Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including a British Academy Film Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, and four 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 received nominations for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Coastal Disturbances and for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for All My Sons. She is a four-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in the films The Grifters (1990), American Beauty (1999), Being Julia (2004), and The Kids Are All Right (2010). In 2006, she received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her achievements in the film industry.
For American Beauty, Bening won the BAFTA Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. She has also received two Golden Globe Awards for her performances in Being Julia and The Kids Are All Right. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Mrs. Harris, and in 2019, she played the roles of Supreme Intelligence and Mar-Vell / Wendy Lawson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain Marvel, which became her highest-grossing release.
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Annette Bening Biography / Wiki
Name | Annette Bening |
Also Know | 아네트 ë² ë‹, Annette Francine Bening, Annette Carol Bening, ΑνÎÏ„ ΜπÎνινγκ, áƒáƒœáƒ”ტ ბენინგი |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Topeka, Kansas, USA |
Date of Birth | May 29, 1958 |
Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 64 |
Deathday |
Annette Bening Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
In Dreams | Claire Cooper | 1999-01-15 | A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person’s motives through her dreams…. |
The Kids Are All Right | Nic | 2010-07-09 | Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids… |
Being Julia | Julia Lambert | 2004-09-03 | Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all – including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant… |
Mrs. Harris | Jean Harris | 2006-02-25 | Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean … |
14 Women | Narrator | 2007-07-14 | Documentary that explores the lives of 14 female U.S. senators and the uniquely feminine challenges they face, including the sometimes difficult balan… |
The Face of Love | Nikki Lostorm | 2013-10-25 | A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband…. |
20th Century Women | Dorothea Fields | 2016-12-28 | In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment … |
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool | Gloria Grahame | 2017-11-17 | Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her… |
The Seagull | Irina Arkadina | 2018-05-11 | At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina…. |
Hope Gap | Grace | 2019-10-03 | A couple’s visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother…. |
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts | Narrator | 2019-06-24 | A live reading of passages from the Mueller report for “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts,†Robert Schenkkan’s stage adaptat… |
Nyad | Diana Nyad | 64-year-old marathon swimmer, Diana Nyad, attempts to become the first person ever to swim from Cuba to Florida…. | |
War Unfolding | Narrator | Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the … | |
American Beauty | Carolyn Burnham | 1999-09-15 | Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daug… |
Bugsy | Virginia Hill | 1991-12-10 | New York gangster Ben ‘Bugsy’ Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn’t hesitat… |
What Planet Are You From? | Susan Anderson | 2000-03-03 | A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fa… |
Regarding Henry | Sarah Turner | 1991-07-10 | Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. … |
Richard III | Queen Elizabeth | 1995-12-29 | A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil… |
Running with Scissors | Deirdre Burroughs | 2006-10-27 | Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he’s handed… |
The American President | Sydney Ellen Wade | 1995-11-17 | Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world’s most powerful men, can have anything he wants — and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wa… |
The Siege | Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger | 1998-11-06 | The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent … |
The Women | Sylvia Fowler | 2008-09-12 | The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-we… |
Mother and Child | Karen | 2009-11-07 | The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for ado… |
Valmont | Merteuil | 1989-11-17 | Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that h… |
Love Affair | Terry McKay | 1994-10-21 | Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship … |
Girl Most Likely | Zelda | 2012-09-07 | A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother…. |
Guilty by Suspicion | Ruth Merrill | 1991-03-15 | This compelling story vividly recreates Hollywood’s infamous ‘Blacklist Era’. The witch-hunt has begun and director David Merrill can revive his stall… |
The Search | Helen | 2014-11-26 | A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya…. |
And the Oscar Goes To… | Self – Interviewee | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
Danny Collins | Mary Sinclair | 2015-03-19 | An ageing hard-living 1970s rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon…. |
Georgetown | Amanda Brecht | 2019-05-14 | Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by … |
The Report | Dianne Feinstein | 2019-09-12 | The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found … |
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel | Self | 2006-12-12 | Retrospective documentary of the film “Bugsy”… |
Turn of Mind | Dr. Jennifer White | A retired surgeon suffering from Alzheimers becomes a suspect in her friend’s murder…. | |
Jerry & Marge Go Large | Marge Selbee | 2022-10-20 | The remarkable true story of how retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, M… |
Mars Attacks! | Barbara Land | 1996-12-12 | A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world’s major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim… |
The Grifters | Myra Langtry | 1990-08-08 | A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young l… |
Life Itself | Dr. Cait Morris | 2018-09-21 | As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create rev… |
Who Needs Sleep? | Herself | 2006-01-01 | A documentary that highlights the deadly combination of sleep deprivation and long days of work…. |
PoliWood | Self | 2009-07-03 | An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year…. |
Forever Hollywood | Self | 1999-01-01 | Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los Angeles…. |
American Beauty: Look Closer… | Self | 2000-10-24 | A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball…. |
A Night at the Academy Museum | Herself | 2021-10-12 | Exclusive look at the movies’ 120-year history as well as an insight into the largest institution in the U.S. dedicated to the arts, sciences and arti… |
Poolman | The film centers on an eccentric pool cleaner who stumbles upon an investigation by a dirty city council…. | ||
The Great Outdoors | Kate Craig | 1988-06-17 | It’s vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishi… |
Ruby Sparks | Gertrude | 2012-07-25 | Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life… |
Warren Beatty – Mister Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2015-10-04 | … |
Rules Don’t Apply | Lucy Mabrey | 2016-11-23 | It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Ang… |
Captain Marvel | Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson | 2019-03-06 | The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war betwe… |
Ginger & Rosa | Bella | 2012-10-18 | A look at the lives of two teenage girls – inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa — growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and th… |
Hostage | Jill | 1988-02-14 | After five hard years behind bars Bonnie Lee is still haunted by her past which hides a terrible secret and hunted by her father, a man desperate for … |
Death on the Nile | Euphemia Bouc | 2022-02-09 | Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfec… |
Open Range | Sue Barlow | 2003-08-29 | A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman…. |
Postcards from the Edge | Evelyn Ames | 1990-09-14 | Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continu… |
MiloÅ¡ Forman – What Doesn’t Kill You… | Self | 2009-10-08 | … |
Manhunt for Claude Dallas | Ann Tillman | 1986-10-26 | This is the story is based on an actual incident. Claude Dallas is a man who loves to be free, so he lives in the mountains where he hunts for his foo… |
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Holly Dancer (segment “Coastal Disturbances”) | 2006-05-02 | The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway’s brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro… |
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 | Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew… |
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Self (archive footage) | 1994-05-18 | Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street’s 25th anniversary…. |
Other Info
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
I’m Still Here | Thanks | 2010-09-10 | I’m Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as… |
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