Danny Huston Biography

Daniel Sallis "Danny" 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 his 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.

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 latest film, The Congress, opened the 45th Director"?s Fortnight sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2013. Huston co-starred in Tim Burton's film Big Eyes, alongside Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter and Jason Schwartzman. As of 2013, he has appeared in the FX thriller series American Horror Story, portraying The Axeman in American Horror Story: Coven and Massimo Dolcefino in American Horror Story: Freak Show.

Early life

Huston was born in Rome, Italy. He is the son of actress Zoe Sallis and director John Huston, adoptive half-brother of Pablo Huston, half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston, uncle of actor Jack Huston, and grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston, through whom he is of English, Scots-Irish, Welsh and Scottish descent. His mother was an actress and author whose ancestry was Indian and English. Huston was conceived as a result of an affair between his mother and John Huston.

Career

His father, John Huston, produced Danny's first feature as a director, Mr. North, an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's last novel, Theophilus North. In 1995's Leaving Las Vegas, he moved in front of the camera and has since acted in over 20 films. That same year, he directed the film The Maddening. He gave his breakthrough acting performance 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, he worked on Martin Scorsese's The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alec Baldwin, for which 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 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 wife was Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen. He married his second wife, Katie Jane Evans, in 2001 and they separated in 2006. She committed suicide in October 2008 before the divorce was finalized. They had one daughter named Stella. He dated Magic City co-star Olga Kurylenko for approximately a year.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	Bartender #2
1997	Anna Karenina	Stiva
1998	Spanish Fly	John
1998	Susan's Plan	Gambler #2
1999	Rockin' Good Times	Jimmy's Manager
2000	Timecode	Randy
2000	Ivans Xtc	Ivan Beckman
2001	Eden	Kalman
2001	Hotel	Hotel manager
2002	Torture TV	Gary Silverman
2002	The Bacchae	Herdsman
2003	21 Grams	Michael
2004	Silver City	Danny O'Brien
2004	Birth	Joseph
2004	The Aviator	Jack Frye
2005	The Proposition	Arthur Burns
2005	The Constant Gardener	Sandy Woodrow
2006	Marie Antoinette	Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
2006	Alpha Male	Jim Ferris
2006	Children of Men	Nigel
2006	Fade to Black	Orson Welles
2007	The Number 23	Isaac French / Dr. Miles Phoenix
2007	I Really Hate My Job	Al Bowlly / Himself
2007	The Kingdom	Gideon Young
2007	30 Days of Night	Marlow
2008	The Kreutzer Sonata	Edgar
2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Lawrence Maddox
2009	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Colonel William Stryker
2009	Boogie Woogie	Art Spindle
2010	Edge of Darkness	Jack Bennett
2010	Clash of the Titans	Poseidon
2010	You Don't Know Jack	Geoffrey Fieger	Television film
2010	The Warrior's Way	The Colonel
2010	Robin Hood	Richard the Lionheart
2010	The Conspirator	Joseph Holt
2011	Un monstre Paris	Prfet Maynott	Voice
2011	Playoff	Max Stoller
2012	Two Jacks	Jack
2012	Wrath of the Titans	Poseidon
2012	Stolen	Tim Harlend
2012	Hitchcock	Whitfield Cook
2012	Boxing Day	Basil
2013	The Congress	Jeff
2014	Big Eyes	Dick Nolan
2014	The Liberator	Martin Torkington
2015	Pressure	Engel
2015	Frankenstein	Viktor Frankenstein
2016	All I See Is You		Post-production
2017	Wonder Woman		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Ty Caulfield, casino manager	Episode: "Suckers"
2006	Covert One: The Hades Factor	Frank Klein	2 episodes
2008	John Adams	Samuel Adams	3 episodes
2012-13	Magic City	Ben "The Butcher" Diamond	16 episodes
2013-14	American Horror Story: Coven	The Axeman	7 episodes
2014	Masters of Sex	Dr. Douglas Greathouse	3 episodes
2014-15	American Horror Story: Freak Show	Massimo Dolcefino	3 episodes

Awards and nominations

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