Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951, to director and actor John Huston and italian american (from New York) prima ballerina Enrica (Ricki) Soma. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 1969 first dipped her toe into the acting profession, taking a few small roles in her father's movies. However, in that year her mother died in a car accident, at 39, and Huston relocated to the United States, where the very tall, exotically beautiful young woman modeled for several years.

While modeling, Huston had a few more small film roles, but decided to focus more on movies in the late 1970s, studied acting and began to get roles. The first notable part was in Bob Rafelson's remake of the classic 1940s noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice (in which Jack Nicholson, with whom Huston had been living since 1973, was the star). After a few more years of on-again, off-again supporting work, her father perfectly cast her as calculating, imperious Maerose, the daughter of a Mafia don whose love is scorned by a hit man (Nicholson again) in his film adaptation of Richard Condon's Mafia-satire novel Prizzi's Honor. Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, making her the first person in Academy Award history to win an Oscar when a parent and a grandparent (her father and grandfather Walter Huston) had also won one.

Huston thereafter worked prolifically, notable roles including co-star billing in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone, Barry Sonnenfeld's film versions of the Charles Addams cartoons The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Probably her finest performance on-screen, however, was as Lilly, the veteran, iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters, for which she received another Oscar nomination, this time for Best Actress. A sentimental favorite is her performance as the lead in her father's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead -- with her many years of residence in Ireland, Huston's Irish accent in the film is authentic.

Endowed with her father's great height and personal boldness, and her mother's beauty and aristocratic nose, Huston certainly cuts an imposing figure, and brings great confidence and authority to her performances. She clearly takes her craft seriously and has come into her own as a strong actress, emerging from under the shadow of her father, who passed away in 1987. Huston married the sculptor Robert Graham in 1992, and the couple live in the Los Angeles area.



The Addams Family (1991): $1,000,000

Daughter of John Huston and Ricki Soma. Lived in Ireland when young. She had a brief career as a model. Third generation of Oscar winners. Attended Kylemore Abbey High School in Connemara, Ireland. Cat lover -- during an appearance on the "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" (1996), she divulged that she has 8 outdoor cats and 3 indoor cats at her Venice, California, home. In Blood Work (2002), she works with Clint Eastwood. In White Hunter Black Heart (1990), Eastwood plays a movie director based on her father, John Huston, in a story about his experiences making The African Queen (1951). Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. Former sister-in-law of Virginia Madsen. Was President of the International Jury of the 53rd San Sebastian Film Festival (2005). Other members of the jury were actress 'Verónica Forqué', actor Enrico Lo Verso, directors Lone Scherfig and Claude Miller, production designer Dean Tavoularis and writer Antonio Skármeta. Her father, John Huston, directed The African Queen (1951) with Katharine Hepburn and played Gandalf in The Return of the King (1980) (TV). Anjelica herself later worked with her father's successor, Ian McKellen, in And the Band Played On (1993) (TV) and with Cate Blanchett, who appeared in the trilogy, as well as playing Hepburn in The Aviator (2004), in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). Also appearing in The Aviator (2004) was her brother, Danny Huston. There are three generations of Oscar winners in the Huston family: Anjelica, her grandfather Walter Huston and her father John Huston. They are the first family to do so, the second family were the Coppolas - Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Cage and Carmine Coppola. Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1996. She is an avid reader and will read anything she can get her hands on. Was named one of Barbara Walters' Ten Most Fascinating People of 1991. Born at 6:29 PM (PDT). When she got her star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the 22nd of January 2010, she became the third in the Huston family to do so after her father, John Huston and her grandfather Walter Huston.