Annette Bening
Actor, Producer
May 29, 1958 (67 years)
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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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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Filmography
| 2026 | Lucky (2026) · as Priscialla Matheson |
| 2026 | Dutton Ranch · as Beulah Jackson |
| 2026 | The Bride! · as Dr. Cornelia Euphronius |
| 2024 | Apples Never Fall · as Joy Delaney |
| 2024 | Behind the Lines · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | Poolman · as Diane Espilnade |
| 2023 | Nyad · as Diana Nyad |
| 2022 | Bonnie · as Vicky |
| 2022 | Jerry and Marge Go Large · as Marge Selbee |
| 2022 | Death on the Nile · as Euphemia Bouc |
| 2019 | The Report · as Dianne Feinstein |
| 2019 | Hope Gap · as GraceOn Plex |
| 2019 | The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | Georgetown · as Amanda Brecht |
| 2019 | Captain Marvel · as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson |
| 2018 | Life Itself · as Dr. Cait Morris |
| 2018 | The Seagull · as Irina Arkadina |
| 2017 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool · as Gloria Grahame |
| 2016 | 20th Century Women · as DorotheaOn Plex |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply · as Lucy Mabrey |
| 2015 | Danny Collins · as Mary SinclairOn Plex |
| 2014 | The Search · as Helen |
| 2013 | The Face of Love · as Nikki Lostorm |
| 2012 | Ginger & Rosa · as Bella |
| 2012 | Girl Most Likely · as Zelda |
| 2012 | Ruby Sparks · as Gertrude |
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right · as Nic |
| 2009 | SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas · as Director |
| 2009 | Mother and Child · as Karen |
| 2008 | The Women · as Sylvie Fowler |
| 2007 | 14 Women · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Running with Scissors · as Deirdre Burroughs |
| 2005 | Mrs. Harris · as Jean Harris |
| 2004 | Being Julia · as Julia Lambert |
| 2003 | Open Range · as Sue Barlow |
| 2002 | Liberty's Kids · as Abigail Adams (voice) |
| 2001 | Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat · as Jun |
| 2000 | What Planet Are You From? · as Susan Anderson |
| 1999 | American Beauty · as Carolyn Burnham |
| 1999 | The Book That Wrote Itself · as Mrs. Bening |
| 1999 | In Dreams · as Claire Cooper |
| 1998 | The Siege · as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger |
| 1996 | Mars Attacks! · as Barbara LandOn Plex |
| 1995 | The American President · as Sydney Ellen Wade |
| 1995 | Richard III · as Queen Elizabeth |
| 1994 | Love Affair · as Terry Mckay |
| 1991 | Bugsy · as Virginia Hill |
| 1991 | Regarding Henry · as Sarah Turner |
| 1991 | Guilty by Suspicion · as Ruth Merrill |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge · as Evelyn Ames |
| 1990 | The Grifters · as Myra Langtry |
| 1989 | Valmont · as Merteuil |
| 1988 | The Great Outdoors · as Kate Craig |
| 1988 | Hostage · as Jill |
| 1987 | Wiseguy · as Karen Leland / MaloyOn Plex |
| 1986 | Manhunt for Claude Dallas · as Ann Tillman |
| 1984 | Miami Vice · as Vicky |
| 2024 | Apples Never Fall · as Executive Producer |