Danny Huston Add to My Celebs Age 50 Birthday May. 14th, 1962 Born in Rome, Italy Height 6' 2

Danny Huston's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) John Adams Samuel Adams

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Robin Hood 2010 - Edge of Darkness 2010 - Clash of the Titans 2009 - X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2009 - Boogie Woogie 2008 - How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 2007 - The Kingdom 2007 - 30 Days of Night 2007 - I Really Hate My Job 2007 - The Number 23 2006 - Marie Antoinette 2006 - Children of Men 2005 - The Proposition 2005 - The Constant Gardener 2004 - Birth 2004 - The Aviator 2003 - 21 Grams 2001 - Hotel 2000 - Timecode 1995 - Leaving Las Vegas

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Daniel S. "Danny" Huston[1] (born May 14, 1962) is an American actor and director.
Early life Huston was born in Rome, Italy. He hails from the illustrious Huston acting and filmmaking dynasty. He is the son of legendary director John Huston, half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston, uncle of actor Jack Huston, stepbrother of writer and editor Allegra Huston, and grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. His mother, Zoe Sallis, was an actress and author whose ancestry was Indian and English.[2] Huston was conceived as a result of an affair between Sallis and John Huston.[3]

Huston also starred in the British independent features Alpha Male and Oliver Parker’s Fade to Black, in which he played Orson Welles alongside Christopher Walken and Paz Vega. He has collaborated several times with British directors Mike Figgis and Bernard Rose, most recently with Rose on The Kreutzer Sonata, which premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
His other film credits include Birth, Silver City, Marie Antoinette, The Number 23, The Kingdom, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People and 30 Days of Night. He most recently portrayed Samuel Adams in the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams. He also portrayed Colonel William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a prequel for the trilogy.
His 2009–10 roles include Boogie Woogie, The Warrior's Way, the thriller Edge of Darkness, and the adventure films Clash of the Titans and Robin Hood. Recently, he played the famous lawyer Geoffrey Fieger HBO's film You Don't Know Jack. Huston will also feature alongside Nicolas Cage in the Simon West directed film Medallion.
Personal life Huston has twice been married. His first wife was Academy Award nominee, Virginia Madsen. His second wife, Katie Jane Evans, whom he married in 2001 and separated from in 2006, committed suicide in October 2008 before the divorce was finalized. Together, they had one daughter named Stella.[4]



TRIVIA:

• Former brother-in-law of 'Michael Madsen (I)' (qv)
• Son of 'John Huston (I)' (qv) and 'Zoe Sallis' (qv)
• His divorce to Katie Evans was never finalized. She committed suicide in 2008.
• One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.
• He is known for his ear for dialects, which often vary from role to role for him. This may be due partially to his assimilation to various regions while his parents moved him around as a kid.
• Invited to join to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences [2007].
• In 1943, his grandfather 'Walter Huston' (qv) starred in a film called _Edge of Darkness (1943)_ (qv). In 2009, he starred in a film with the same name _Edge of Darkness (2010)_ (qv), based on the British mini-series.
• In _The Aviator (2004)_ (qv), he works with 'Cate Blanchett' (qv), who plays 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv), star of his father's film The _The African Queen (1951)_ (qv).

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