Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1957
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Anjelica Huston represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 58 years in, and Anjelica is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Anjelica Huston appears in 34 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anjelica. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the clearest case: a film rated 8.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Len Wiseman, Wes Anderson, Chad Stahelski and others, Anjelica Huston helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited) · Isle of Dogs (2018) as Mute Poodle (voice) · The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) as Etheline Tenenbaum
Career snapshot
Ranked #1957 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
34
1967–2025
Career length
58 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Most frequent director
Wes Anderson
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Wes Anderson
Most common genre
Comedy
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.0
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
8.6 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
8.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
8.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Casino Royale.
Most productive era
2010s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 8.61 film | — | 7.13 films | 6.67 films | 7.21 film | 6.72 films |
| Action | 5.71 film | — | — | — | 6.32 films | 7.41 film | 7.31 film |
| Thriller | — | — | — | 7.21 film | 6.21 film | 7.41 film | 7.31 film |
| Comedy | 5.71 film | — | 7.21 film | 7.24 films | 6.66 films | 6.65 films | 7.01 film |
| Crime | — | — | — | 6.82 films | 6.21 film | 7.41 film | 7.31 film |
| Romance | — | — | — | 7.51 film | — | 5.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1967Casino Royale
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Agent Mimi's Hands (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1975One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Wick Is Pain
The current state of the argument, as Self.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
34 of 34 films
as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
Directed by Miloš Forman
as Etheline Tenenbaum
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
Directed by Andy Tennant
as Mute Poodle (voice)
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Morticia Addams
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited) gives Anjelica Huston a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Etheline Tenenbaum
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Performance score7.8
The Royal Tenenbaums asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Etheline Tenenbaum is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
EverAfter (1998)
Performance score7.8
EverAfter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mute Poodle (voice)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Performance score7.6
Isle of Dogs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mute Poodle (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
Start here. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the clearest statement of what Anjelica Huston does — accessible, 135 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anjelica at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Addams Family Values (1993)
A deliberate change of key after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
EverAfter (1998)
Keeps the comedy register of Addams Family Values but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Keeps the comedy register of EverAfter but asks for a colder reading of it.
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Same director as The Royal Tenenbaums, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wes Anderson
Director
5 films together
Notably Isle of Dogs
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
2 films together
Notably The Addams Family
Bradley Raymond
Director
2 films together
Notably Pixie Hollow Games
Ken Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably Casino Royale
Miloš Forman
Director
1 film together
Notably One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rob Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably This Is Spinal Tap
Stephen Frears
Director
1 film together
Notably The Grifters
Robert Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Player
Andy Tennant
Director
1 film together
Notably EverAfter
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Blood Work
Terry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Art School Confidential
David Von Ancken
Director
1 film together
Notably Seraphim Falls
Clark Gregg
Director
1 film together
Notably Choke
Klay Hall
Director
1 film together
Notably Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably When in Rome
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Year
Jonathan Levine
Director
1 film together
Notably 50/50
Steve Loter
Director
1 film together
Notably Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
Chad Stahelski
Director
1 film together
Notably John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Len Wiseman
Director
1 film together
Notably Ballerina
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Wes Anderson
Director
5 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Isle of DogsBradley Raymond
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pixie Hollow GamesBarry Sonnenfeld
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Addams FamilyMiloš Forman
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestAndy Tennant
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EverAfterChad Stahelski
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John Wick: Chapter 3 - ParabellumSteve Loter
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeastLen Wiseman
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BallerinaJonathan Levine
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
50/50Robert Altman
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PlayerRob Reiner
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Is Spinal TapKlay Hall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tinker Bell and the Lost TreasureStephen Frears
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GriftersDavid Von Ancken
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seraphim FallsClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blood WorkClark Gregg
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChokeTerry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Art School ConfidentialDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Big YearMark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When in RomeKen Hughes
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Casino RoyaleSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Secret of the Wings
as Queen Clarion (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Player
as Anjelica Huston
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Anjelica Huston has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
58 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
18 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
as The Director
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Secret of the Wings
as Queen Clarion (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Player
as Anjelica Huston
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Woman in Crowd on Pier (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Seraphim Falls
as Madame Louise
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
EverAfter
as Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Casino Royale
as Agent Mimi's Hands (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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