Jack Huston
{{short description|English actor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Jack Huston
| image = Jack Huston by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption = Huston at the 2015 Comic-Con International
| birth_name = Jack Alexander Huston
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|12|07|df=y}}
| birth_place = King's Lynn, Norfolk, England{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV44-YJNQ|title=Person Details for Jack Alexander Huston, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008" – FamilySearch.org|website=FamilySearch }}
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 2004–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Shannan Click|2022}}
| children = 2
| parents = Tony Huston (father)
| relatives = Walter Huston (great-grandfather)
John Huston (grandfather)
Hugh Cholmondeley (grandfather)
Anjelica Huston (aunt)
Allegra Huston (aunt)
Danny Huston (uncle)
David Cholmondeley (uncle)
}}
Jack Alexander Huston (born 7 December 1982) is an English actor and director. He is best known for his role as Richard Harrow in the HBO television drama series Boardwalk Empire. He also had a supporting role in the 2013 film American Hustle, portrayed the eponymous Ben-Hur in the 2016 historical drama, and appeared as one of the main characters in the fourth season of the FX anthology series Fargo (2020). In 2023, he starred in the supernatural television series Mayfair Witches.
Early life and ancestry
Huston was born on 7 December 1982 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, the son of Margot Lavinia (née Cholmondeley) and actor, assistant director and writer Tony Huston. Huston decided to become an actor at the age of 6, after playing the title role in a school production of Peter Pan.[https://archive.today/20130412053645/http://www.zimbio.com/Jack+Huston/articles/NZwXZaPhgrR/Spotlight+new+Eclipse+actor+Jack+Huston Jack Huston] at Zimbio He later attended Hurtwood House, a drama institute.{{cite web|url=http://www.hurtwoodhouseperformingarts.co.uk/#/jack-huston/4536855573|title=Welcome – Hurtwood House Performing Arts|publisher=hurtwoodhouseperformingarts.co.uk|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221214533/http://www.hurtwoodhouseperformingarts.co.uk/#/jack-huston/4536855573|archive-date=21 February 2010|df=dmy-all}}
His mother is English and his father is American. His paternal aunt is actress Anjelica Huston, and his paternal half-uncle is actor Danny Huston.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/2-jacks-review-1200738995/|title='2 Jacks' Review: Bernard Rose's Fourth Tolstoy Adaptation – Variety|author=Geoff Berkshire|website=Variety|date=18 October 2013 }} His paternal grandparents were American director John Huston (who became an Irish citizen) and model/dancer Enrica Soma, and his maternal grandparents were The 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley and Lavinia Margaret (née Leslie).{{cn|date=September 2020}} Huston is the nephew of The 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley. On his father's side, he has Italian, Irish, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and English ancestry, and is a great-grandson of Canadian actor Walter Huston.{{Cite book|last=Huston|first=John|title=An Open Book|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=1994|page=9|isbn=978-0-306-80573-8}}
Through his maternal grandfather's father, The 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley, Huston is descended from Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Jack's maternal grandfather's mother, Sybil, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, was from a Jewish family (from Iraq, India, and Germany);{{cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/1994/10/houghton-revisited-199410|title=Houghton Revisited|author=John Richardson|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=November 1999 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/14/style/at-lunch-with-david-rocksavage-heavy-lies-the-coronet-on-a-lord-of-cinema.html|title=Heavy Lies the Coronet on a Lord of Cinema|date=14 December 1997|website=The New York Times}} through Sybil, Jack is descended from both David Sassoon, the Treasurer of Baghdad, and Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who founded the Rothschild family international banking dynasty.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sassoons00jack|url-access=registration|quote=Lord John Cholmondeley.|title=The Sassoons|author=Stanley Jackson|year=1968 |publisher=Heinemann|isbn=9780434370528 }}
Career
Huston started his film career with a small screen adaptation of Spartacus, where he played Flavius. He then went on to having more prominent roles in such films as Factory Girl, playing the American poet Gerard Malanga, the horror film Shrooms, Outlander and Shrink.
File:Jack Huston - Berlinale - 2013 (cropped).jpg in 2013]]
In 2010, he played the minor role of Royce King in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. He appeared in HBO's Boardwalk Empire as Richard Harrow, a severely disfigured World War I marksman turned gangster.{{cite web|url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/91235/crow-will-jack-huston-fly/|title=The Crow – Will Jack Huston Fly? |website=Dread Central|date=27 February 2015 }} On 16 December 2010, it was announced Huston would be made a series regular after appearing in five episodes of the first season.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2010/12/jack-huston-upped-to-regular-on-hbos-boardwalk-empire-91436/|title=Jack Huston Upped To Regular on HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire'|author=Nellie Andreeva|website=Deadline|date=December 2010}}
After this he went on to be directed by Al Pacino in the 2011 film Wilde Salomé and to having starring roles in Not Fade Away, Two Jacks and Night Train to Lisbon. In 2012, he played the part of narrator on avant-garde musician John Zorn's album A Vision in Blakelight, an homage to William Blake.{{cn|date=September 2016}}
In 2013, he appeared in David O. Russell's comedy-drama American Hustle, as Pete Musane.{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2013/03/david-o-russell-new-film-jack-huston.html|title=David O. Russell's New Film Adds Jack Huston|author=Zach Dionne|website=Vulture|date=26 March 2013 }} Later that year, Huston played Charles Bruno{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/acting-dynasties-collide-in-revival-of-thriller-strangers-on-a-train-8883334.html|title=Acting dynasties collide in revival of thriller Strangers on a Train|website=London Evening Standard|date=16 October 2013|access-date=16 January 2014}} in Strangers on a Train at London's Gielgud Theatre.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24172568|title=Fatal Attraction and Strangers on a Train head to West End stage|website=bbc.co.uk/news|publisher=BBC News|date=20 September 2013|access-date=16 January 2014}} In 2015 he appeared as Ira Levinson in Nicholas Sparks' The Longest Ride. In 2019 Huston played Bobby Kennedy in the Martin Scorsese film The Irishman.{{cite web |title=The Irishman cast: Who's who in Martin Scorsese's star-studded Netflix film |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/irishman-cast-whos-who-martin-20972424 |website=mirror.co.uk |date=27 November 2019 |publisher=Mirror}}
In 2020, he had a supporting role in the fourth season of the FX black comedy crime drama Fargo as Odis Weff, a corrupt Kansas City police detective with severe OCD.
In 2023, Huston made his directorial debut with Day of the Fight, starring Michael Pitt as a once renowned boxer who has since fallen on hard times. The film had its premiere out of competition in the Orizzonti Extra section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival.{{cite web | url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2023/orizzonti-extra/day-fight | title=Biennale Cinema 2023 | Day of the Fight | date=18 July 2023 }}
In September 2024, he was cast in a recurring role on the upcoming superhero series Spider-Noir.{{Cite web |last=Cordero |first=Rosy |date=September 10, 2024 |title=Spider-Noir: Jack Huston Joins Amazon's Marvel Series |url=https://deadline.com/2024/09/spider-noir-jack-huston-marvel-prime-video-1236083605/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910182402/https://deadline.com/2024/09/spider-noir-jack-huston-marvel-prime-video-1236083605// |archive-date=September 10, 2024 |access-date=November 30, 2024 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}
In March 2025, Huston was announced as the director of Joseph Merrick, a feature film from Phoenix Pictures about the historical figure known as the Elephant Man. Scheduled to begin production in 2025, the film will focus on Merrick’s final months, exploring his personal journey and the relationships he formed. The producers of the film are Kate Cohen, Mike Medavoy, David Dobkin, and Huston, with additional executive producers attached.{{Cite web |last=Kroll |first=Justin |date=2025-03-11 |title=Jack Huston To Direct 'Joseph Merrick', About The Person Known As The Elephant Man, For Phoenix Pictures |url=https://deadline.com/2025/03/jack-huston-joseph-merrick-movie-elephant-man-1236322768/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}
Personal life
Huston began dating American model Shannan Click in 2011;[http://celebritybabies.people.com/2012/10/09/boardwalk-empire-jack-huston-shannan-click-pregnant-expecting-first-child/ Baby on the Way for Jack Huston and Shannan Click], People, 9 October 2012 the two married in Las Vegas in March 2022.{{cite web | url=https://uk.style.yahoo.com/jack-huston-weds-103513330.html | title=Jack Huston weds | date=17 March 2022 }} They have two children: a daughter[http://celebritybabies.people.com/2013/04/08/boardwalk-empire-jack-huston-shannan-click-welcome-daughter-sage-lavinia/ Jack Huston and Shannan Click Welcome Daughter Sage Lavinia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630151411/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2013/04/08/boardwalk-empire-jack-huston-shannan-click-welcome-daughter-sage-lavinia/ |date=30 June 2016 }}, People, 8 April 2013 and a son.[http://celebritybabies.people.com/2016/01/19/jack-huston-shannan-click-welcome-son-cypress-night/ Jack Huston and Shannan Click Welcome Son Cypress Night] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503042548/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2016/01/19/jack-huston-shannan-click-welcome-son-cypress-night/ |date=3 May 2018 }}, People, 19 January 2016
Filmography
=Film=
=Television=
| class = "wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class = "unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2004
| Flavius | Television film |
| 2008
| Dr. Charles Haden | Television film |
| 2009–2010
| Eastwick | Jamie | 8 episodes |
| 2010–2013
| 33 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2012
| Gerald | 3 episodes |
| Tron: Uprising
| Rasket (voice) | Episode: "Tagged" |
| 2014
| 4 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2018
| Felix Babineau | 9 episodes |
| The Romanoffs
| Samuel Ryan | Episode: "House of Special Purpose" |
| rowspan="2" | 2020
| 7 episodes |
| Fargo{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/jason-schwartzman-fargo-season-4-cast-1203271789/|title=Jack Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw Among 12 Joining 'Fargo' Season 4 Cast|last=Thorne|first=Will|date=July 18, 2019|work=Variety|access-date=July 18, 2019}}
| Odis Weff | 8 episodes, season 4 |
| 2023–present
| Lasher | 8 episodes |
| 2024
| Expats | David Starr | 6 episodes |
| 2026
| |
References
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External links
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- [http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/movies-and-tv/201008/actor-boardwalk-empire-twilight-eclipse-jack-huston Interview with Jack Huston] in Details
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