Grandson of Walter Huston.

Son of John Huston and Zoe Sallis

In The Aviator (2004), he works with Cate Blanchett, who plays Katharine Hepburn, star of his father's film The The African Queen (1951).

Half-brother of Anjelica Huston and Tony Huston

Has a daughter named Stella (b. 2006), with his wife Katie Jane Evans.

Went to boarding school in Somerset.

Born while his father, director John Huston, was shooting a film in Rome.

Former brother-in-law of Michael Madsen

One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.

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.

Invited to join to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences [2007].