Annette Bening

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1958-05-29 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Topeka, Kansas, USA

Also Known As 아네트 베닝, Ανέτ Μπένινγκ, ანეტ ბენინგი, Аннетт Бенінг

Annette Bening

Biography

Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has received many accolades, including a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globes as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, and five Academy Awards. Bening began 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. She played the title role in a Geffen Playhouse production of Hedda Gabler (1999). 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. Bening won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for playing a materialistic wife in American Beauty (1999), and received nominations for five Academy Awards for her roles in The Grifters (1990), American Beauty, Being Julia (2004), The Kids Are All Right (2010), and Nyad (2023). She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for playing the title role in the television film Mrs. Harris (2005). Her other notable films include Postcards from the Edge (1990), Bugsy (1991), Richard III (1995), The American President (1995), 20th Century Women (2016), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), The Seagull (2018), The Report (2019), Captain Marvel (2019), and Death on the Nile (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Annette Bening, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

Behind the Lines

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Turn of Mind

as Dr. Jennifer White

2025
The Bride!

as Dr. Euphronius

2024
Poolman

as Diane Espilnade

2024
Apples Never Fall

as Joy Delaney

2023
NYAD

as Diana Nyad

2022
Jerry & Marge Go Large

as Marge Selbee

2022
Death on the Nile

as Euphemia Bouc

2020
2019
Hope Gap

as Grace

2019
The Report

as Dianne Feinstein

2019
Georgetown

as Amanda Brecht

2019
Captain Marvel

as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson

2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Self - Guest

2018
Life Itself

as Dr. Cait Morris

2018
The Seagull

as Irina Arkadina

2017
2016
20th Century Women

as Dorothea Fields

2016
Rules Don't Apply

as Lucy Mabrey

2015
Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

2015
Danny Collins

as Mary Sinclair

2014
The Search

as Helen

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self - Interviewee

2013
The Face of Love

as Nikki Lostorm

2012
Ginger & Rosa

as Bella

2012
2012
Ruby Sparks

as Gertrude

2009
2009
PoliWood

as Self

2008
The Women

as Sylvie Fowler

2007
14 Women

as Narrator (voice)

2007
The Graham Norton Show

as Self - Guest

2006
Running with Scissors

as Deirdre Burroughs

2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")

2006
Mrs. Harris

as Jean Harris

2006
2004
Being Julia

as Julia Lambert

2003
Open Range

as Sue Barlow

2002
Liberty's Kids

as Abigail Adams (voice)

2000
What Planet Are You From?

as Susan Anderson

1999
American Beauty

as Carolyn Burnham

1999
In Dreams

as Claire Cooper

1999
1999
1999
The Sopranos

as Annette Bening

1998
The Siege

as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger

1997
The View

as Self

1996
Mars Attacks!

as Barbara Land

1996
1995
Richard III

as Queen Elizabeth

1995
The American President

as Sydney Ellen Wade

1994
Love Affair

as Terry McKay

1992
1991
Bugsy

as Virginia Hill

1991
Regarding Henry

as Sarah Turner

1991
Guilty by Suspicion

as Ruth Merrill

1990
1990
The Grifters

as Myra Langtry

1989
Valmont

as Merteuil

1988
The Great Outdoors

as Kate Craig

1988
Hostage

as Jill

1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

1987
Wiseguy

as Karen Leland / Maloy

1986
1984
Miami Vice

as Vicky

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1974
1953
The Oscars

as Self

1952
Today

as Self

Crew

2010
I'm Still Here

as Thanks

Producer

2024
Apples Never Fall

as Executive Producer