Danny Huston facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Danny Huston
Danny Huston at 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Daniel Sallis Huston (1962-05-14) May 14, 1962 (age 62) Rome, Italy
Citizenship	United States United Kingdom
Alma mater	London Film School
Occupation	Actor director screenwriter
Years active	1975–present
Spouse(s)	Virginia Madsen ​ ​ (m. 1989; div. 1992)​ Katie Jane Evans ​ ​ (m. 2001; died 2008)​
Children	1
Parent(s)	John Huston (father)
Relatives	Tony Huston (half-brother) Anjelica Huston (half-sister) Allegra Huston (half -sister) Jack Huston (nephew) Walter Huston (grandfather)

Daniel Sallis Huston (born May 14, 1962) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. A member of the Huston family of filmmakers, he is the son of director John Huston and half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston.

He is known for his roles in films such as Ivans Xtc (2000), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, 21 Grams (2003), Birth (2004), The Aviator (also 2004), The Constant Gardener (2005), Marie Antoinette (2006), Children of Men (also 2006), The Kingdom (2007), 30 Days of Night (also 2007), Robin Hood (2010), Hitchcock (2012), The Congress (2013), Big Eyes (2014), Wonder Woman (2017), Game Night (2018), Stan & Ollie (also 2018), and Angel Has Fallen (2019).

Huston portrayed The Axeman on the FX series American Horror Story: Coven and Massimo Dolcefino on American Horror Story: Freak Show. He played Ben "The Butcher" Diamond on Magic City (2012–13), Dan Jenkins in the first two seasons of the Paramount Network drama series Yellowstone (2018–19), and Jamie Laird on the second season of Succession (2019). His directing credits include the films Mr. North (1988), The Maddening (1995) and The Last Photograph (2017).

Early life

Huston was born May 14, 1962, in Rome, Italy. He is the son of director and actor John Huston and actress Zoe Sallis. At the time, Huston was in Italy directing The Bible: In the Beginning..., in which Sallis played Hagar. Through his father, he is the half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston. He has two adoptive siblings, Pablo Huston and writer Allegra Huston. He is the uncle of actor Jack Huston and grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. He is of Canadian, Welsh, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and Anglo-Indian descent.

The younger Huston spent much of his early life in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and maintains British citizenship through his mother. He worked as an assistant to his father during the production of Under the Volcano (1984), and was a second unit director on The Dead (1987). Huston is a graduate of London Film School.

Career

Huston made his acting debut at the age of 12 in the George Kennedy-starring thriller film The "Human" Factor (1975).

In 1988, Huston directed Mr. North, which was an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Theophilus North. The film was produced by his father, who died before its completion. In 1995, Huston played Bartender #2 in Leaving Las Vegas and directed the film The Maddening.

Huston was nominated for Best Male Performance at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2003 for his performance in the independent film Ivans Xtc.

Huston appeared in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. 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. Huston starred in the Australian western The Proposition.

Huston starred in Alpha Male and Oliver Parker's Fade to Black, in which he played Orson Welles. He starred in 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 Colonel William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a prequel to the original trilogy of X-Men films.

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.

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. He portrayed The Axeman in the FX thriller series American Horror Story: Coven and Massimo Dolcefino in American Horror Story: Freak Show. Huston starred as General Erich Ludendorff in the 2017 film Wonder Woman and as Wade Jennings in Angel Has Fallen.

Personal life

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. Huston and Evans separated in 2006. Evans died in October 2008 before the divorce was finalized.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	The "Human" Factor	Mark Kinsdale	Credited as 'Danny Houston'
1988	Mr. North	N/A	As director
1991	Becoming Colette	N/A
1995	The Maddening	N/A
	Leaving Las Vegas	Bartender
1997	Anna Karenina	Stiva
1998	Spanish Fly	John
	Susan's Plan	Gambler
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
	Clash of the Titans	Poseidon
	The Warrior's Way	The Colonel
	Robin Hood	Richard the Lionheart
	The Conspirator	Joseph Holt
2011	A Monster in Paris	Préfet Maynott	Voice, English dub
	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
	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	Gen. 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
2022	Across the River and into the Trees	Capt. Wes O'Neill
	We Are Gathered Here Today	Peter Stone
	Traveling Light	Harry
	Ride Above	Monsieur Cooper
	Life Upside Down	Paul Hasselberg
	Marlowe	Floyd Hanson
2023	The Dead Don't Hurt	Rudolph Schiller
	Consecration	Father Romero
	I Told You So	Father Bill
2024	The Crow	TBA	Post-production
	Horizon: An American Saga	TBA	Post-production

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Danny Huston para niños