Editing Anjelica Huston

{{Short description|American actress (born 1951)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Anjelica Huston
| image              = Anjelica Huston March 21, 2014 (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Huston in 2014
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1951|7|8}}
| birth_place        = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.
| years_active       = 1968–present
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actress|director}}
| works              = [[List of Anjelica Huston performances|Full list]]
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]]|May 23, 1992|December 27, 2008|end=died}}
| partner            = {{unbulleted list|[[Bob Richardson (photographer)|Bob Richardson]] (1969–1973)|[[Jack Nicholson]] (1973–1990)}}
| parents            = {{unbulleted list|[[John Huston]]|[[Enrica Soma]]}}
| relatives          = {{unbulleted list|[[Tony Huston]] (brother)|[[Allegra Huston]] (half-sister)|[[Danny Huston]] (half-brother)|[[Jack Huston]] (nephew)|[[Walter Huston]] (grandfather)}}
| awards             = [[List of awards and nominations received by Anjelica Huston|Full list]]
}}

'''Anjelica Huston''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|juː|s|t|ən|audio=En-us-Houston.ogg}} {{respell|HEW|stən}}; born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director and model. She is known for often portraying eccentric and distinctive characters. She has received [[List of awards and nominations received by Anjelica Huston|multiple accolades]], including an [[Academy Award]] and a [[Golden Globe Award]], as well as nominations for three [[British Academy Film Awards]] and six [[Primetime Emmy Awards]]. In 2010, she was awarded a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://walkoffame.com/anjelica-huston/ |title=Anjelica Huston |date=October 25, 2019 |publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/anjelica-huston-honored-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame-5519442.html?amp |title=Anjelica Huston honored on Hollywood 'Walk of Fame' |work=The Independent |date=January 24, 2010 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref>

The daughter of director [[John Huston]] and granddaughter of actor [[Walter Huston]], she reluctantly made 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 as a [[gun moll|mobster moll]] in ''[[Prizzi's Honor]]'' (1985), also directed by her father, for which she became the third generation of her family to receive an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]], when she won [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]], joining both John and Walter Huston in this recognition. She achieved further critical and popular recognition for playing a mistress in ''[[Crimes and Misdemeanors]]'' (1989), a long-vanished wife in ''[[Enemies, A Love Story (film)|Enemies, A Love Story]]'' (1989), a con artist in ''[[The Grifters (film)|The Grifters]]'' (1990), the [[Grand High Witch]] in ''[[The Witches (1990 film)|The Witches]]'' (1990), [[Morticia Addams]] in [[The Addams Family (1991 film)|the ''Addams Family'' films]] (1991–93), and an adventurous writer in ''[[Manhattan Murder Mystery]]'' (1993).

Huston directed the films ''[[Bastard Out of Carolina (film)|Bastard Out of Carolina]]'' (1996) and ''[[Agnes Browne]]'' (1999); collaborated with director [[Wes Anderson]] in ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'' (2001), ''[[The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou]]'' (2004), and ''[[The Darjeeling Limited]]'' (2007); and lent her voice to several animated films, mainly the ''[[Tinker Bell (film series)|Tinker Bell]]'' franchise (2008–2015). Her other films include ''{{sortname|The|Crossing Guard}}'' (1995), ''[[Ever After]]'' (1998), ''[[Daddy Day Care]]'' (2003), ''[[Choke (2008 film)|Choke]]'' (2008), ''[[50/50 (2011 film)|50/50]]'' (2011) and ''[[John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum]]'' (2019). She has also acted in the miniseries ''[[Family Pictures]]'' (1993), ''[[Buffalo Girls (miniseries)|Buffalo Girls]]'' (1995), and ''{{sortname|The|Mists of Avalon|dab=TV miniseries}}'' (2001), as well as the series ''[[Huff (TV series)|Huff]]'' (2006), ''[[Medium (TV series)|Medium]]'' (2008–2009), and ''[[Transparent (TV series)|Transparent]]'' (2015–2016). She won a Golden Globe for playing [[Carrie Chapman Catt]] in the cable film ''[[Iron Jawed Angels]]'' (2004), and a [[Gracie Awards|Gracie Award]] for her portrayal of Eileen Rand in ''[[Smash (TV series)|Smash]]'' (2012–2013). She has written the memoirs ''A Story Lately Told'' (2013) and ''Watch Me'' (2014).

==Early life==
Huston was born on July 8, 1951, in the [[Cedars of Lebanon Hospital]], in Los Angeles,<ref name="hvf">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/11/anjelica-huston-father-memoir |title=Look Homeward, Anjelica |last=Huston |first=Anjelica |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=October 22, 2013 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> to director and actor [[John Huston]] and [[prima ballerina]] and model [[Enrica Soma]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/35190275.html?dids=35190275:35190275&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+19%2C+1998&author=Phylicia+Oppelt&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=At+the+Hilton%2C+Ciao+Time%3B+Italian+Americans+Toast+Fallen+Heroes&pqatl=google |title=At the Hilton, Ciao Time; Italian Americans Toast Fallen Heroes |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |id={{ProQuest| }}|date=October 19, 1998 |access-date=May 3, 2010 |first=Phylicia |last=Oppelt|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604073547/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/35190275.html?dids=35190275:35190275&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+19%2C+1998&author=Phylicia+Oppelt&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=At+the+Hilton%2C+Ciao+Time%3B+Italian+Americans+Toast+Fallen+Heroes&pqatl=google |archive-date=June 4, 2011}}</ref> According to Huston, "the news of my arrival was cabled promptly to the post office in the township of [[Butiaba]], in Western [[Uganda]] [and two] days later, a barefoot runner bearing a telegram finally arrived at [[Murchison Falls]]", where her father was filming ''[[The African Queen (film)|The African Queen]]'' (1951).<ref name="hvf" /> Huston's paternal grandfather was Canadian-born actor [[Walter Huston]]. Huston has Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh ancestry from her father, and Italian from her mother.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0802/806458-john-huston-becomes-irish-citizen/ |title=John Huston Becomes Irish Citizen |first=Kevin |last=O'Kelly |publisher=[[Raidió Teilifís Éireann|RTÉ Archives]] |date=January 3, 1964 <!-- from meta tags in HTML source --> }}</ref>

When Huston was 2 years old, her family relocated to Ireland, where she spent much of her childhood and which she still considers home.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/smash-star-anjelica-huston-thrilled-to-be-back-home-in-the-west-of-ireland-148372395-237442851 |title=''Smash'' star Anjelica Huston thrilled to be back home in the west of Ireland |first=Cathy |last=Hayes |date=April 21, 2012 |publisher=Irish Central }}</ref> Her parents rented what Huston called the "Courtown House" — a tall stone Victorian manor in [[County Kildare]] — for three years, before John Huston bought St. Clerans, a 110-acre estate in [[County Galway]], in 1954.<ref name="hvf" /> She attended school at [[Kylemore Abbey]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Sad Farewell to 'Fairy-Tale' Girls School |first=Jerome |last=Reilly |work=[[Irish Independent]] |url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sad-farewell-to-fairytale-girls-school-26546852.html |date=June 28, 2009 |access-date=February 8, 2017 }}</ref> and later attended [[Holland Park School]] after relocating to England.<ref>{{cite web |last=Moorhead |first=Joanna |title=Holland Park comprehensive to become an academy |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 27, 2011 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/jun/27/holland-park-comprehensive-academy-status |access-date=October 30, 2013 }}</ref>

Huston has a complex family because of her parents' multiple marriages and extramarital affairs. She has an older brother, Tony, and an adopted older brother, Pablo. She has a younger maternal half-sister named [[Allegra Huston|Allegra]], whom she called "Legs", and a younger paternal half-brother, actor [[Danny Huston]]. She is the aunt of actor [[Jack Huston]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/movies-and-tv/201008/actor-boardwalk-empire-twilight-eclipse-jack-huston |title=Jack Huston has more than a famous name |first=David |last=Walters |work=[[Details (magazine)|Details]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709002906/http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/movies-and-tv/201008/actor-boardwalk-empire-twilight-eclipse-jack-huston |date=August 2010 |archive-date=July 9, 2010 |access-date=October 25, 2018 }}</ref> She once described herself as a "lonely child", explaining: "My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside ... and we didn't see many other kids. We were tutored. Our father was mostly away [for filming]".<ref name="hvf" />

==Career==
===Screen debut and modeling (1968–1975)===
[[File:Assi-Dayan-and-Sharona-Dayan-watching-the-cats-on-the-street-352033561966.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Huston with [[Assi Dayan]] on the set of ''A Walk with Love and Death'' (1969)]]
Her father's film ''[[A Walk with Love and Death]]'' (1969), where Huston played the 16-year-old French noblewoman Claudia opposite [[Assi Dayan]], marked her screen debut. She had been in the running to play Juliet in director [[Franco Zeffirelli]]'s adaptation of ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1968), but Huston withdrew herself from consideration when her father decided to cast her as Claudia in ''A Walk With Love and Death''. Huston felt that she was wrong for the role as Claudia, and has commented on the experience that her father "miscast me first time out and I think he realized that. I was ready to act, but I wasn't ready to act for him ... I was difficult, I didn't want to act with no makeup, although I'd have done it for Franco."<ref name="LA Times">{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-classic-hollywood-anjelica-huston-john-wick-20190517-story.html| title=Anjelica Huston's magical movie life, from 'Prizzi's Honor' to 'John Wick'| first=Susan |last=King| work=Los Angeles Times| date=May 17, 2019| access-date=May 20, 2019}}</ref> Father and daughter had a fractious relationship on set, with the young Anjelica having difficulty learning her lines and focusing, while her father grew more impatient and angry at directing her.<ref name="A Story Lately Told">{{cite book| title=A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York| first=Anjelica |last=Huston| publisher=Scribner| year=2013}}</ref> Critics derided her performance.

Huston and her mother were photographed by Arnaud De Rosnay —whom she met at age 16 in [[Switzerland]]— in October 1968 for ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.<ref name="vogueaj">{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/nostalgia-anjelica-huston-remembers-the-richard-avedon-photograph-that-launched-her-career |title=Nostalgia: Anjelica Huston Remembers the Richard Avedon Photograph that Launched Her Career |work=Vogue |last=Huston |first=Anjelica |date=November 19, 2013 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref>
Shortly afterwards, her mother died in a car accident, and the young Huston relocated to New York City as she "sort of fled London because of the memories; I didn't really know what to do with myself, and I wasn't quite sure what my father's intentions were for me —whether he was going to put me in a convent or launch me as an actress. Well, he'd already tried to do that, and we'd had a hard time on the making of that first film we did together".<ref name="vogueaj" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/anjelica-huston-in-conversation.html#_ga=2.262896780.1859287073.1556730605-173678561.1556730605|title=In Conversation: Anjelica Huston|last=Goldman|first=Andrew|date=May 1, 2019|website=www.vulture.com|access-date=May 1, 2019}}</ref> Inspired by models [[Jean Shrimpton]] and [[Twiggy]], Huston decided to pursue modelling, and through photographer [[Richard Avedon]], a friend of her parents, she met [[Diana Vreeland]] who proposed to Huston her first American ''Vogue'' photoshoot, which took place in Ireland.<ref name="vogueaj" /> She described it as "very innovative because they presaged the whole sort of [[Gypsy]] look".<ref name="vogueaj" />

Huston became a frequent subject of [[Bob Richardson (photographer)|Bob Richardson]], with whom she lived until 1973.<ref>{{cite book |last=Huston |first=Anjelica |title=A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York |publisher=Scribner |year=2013 |isbn=978-1451656299 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/storylatelytoldc0000hust }}</ref> She was signed to [[Ford Models]] and in the early 1970s, worked in Europe "for a couple of years".<ref name="vogueaj" /> She walked the runway for brands such as [[Zandra Rhodes]], [[Yamamoto]], [[Armani]] and [[Valentino (fashion designer)|Valentino]]. Along with [[Pat Cleveland]], [[Pat Ast]], [[Elsa Peretti]], [[Karen Bjornson]] and [[Alva Chinn]], she became one of fashion designer [[Halston]]'s favored troupe of models, nicknamed the Halstonettes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4727455/We-have-lift-off.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4727455/We-have-lift-off.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |title=We have lift-off |last=Hodson |first=Heather |date=March 9, 2002 |access-date=August 12, 2018 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Nechamkin |first=Sarah |date=May 29, 2019|title=Pat Cleveland Looks Back on Her Glittery, Jet-Setting Alliance with Halston|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/pat-cleveland-on-halston-designer-documentary|work=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]|access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref>

===Transition to film and breakthrough (1976–1988)===
After breaking up with Richardson, Huston moved to California to focus on acting.<ref name="vogueaj" /> While she "didn't do much there for three years", she filmed a small role in ''[[The Last Tycoon (1976 film)|The Last Tycoon]]'' (1976), based on [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]'s [[The Last Tycoon|novel of the same name]] and starring then-boyfriend [[Jack Nicholson]]. [[Bob Rafelson]]'s remake ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film)|The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'' (1981), based on the [[The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel)|novel]] by [[James M. Cain]], featured Huston as the fling of a Depression-era drifter, played by Nicholson. She briefly appeared in the drama ''[[Frances (film)|Frances]]'' (1982) and the mockumentary ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'' (1984) before obtaining a larger role in the science fiction film ''[[The Ice Pirates]]'' (1984).

Her father cast Huston as Maerose, the daughter of a New York Mafia clan head whose love is scorned by a hit man, in the film adaptation ''[[Prizzi's Honor]]'' (1985), which also starred Nicholson. She was paid the [[Screen Actors Guild|SAG]] scale rate of US$14,000 for her role. When her agent called up the movie's producer to request if she could be paid more, she was told "Go to hell. Be my guest — ask for more money. We don't even want her in this movie." Huston, who was not only John Huston's daughter but also Jack Nicholson's girlfriend at the time, wrote in her 2014 memoir ''Watch Me'' that she later overheard a production worker saying: "Her father is the director, her boyfriend's the star, and she has no talent."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/anjelica-huston-in-conversation.html| title=Anjelica Huston, In Conversation| first=Andrew |last=Goldman| website=Vulture| date=April 29, 2019| access-date=May 2, 2019}}</ref> Nevertheless, Huston garnered positive notices for her performance. ''[[The New York Times]]'' described her part as a "wonderful character, far darker and more complex than is indicated by her self-deprecating wisecracks (''I'm a family scandal. I got a reputation to keep up''). She's a riveting presence and if Miss Huston, the daughter of the director, doesn't get an Oscar nomination for this performance, I'll be very surprised."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/14/movies/film-prizzi-s-honor-by-huston-with-nicholson.html |title=Film: 'Prizzi's Honor' By Huston, With Nicholson |work=The New York Times |last=Canby |first=Vincent |date=June 14, 1985 |access-date=July 14, 2021 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Indeed, she won the [[Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]], making her the third generation of her family to win an Oscar.

Huston starred opposite [[Michael Jackson]] in the 17-minute US$30 million [[3D film]] ''[[Captain EO]]'', written by [[George Lucas]] and directed by [[Francis Ford Coppola]], which ran from 1986 at [[Disneyland]] and [[Epcot]], and later at [[Tokyo Disneyland]] and [[Disneyland Park (Paris)|Euro Disneyland]].<ref>{{cite news|first= Dewayne |last= Bevil |title= What's old is new again as 'Captain EO' returns to Epcot |newspaper= [[Orlando Sentinel]] |date= June 30, 2010 |access-date= April 6, 2019 |url= https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-xpm-2010-06-30-os-tdd-tips-captain-eo-returns-063010-story.html}}</ref> Coppola next cast her as the girlfriend of an army platoon sergeant in ''[[Gardens of Stone]]'' (1987), a film that dealt with the effect of the [[Vietnam War]] on the United States homefront.<ref>{{cite news|title=Film: A star is reborn James Caan acts his way out of a deep slump|last=Siskel|first=Gene|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=May 3, 1987|page=L6}}</ref> Film critic [[Roger Ebert]] praised her onscreen chemistry with co-star [[James Caan]], remarking that "the romance between Caan and Huston is one of the great adult love stories in recent movies".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gardens-of-stone-1987 |title=Gardens of Stone |last=Ebert |first=Roger |website=rogerebert.com |date=May 6, 1987 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref>

Huston starred in her father's last film, 1987's ''[[The Dead (1987 film)|The Dead]]'', as the wife of an academic. According to her, her father remained a filmmaking virtuoso despite his ill health: "He was so sick, but he could literally do it with his eyes closed. He knew when we were going to get a take way long before the camera rolled. I mean the timing was so precise that he could tell everything, exactly how it was going to go."<ref name="LA Times"/> The pressures of filming and watching her father's health deteriorate had an adverse effect on Anjelica Huston's own health, developing [[Epstein–Barr virus|Epstein-Barr]] syndrome during production.<ref name="LA Times"/> John  died nearly four months before the film's release date, upon which it received two nominations at the [[60th Academy Awards]]. For her performance, she won as [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female|Best Supporting Female]] at the [[3rd Independent Spirit Awards]].

In 1988, Huston played the love interest of an engaging, multi-talented, middle-class [[Yale University]] graduate in ''[[Mr. North]]'', which was more of a family project, directed by half-brother [[Danny Huston]], and made a cameo appearance in the film adaptation ''[[A Handful of Dust (film)|A Handful of Dust]]''. Despite her limited screen time, [[Vincent Canby]] of ''The New York Times'' praised her portrayal in the latter as the "single most stunning performance" but called the film "both too literal and devoid of real point."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940DEFDE133BF937A15755C0A96E948260 |title=Review/Film; 'Dust,' Evelyn Waugh's Dark Gothic Tale of the 1930's |last=Canby |first=Vincent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729144717/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940DEFDE133BF937A15755C0A96E948260 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 29, 2016 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref>

===Critical and popular recognition (1989–1995)===
Huston earned a [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA]] nomination for [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Supporting Actress]] for her portrayal of a flight attendant having an affair with a respected family guy in [[Woody Allen]]'s dramedy ''[[Crimes and Misdemeanors]]'' (1989). The drama ''[[Enemies, A Love Story (film)|Enemies, A Love Story]]'', also released in 1989, featured her as the long-vanished wife of a [[Holocaust]] survivor. In a positive review for the film, Roger Ebert asserted: "Parts, especially the scenes with Huston, are heartwarming in a strange way, because they show one human being accepting the weaknesses of another".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/enemies-a-love-story-1990 |title=Enemies: A Love Story |website=rogerebert.com |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=January 5, 1990 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> For her role, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

In ''[[The Witches (1990 film)|The Witches]]'' (1990), based on the 1983 [[The Witches (novel)|book of the same name]] by [[Roald Dahl]], Huston starred as the [[Grand High Witch]], the all-powerful leader of the world's witches, shared the cast with [[Mai Zetterling]] and [[Rowan Atkinson]]. She and the costume designer [[Marit Allen]] originally brought a different dress for the role, but the director [[Nicolas Roeg]] rejected it as "not sexy". Huston recalled: "That was the first time I'd imagined that this horrible creature in a children's movie should have sex appeal. It simply had not occurred to me. But of course, Nic was absolutely right. His vision was diabolical and dark and brilliantly funny. If a witch was to be at the center of this plot, she needed to be sexy to hold the eye."<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E04RCgAAQBAJ|title=Watch Me: A Memoir|last=Huston|first=Anjelica|year=2015|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781476760360}}</ref> The character's monstrous version was prepared by [[Jim Henson's Creature Shop]] and "took over six hours to apply and almost as much time to remove at the end of the day."<ref name=":0" /> Despite a lackluster box office response, the film was applauded by critics and has obtained a [[cult following]] over the years; it has also remained one of Huston's favorite roles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/theres-nothing-better-than-making-children-scream-20131125-2y4n6.html|title=There's nothing better than making children scream|date=November 29, 2013|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=October 22, 2018}}</ref>

[[File:PERX0152 07.jpg|thumb|right|Huston presenting [[Jane Campion]] with the [[Grand Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)|Grand Jury Prize]] at the [[47th Venice International Film Festival]]]]

Huston next portrayed a veteran con artist in the [[neo-noir]] thriller ''[[The Grifters (film)|The Grifters]]'' (also 1990). Director [[Stephen Frears]] first contacted her about playing Lilly in 1989 while she was filming ''Crimes and Misdemeanors'', but after reading the script, she was unsure.<ref name="sharkey">{{cite news | last = Sharkey | first = Betsy | title = Anjelica Huston Seeks the Soul of a Con Artist | work = The New York Times | date = December 2, 1990 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/02/movies/anjelica-huston-seeks-the-soul-of-a-con-artist.html |access-date=July 14, 2021 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Although she was "transfixed" by the story and the character, the script alarmed her with its explicitness.<ref name="Huston">{{cite book| title=Watch Me| url=https://archive.org/details/watchmememoir0000hust| url-access=registration| first=Anjelica |last=Huston| publisher=Scribner| year=2014| page=[https://archive.org/details/watchmememoir0000hust/page/216 216]| isbn=9781476760346}}</ref> A few months later, Frears contacted Huston again to see if she was still interested.<ref name="sharkey"/> Still wavering, Huston's talent agent [[Sue Mengers]] told her bluntly "Anjelica, if Stephen Frears tells you he wants you to shit in the corner, then that's what you must do." The next day Huston auditioned for the role in front of Frears at the [[Chateau Marmont]]. Frears' initial reluctance to cast Huston because she looked too much like "a lady", was resolved with the decision to cheapen her look with a bleached blond wig and "vulgar clothes". To research her part, she studied women dealers at card parlors in Los Angeles County, California.<ref name="sharkey"/> Her performance earned her a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]].

Huston obtained the part of [[Morticia Addams]], the stern, aloof matriarch of the titular family, in ''[[The Addams Family (1991 film)|The Addams Family]]'' (1991). She based aspects of her performance on her friend [[Jerry Hall]] to give the character more warmth, and in her 2014 memoir ''Watch Me'', she described the filming as "long and arduous".<ref name="Huston 241-242">{{cite book |title=Watch Me |url=https://archive.org/details/watchmememoir0000hust |url-access=registration |first=Anjelica |last=Huston| publisher=Scribner's |year=2014 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/watchmememoir0000hust/page/241 241–242]|isbn=9781476760346 }}</ref> It was decided that the character of Morticia should have eyes which slanted upwards at the sides, an effect which was achieved by attaching an elastic strap to the back of Huston's head via fabric tabs glued at her temples, which pulled the corners of her eyes upwards.<ref name="Huston" /> The bands caused extended discomfort to Huston, and would snap at the slightest turn of Huston's head, causing a grueling repair time. Eventually, she learned to pivot and turn on her feet without moving her upper body or head.<ref name="Huston" /> ''The Addams Family'' was a commercial success, grossing over US$191 million worldwide,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1749059073/weekend/ |title=The Addams Family |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> and prompted a sequel, ''[[Addams Family Values]]'' (1993). For both installments, Huston garnered [[Golden Globe Award]] nominations for Best Actress – [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical|Motion Picture Comedy or Musical]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/anjelica-huston| title=Winners & Nominees: Anjelica Huston| publisher=goldenglobes.com| access-date=September 18, 2019}}</ref>

Following a small role in the satire ''[[The Player (1992 film)|The Player]]'' (1992), Huston reunited with Woody Allen on ''[[Manhattan Murder Mystery]]'', in which she played the friend of a married couple investigating the death of their neighbor's wife, and also portrayed a mother struggling to parent her autistic child, in the ABC miniseries ''[[Family Pictures]]''. She received a [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA]] nomination for Best Supporting Actress for ''Manhattan Murder Mystery'', and a nomination for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film|Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film]] at the [[51st Golden Globe Awards|51st]] [[Golden Globe Award]]s for ''Family Pictures''. In 1995, Huston portrayed a Cuban refuge attempting to stay in America in the comedy ''{{sortname|The|Perez Family}}'' and the former wife of a tormented man (played by [[Jack Nicholson]]) in [[Sean Penn]]'s sophomore directorial effort, the drama ''{{sortname|The|Crossing Guard}}''. Her performance in the latter was praised,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/the-crossing-guard-1200442945/ |title=The Crossing Guard |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |last=Rooney |first=David |date=September 11, 1995 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref> and she received nominations for Best Supporting Actress from the [[Hollywood Foreign Press]] and the [[Screen Actors Guild]]. Based on the [[Buffalo Girls|1990 novel of the same name]],<ref name=bgwp>{{cite news|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1995/04/30/buffalo-girls-comes-out-so-bright/93a1f040-d6b4-4ad7-879e-48dadce569bb/|access-date=August 28, 2018|title='Buffalo Girls' Comes Out So Bright|date=April 30, 1995|last=Shales |first=Tom}} {{closed access}}</ref> the [[CBS]] miniseries ''[[Buffalo Girls (miniseries)|Buffalo Girls]]'' —in which she starred as frontierswoman [[Calamity Jane]], opposite [[Melanie Griffith]] and [[Reba McEntire]]— earned Huston an [[Emmy Award]] nomination for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie]].

===Directing (1996–2000)===
After contemplating the idea of following in her father's footsteps, Huston started to put out "discreet feelers" and pursue material in Hollywood she felt attracted to direct. The studios' overall response was "swift and positive, with the usual blinders", according to Huston. "What they offered me had invariably something to do with my father. I didn't want to do a sequel to ''Prizzi's Honor''. ''Prizzi'' belongs to him. I wanted to do something that, succeed or fail, would be my own."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmscouts.com/scripts/interview.cfm?File=anj-hou |title=Anjelica Huston on "Bastard Out of Carolina" |last=Béhar |first=Henri |website=filmscouts.com |date=May 16, 1996 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref> She found it in the drama ''[[Bastard Out of Carolina (film)|Bastard Out of Carolina]]'', based on a [[Bastard Out of Carolina|novel]] by [[Dorothy Allison]], about an impoverished girl who endures physical and sexual abuse. It was screened in the [[Un Certain Regard]] section at the [[1996 Cannes Film Festival]],<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4731/year/1996.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Bastard Out of Carolina |access-date=September 19, 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014232151/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4731/year/1996.html |archive-date=October 14, 2012 }}</ref> and debuted as a television film on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special|Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special]].

In ''[[Ever After|Ever After: A Cinderella Story]]'' (1998), a modern, [[Third-wave feminism|post-feminist]] interpretation of the Cinderella story<ref>{{cite book | editor-last = Haase | editor-first = Donald |title = Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches | publisher = Wayne State University Press | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-8143-3030-4}}</ref> alongside [[Drew Barrymore]] and [[Melanie Lynskey]], Huston appeared as Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent, the new wife of Auguste de Barbarac, a wealthy widower. The film was acclaimed by critics and made a respectable US$98 million globally.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ever_after_a_cinderella_story |title=Ever After: A Cinderella Story |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> Lisa Schwarzbaum from ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' praised her performance as a cruel stepmother: "Huston does a lot of eye narrowing and eyebrow raising while toddling around in an extraordinary selection of extreme headgear, accompanied by her two less-than-self-actualized daughters—the snooty, social-climbing, nasty Marguerite, and the dim, lumpy, secretly nice Jacqueline. "Nothing is final until you're dead", Mama instructs her girls at the dinner table, "and even then I'm sure God negotiates."

[[File:Angelica Huston.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Huston in 2000]]
In 1998, Huston played a woman romantically involved with a compulsive gambler in the neo-noir ''[[Phoenix (1998 film)|Phoenix]]'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-04-ca-19288-story.html|title=Liotta Arises as a Winner in Hard-Hitting 'Phoenix'|last=Thomas|first=Kevin|date=September 4, 1998|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=January 7, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-date=October 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204222/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/04/entertainment/ca-19288|url-status=live}}</ref> with [[Ray Liotta]], as well as the mother of a troubled man in [[Vincent Gallo]]'s independent dramedy ''[[Buffalo '66]]'', which starred Gallo as her son and reunited her with [[Christina Ricci]]. The director had difficulties working with his cast and crew, and reportedly did not get along with Huston on set. He claimed she caused the film to be turned down by the [[Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="filmfreakcentral1">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2013/01/gallos-humor-ffc-interviews-vincent-gallo.html |title=Gallo's Humor: FFC Interviews Vincent Gallo |publisher=Film Freak Central |date=January 3, 2013 |access-date=June 19, 2014}}</ref>

Her next directorial effort, the Irish dramedy ''[[Agnes Browne]]'' (1999) —in which she also starred as the title character— was released to mixed reviews. ''The New York Times'' reviewer Stephen Holden found it "nothing more than a series of homey skits loosely woven into a portrait of a [[working-class]] saint."<ref>{{cite web|last=Holden|first=Steven|date=December 3, 1999|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B00E1DB103AF930A35751C1A96F958260|title=Widowed Mom of 7 vs. a Loan Shark|work=[[The New York Times]]|at=section E, part I (page 25), column 1}}</ref> Nevertheless, the film won the Youth Jury Award at the 1999 [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]] and received a Grand Prix nomination at the Ghent International Film Festival the same year.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} Huston appeared as an affluent English woman, alongside [[James Fox]], [[Nick Nolte]], [[Kate Beckinsale]], and [[Uma Thurman]], in [[James Ivory]]'s period drama ''[[The Golden Bowl (film)|The Golden Bowl]]'' (2000), based on the 1904 [[The Golden Bowl|novel of the same name]] by [[Henry James]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/27/arts/27BOWL.html |title=Film Review; All the Sensibility That Money Can Buy |work=The New York Times |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=April 27, 2001 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref>

===Films with Wes Anderson (2001–2007)===
In ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'' (2001), her first collaboration with director [[Wes Anderson]], Huston took on the role the soft-spoken matriarch of an estranged family of former child prodigies, alongside [[Gene Hackman]], [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], [[Ben Stiller]] and [[Luke Wilson]]. During production, Anderson gave Huston photographs of his mother who, like Etheline, was an archaeologist. Huston said, "Wes would send pictures of his mother in aviator jackets or on archaeological digs, and he very specifically wanted me to wear a certain locket. Finally, I asked him, 'Wes, am I playing your mother?'" Anderson replied this was not the case. Anderson and Huston had a tense relationship with Hackman, who was not always amiable on set.<ref name="Rooney">{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wes-anderson-royal-tenenbaums-cast-248793 |title=Wes Anderson and 'Royal Tenenbaums' Cast Reunite At New York Film Festival |work=The Hollywood Reporter |last=Rooney |first=David |date=October 14, 2011 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> On the first day Hackman and Huston appeared in a scene together, Huston had to slap him, and later said the slap was real and "I hit him a really good one. I saw the imprint of my hand on his cheek and I thought, he's going to kill me."<ref name="Rooney" /> During young Margot's birthday scene in the opening scenes, Huston's hair caught fire from a birthday candle. Anderson credited [[Kumar Pallana]] with extinguishing the blaze before Huston was seriously injured.<ref name="Rooney" /> A positive critical response greeted ''The Royal Tenenbaums'', which made US$71.4 million worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=royaltenenbaums.htm|title=The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)|website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>

In 2001, Huston starred as Viviane, [[Lady of the Lake]], in the TNT miniseries ''[[The Mists of Avalon (miniseries)|The Mists of Avalon]]'', based on the 1983 [[The Mists of Avalon|novel of the same title]] by [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]. The production was watched by more than 30 million "unduplicated viewers" during its premiere, making it the highest-rated original movie of the summer on basic cable, and earned Huston nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a [[Screen Actors Guild Award]]. In 2002, she portrayed the doctor of an ex-[[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent ([[Clint Eastwood]]) chasing a sadistic killer ([[Jeff Daniels]]) in the thriller ''[[Blood Work (film)|Blood Work]]'', loosely based on the 1998 [[Blood Work (novel)|novel of the same name]] by [[Michael Connelly]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Blood Work (2002) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blood_work |access-date=January 10, 2011}}</ref> as well as the longtime client of a man who runs an exclusive [[escort service]] in [[George Hickenlooper]]'s black comedy ''[[The Man from Elysian Fields]]'', with [[Andy Garcia]] and [[Mick Jagger]]. Despite both films' lukewarm critical and commercial responses, Todd McCarthy of ''Variety'' felt that her character in ''Elysian Fields'' was "played with invigorating relish" by the actress,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2001/film/reviews/the-man-from-elysian-fields-1200553177/ |title=The Man From Elysian Fields |work=Variety |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |date=October 25, 2001 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref> while Roger Ebert hailed the film as "one of the best films" of the year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-man-from-elysian-fields-2002 |title=The Man From Elysian Fields |last=Ebert |first=Roger |website=rogerebert.com |date=November 1, 2002 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref>

''[[Daddy Day Care]]'' (2003), co-starring [[Eddie Murphy]], featured Huston as the ruthless head of an expensive and over-academic preschool. ''Slant'', in a critical review of the film, noted that Huston "brings embarrassing conviction to the role of stuffy day care proprietress ... ''Daddy Day Care'' seems to exist solely to sedate a theater-going public's offspring. And while the film's sense of sobriety should do the job, don't expect ''The Witches''".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/daddy-day-care/ |title=Review: Daddy Day Care |website=Slant |last=Gonzalez |first=Ed |date=May 5, 2003 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> Nevertheless, the release was a commercial success, grossing over US$160 million worldwide.<ref name="mojo">{{mojo title|daddydaycare|Daddy Day Care}}</ref>

In 2004, Huston took on the role of [[women's suffrage]] leader [[Carrie Chapman Catt]] in the HBO film ''[[Iron Jawed Angels]]'', with [[Hilary Swank]], [[Frances O'Connor]] and [[Julia Ormond]]. For her role, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie]], and won the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film|Golden Globe]] and the [[Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]]. In ''[[The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou]]'' (2004), her second film with Wes Anderson, Huston portrayed the estranged wife of an eccentric oceanographer. Roger Ebert observed that the actress "seems privately amused, which is so much more intriguing than seeming publicly amused", but noted that he "can't recommend [the film], but I would not for one second discourage you from seeing it".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou-2004 |title=Whimsy leaves viewer at sea |work=rogerebert.com |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=December 23, 2004 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref> As a member of the cast, she garnered nominations for Best Ensemble from the [[Boston Society of Film Critics]] and the [[Critics' Choice Movie Awards]].

Huston filmed her third directorial effort, the [[Hallmark Channel]] drama ''[[Riding the Bus with My Sister]]'' (2005), in [[Hamilton, Ontario]], Canada.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGQL0KNk9d4 Riding the Bus With My Sister - The Movie - Interviews] on [[YouTube]]</ref> It was adapted from the 2002 [[memoir]] by [[Rachel Simon]], and starred [[Rosie O'Donnell]] and [[Andie MacDowell]]. Unlike the book, the film received negative reviews from critics, who generally criticised the film's "egregious" portrayal of [[Down's Syndrome]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general/riding-the-bus-with-my-sister-retard-histrionics-reach-a-new-highlow-225593/ |title=Riding the Bus With My Sister: Retard Histrionics Reach a New High/Low |work=Indiewire |date=May 12, 2005 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref> However, she said: "I think the movie comes from a pretty direct point of view".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2005/04/28/huston_takes_to_directing_with_riding/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%252F+Arts+News |title=Huston takes to directing with 'Riding' |work=The Boston Globe |via=Boston.com |last=Elber |first=Lynn |agency=Associated Press |date=April 28, 2005 |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref>

In 2006, Huston was featured as an art teacher in the dramedy ''[[Art School Confidential]]'', the [[president of the United States]] in the made-for-CBS thriller ''[[Covert One: The Hades Factor]]'', a competing business owner in the comedy ''[[Material Girls]]'', a vanishing con artist in the [[revisionist Western]] ''[[Seraphim Falls]]'', and an ebullient patroness in the romantic drama ''[[These Foolish Things (film)|These Foolish Things]]''. Excluding ''Seraphim Falls'', none of the aforementioned films performed well with critics nor audiences.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anjelicahuston |title=Anjelica Huston |website=rottentomatoes.com |access-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref> This changed with her third Wes Anderson film, ''[[The Darjeeling Limited]]'' (2007), in which Huston starred as the mother of three brothers who becomes a nun and moves to a [[Christian convent]] in the [[Himalayas]]. [[Peter Travers]], for ''Rolling Stone'' found her to be a "dynamite" in the film, which he deemed "the fullest blossoming yet of Anderson's talents as a total filmmaker".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-darjeeling-limited-251037/ |title=The Darjeeling Limited |last=Travers |first=Peter |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=October 26, 2007 |access-date=July 14, 2021}}</ref>

===Voice-over and television roles (2008–2016)===
''[[Choke (2008 film)|Choke]]'' (2008), a black comedy directed by [[Clark Gregg]] and based on the 2001 [[Choke (novel)|novel of the same name]] by [[Chuck Palahniuk]], featured Huston as the hospitalized mother of a sex addict in [[Colonial America]]. Reviews for the film were mixed, but ''Empire'' critic Philip Wilding wrote: "Huston is magnetic as [the] ailing mother Ida, both as a fading invalid or vibrant and deranged in flashback. She is the hook on which her son hangs his hopes and anxieties". Meanwhile, Roger Ebert felt that her role "resembled the criminal character" she played in ''The Grifters'' (1990).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/choke-2008 |title=Sex addict seeks Heimlich maneuver |work=Rogerebert.com |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=September 25, 2008 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> In 2008, Huston also voiced Queen Clarion in ''[[Tinker Bell (film)|Tinker Bell]]'', which was released on DVD to outstanding commercial results.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-tinker-bell-became-disneys-692559 |title=How Tinker Bell Became Disney's Stealthy $300 Million Franchise |work=The Hollywood Reporter |last=McClintock |first=Pamel |date=April 3, 2014 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> She reprised the role in [[Tinker Bell (film series)|four sequels]], [[Pixie Hollow Games|a television special]] and a short film, all released between 2009 and 2015.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2014/11/10/tinker-bell-neverbeast/ |title=Who's that famous voice in the trailer for the new Tinker Bell movie? |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |last=Labrecque |first=Jeff |date=November 10, 2014 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref>
[[File:Anjelica Huston Met Opera 2010 Shankbone.jpg|thumb|upright|Huston at the 2010 [[Metropolitan Opera]] opening of ''Das Rheingold'']]
Huston took on significant roles in three 2011 live-action films. The first was that of [[Miss Battle-Axe]], a strict, sadistic schoolteacher who talks with a Scottish accent, in the 3D children's musical adventure comedy ''[[Horrid Henry: The Movie]]'', directed by [[Nick Moore (filmmaker)|Nick Moore]]. She found her character to be "irresistible", explaining to ''The Guardian'': "It's very British material to me, and I've always been strangely attracted to these extreme characters".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/21/anjelica-huston-horrid-henry-the-movie |title=Anjelica Huston: 'I find extreme characters irresistible' |work=The Guardian |last=Patterson |first=John |date=July 21, 2011 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> The film was panned by critics but was a commercial success in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2699973125/ |title=Horrid Henry: The Movie |work=Box Office Mojo |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> Her second performance of 2011 was that of a mother of a man with a malignant cancerous tumor in the drama ''[[50/50 (2011 film)|50/50]]'', directed by [[Jonathan Levine]] and co-starring [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] and [[Seth Rogen]]. The film was a critical and commercial darling upon its release.<ref>{{Rotten Tomatoes|5050_2011|50/50}}</ref> David Schmader, writing in the ''Stranger'', praised the "stellar" cast and felt that Huston "roars back to prominence with a twisty performance as Adam's barely contained mess of a mom".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/jonathan-levines-5050 |title=Jonathan Levine's '50/50' |last=Hudson |first=David |work=MUBI.com |date=September 29, 2011 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> The unsuccessful ''[[The Big Year]]'', Huston's last live-action film of 2011, featured her as an "avid birder", who "captains ocean-going expeditions".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collider.com/jim-parsons-rashida-jones-anjelica-huston-the-big-year/ |title=Jim Parsons, Rashida Jones, and Anjelica Huston Join The Big Year |work=Collider |last=Goldberg |first=Matt |date=May 3, 2010 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref>

Huston starred in the [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] television series ''[[Smash (TV series)|Smash]]'' (2012–2013), as Broadway producer Eileen Rand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-NBC-Picks-Up-Broadway-themed-SMASH-20110511|title=Breaking News: NBC Picks Up Broadway-themed SMASH! |work=Broadway World |last=Diamond |first=Robert |date=May 11, 2011 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> After her husband's death in 2008, Huston credited ''Smash'' —her first regular venture into series television— with coming at a "vital time" and finally filling a void in her life.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/02/anjelica-huston/ |title=Smash Star Anjelica Huston |work=The Saturday Evening Post |last=Wolf |first=Jeanne |date=February 26, 2013 |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> The series aired for two seasons and was the subject of critical acclaim.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/smash |title=Smash |website=metacritic.com |access-date=July 14, 2021 }}</ref> Huston subsequently appeared in the second and third seasons of the [[Amazon Video]] series ''[[Transparent (TV series)|Transparent]]'', as Vic, a cisgender woman who forms a connection with Maura, a retired college professor of political science at [[UCLA]]. In the horror comedy ''[[The Cleanse]]'' (2016), Huston played the director of a secretive self-help program, alongside [[Johnny Galecki]], [[Anna Friel]] and [[Oliver Platt]].

===Recent works (2017–present)===
In 2017, Huston narrated the black comedy ''[[Thirst Street]]'', and starred with [[Bill Pullman]] as siblings feuding over possession of their father's estate in the comedy ''[[Trouble (2017 film)|Trouble]]''. John DeFore of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' praised the latter film, on which Huston was an executive producer, writing that "the cast goes a long way here, turning ''Trouble'' at times into the kind of small-town hangout film that will please fest auds."<ref>{{cite web|last=DeFore|first=John|title='Trouble': Film Review|date=June 10, 2017|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/trouble-1012261|access-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref> Huston played the Director, a heavily bejeweled Russian ballet instructor, and what ''Vulture'' described as a "small but memorable role", in ''[[John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum]]'' (2019),<ref name="LA Times"/> which made US$326 million worldwide and received positive reviews from critics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum-reviews-what-critics-are-saying-1209157|title=John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum': What the Critics Are Saying|last1=Beresford|first1=Trilby|last2=Kilkenny|first2=Katie|date=May 10, 2019|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=May 13, 2019}}</ref>

On June 5, 2024, it was announced that Huston had been cast as the lead in the [[BBC]] [[Agatha Christie]] [[limited-run series|limited series]], ''[[Towards Zero (TV series)|Towards Zero]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/anjelica-huston-agatha-christie-towards-zero-bbc-britbox-1236025818/|title=Anjelica Huston to Lead Agatha Christie 'Towards Zero' Adaptation From BBC and Britbox International|last=Shafer|first=Ellise|date=May 10, 2019|work=Variety|access-date=June 10, 2024}}</ref> On September 6, 2024, it was announced that Huston was cast in the lead of the live-action/[[hybrid genre|hybrid feature]] ''The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/anjelica-huston-christmas-witch-trail-of-la-befana-1236129094/|title=Anjelica Huston to Lead Hybrid Feature 'The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana' (Exclusive)|last=Lang|first=Jamie|date=September 6, 2024|work=Variety|access-date=October 3, 2024}}</ref>
Huston is set to star alongside her brother, Danny Huston, in this film inspired by Italian folklore.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywood-siblings-anjelica-danny-huston-the-christmas-witch-trial-of-la-befana-1236049782/ |title=Hollywood Siblings Anjelica and Danny Huston Team for 'The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana' |work=The Hollywood Reporter |last=Gardner |first=Chris |date=October 31, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2025}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Huston was a close friend of actor [[Gregory Peck]], whom [[John Huston|her father]] directed in ''[[Moby Dick (1956 film)|Moby Dick]]'' (1956). The two first met on the set of the film when she was four years old while Peck was in costume as [[Captain Ahab (Moby-Dick)|Captain Ahab]]. Decades later, after her father's death, Huston reunited with Peck and maintained a friendship that lasted until his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/13/lkl.00.html |title=Tribute to Gregory Peck |website=[[CNN.com]] |date=June 13, 2003 |access-date=June 26, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/11/guardianinterviewsatbfisouthbank |title=Anjelica Huston |last=Adrian |first=Wootton |website=[[theguardian.com|The Guardian]] |date=December 11, 2006 |access-date=June 26, 2014}}</ref>

Huston was an inadvertent witness in the [[Roman Polanski sexual abuse case]] in March 1977, when she encountered Polanski and his 13-year-old victim by chance in the home of her boyfriend Jack Nicholson.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/anjelica-huston-on-catching-roman-polanski-with-a-13-year-old-i-thought-nothing-of-it-9863814.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/anjelica-huston-on-catching-roman-polanski-with-a-13-year-old-i-thought-nothing-of-it-9863814.html |archive-date=May 7, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Anjelica Huston on catching Roman Polanski with a 13-year old: 'I thought nothing of it'| author=Daisy Wyatt| work=The Independent| date=November 16, 2014| access-date=May 14, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> When authorities searched the house in connection to the accusations against Polanski, Huston was arrested for [[cocaine]] possession, but she was never charged because the [[search and seizure]] of her handbag had been illegal.<ref>{{cite book| title=Watch Me| author=Jack Nicholson| publisher=Scribner| year=2014| pages=80–83}}</ref> Although she had witnessed no abuse, Huston was subsequently embroiled in the publicity surrounding Polanski's trial as a rumored witness for the prosecution, though she was not ultimately called.<ref>{{cite book| title=Watch Me| author=Jack Nicholson| publisher=Scribner| year=2014| page=83}}</ref>

===Relationships===
In 1969, at age 17, Huston began dating photographer [[Bob Richardson (photographer)|Bob Richardson]], then 41; they lived together from that year until March 1973.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/02/angelica-huston-memoir |title=Anjelica Huston to write memoir |work=The Guardian |date=March 2, 2011 |access-date=May 3, 2011}}</ref> A month later, she met [[Jack Nicholson]] at his 36th birthday party, and the pair started an [[on-again, off-again relationship]]<ref name="CharlieRose-StoryLatelyTold-2013">{{cite web|last1=Rose |first1=Charlie |title=Anjelica Huston: Anjelica Huston on her memoir "A Story Lately Told." |url=http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60307542 |website=[[Charlie Rose]] |access-date=August 9, 2014 |format=Video interview |date=November 26, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811103919/http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60307542 |archive-date=August 11, 2014 }}</ref> that lasted until 1990, when the media reported he had fathered a child with [[Rebecca Broussard]].<ref name="Guardian"/> During a break from Nicholson in the late 1970s, Huston was involved with [[Ryan O'Neal]], who allegedly assaulted her.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/celebrity/anjelica-huston-recalls-alleged-assault-by-ryan-oneal-in-memoir-watch-me/|title=Anjelica Huston, in New Memoir, Says She Was Brutally Assaulted by Ex Ryan O'Neal|last=Fowler|first=Tara|date=October 24, 2014|website=People}}</ref>

On May 23, 1992, Huston married sculptor [[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]], following a courtship of almost two years. The couple lived in a three-story<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/69+Windward+Ave,+Venice,+CA+90291/@33.9875662,-118.4725345,3a,75y,330.06h,105.65t/|title=69 Windward Ave|website=69 Windward Ave}}</ref> house, designed by Graham in [[Venice, California]], until his death on December 27, 2008. She does not have any children, and stated in a [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] ''[[Intimate Portrait]]'' that she had tried to have a baby on several occasions.<ref>{{cite interview|series=''Intimate Portrait''|title=Anjelica Huston|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awLxdlRlnNg|date=May 22, 1998|time=07:50}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In her memoirs, Huston confirmed romances with [[James Fox]], [[David Bailey]] and [[Prince Albert of Monaco]].<ref name="A Story Lately Told"/><ref name=":0"/> She also acknowledged an affair during the shooting of ''[[Ever After: A Cinderella Story]]'' (1998), with a married man known simply as Dolyn in the book.<ref name=":0"/>

In a 2013 interview with [[Larry King]], Huston said she did not have a lover and was not looking for one.<ref>{{cite interview|series=''Larry King Now''|title=Anjelica Huston|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawbCiTcBV0|date=December 10, 2013|time=25:00}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Health===
In April 2025, Huston revealed that she was diagnosed with cancer in 2019 and was now 4 years cancer-free.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://people.com/anjelica-huston-reveals-private-cancer-battle-exclusive-11704861|title= Anjelica Huston Reveals She Privately Battled Cancer, Is Now 4 Years 'in the Clear' (Exclusive)|last=Tracy|first=Brianne|date=October 24, 2014|website=People}}</ref>

===Activism===
[[File:Anjelica Huston1.JPG|thumb|upright|Huston in 2005]]

Huston led a letter campaign organized by the [[U.S. Campaign for Burma]] and Human Rights Action Center in November 2007. The letter, signed by over twenty five high-profile individuals from the entertainment business, was addressed to the United Nations Secretary General [[Ban Ki-moon]] and urged him to "personally intervene" to secure the release of [[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] of Burma.<ref>United States Campaign for Burma. [http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/index.html ''Hollywood: UN Should Act on Burma''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012233504/http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/index.html |date=October 12, 2007 }}. United States Campaign for Burma's homepage. September 6, 2007. Received November.</ref> Huston currently sits on the advisory council of [[Save the Chimps]], the largest chimpanzee sanctuary and rescue in history. Huston has narrated the educational video Save the Chimps History exposing the cruelty of chimpanzee abuse by laboratories, entertainment and the NASA program [[Monkeys and apes in space]], which sent primates into space often resulting in death by impact and explosion.

In 1995, Huston donated $500 to the [[Irish republicanism|Irish republican]] political party [[Sinn Féin]]. She has also attended Sinn Féin events and supported [[Martin McGuinness]] in his bid for the [[President of Ireland|Presidency of Ireland]] in [[2011 Irish presidential election|2011.]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/the-movie-stars-who-gave-money-to-sinn-f%C3%A9in-1.2126056|title=The movie stars who gave money to Sinn Féin|last1=McGuire|first1=Erin|last2=Carswell|first2=Simon|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|access-date=December 14, 2018|last3=Duncan|first3=Pamela}}</ref>

In December 2012, Huston recorded a public service announcement for [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|PETA]] urging her colleagues in Hollywood to refrain from using [[great apes]] in television, films, and advertisements.<ref>Ken Wheaton, "[http://adage.com/article/special-report-super-bowl/peta-anjelica-huston-careerbuilder-chimp-ad/232401/ PETA, Anjelica Huston Go After CareerBuilder for Chimp Ad]". AdAge.com. January 27, 2012.</ref> The animal rights organization subsequently named her their ''Person of the Year 2012''.<ref>Marc Malkin, "[http://www.eonline.com/news/374549/smash-s-anjelica-huston-named-peta-s-2012-person-of-the-year Smash's Anjelica Huston Named PETA's 2012 Person of the Year]". [[eonline.com]]. December 28, 2012.</ref> In 2018, she donated her fur coats to the homeless and animal shelters.<ref>"[http://www.themalaymailonline.com/features/article/anjelica-huston-cuts-up-fur-coats-for-peta#kuP9AyX1Px3d18lQ.97 Anjelica Huston cuts up fur coats for Peta]". ''MalayMail Online''. February 1, 2018.</ref> She was the executive producer for ''Breaking the Chain'', a 2020 documentary about the PETA fieldworkers who try to help neglected animals.<ref>Chris Gardner, "[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/anjelica-huston-partners-with-peta-on-breaking-the-chain-documentary Anjelica Huston Partners With PETA on 'Breaking the Chain' Documentary]," ''Hollywood Reporter'', September 1, 2020.</ref>

In August 2024, Houston wrote an [[open letter]] to [[Evelyn Welch]], vice chancellor of the [[University of Bristol]], calling on Welch to end "[[Behavioural despair test|forced swim tests]]" on rats and mice in labs at the university's research departments.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/hollywood-star-anjelica-huston-demands-9500030|title=Hollywood star Anjelica Huston demands Bristol University ends forced swim tests on mice|last=Cork|first=Tristan|date=August 22, 2024|work=[[Bristol Post|BristolLive]]|accessdate=August 22, 2024}}</ref>

==Acting credits and awards==
{{Main|List of Anjelica Huston performances|List of awards and nominations received by Anjelica Huston}}

==Bibliography==
===Books===
* {{cite book |author=Huston, Anjelica |title=A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York |location=New York |publisher=Scribner |year=2013}} Also published in London by Simon & Schuster.
** {{cite book |author=Huston, Anjelica |author-mask=1 |title=A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York |location=New York |publisher=Scribner |year=2014 |version=Paperback reprint}}
* {{cite book |author=Huston, Anjelica |author-mask=1 |title=Watch Me: A Memoir |url=https://archive.org/details/watchmememoir0000hust |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Scribner |year=2014|isbn=9781476760346 }}

===Critical studies, reviews and biography===
* {{cite journal |author=Jones, Lewis |date=January 4, 2014 |title=Blazing Saddles |department=Books |journal=[[The Spectator]] |volume=324 |issue=9671 |pages=24–25}} Review of ''A Story Lately Told''.

==References==
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