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Annette Bening

Annette Bening

Actor · Born May 29, 1958 · Topeka, Kansas, USA

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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.

Acted in 52

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. 2008
  3. 2006
  4. The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

    Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")

  5. 2005

    Mrs. Harris

    Jean Harris

  6. 2004

    Being Julia

    Julia Lambert

  7. 2003
  8. 2002
  9. 2000

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. 1988
  3. Hostage

    Jill

  4. 1987
  5. 1986

    Manhunt for Claude Dallas

    Ann Tillman

  6. 1984

Produced 1

Appearances38

2020s

  1. 2025

    Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life

    Self

  2. Heightened Scrutiny

    Self

  3. 2024

    Behind the Lines

    Narrator (voice)

  4. 2023
  5. 2021

    A Night at the Academy Museum

    Self

  6. 2020

2000s

  1. 2009

    Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

    Self

  2. PoliWood

    Self

  3. 2007

    14 Women

    Narrator (voice)

  4. 2006

    The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel

    Self

  5. Who Needs Sleep?

    Self

  6. 2004

    Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Beyond the 'Open Range'

    Self

  8. 2003
  9. 2000

    American Beauty: Look Closer...

    Self

  10. The Directors: Milos Forman

    Self

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1997
  3. 1996
  4. 1994

    Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

    Self (archive footage)

  5. 1992
Thanked in the credits1