downside."
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
This striking, darkhaired actress made an inauspicious film debut in 1969's A Walk With Love and Death directed by her famous father, John Huston, and played in two other films that same year-Sinful Davey (also directed by her dad) and Hamlet-before vanishing from the screen for many years and appearing only sporadically for many years after that. She surprised everybodycritics, audiences, movie-industry typeswith her sly performance in 1985's brilliant black comedy Prizzi's Honor (again, directed by her father), which won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Since then she's limned many fine characters in a string of meritorious movies with varying box-office success. She earned additional Academy Award nominations as Ron Silver's long-lost wife in Enemies, A Love Story (1989) and as John Cusack's amoral mom in The Grifters (1990).
Huston was perfectly cast as the sinister but svelte Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and its 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values She teamed up with Jack Nicholson for The Crossing Guard (1995). As if to prove she could play women of a non-exotic nature as well, she starred in the outstanding 1993 miniseries "Family Pictures," following a woman's life over several decades through her relationship with her husband and children. In truth, Huston has little to prove; she has become one of the screen's finest, most original actresses.
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Links:
Vapor (2005) (in production)
Every Word Is True (2005) (pre-production)
These Foolish Things (2005) (post-production)
Art School Confidential (2005) (post-production)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) .... Eleanor Zissou
Iron Jawed Angels (2004) (TV) .... Carrie Chapman Catt
Kaena: La proph�tie (2003) (voice) .... Queen of the Selenites
... aka Kaena: The Prophecy (USA)
Daddy Day Care (2003) .... Mrs. Gwyneth Harridan
The Kentucky Derby (2002) (TV)
Barbie as Rapunzel (2002) (V) (voice) .... Gothel
Blood Work (2002) .... Dr. Bonnie Fox
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) .... Etheline Tenenbaum
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001) .... Jennifer Adler
"The Mists of Avalon" (2001) (mini) TV Series .... Viviane
... aka Nebel von Avalon, Die (Germany)
The Golden Bowl (2000) .... Fanny Assingham
... aka Coupe d'or, La (France)
Agnes Browne (1999) .... Agnes Browne
Ever After (1998) .... Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent
Phoenix (1998) .... Leila
Buffalo '66 (1998) .... Jan
The Crossing Guard (1995) .... Mary
The Perez Family (1995) .... Carmela Perez
Buffalo Girls (1995) (TV) .... Calamity Jane
Addams Family Values (1993) .... Morticia Addams
And the Band Played On (1993) (TV) .... Dr. Betsy Reisz
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) .... Marcia Fox
Family Pictures (1993) (TV) .... Lainey Eberlin
Rabbit Ears: Rip Van Winkle (1992) (V) .... Storyteller
The Addams Family (1991) .... Morticia Addams
The Grifters (1990) .... Lilly Dillon
The Witches (1990) .... Miss Eva Ernst/Grand High Witch
Enemies: A Love Story (1989) .... Tamara Broder
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) .... Dolores Paley
"Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini) TV Series .... Clara Allen
Mr. North (1988) .... Persis Bosworth-Tennyson
A Handful of Dust (1988) .... Mrs. Rattery
The Dead (1987) .... Gretta Conroy
Gardens of Stone (1987) .... Samantha Davis
Good to Go (1986)
... aka Short Fuse
Captain EO (1986) .... The Supreme Leader
Prizzi's Honor (1985) .... Maerose Prizzi
The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984) (TV)
The Ice Pirates (1984) .... Maida
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) (also as Angelica Huston) .... Polly Deutsch
The Comic Book Kids (1982) .... The Princess
Rose for Emily (1982) .... Miss Emily Grierson
Frances (1982) .... Mental Patient
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) .... Madge
... aka Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt (West Germany)
The Last Tycoon (1976) (as Angelica Huston) .... Edna
Swashbuckler (1976) .... Woman of Dark Visage
... aka Scarlet Buccaneer (UK)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (uncredited) .... Woman in crowd on pier
A Walk with Love and Death (1969) .... Claudia
Hamlet (1969) .... Court Lady
... aka Shakespeare's Hamlet (USA: complete title)
Sinful Davey (1969)
Casino Royale (1967) (uncredited) .... Agent Mimi's Hands
... aka Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale
Director - filmography
Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005) (TV) (post-production)
Agnes Browne (1999)
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Other Anjelica Huston pages on Women of Horror:
Addams Family Values Witches
