Angelica Huston: the path from the "debility prodigy" to the inimitable femme fatale

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Look at her - you can't call her a beauty, and she is somewhat similar to our Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya. But Anjelica Huston never thought about making a career in something other than cinema. At the beginning of her career, the daughter of actor John Huston - the legend of world cinema - worked as a fashion model and walked the catwalk. In those days, her husband was Bob Richardson. Angelica, with her demonic beauty, large features, stature and tall stature, has a hypnotic effect on people. All female roles with strong characters - her, for example, the role of a stepmother in Cinderella (remember, Ranevskaya also played her?).

Angelica Huston was born July 8, 1951 in Santa Monica, USA. Her mother, prima ballerina Ricky Soma, divorced her father, who sent them to Ireland. "Angel" - that's what they call her among friends - grew up on the southwestern coast of Ireland, among hunters and residents of the taiga. And until the age of 9, tutors and nannies were engaged in her upbringing. She spent two years in Irishmonastery, but with overnight stays at home, not full board. Then Angelica left with her mother for London, where she was educated at the French Lyceum, where she encountered difficulties, since the school curriculum was difficult, the “taiga” education led her to stay with the graduates of … a kindergarten! Angelica was kept for the second year.

Angelica has no children, yet she plays the role of mothers masterfully. For example, in the movie "Scammers" or in "The Addams Family" in the image of Morticia. Journalists, knowing about her childlessness, often ask what kind of child was she herself? And they get a very self-critical answer - a mixture of a child prodigy and a moron. It is hard to believe that Anjelica Huston herself evaluates herself this way, whose photos are kept by almost every male on Earth! She is beautiful with her demonic beauty and attractive to men.

Events of youth

In 1969, Anjelica Huston first appeared in the movies, and it seems to be a joyful event, but this year grief happened - her mother died in a car accident. Angelica moved to her father, her adult life and film career began. Houston considers the most significant men in his life to be his father, who made such landmark films as The M altese Falcon, The Asph alt Jungle and The African Queen, as well as Jack Nicholson, with whom Angelica lived for 17 years - from 1973 to 1990. But she doesn't like to think about it. They broke up only when Houston found out that Jack had a child from another woman. It was the biggest love of her life and the biggestloss. After breaking up with Nicholson, she married sculptor Robert Graham.

Character

Angelica Huston was very funny in her youth, and in adulthood, in spite of everything, she did not lose this character trait. Her angelic smile contrasts with her extraordinary, rough and bitchy appearance, and her loved ones say that she is a very good and kind person. She claims that her movie bitches are funny and unhappy women. Rogues, in her opinion, are much more interesting to play than a well-groomed benefactor. Anjelica Huston admits that she loves to watch Latin American TV shows. She believes that they have freshness, courage and fire, so bewitching the viewer.

Cinema, television

Is an actress like Anjelica Huston interested in her filmography? Her roles are a provocation, a walk on the razor's edge. She herself says that insipid images do not interest her. She likes to play women who control and manipulate, for example, in the film "Scammers" her heroine masterfully twirls her son as she wants.

Best of films

She has acted in 73 films, the top five of them are:

1. "The Postman Always Rings Twice", 1981. Angelica starred in it with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange.
2. "Honor of the Prizzi Family" 1985. Received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
3. Witches.
4. "Scammers".
5. The Addams Family.

The last film starring Anjelica Huston was released in 2012 under the title Lost toLost for Words.

She also has a Golden Globe TV Academy Award for her role as Carrie in the TV movie Iron Jawed Angels and has received five Emmy nominations for her TV roles.

Direction

Since the mid-90s, Angelica, along with acting, became interested in directing. In 1996, her first film, Carolina Bastard, was released, followed by Agnes Brown in 1999, and her last film, Trips with Sister, was released in 2005.

Record holder

Angelica was marked in the Guinness Book of Records as a third-generation Oscar winner - even her grandfather, actor W alter Huston, was awarded the coveted gold statuette for his role in the son's film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. John Huston was also awarded the American Film Academy Award, and Angelica "Oscar" went to her role in the film "The Honor of the Prizzi Family", filmed by her father. The second husband of Angelica - Robert Graham, like once Jack Nicholson, took part in the film, which starred Houston.

But today Angelica is single… She occasionally meets with Nicholson in some fancy restaurant to chat, laugh, reminisce and dream…