Annette Bening
Acting
Born: May 29, 1958 (age 68) · Topeka, Kansas, USA
Highest Rated
Biography
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.
Known for
Captain Marvel
2019
American Beauty
1999
Mars Attacks!
1996
Death on the Nile
2022
The Sopranos
1999
Ruby Sparks
2012
The Kids Are All Right
2010
The Siege
1998
20th Century Women
2016
Open Range
2003
The Report
2019
The American President
1995
Photos (20)
Movies (47)
Captain Marvel
Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
The Bride!
Dr. Euphronious
American Beauty
Carolyn Burnham
Death on the Nile
Euphemia Bouc
Mars Attacks!
Barbara Land
The Siege
Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
The Grifters
Myra Langtry
Open Range
Sue Barlow
The American President
Sydney Ellen Wade
Jerry & Marge Go Large
Marge Selbee
Ruby Sparks
Gertrude
The Report
Dianne Feinstein
Valmont
Merteuil
Life Itself
Dr. Cait Morris
Danny Collins
Mary Sinclair
Guilty by Suspicion
Ruth Merrill
The Great Outdoors
Kate Craig
What Planet Are You From?
Susan Anderson
Regarding Henry
Sarah Turner
Bugsy
Virginia Hill
The Kids Are All Right
Nic
20th Century Women
Dorothea
Postcards from the Edge
Evelyn Ames
Hope Gap
Grace
The Women
Sylvie Fowler
NYAD
Diana Nyad
Rules Don't Apply
Lucy Mabrey
Running with Scissors
Deirdre Burroughs
Love Affair
Terry McKay
Georgetown
Amanda Brecht
Poolman
Diane Espilnade
Being Julia
Julia Lambert
Mother and Child
Karen
Ginger & Rosa
Bella
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Gloria Grahame
Richard III
Queen Elizabeth
The Seagull
Irina Arkadina
Girl Most Likely
Zelda
In Dreams
Claire Cooper
The Face of Love
Nikki Lostorm
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
14 Women
Narrator (voice)
The Search
Helen
Mrs. Harris
Jean Harris
Hostage
Jill
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
Ann Tillman
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
Narrator (voice)
TV Shows (7)
The Sopranos
Annette Bening · 1 eps
Miami Vice
Vicky · 1 eps
Lucky
Priscilla Masterson · 7 eps
Dutton Ranch
Beulah Jackson · 9 eps
Wiseguy
Karen Leland / Maloy · 1 eps
Liberty's Kids
Abigail Adams (voice) · 1 eps
Apples Never Fall
Joy Delaney · 7 eps
Self / Appearances (37)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Daily Show
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The View
Self · 2 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 2 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 6 eps
Today
Self · 1 eps
Stars in the House
Self · 1 eps
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 1 eps
The Early Show
Self · 1 eps
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
Forever Hollywood
Self
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Self
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self - Interviewee
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
Heightened Scrutiny
Self
Who Needs Sleep?
Self
PoliWood
Self
Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites
Self (archive footage)
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
Beyond the 'Open Range'
Self
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
Self
A Night at the Academy Museum
Self
