Danny Huston

Huston was born May 14, 1962 in Rome, Italy. He is the son of actress and author Zoe Sallis and director John Huston.[16]

Through his father he has an adoptive half-brother, Pablo Huston and is the half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston, screenwriter Tony Huston, and writer Allegra Huston. He is the uncle of actor Jack Huston and grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. His father was an American and Irish citizen,[17] of English, Welsh, Scots-Irish, and Scottish ancestry.[18] His mother was of Indian and English descent.[19]

In 1988, Huston directed Mr. North, which was an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Theophilus North. The film was produced by his father, John Huston, who died before its completion.[20] In 1995, Huston played Bartender #2 in Leaving Las Vegas and directed the film The Maddening.[21][22]

Huston was nominated for Best Male Performance at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2003 for his performance in the independent film Ivans Xtc.[2]

Huston appeared in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. The ensemble cast was nominated for a 2004 SAG Award.[3] In 2006, Huston received the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Sandy Woodrow in Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener.[4] Huston starred in the Australian western The Proposition.[23]

Huston starred in Alpha Male and Oliver Parker's Fade to Black, in which he played Orson Welles.[24][25] He starred in The Kreutzer Sonata, which premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival.[26]

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 portrayed Samuel Adams in the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams and Colonel William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a prequel to the original trilogy of X-Men films.[27]

Huston has been featured in Boogie Woogie, The Warrior's Way, Edge of Darkness, Clash of the Titans, Robin Hood, You Don't Know Jack and Medallion.[27]

Huston played gangster Ben "The Butcher" Diamond on Mitch Glazer's Magic City for which was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2013.[28] He portrayed The Axeman in the FX thriller series American Horror Story: Coven and Massimo Dolcefino in American Horror Story: Freak Show.[11] Huston starred as General Erich Ludendorff in the 2017 film Wonder Woman and as Wade Jennings in Angel Has Fallen.[13][14]

In 1989, Huston married actress Virginia Madsen. They divorced in 1992. In 2001, Huston married Katie Jane Evans with whom he had a child, Stella.[29] Huston and Evans separated in 2006. Evans died by suicide in October 2008 before the divorce was finalized. He dated his Magic City co-star Olga Kurylenko for about a year.

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