Annette Bening
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-05-29
Place of Birth
Topeka, Kansas, USA
Annette Bening
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.
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Sep 15, 1999
Mars Attacks!
Dec 13, 1996
Open Range
Aug 11, 2003
Bugsy
Dec 10, 1991
The Great Outdoors
Jun 17, 1988
What Planet Are You From?
Mar 03, 2000
Regarding Henry
Jul 10, 1991
A Night at the Academy Museum
Oct 12, 2021
Guilty by Suspicion
Mar 15, 1991
Postcards from the Edge
Sep 14, 1990
Running with Scissors
Oct 27, 2006
Richard III
Dec 29, 1995
The American President
Nov 17, 1995
The Siege
Nov 06, 1998
In Dreams
Jan 15, 1999
The Women
Sep 12, 2008
Mother and Child
Nov 07, 2009
Behind the Lines
Valmont
Nov 17, 1989
Love Affair
Oct 21, 1994
The Kids Are All Right
Jul 09, 2010
The Grifters
Aug 08, 1990
Being Julia
Sep 03, 2004
NYAD
Oct 18, 2023
Girl Most Likely
Sep 07, 2012
Mrs. Harris
Feb 25, 2006
Ruby Sparks
Jul 25, 2012
Ginger & Rosa
Oct 18, 2012
14 Women
Jul 14, 2007
The Face of Love
Oct 25, 2013
Poolman
May 09, 2024
The Search
Nov 26, 2014
Danny Collins
Mar 19, 2015
And the Oscar Goes To...
Feb 01, 2014
Rules Don't Apply
Nov 23, 2016
The Bride!
Mar 04, 2026
The Seagull
May 11, 2018
Beyond the 'Open Range'
Jan 20, 2004
20th Century Women
Dec 28, 2016
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Nov 17, 2017
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
Oct 26, 1986
Life Itself
Sep 21, 2018
Hostage
Feb 14, 1988
Georgetown
May 14, 2019
Who Needs Sleep?
Jan 19, 2006
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Oct 08, 2009
Hope Gap
Oct 03, 2019
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Aug 21, 2018
PoliWood
Jul 03, 2009
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
May 02, 2006
Captain Marvel
Mar 06, 2019
The Report
Sep 12, 2019
Forever Hollywood
Jan 01, 1999
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
Jun 24, 2019
Death on the Nile
Feb 09, 2022
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Oct 24, 2000
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
Dec 12, 2006
Turn of Mind
Jerry & Marge Go Large
Oct 20, 2022
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
May 18, 1994
Heightened Scrutiny
Jan 27, 2025
Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites
Jan 27, 2004
The Directors: Milos Forman
Aug 01, 2000
In Love
The Sopranos
Jan 10, 1999
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Miami Vice
Sep 16, 1984
Today
Jan 14, 1952
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
The Early Show
Nov 01, 1999
Wiseguy
Sep 16, 1987
Liberty's Kids
Sep 02, 2002
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Dec 31, 2023
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mar 23, 2015
Spécial cinéma
Sep 25, 1974
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
Stars in the House
Mar 16, 2020
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
Apples Never Fall
Mar 14, 2024
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Lucky