Danny Huston

Daniel Sallis Huston (born May 14, 1962) is an American actor, writer, and director. Huston got his start directing Mr. North, starring Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, and Huston's half-sister, Anjelica Huston. Later, Huston gave his breakthrough acting performance in the independent film Ivans Xtc and was nominated for Best Male Performance at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2003.

Danny Huston
Danny Huston at 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Daniel Sallis Huston (1962-05-14) May 14, 1962 Rome, Italy
Alma mater	London Film School
Occupation	Actor, director
Years active	1984–present
Spouse(s)	Virginia Madsen ​ ( m. 1989; div. 1992) Katie Jane Evans ​ ( m. 2001; d.  2008)
Children	1
Parent(s)	John Huston Zoe Sallis
Relatives	Tony Huston (paternal half-brother) Anjelica Huston (paternal half-sister) Jack Huston (nephew) Allegra Huston (step-sister) Walter Huston (paternal grandfather)

His film credits include Birth opposite Nicole Kidman, Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, for which the ensemble cast was nominated for a 2004 Screen Actors Guild Award, The Constant Gardener, for which he received the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance; Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Peter Berg's The Kingdom, Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock. Huston's film The Congress opened the 45th Director's Fortnight sidebar at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Huston co-starred in Tim Burton's film Big Eyes, alongside Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter and Jason Schwartzman. He has appeared in the FX thriller series American Horror Story, portraying The Axeman[1] in American Horror Story: Coven and Massimo Dolcefino in American Horror Story: Freak Show.[2] He also starred as General Erich Ludendorff in the 2017 film Wonder Woman and as renegade ex-Army Ranger turned head of private military company Wade Jennings in Angel Has Fallen.

Huston is a graduate of London Film School.

Early life

Huston was born in Rome, Italy. He is the son of actress and author Zoe Sallis and director John Huston. After completing early schooling, Huston went to the London Film School, studying for a career in the movies.

Through his father he has an adoptive half-brother, Pablo Huston, and is the half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston. He is also the uncle of actor Jack Huston, and grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. His father was an American and Irish citizen,[3] of English, Welsh, Scots-Irish and Scottish ancestry.[4] His mother was of Indian and English descent.[5]

Career

Huston's first feature as a director, Mr. North, an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's last novel, Theophilus North, was produced by his father, John Huston. In 1995's Leaving Las Vegas, the younger Huston had an acting role and has since acted in more than 20 films. That same year, he directed the film The Maddening.

His breakthrough acting performance is considered to have been in the independent film Ivans Xtc. The Bernard Rose feature was nominated for several Independent Spirit Awards in 2003, including Best Male Performance for Huston's portrayal of Hollywood talent agent Ivan Beckman. Huston has worked nonstop as an actor ever since.

Soon after Ivans Xtc, Huston worked on Martin Scorsese's The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alec Baldwin. The ensemble cast was nominated for a 2004 SAG Award. In 2006, Huston received the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Sandy Woodrow in Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener. That year, Huston also starred in the critically acclaimed Australian western The Proposition, with Guy Pearce and Emily Watson. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

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 portrayed Samuel Adams in the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams and 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. 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.

Huston played gangster Ben "The Butcher" Diamond on Mitch Glazer's Magic City on the Starz network from 2012 to 2013. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2013. Later that year, he portrayed The Axeman in a recurring role on American Horror Story: Coven.

Personal life

Huston has been married twice. His first marriage was in 1989 to Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen; they divorced in 1992. He married his second wife, Katie Jane Evans, in 2001 and they separated in 2006. Evans took her own life in October 2008 before the divorce was finalized. They had one daughter named Stella. He dated his Magic City co-star Olga Kurylenko for approximately a year.

Filmography

As Actor

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	Bartender #2
1997	Anna Karenina	Stiva
1998	Spanish Fly	John
	Susan's Plan	Gambler #2
1999	Rockin' Good Times	Jimmy's Manager
2000	Timecode	Randy
	Ivans Xtc	Ivan Beckman
2001	Eden	Kalman
	Hotel	Hotel manager
2002	Torture TV	Gary Silverman
	The Bacchae	Herdsman
2003	21 Grams	Michael
2004	Silver City	Danny O'Brien
	Birth	Joseph
	The Aviator	Jack Frye
2005	The Proposition	Arthur Burns
	The Constant Gardener	Sandy Woodrow
2006	Marie Antoinette	Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
	Alpha Male	Jim Ferris
	Children of Men	Nigel
	Fade to Black	Orson Welles
2007	The Number 23	Isaac French / Dr. Miles Phoenix
	I Really Hate My Job	Al Bowlly / Himself
	The Kingdom	Gideon Young
	30 Days of Night	Marlow
2008	The Kreutzer Sonata	Edgar
	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Lawrence Maddox
2009	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	William Stryker
	Boogie Woogie	Art Spindle
2010	Edge of Darkness	Jack Bennett
	You Don’t Know Jack	Geoffrey Fieger
	Clash of the Titans	Poseidon
	The Warrior's Way	The Colonel
	Robin Hood	Richard the Lionheart
The Conspirator	Joseph Holt
2011	Un monstre à Paris	Préfet Maynott	Voice
	Playoff	Max Stoller
2012	Two Jacks	Jack
	Wrath of the Titans	Poseidon
	Stolen	Tim Harlend
	Hitchcock	Whitfield Cook
	Boxing Day	Basil
2013	The Congress	Jeff
	Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox	Sam Lane	Voice
2014	Big Eyes	Dick Nolan
	Tigers	Alex	Indian film
	The Liberator	Martin Torkington
2015	Pressure	Engel
	Frankenstein	Viktor Frankenstein
2016	All I See Is You	Dr. Hughes
2017	The Last Photograph	Tom Hammond	Also director
	Newness	Larry Bejerano
	Wonder Woman	General Erich Ludendorff
2018	Game Night	Donald Anderton
	The Professor	Peter
	Stan & Ollie	Hal Roach
2019	Io	Dr. Henry Walden
	Angel Has Fallen	Wade Jennings
	Samurai Marathon	Matthew C. Perry	Japanese film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Ty Caulfield	Episode: "Suckers"
2006	Covert One: The Hades Factor	Frank Klein	Recurring role; 2 episodes
2008	John Adams	Samuel Adams	Recurring role; 3 episodes
2010	You Don't Know Jack	Geoffrey Fieger	Television film
2012–2013	Magic City	Ben "The Butcher" Diamond	Recurring role; 16 episodes
2013–2014	American Horror Story: Coven	The Axeman	Recurring role; 7 episodes
2014	Masters of Sex	Dr. Douglas Greathouse	Recurring role; 3 episodes
2014–2015	American Horror Story: Freak Show	Massimo Dolcefino	Guest role; 3 episodes
2016	Paranoid	Nick Waingrow	Recurring role; 4 episodes
2018–2019	Yellowstone	Dan Jenkins	Main role; 19 episodes
2019–present	Succession	Jamie Laird	Recurring role; 5 episodes
2019	Doc Martin	Robert Brooke	Episode: "Wild West Country"

As Director

• Mr. North (1988)
• Becoming Colette (1991)
• The Maddening (1995)
• The Ice Princess (1996)
• The Last Photograph (2017)

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
2003	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Male Lead	Ivans Xtc	Nominated[6]
2004	Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards	Best Cast	21 Grams	Won[7]
2005	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	The Constant Gardener	Won[8]
2005	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	The Aviator	Nominated[9]
2006	Toronto Film Critics Association Awards	Best Supporting Actor	The Proposition	Nominated[10]
2008	Monte-Carlo Television Festival	Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries	John Adams	Nominated[11]
2011	Montreal World Film Festival	Best Actor	Playoff	Won[12]
2013	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Magic City	Nominated[13]
2014	Saturn Awards	Best Guest Starring Role on Television	American Horror Story: Coven	Nominated[14]

References

1. Goldberg, Lesley (September 8, 2013). "American Horror Story' Taps Danny Huston to Join 'Coven". The Hollywood Reporter.
2. Schremph, Kelly. "Was The Axeman on 'AHS Freakshow'? Yep, And He's The One Who Gave Elsa Her Legs". Bustle.
3. http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0802/806458-john-huston-becomes-irish-citizen/
4. Huston, John (1994). An Open Book. Da Capo Press. p. 9. ISBN 0-306-80573-1.
5. Carr, Jay (July 31, 1988). "HAVING NOAH FOR A FATHER TO HIS SON DANNY, JOHN HUSTON WAS INDEED LARGER THAN LIFE". Boston Globe. Retrieved May 17, 2010. My mother's half Indian, half English
6. "Independent Spirit Awards (2003)". IMDb. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
7. "Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (2004)". IMDb. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
8. "Satellite Awards (2005)". IMDb. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
9. "Screen Actors Guild Awards (2005)". IMDb. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
10. "Toronto Film Critics Association Awards (2006)". IMDb. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
11. "Monte-Carlo TV Festival (2008)". IMDb. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
12. "Montreal World Film Festival (2011)". IMDb. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
13. "Golden Globes, USA (2013)". IMDb. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
14. "The Saturn Award Nominations Include GRAVITY and THE HOBBIT". Collider. Retrieved February 28, 2014.

External links

• Danny Huston on IMDb