milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Moved to Ireland as an infant; lived at St Clerans, an estate in Galway
1961 
Moved to London at age ten (date approximate)
1967 
Auditioned for the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of "Romeo and Juliet"; reportedly was considered for the role until father intervened allowing Olivia Hussey to be cast
1969 
Feature film acting debut an uncredited appearance in father's "Sinful Davey"
1969 
First starring film role, "A Walk With Love and Death", directed by her father (who also co-starred as her uncle, Robert the Elder); performance was panned by critics
1969 
Moved to NYC after mother's death and continued to understudy Marianne Faithful in the role of Ophelia for the Broadway production of "Hamlet", originally staged by Tony Richardson in England; appeared as a Court Lady when the vehicle was filmed
1971 
Began modeling for Vogue, among other magazines, when photographer (and old friend of Huston's mother) Richard Avedon asked her to do a 30-page fashion shoot in Ireland
1973 
Moved to Los Angeles
1976 
Returned to the screen in Elia Kazan's "The Last Tycoon" (based on F Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel), her first film with Jack Nicholson
1981 
Second film with Nicholson, Bob Rafelson's remake of "The Postman Always Rings Twice"; played a lion tamer
 
Involved in a serious car accident which refocused both her life and her acting ambitions
1982 
Acted in episodes of "Laverne and Shirley" (ABC), playing a model with an Eiffel Tower on her head in one
1984 
Had a small role in Rob Reiner's feature directing debut, "This Is Spinal Tap"
1984 
Career received a boost when cast as an Amazon with guns and swords on her hips in the space shoot-em-up "The Ice Pirates"
1984 
TV-movie debut, "The Cowboy and the Ballerina" (CBS)
1985 
Breakthrough screen role as the Mafia princess in "Prizzi's Honor", directed by father; third film with Nicholson; won Best Supporting Actress Oscar
1985 
Played title role in Los Angeles stage production of "Tamara"
1986 
Joined Michael Jackson and Dick Shawn in Francis Ford Coppola's 17-minute, 3-D musical fantasy short "Captain Eo", produced for showing at the Disney theme parks
1987 
Reunited with Coppola for "Gardens of Stone"; first leading role
1987 
Starred as a woman in a loveless marriage in father's last film, "The Dead", adapted by brother Tony from James Joyce's concluding short story in his youthful "Dubliners" collection
1988 
Acted in half-brother Danny's "Mr. North", co-adapted by father from Thornton Wilder's last novel
1989 
Received a Best Supporting Oscar nomination as a Nazi concentration camp survivor in Paul Mazursky's "Enemies, a Love Story"
1989 
First film with director Woody Allen, "Crimes and Misdemeanors", playing desperate (and eventually murdered) mistress of Martin Landau
1989 
Miniseries debut in a starring role, "Lonesome Dove" (CBS); earned first Emmy nomination; first time acting in a project adapted from the work of Larry McMurtry, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
1990 
Nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award nomination as the platinum-haired con artist in "The Grifters"
1990 
Acted the part of the Grand High Witch in Nicolas Roeg's "The Witches", based on the book by Roald Dahl
1991 
Portrayed the eerie-but-elegant Morticia Addams in "The Addams Family"
1992 
Appeared as herself in Robert Altman's "The Player"
1992 
Narrated the "Rip Van Winkle" segment of Showtime's "American Heroes & Legends"
1993 
Reprised Morticia for "Addams Family Values"
1993 
Reteamed with Allen for "Manhattan Murder Mystery"
1993 
Offered a strong performance as the mother of an autistic child in the ABC miniseries "Family Pictures"
1993 
Played Doctor Betsy Reisz in HBO's moving, acclaimed "And the Band Played On", which traced the course of the AIDS crisis
1995 
Reteamed with Nicholson to play an estranged couple in Sean Penn's "The Crossing Guard"
1995 
Portrayed Calamity Jane in the CBS minieries "Buffalo Girls", adapted from McMurtry's novel; earned second Emmy nomination
1996 
Made directorial debut with "Bastard Out of Carolina" and received an Emmy nomination for her efforts; film was originally shot for TNT but the network would not air it over the content; shown at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival; became Showtime's highest-rated program when it aired on that network later in the year
1998 
Played Vincent Gallo's Buffalo Bills-crazed mom in Gallo's "Buffalo 66"
1998 
Portrayed the evil stepmother in "Ever After", Andy Tennant's take on the Cinderella story
1998 
Acted in Danny Cannon's mediocre crime film "Phoenix" (HBO), portraying Ray Liotta's love interest
1999 
Directed, co-produced and starred in "Agnes Browne", playing a widowed mother of seven in 1960s Ireland
2000 
Appeared in James Ivory's "The Golden Bowl", based on the Henry James novel (and produced by Ismail Merchant with screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala); screened at Cannes
2001 
Portrayed the Lady in the Lake in the TNT feminist retelling of the Arthurian legend "The Mists of Avalon"
2001 
Played the matriarch in a family of failed geniuses in "The Royal Tenenbaums" directed by Wes Anderson
2002 
Starred opposite Clint Eastwood in "Blood Work" (lensed 2002)
2003 
Co-starred opposite Hilary Swank in the HBO movie "Iron Jawed Angels," about how American women got the vote in 1920; received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie (2004)
2004 
Co-starred with Bill Murray in Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" as Zissou's (Murray) estranged wife
2005 
Directed Rosie O'Donnell and Andie MacDowell in the CBS movie "Riding the Bus With My Sister," based on the book of the same name
2006 
Guest-starred as an unorthodox psychiatrist in a four episode stint on the Showtime series "Huff"
2006 
Cast in Terry Zwigoff's adaptation of Daniel Clowes' comic story "Art School Confidential"
2007 
Co-starred with Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan in the western "Seraphim Falls"
2008 
Joined the cast of "Medium" for a six-episode story arc, playing a missing persons investigator; earned an Emmy nomination for Guest Actress in a Drama Series
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