Narrator Anjelica Huston
Narrator Anjelica Huston is the daughter of director and actor John Huston and Russian prima ballerina Enrica (Ricki) Soma. Huston’s first major role was in Bob Rafelson’s remake of the classic 1940s noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice. A few years later, Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as the calculating, imperious Maerose in John Huston’s film adaptation of Richard Condon’s Prizzi’s Honor. Huston thereafter worked prolifically, including co-star billing in Francis Ford Coppola’s Gardens of Stone; Barry Sonnenfeld’s film versions of the Charles Addams cartoons The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia; Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums; and The Life Aquatic. One of her finest performance on-screen was as Lilly, the veteran, iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears’ The Grifters, for which she was nominated for Best Actress. A sentimental favorite is her performance as the lead in her father’s final film, an adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead.