milestonesYear
Milestone
Moved to Ireland as a young child and lived in an estate in Galway
1961
Moved to London at age ten
1967
Auditioned for the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of "Romeo and Juliet"
1969
Feature acting debut, an uncredited appearance in her father, John Huston's "Sinful Davey"
1969
First starring role, "A Walk with Love and Death"; directed by her father (who also co-starred as her uncle)
1969
Moved to NYC after mother's death and was an understudy for Marianne Faithful in the Broadway production of "Hamlet"
1971
Modeled for photographer (an old friend of Huston's mother) Richard Avedon in a 30-page fashion shoot for Vogue magazine
1973
Moved to Los Angeles to live with off-screen love, Jack Nicholson
1976
Returned to the screen in Elia Kazan's "The Last Tycoon"; first film with Jack Nicholson
1981
Second film with Nicholson, Bob Rafelson's remake of "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
1982
Acted in episodes of "Laverne and Shirley" (ABC)
1984
Appeared in Rob Reiner's feature directing debut, "This Is Spinal Tap"
1984
Career received a boost when she was cast as an Amazon with guns in "The Ice Pirates"
1984
TV-movie debut, "The Cowboy and the Ballerina" (CBS)
1985
Breakthrough screen role as the Mafia princess in John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor"; third on-screen collaboration with Nicholson
1985
Played title role in the Los Angeles stage production of "Tamara"
1986
Joined Michael Jackson and Dick Shawn in Francis Ford Coppola's 17-minute, 3-D musical "Captain Eo" (produced for the Disney theme parks)
1987
Re-teamed with Coppola in her first leading role, "Gardens of Stone"
1987
Played a woman in a loveless marriage in John Huston's final film, "The Dead"; screenplay was adapted by brother, Tony from the short story of the same name by James Joyce
1988
Acted in half-brother Danny Huston's "Mr. North"; co-adapted by father, John Huston
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 the desperate mistress of Martin Landau
1989
Cast as as Clara Allen in the CBS miniseries, "Lonesome Dove" (adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel); received an Emmy nomination for Lead Actress in a Miniseries
1990
Received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Lily Dillon in "The Grifters"
1990
Acted the part of the Grand High Witch in Nicolas Roeg's "The Witches"
1991
Portrayed matriarch, Morticia Addams in "The Addams Family"
1992
Appeared as herself in Robert Altman's "The Player"
1993
Reprised role of Morticia for "Addams Family Values"
1993
Re-teamed with Woody Allen for "Manhattan Murder Mystery"
1993
Offered a strong performance as the mother of an autistic child in the ABC miniseries "Family Pictures"
1993
Portrayed Doctor Betsy Reisz in the acclaimed HBO movie, "And the Band Played On" that follows the course of the AIDS crisis
1995
Re-teamed with Nicholson to play an estranged couple in Sean Penn's "The Crossing Guard"
1995
Portrayed Calamity Jane in the CBS miniseries "Buffalo Girls" (adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel); received an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actress in a Miniseries
1996
Made directorial debut with "Bastard Out of Carolina" (originally filmed for TNT, but they would not air it due to its content; later aired on Showtime); received an Emmy nomination for Directing
1998
Played Vincent Gallo's Buffalo Bills-crazed mom in Gallo's "Buffalo 66"
1998
Portrayed the evil stepmother in Andy Tennant's take on the Cinderella story "Ever After"
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" as a widowed mother of seven in 1960s Ireland
2000
Appeared in James Ivory's "The Golden Bowl" (based on the Henry James novel)
2001
Portrayed the Lady in the Lake in the TNT retelling of the Arthurian legend "The Mists of Avalon"
2001
Played the matriarch in a family of failed geniuses in Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums"
2002
Starred opposite Clint Eastwood in "Blood Work"
2003
Co-starred with Hilary Swank in the HBO movie "Iron Jawed Angels," about the American women's suffrage movement during the early 1900s; received an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actress
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"
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
Played a missing persons investigator in a six-episode story arc on "Medium" (NBC); received an Emmy nomination for Guest Actress in a Drama
2008
Cast as Sam Rockwell's mother in the film "Choke," based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
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