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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 29, 1958
Place of Birth:
Topeka, Kansas, USA
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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).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Bride! | Dr. Euphronious |
| 2025 | Heightened Scrutiny | Self |
| 2024 | Poolman | Diane Espilnade |
| 2023 | NYAD | Diana Nyad |
| 2022 | Death on the Nile | Euphemia Bouc |
| 2022 | Jerry & Marge Go Large | Marge Selbee |
| 2021 | A Night at the Academy Museum | Self |
| 2019 | Georgetown | Amanda Brecht |
| 2019 | Hope Gap | Grace |
| 2019 | Captain Marvel | Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson |
| 2019 | The Report | Dianne Feinstein |
| 2019 | The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts | Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | The Seagull | Irina Arkadina |
| 2018 | Life Itself | Dr. Cait Morris |
| 2018 | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Gloria Grahame |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply | Lucy Mabrey |
| 2016 | 20th Century Women | Dorothea |
| 2015 | Danny Collins | Mary Sinclair |
| 2014 | The Search | Helen |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self - Interviewee |
| 2013 | The Face of Love | Nikki Lostorm |
| 2012 | Girl Most Likely | Zelda |
| 2012 | Ruby Sparks | Gertrude |
| 2012 | Ginger & Rosa | Bella |
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Nic |
| 2009 | Mother and Child | Karen |
| 2009 | Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… | Self |
| 2009 | PoliWood | Self |
| 2008 | The Women | Sylvie Fowler |
| 2007 | 14 Women | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Running with Scissors | Deirdre Burroughs |
| 2006 | Mrs. Harris | Jean Harris |
| 2006 | Who Needs Sleep? | Self |
| 2006 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances") |
| 2006 | The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel | Self |
| 2004 | Being Julia | Julia Lambert |
| 2004 | Beyond the 'Open Range' | Self |
| 2004 | Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Open Range | Sue Barlow |
| 2000 | What Planet Are You From? | Susan Anderson |
| 2000 | American Beauty: Look Closer... | Self |
| 2000 | The Directors: Milos Forman | Self |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Carolyn Burnham |
| 1999 | In Dreams | Claire Cooper |
| 1999 | Forever Hollywood | Self |
| 1998 | The Siege | Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger |
| 1996 | Mars Attacks! | Barbara Land |
| 1995 | Richard III | Queen Elizabeth |
| 1995 | The American President | Sydney Ellen Wade |
| 1994 | Love Affair | Terry McKay |
| 1994 | Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Self (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Bugsy | Virginia Hill |
| 1991 | Regarding Henry | Sarah Turner |
| 1991 | Guilty by Suspicion | Ruth Merrill |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Evelyn Ames |
| 1990 | The Grifters | Myra Langtry |
| 1989 | Valmont | Merteuil |
| 1988 | The Great Outdoors | Kate Craig |
| 1988 | Hostage | Jill |
| 1986 | Manhunt for Claude Dallas | Ann Tillman |
| Behind the Lines | Narrator (voice) | |
| Turn of Mind | Dr. Jennifer White | |
| In Love |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Apples Never Fall | Joy Delaney |
| 2023 | Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter | Self |
| 2020 | Stars in the House | Self |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self - Guest |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self |
| 2015 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2002 | Liberty's Kids | Abigail Adams (voice) |
| 1999 | The Sopranos | Annette Bening |
| 1999 | The Early Show | Self |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self - Guest |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest |
| 1987 | Wiseguy | Karen Leland / Maloy |
| 1984 | Miami Vice | Vicky |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1952 | Today | Self |
| Lucky | Priscilla | |
| The Dutton Ranch | Beulah Jackson |