Danny Huston (born 14 May 1962) is an American actor and director.
Huston was born in Rome, Italy, the son of legendary director John Huston, the half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston, and the grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. His mother, Zoe Sallis, was an actress of Anglo/Iranian descent; his parents never married.
In 1988, his father John Huston produced Danny's first feature, 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, including the lead in John Sayles's Silver City, with Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Maria Bello, Tim Roth and Daryl Hannah.
Huston played Orson Welles in Fade to Black.
Son of John Huston (I) and Zoe Sallis
Half-brother of Anjelica Huston and Tony Huston (I)
Grandson of Walter Huston.
He has played the love interests for real-life best friends Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman. In 21 Grams (2003), he plays Watts' beloved husband whose loss (along with their daughters) destroys her life, and in Birth (2004), he plays Kidman's fiancée, who becomes jealous when he vies for her attention with a 10 year old boy who claims to be her deceased husband.
In Aviator, The (2004), he works with Cate Blanchett, who plays Katharine Hepburn, star of his father's film The African Queen, The (1951).
Went to boarding school in Somerset.
Born while his father, director John Huston (I), was shooting a film in Rome.
Former brother-in-law of Michael Madsen (I)
Invited to join to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences [2007].
One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.
Has a daughter named Stella (b. 2006), with his wife Katie Jane Evans.
