Representing the third generation of Hustons to win an Academy Award, Anjelica Huston finally emerged from the shadows of father John and long-time beau Jack Nicholson to parlay her striking, off-beat beauty and “deep class” (as termed by Nicholson) into a career as an actress of great strength and emotional range. Though she managed to survive a disastrous starring debut in her father’s “A Walk with Love and Death” (1969), the howls of nepotism that nearly ended her career before it began did cause her to withdraw temporarily from the profession. Raised in Ireland and London, the statuesque Huston relocated to New York after the death of her mother, the former ballerina Enrica Soma, and enjoyed a successful career as a model, becoming a favorite of heavyweight photographers like Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. When she decided to return to acting, her father informed her unceremoniously that she was “too old,” and it was not until she moved out of Nicholson’s home that her career started to take off.
