Huston was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of film director John Huston (1906-1987) and his fourth wife, prima ballerina Enrica Soma (1930-1969). Her grandfather, Walter Huston, a stage and screen star, won an Oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. She has Scots-Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh ancestry on her father's side, and Italian on her mother's side. One of four siblings, Read more...

Two of Huston's first movies, Sinful Davey (1969) and A Walk with Love and Death (1969) were directed by her father. Although he disapproved of her ambitions to act, Anjelica received crucial but hurtful reviews for her performances.[citation needed] She would lose her mother in a car accident the same year; her father remarried Celeste Shane three years later. She appeared in only a few films over Read more...

After a handful of prominent roles in both television and in film, Huston stepped away from acting, following in her father’s footsteps in the Director’s chair. The first film she directed was Bastard Out of Carolina (1996); another was Agnes Browne (1999), in which she both directed and starred, and Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005).