The Grifters

…con artist in Stephen Frears’s The Grifters (1990), for which she received an Academy Award nomination.

…con artist Lilly Dillon in The Grifters, for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress. That year her intermittent relationship with Nicholson—much discussed in the tabloids—also ended. Huston then played a series of matriarchs, from the drolly dolorous Morticia in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel, Addams…