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Enrica Georgia Soma (May 9, 1929 – January 29, 1969) was an American socialite, model, and prima ballerina. She was also the wife of director John Huston and mother of their three children.
Oct 22, 2013 · In an adaptation from her new memoir, Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston summons the magic and joy of her singular childhood, along with the loneliness, betrayal, and haunted silences. By ...
Actress: The Grifters. Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 to director and actor John Huston and Russian prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' Soma.
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- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Christina Ricci, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Hart, Judith Malina, Carel Struycken, and Jimmy Workman in The Addams Family (1991)
- Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Melanie Lynskey, and Megan Dodds in Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)
- Anjelica Huston in Prizzi's Honor (1985)
- Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston, Joy Behar, and Ron Rifkin in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
- Alan Alda and Anjelica Huston in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
- Woody Allen and Anjelica Huston in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
- Woody Allen, Alan Alda, and Anjelica Huston in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
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Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, to prima ballerina Enrica \"Ricki\" (Soma) and director and actor John Huston. Her mother, who was from New York, was of Italian descent, and her father had English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish ancestry. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 19...
While modeling, Huston had a few more small film roles, but decided to focus more on movies in the early 1980s. She prepared herself by reaching out to acting coach Peggy Feury and began to get roles. The first notable part was in Bob Rafelson's remake of the classic noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) (in which Jack Nicholson, with wh...
Huston thereafter worked prolifically, including notable roles in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Barry Sonnenfeld's film versions of the Charles Addams cartoons The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic ...
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 p...
- Actress, Producer, Director
- July 8, 1951
In this interview from 1986, Anjelica Huston recalls the story of how her mother, Enrica Soma, came to be featured on the cover of Life Magazine as a young ballerina in 1947.
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- Life Stories
Anjelica Huston ( / ˈhjuːstən / ⓘ HEW-stən; born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director and model known for often portraying eccentric and distinctive characters.
Dec 22, 2017 · A father of five, Huston is the patriarch of a film dynasty, with daughter Anjelica (born to ballerina/model Enrica Soma), son Danny (born to actress/author Zoe Sallis), and grandson Jack (born...