While Anjelica Huston is the daughter of iconic, award-winning film director John Huston, she’s become a legend herself over several decades as a fashion model, actor, and director. Huston’s enjoyed a highly successful career racking up many awards including an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and several Emmy nominations. Still working today, she is regarded as one of the finest actors of her generation. And that’s in part why she chose not to become a mom.
Anjelica Huston is an award-winning actor
Huston started out as a model, working for some of fashion’s biggest names in the 1970s. It wasn’t long until she realized that what she really wanted to do was become an actor. She began taking acting classes in Los Angeles.
In 1985, she had her first breakout role in the film Prizzi’s Honor, a film directed by her father. She won an Academy Award...
Anjelica Huston is an award-winning actor
Huston started out as a model, working for some of fashion’s biggest names in the 1970s. It wasn’t long until she realized that what she really wanted to do was become an actor. She began taking acting classes in Los Angeles.
In 1985, she had her first breakout role in the film Prizzi’s Honor, a film directed by her father. She won an Academy Award...
- 3/23/2023
- by Tina Pavlik
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
"I've been unbelievably lucky to meet an extraordinary variety of people and also to travel between many spectrums - that’s always been fascinating to me," says Anjelica Huston, who has just published her second volume of memoir, Watch Me, the follow-up to last year's chronicle of her Irish childhood, A Story Lately Told. Her latest picks up when Huston is a newcomer to Hollywood; within pages she meets Jack Nicholson, with whom she had a 17-year on-and-off love affair. "Jack's easy to love," Huston, 63, tells People. "I was pretty determined that he should be mine for a considerable amount of time.
- 11/7/2014
- by Keith Staskiewicz
- PEOPLE.com
Anjelica Huston alleges that she was the victim of a vicious assault by her then-boyfriend, Ryan O'Neal, in the'70s. In her new tell-all, Watch Me, the 63-year-old actress recounts the details of an alleged and brutal fight that drove her to break up with the Love Story actor, according to the National Enquirer, which obtained an early copy of the book, due to be published Nov. 11. "He turned on me, grabbed me by the hair and hit me in the forehead with the top of his skull," writes Huston. The incident allegedly took place at a party the two...
- 10/24/2014
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
Anjelica Huston alleges that she was the victim of a vicious assault by her then-boyfriend, Ryan O'Neal, in the'70s. In her new tell-all, Watch Me, the 63-year-old actress recounts the details of an alleged and brutal fight that drove her to break up with the Love Story actor, according to the National Enquirer, which obtained an early copy of the book, due to be published Nov. 11. "He turned on me, grabbed me by the hair and hit me in the forehead with the top of his skull," writes Huston. The incident allegedly took place at a party the two...
- 10/24/2014
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
This story first appeared in the Dec. 6 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. After a Bird Street sell-off for a cool $47 million, financier-producer Megan Ellison reportedly has been on the hunt for a home office in Venice. Insiders report that the American Hustle backer went into escrow on Anjelica Huston's house designed by her late husband, sculptor Robert Graham. Photos: Inside Terence and Rachel Winter's Spanish-Style Beverly Hills Home With its three-story artist's loft, interior courtyard, gallery, dance room and workshop, the property came to market for $18 million in May 2010. The price has been chopped at various points to
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- 11/26/2013
- by Seth Abramovitch, Alexandria Abramian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anjelica Huston has always been attracted to 'bad boys'. The 60-year-old actress - who was married to sculptor Robert Graham for 16 years until his sudden death in December 2008 - dated photographer Bob Richardson, who was 23 years her senior, when she was a teenage model, and then had a 17-year tempestuous romance with Jack Nicholson and says the actor's edginess was his main appeal when they first met in 1973. Recalling meeting lothario Jack at a party, she said: 'I was invited by my then-stepmother Cici. The door opened and Jack's grinning face presented itself to me and I thought, 'Ah, I like you.' 'I was always attracted to bad boys, cool boys. Actors, musicians, those kinds of...
- 4/20/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Anjelica Huston finds it easier to kiss on camera than in real life. The iconic actress - whose husband Robert Graham died in 2008 from a rare form of blood disease - admits it has been some time since she locked lips with a man but thinks it is part of her ''slow emergence'' from the grieving process. She said: ''I can [kiss] with impunity in front of 200 technicians and two million viewers. Personal kissing? One is tempted. It's part of my slow emergence. It may take a little while for the elements to catch up with me, but I hope...
- 4/17/2012
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Anjelica Huston finds it easier to kiss on camera than in real life. The iconic actress - whose husband Robert Graham died in 2008 from a rare form of blood disease - admits it has been some time since she locked lips with a man but thinks it is part of her 'slow emergence' from the grieving process. She said: 'I can [kiss] with impunity in front of 200 technicians and two million viewers. Personal kissing? One is tempted. It's part of my slow emergence. It may take a little while for the elements to catch up with me, but I hope so.' Discussing her husband, Anjelica - who also dated Jack Nicholson for 17 years - proclaims he...
- 4/17/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Anjelica Huston walks like a queen through the Carlyle Hotel's restaurant. She's clearly comfortable in the old-world elegance of this Manhattan gem. Once she slides into a banquette, she laughs about having spent considerable time at the bar.
Huston orders eggs Benedict and cappuccino, then describes Eileen Rand, her character on NBC's Monday hit "Smash," as a "cross section of my favorite producers. The best of them, 75 percent of them, what they do is cover the bad news and tell you everything is great."
Savvy and cultured, Eileen is going through a divorce and keeps running into her annoying estranged husband. He's so condescending that this otherwise controlled woman often winds up flinging a drink on him.
"I'm the idiot savant of drink throwing," she says. "I would have started years ago if I knew how good I'd be. Somebody told me I did it in the '70s. Obviously...
Huston orders eggs Benedict and cappuccino, then describes Eileen Rand, her character on NBC's Monday hit "Smash," as a "cross section of my favorite producers. The best of them, 75 percent of them, what they do is cover the bad news and tell you everything is great."
Savvy and cultured, Eileen is going through a divorce and keeps running into her annoying estranged husband. He's so condescending that this otherwise controlled woman often winds up flinging a drink on him.
"I'm the idiot savant of drink throwing," she says. "I would have started years ago if I knew how good I'd be. Somebody told me I did it in the '70s. Obviously...
- 4/16/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Anjelica Huston has opened up about her husband's death in 2008, calling the tragedy "the hardest thing" she has ever experienced.
The actress' artist partner Robert Graham suffered a heart attack in the summer of 2008 and finally succumbed to illness in December that year.
The Addams Family star admits she felt helpless watching the sculptor struggle and was devastated when he passed away.
In a TV chat with Rosie O'Donnell on Piers Morgan Tonight, she recalls, "(His death) was fast and prolonged at the same time. He was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which was a bad diagnosis... His body started to swell (on steroid drugs) and it was rather alarming for about four days. Actually it was the night of the Olympics on August the ninth, about three o'clock in the morning, he sprang up from the bed and (had a) full heart attack and kidney failure.
"I didn't know what was going on... He got through nine weeks in the hospital, and then came out and was in rehab and then came home... Then he just started to die and there seemed to be nothing that we could do, just to be there and hold his hand.
"At the end he asked me if he was dying and I said, 'No, of course not,' but I don't know. There's no guide book for these things. You have to do what's in your heart and what you feel is right. It's one of the hardest things I've ever been through... You can make peace with it maybe, and hope that you did the right thing but there's no way of knowing."
Huston then told O'Donnell, "He was very funny, a very subtle person. Loved you by the way, thought you were great," to which the comedienne replied, "Quite mutual... He was probably the most charming man I've ever known."...
The actress' artist partner Robert Graham suffered a heart attack in the summer of 2008 and finally succumbed to illness in December that year.
The Addams Family star admits she felt helpless watching the sculptor struggle and was devastated when he passed away.
In a TV chat with Rosie O'Donnell on Piers Morgan Tonight, she recalls, "(His death) was fast and prolonged at the same time. He was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which was a bad diagnosis... His body started to swell (on steroid drugs) and it was rather alarming for about four days. Actually it was the night of the Olympics on August the ninth, about three o'clock in the morning, he sprang up from the bed and (had a) full heart attack and kidney failure.
"I didn't know what was going on... He got through nine weeks in the hospital, and then came out and was in rehab and then came home... Then he just started to die and there seemed to be nothing that we could do, just to be there and hold his hand.
"At the end he asked me if he was dying and I said, 'No, of course not,' but I don't know. There's no guide book for these things. You have to do what's in your heart and what you feel is right. It's one of the hardest things I've ever been through... You can make peace with it maybe, and hope that you did the right thing but there's no way of knowing."
Huston then told O'Donnell, "He was very funny, a very subtle person. Loved you by the way, thought you were great," to which the comedienne replied, "Quite mutual... He was probably the most charming man I've ever known."...
- 3/16/2012
- WENN
Anjelica Huston has said that starring in the cancer-themed comedy 50/50 helped her grieve her husband's death. The actress, whose spouse Robert Graham Jr passed away in December 2008 after a long illness, explained that playing the mother of a cancer patient struck an emotional chord within her. Huston told Reuters: "I lost my husband a year before I made this movie. So it came from a deeply personal place. I took everything - all of my experience from the five months I spent with him in [intensive care] to day-to-day occurrences in the hospital - which was kind of ludicrous at the same time as being heartbreaking. "I think so much of what a caregiver does is to bring love and humor to a situation in which they have absolutely no power. That's what I was kind of channeling for [my character] Diane." Huston said that she did not sign on for 50/50 (more)...
- 10/6/2011
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
Actress Anjelica Huston channelled the grief she felt from the death of her sculptor husband Robert Graham, Jr. into her role as the mother of a cancer sufferer for her new movie 50/50.
The Oscar winner plays Diane, the overbearing mum of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character in the new comedy, about a man who uses his cancer diagnosis to win sympathy dates from female admirers.
Huston lost her husband to a longterm illness in December, 2008, shortly before she began filming 50/50, and she admits her personal troubles helped to make her portrayal more convincing.
She tells Reuters, "I lost my husband a year before I made this movie. So it came from a deeply personal place. I took everything - all of my experience from the five months I spent with him in (intensive care) to day-to-day occurrences in the hospital - which was kind of ludicrous at the same time as being heartbreaking. I think so much of what a caregiver does is to bring love and humour to a situation in which they have absolutely no power. That's what I was kind of channelling for Diane...
"I didn't accept the role because it was cathartic, I accepted it because it really touched me. I fell in love with this woman who is going through this horrible ordeal, whose presence was suffocating to her son. I understood it from quite a few points of view, from his point of view as well as my own, and the character's..."...
The Oscar winner plays Diane, the overbearing mum of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character in the new comedy, about a man who uses his cancer diagnosis to win sympathy dates from female admirers.
Huston lost her husband to a longterm illness in December, 2008, shortly before she began filming 50/50, and she admits her personal troubles helped to make her portrayal more convincing.
She tells Reuters, "I lost my husband a year before I made this movie. So it came from a deeply personal place. I took everything - all of my experience from the five months I spent with him in (intensive care) to day-to-day occurrences in the hospital - which was kind of ludicrous at the same time as being heartbreaking. I think so much of what a caregiver does is to bring love and humour to a situation in which they have absolutely no power. That's what I was kind of channelling for Diane...
"I didn't accept the role because it was cathartic, I accepted it because it really touched me. I fell in love with this woman who is going through this horrible ordeal, whose presence was suffocating to her son. I understood it from quite a few points of view, from his point of view as well as my own, and the character's..."...
- 10/4/2011
- WENN
Veteran actress Anjelica Huston signed up to star in her first full-time TV role to get her out of her house following the death of her husband in 2008.
The Witches star was at a loss after sculptor Robert Graham died and she admits she was tempted to while away her time behind closed doors.
But Huston, 60, decided to throw herself into her work and snapped up the chance to star as a theatre producer on forthcoming drama Smash, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a Broadway musical.
She tells W magazine, "A few years ago, a TV show might have been unthinkable to me. But now, as a single person, I don't want to just sit in our house regretting what's passed. This feels like I'm embarking on a new chapter."
And Huston admits the role was perfect for her advancing age.
She says, "Television is where the great parts are for women my age. But I begged the writer to make my journey a pleasant one - since my life generally reflects my art."...
The Witches star was at a loss after sculptor Robert Graham died and she admits she was tempted to while away her time behind closed doors.
But Huston, 60, decided to throw herself into her work and snapped up the chance to star as a theatre producer on forthcoming drama Smash, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a Broadway musical.
She tells W magazine, "A few years ago, a TV show might have been unthinkable to me. But now, as a single person, I don't want to just sit in our house regretting what's passed. This feels like I'm embarking on a new chapter."
And Huston admits the role was perfect for her advancing age.
She says, "Television is where the great parts are for women my age. But I begged the writer to make my journey a pleasant one - since my life generally reflects my art."...
- 8/3/2011
- WENN
Autobiography expected to detail actor's relationships with her father, director John Huston, and ex-lover Jack Nicholson
Oscar-winning actor Anjelica Huston is to write a memoir that is expected to detail her often turbulent relationships with her father, film director John Huston, and former lover Jack Nicholson.
The Hollywood Reporter says Huston's book, which does not yet have a title, will be published in 2013. "My father once said that interest was the most important thing in the world, and he wasn't talking about money, but rather the infinite possibilities and choices and patterns we all have in life," said the star of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grifters. "In this book, I want to look back at the landscapes that formed me – the exceptional highs and lows I have experienced."
Huston was involved in a relationship with Nicholson between 1973 and 1990. She famously became caught up in the fall-out from Roman Polanski...
Oscar-winning actor Anjelica Huston is to write a memoir that is expected to detail her often turbulent relationships with her father, film director John Huston, and former lover Jack Nicholson.
The Hollywood Reporter says Huston's book, which does not yet have a title, will be published in 2013. "My father once said that interest was the most important thing in the world, and he wasn't talking about money, but rather the infinite possibilities and choices and patterns we all have in life," said the star of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grifters. "In this book, I want to look back at the landscapes that formed me – the exceptional highs and lows I have experienced."
Huston was involved in a relationship with Nicholson between 1973 and 1990. She famously became caught up in the fall-out from Roman Polanski...
- 3/2/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Anjelica Houston is selling her Los Angeles home for $18 million. The "Addams Family" actress has put The Fortress, a warehouse-style property designed by her late husband, the sculptor Robert Graham situated in the trendy Venice Beach area of the U.S. city, on the market, almost 17 years after it was built.
Although the house is on the beach, has a pool and large grounds, there is only three bedrooms as much of the property has been given to a dance studio and exhibition gallery, where Robert made and stored his work. The property is close to the homes of Kate Beckinsale, Alec Baldwin and Francis Ford Coppola.
Anjelica, who was once the long-term girlfriend of Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson, has said she and Robert were inspired by the privacy of the Californian convent in which they spent their honeymoon in 1992, so they created The Fortress, which could keep out prying eyes.
Although the house is on the beach, has a pool and large grounds, there is only three bedrooms as much of the property has been given to a dance studio and exhibition gallery, where Robert made and stored his work. The property is close to the homes of Kate Beckinsale, Alec Baldwin and Francis Ford Coppola.
Anjelica, who was once the long-term girlfriend of Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson, has said she and Robert were inspired by the privacy of the Californian convent in which they spent their honeymoon in 1992, so they created The Fortress, which could keep out prying eyes.
- 2/1/2011
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
The 2009 Independent Spirit Awards will take place today in Los Angeles, and you can watch the ceremony live on IFC beginning at 5pm Est. We'll have a full report following the awards with winners and whatnot, but in the meantime check out some photos from this year's Spirit Awards below and a complete list of the nominees after the jump.
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Spirit Awards Red Carpet Photos Santa Monica, CA - February 24: (File Photo) Artist Robert Graham arrives at the 22nd Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards held at Santa Monica Beach on February 24, 2007 in Santa Monica, California. It was reported that Robert Graham, iconic sculptor and husband of actress Angelica Huston died with his family by his side at the Santa...
Additionally, our cousins over at indieWIRE are covering every square inch of awards season -- so make sure you catch a little of what they have to offer over here.
Spirit Awards Red Carpet Photos Santa Monica, CA - February 24: (File Photo) Artist Robert Graham arrives at the 22nd Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards held at Santa Monica Beach on February 24, 2007 in Santa Monica, California. It was reported that Robert Graham, iconic sculptor and husband of actress Angelica Huston died with his family by his side at the Santa...
- 2/21/2009
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
Sharon Stone, Harrison Ford and Jack Nicholson were among the stars who turned out to pay their respects at the funeral of Californian sculptor Robert Graham, husband of Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston.
Graham, whose works were incorporated into civic monuments including the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., passed away aged 70 on 27 December at California's Santa Monica UCLA Medical Centre and Orthopaedic Hospital.
Friends and family gathered on Wednesday for the memorial service, held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angel in Los Angeles.
Nicholson was among the mourners, showing support for ex-girlfriend Huston, who he dated from 1973 until 1989.
Addams Family star Huston married Graham in 1992.
Graham, whose works were incorporated into civic monuments including the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., passed away aged 70 on 27 December at California's Santa Monica UCLA Medical Centre and Orthopaedic Hospital.
Friends and family gathered on Wednesday for the memorial service, held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angel in Los Angeles.
Nicholson was among the mourners, showing support for ex-girlfriend Huston, who he dated from 1973 until 1989.
Addams Family star Huston married Graham in 1992.
- 1/10/2009
- WENN
To peruse this week's top news stories is to read a lot about death.Legendary novelist Donald Westlake dead this week at the age of 75. Legendary jazz musician Freddie Hubbard succumbs to a heart attack at the age of 70. Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, Lark Previn, passes away Christmas Day at the age of 35. Reported this week: Toxicology results confirm the death of Dr Dre's son, Andre, last summer, was due to an accidental overdose. And of course on Friday came the news that John Travolta's son, Jett, had been found dead in the bathroom of the couple's home in the Bahamas. He was 16.Lost among the woeful reports: That Robert Graham, wo ...
- 1/4/2009
- by By Actress Archives
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