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, he 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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