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Annette Bening
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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 Ame…
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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.
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Annette Bening's Filmography
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No Poster
In Love
The Bride!
as Dr. Euphronious
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
as Self
Heightened Scrutiny
as Self
Behind the Lines
as Narrator (voice)
Poolman
as Diane Espilnade
NYAD
as Diana Nyad
Jerry & Marge Go Large
as Marge Selbee
Death on the Nile
as Euphemia Bouc
A Night at the Academy Museum
as Self
Hope Gap
as Grace
The Report
as Dianne Feinstein
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as Narrator (voice)
Georgetown
as Amanda Brecht
Captain Marvel
as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
Life Itself
as Dr. Cait Morris
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
The Seagull
as Irina Arkadina
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Gloria Grahame
20th Century Women
as Dorothea
Rules Don't Apply
as Lucy Mabrey
Danny Collins
as Mary Sinclair
The Search
as Helen
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self - Interviewee
The Face of Love
as Nikki Lostorm
Ginger & Rosa
as Bella
Girl Most Likely
as Zelda
Ruby Sparks
as Gertrude
The Kids Are All Right
as Nic
Mother and Child
as Karen
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
PoliWood
as Self
The Women
as Sylvie Fowler
14 Women
as Narrator (voice)
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self
Running with Scissors
as Deirdre Burroughs
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
Who Needs Sleep?
as Self
Mrs. Harris
as Jean Harris
Being Julia
as Julia Lambert
Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond the 'Open Range'
as Self
Open Range
as Sue Barlow
American Beauty: Look Closer...
as Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
What Planet Are You From?
as Susan Anderson
American Beauty
as Carolyn Burnham
In Dreams
as Claire Cooper
Forever Hollywood
as Self
The Siege
as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
Mars Attacks!
as Barbara Land
Richard III
as Queen Elizabeth
The American President
as Sydney Ellen Wade
Love Affair
as Terry McKay
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
Bugsy
as Virginia Hill
Regarding Henry
as Sarah Turner
Guilty by Suspicion
as Ruth Merrill
Postcards from the Edge
as Evelyn Ames
The Grifters
as Myra Langtry
Valmont
as Merteuil
The Great Outdoors
as Kate Craig
Hostage
as Jill
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
as Ann Tillman
42.6 Years
as Ruthie
No Poster
Turn of Mind
as Dr. Jennifer White