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Home/People/Annette Bening
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Born
May 29, 1958
Age 67
Place of Birth
Topeka, Kansas, USA
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

65
Movies
29
TV Shows
Also Known As
Annette Carol Bening
IMDb Profile

Annette Bening

Acting

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.
The Bride! poster

The Bride!

as Dr. Cornelia Euphronius
2026
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life poster

Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life

as Self
2025
Heightened Scrutiny poster

Heightened Scrutiny

as Self
2025
Poolman poster

Poolman

as Diane Espilnade
2024
NYAD poster

NYAD

as Diana Nyad
2023
Jerry & Marge Go Large poster

Jerry & Marge Go Large

as Marge Selbee
2022
Death on the Nile poster

Death on the Nile

as Euphemia Bouc
2022
A Night at the Academy Museum poster

A Night at the Academy Museum

as Self
2021
Hope Gap poster

Hope Gap

as Grace
2019
The Report poster

The Report

as Dianne Feinstein
2019
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts poster

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

as Narrator (voice)
2019
Georgetown poster

Georgetown

as Amanda Brecht
2019
Captain Marvel poster

Captain Marvel

as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
2019
Life Itself poster

Life Itself

as Dr. Cait Morris
2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal poster

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

as Self (archive footage)
2018
The Seagull poster

The Seagull

as Irina Arkadina
2018
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool poster

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

as Gloria Grahame
2017
20th Century Women poster

20th Century Women

as Dorothea
2016
Rules Don't Apply poster

Rules Don't Apply

as Lucy Mabrey
2016
Danny Collins poster

Danny Collins

as Mary Sinclair
2015