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- NAME: Anjelica Huston
- OCCUPATION: Animal Rights Activist, Film Actress, Television Actress
- BIRTH DATE: July 08, 1951 (Age: 61)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Santa Monica, California
- ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer
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Anjelica Huston is an Academy Award-winning actress, a film director and the daughter of John Huston.
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Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951, in Santa Monica, California. The daughter of film director John Huston, Anjelica got her start in show business through small parts in her father's films. Her first significant film role was in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). In 1985, she won an Academy Awards (best supporting actress) for her role in Prizzi's Honor. Like her father, Huston went on to become a filmmaker herself,
directing her first film, Bastard Out of Carolina, in 1996.
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Film actress and director, born in California, USA. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Prizzi's Honor (1985), directed by her father John Huston, and Oscar nominations for Enemies: A Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990). Later films include her role as Morticia in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), Bitter Moon (1992), Phoenix (1997), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and Daddy Day Care (2003). She made a directorial debut with Bastard Out Of Carolina (1996) and directed and starred in Agnes Browne (1999).
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