Annette Bening
- Acting
- May 29, 1958 · Topeka, Kansas, USA
Biography
Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage. Bening has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, making her one of the few artists nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting without winning. A graduate of San Francisco State University and the American Conservatory Theater, Bening started her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory Theater. She made her Broadway debut in the Tina Howe play Coastal Disturbances (1987), for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Making her film debut in 1988, she gained further recognition for her role in The Grifters (1990), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. This acclaim continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s with further Oscar-nominated performances in the comedy-dramas American Beauty (1999) and Being Julia (2004), which respectively won her the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Actress. Bening's performance as the title character in the British television film Mrs. Harris (2005) earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. In the following decades, Bening received two additional Oscar nominations for her leading roles as a lesbian mother in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and swimmer Diana Nyad in the Netflix biographical film Nyad (2023), the former of which also won her a Golden Globe. She returned to Broadway in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons (2019), earning another Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play. Her other roles during this period include the films 20th Century Women (2016), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), Captain Marvel (2019), and Death on the Nile (2022), and the miniseries Apples Never Fall (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Annette Bening, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- In Love
- Lucky · Priscilla Masterson
- Dutton Ranch · Beulah Jackson
- The Bride! · Dr. Euphronious
- Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life · Self
- Heightened Scrutiny · Self
- Behind the Lines · Narrator (Voice)
- Poolman · Diane Espilnade
- Apples Never Fall · Joy Delaney, Executive producer
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- NYAD · Diana Nyad
- Jerry & Marge Go Large · Marge Selbee
- Death on the Nile · Euphemia Bouc
- A Night at the Academy Museum · Self
- Stars in the House · Self
- Hope Gap · Grace
- The Report · Dianne Feinstein
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts · Narrator (Voice)
- Georgetown · Amanda Brecht
- Captain Marvel · Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
- Life Itself · Dr. Cait Morris
- Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal · Self
- The Seagull · Irina Arkadina
- Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool · Gloria Grahame
- 20th Century Women · Dorothea
- Rules Don't Apply · Lucy Mabrey
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- The Late Late Show with James Corden · Self
- Danny Collins · Mary Sinclair
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- The Search · Helen
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- And the Oscar Goes To... · Self
- The Face of Love · Nikki Lostorm
- Ginger & Rosa · Bella
- Girl Most Likely · Zelda
- Ruby Sparks · Gertrude
- I'm Still Here · Thanks
- The Kids Are All Right · Nic
- Mother and Child · Karen
- Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… · Self
- PoliWood · Self
- The Women · Sylvie Fowler
- 14 Women · Narrator (Voice)
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel · Self
- Running with Scissors · Deirdre Burroughs
- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays · Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
- Who Needs Sleep? · Self
- Mrs. Harris · Jean Harris
- Being Julia · Julia Lambert
- Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites · Self
- Beyond the 'Open Range' · Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show · Self
- Open Range · Sue Barlow
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- Liberty's Kids · Abigail Adams (Voice)
- American Beauty: Look Closer... · Self
- The Directors: Milos Forman · Self
- What Planet Are You From? · Susan Anderson
- The Early Show · Self
- American Beauty · Carolyn Burnham
- In Dreams · Claire Cooper
- The Sopranos · Annette Bening
- Forever Hollywood · Self
- The Siege · Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
- The View · Self
- Mars Attacks! · Barbara Land
- The Daily Show · Self
- Richard III · Queen Elizabeth
- The American President · Sydney Ellen Wade
- Love Affair · Terry McKay
- Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! · Self
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno · Self
- Bugsy · Virginia Hill
- Regarding Henry · Sarah Turner
- Guilty by Suspicion · Ruth Merrill
- Postcards from the Edge · Evelyn Ames