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HUSTON, Anjelica was born in 1952 in California, United States. She was the daughter of Huston’s third wife, Ricki Soma, a model. As such, she was raised largely in Galway, Ireland, and in London—a child who viewed her father as a romantic traveler who came home now and then with exotic gilts, and sometimes with other women.
She had a small part in her father's Sinful Davey (69), and the female lead in his medieval romance, A Walk with Love and Death (69). The latter was an unhappy experience that propelled Anjelica into modeling. She had a tiny role in Hamlet (70, Tony Richardson), and then a moment of mistaken identity in The Last Tycoon (76, Elia Kazan), so haunting that one marvels at the movie persisting with Ingrid Boulting as its lead. She had another moment in Swashbuckler (76, James Goldstone) and was seen briefly with Nicholson as the animal trainer in The Postman Always Rings Twice (81, Bob Rafelson). She was without a line as an asylum inmate, barely detectable, in Frances (82, Graeme Clifford). The Ice Pirates (84, Stewart Raffill) was a bigger role, but it was as Mae Rose in Phzzi’s Honor (85, John Huston) that she seized attention. Her scenes brought the ponderous film to taut life anti won her a supporting actress Oscar—if only it had been a film about Mae Rose.
In Cardens of Stone (81. Francis Coppola), she was a decent pal to pained men. She did all she could in The Dead (87, Huston), but that complex story was far beyond the film’s attempt. She was an aviatrix in A Handful of Dust (88, Charles Stur- ridge), and she appeared in Mr North (88, Danny Huston, her half-brother).
But in Crimes and Misdemeanors (89, Woody Allen), we could see a character actress emerging—rather plain, grating, unafraid of looking like a reject. She was better still in Enemies, A Love Story (89, Paul Mazursky). Still, she is not easily cast. Her looks tend easily such things as The Witches (90, Nicolas Roeg) and The Ad da ms Family (91, Barry Sonnenleld), neither of which made adequate demands on her.
The Gnfters (90, Stephen Frears), though, led her into a bleak careerist who might think of killing her child. The look that the actress found was startling, and her toughness was a little too serious for the film. But just because the movie flinched a little, we can see how hard it may be for Anjelica Huston to persist with her most dangerous feelings. We should recall just how dark and fatalistic her father could be.
Like several others, she has found valuable opportunities in television: in Lonesome Dove (89, Simon Wincer) and Family Pictures (93, Philip Saxille). She had a good supporting role in Manhattan Murder Mystery (93, Allen); a small part in And the Band Played On (93, Roger Spottis-woode); and Morticia again, alas, in Addams Family Values (93, Sonnenfeld).
In recent years, she has turned to directing— once harshly, once rather sentimentally. But there’s no reason why she shouldn't yet find herself, and it’s clear that she has other projects in mind, especially Irish ones. As an actress, her fortunes have been mixed, and really there hasn’t been enough to sustain the talent seen in Prizzi’s Honor and The Grifters. There’s been Buffalo Girls (95, Rod Hardy); The Perez Family (95, Mira Nair); The Crossing Guard (95, Sean Penn); Buffalo '66 (98, Vincent Gallo); Phoenix (98, Danny Cannon); Ever After (98, Andy Tennant); Mrs. Assingham in The Golden Bowl (00, James Ivory); Time of Our Lives (00, Mary Agnes Donoghue); The Mists of Avalon (01, Ulrich Edel); The Man from Elysian Fields (01, George Hickenlooper);
The Royal Tenenbaums (01, Wes Anderson); Blood Work (02, Clint Eastwood).
In the early nineties, Anjelica Huston was regarded as one of America’s acting treasures—she was bold visually and emotionally; she seemed passionate yet truthful; and she has an air of pedigree in our minds. Yet in 1980, it was all she could do to find a decent part, let alone develop a career—and she was already thirty. In other words, there has been a sentimental view that sees her as having been nurtured by her father, John Huston, and by her former longtime lover. Jack Nicholson. Show business families are stranger than that. Perhaps their example simply intimidated her. Though admired for her great strength now, Anjelica Huston may have felt overwhelmed, an appendage. Whatever, she needed to move out of their shadow to become herself.
