In , she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston , she reluctantly made her big screen debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death Huston moved from London to New York City, where she worked as a model throughout the s. She decided to actively pursue acting in the early s, and subsequently, had her breakthrough with her performance as a mobster moll in Prizzi's Honor , also directed by her father, for which she became the third generation of her family to receive an Academy Award , when she won Best Supporting Actress , joining both John and Walter Huston in this recognition.
She achieved further critical and popular recognition for playing a mistress in Crimes and Misdemeanors , a long-vanished wife in Enemies, A Love Story , a con artist in The Grifters , the Grand High Witch in The Witches , Morticia Addams in the Addams Family films β93 , and an adventurous writer in Manhattan Murder Mystery She has also acted in the miniseries Family Pictures , Buffalo Girls , and The Mists of Avalon , as well as the series Huff , Medium β , and Transparent β Huston was born on July 8, , at p.
When Huston was 2 years old, her family relocated to Ireland, where she spent much of her childhood and which she still considers home. Clerans, a acre estate in County Galway , in Huston has a complex family because of her parents' multiple marriages and extramarital affairs.
She has an older brother, Tony, and an adopted older brother, Pablo. She has a younger maternal half-sister named Allegra , whom she called "Legs", and a younger paternal half-brother, actor Danny Huston. She is the aunt of actor Jack Huston. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone.
We were in the middle of the Irish countryside We were tutored. Our father was mostly away [for filming]". She had been in the running to play Juliet in director Franco Zeffirelli 's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet , but Huston withdrew her from consideration when her father decided to cast her as Claudia in A Walk With Love and Death.
