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Annette Bening
Actor, ProducerBorn May 29, 1958 (66 years)
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).
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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).
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| 2025 | The Bride · as Dr. Euphronius |
| 2024 | Apples Never Fall (TV Series) · as Joy Delaney |
| 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 | |
| 2019 | A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps · as Narrator |
| 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 Dorothea |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply · as Lucy Mabrey |
| 2015 | Danny Collins · as Mary Sinclair |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Abigail Adams (voice) |
| 2001 | Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (TV Series) · 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 Land |
| 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 | |
| 1986 | Manhunt for Claude Dallas · as Ann Tillman |
| 1984 | Miami Vice (TV Series) · as Vicky |