Annette Bening 1958 67
Annette Bening 1958 67
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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2026 The Bride! as Dr. Euphronius
2025 Behind the Lines as Narrator (voice)
2025 Turn of Mind as Dr. Jennifer White
2025 Heightened Scrutiny as Self
2024 Poolman as Diane Espilnade
2023 NYAD as Diana Nyad
2022 Jerry & Marge Go Large as Marge Selbee
2022 Death on the Nile as Euphemia Bouc
2021 A Night at the Academy Museum as Self
2019 Hope Gap as Grace
2019 The Report as Dianne Feinstein
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 Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
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 Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2015 Danny Collins as Mary Sinclair
2014 The Search as Helen
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self - Interviewee
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 I'm Still Here Thanks
2010 The Kids Are All Right as Nic
2009 Mother and Child as Karen
2009 Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
2009 PoliWood as Self
2008 The Women as Sylvie Fowler
2007 14 Women as Narrator (voice)
2006 The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel as Self
2006 Running with Scissors as Deirdre Burroughs
2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
2006 Mrs. Harris as Jean Harris
2006 Who Needs Sleep? as Self
2004 Being Julia as Julia Lambert
2004 Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites as Self (archive footage)
2004 Beyond the 'Open Range' as Self
2003 Open Range as Sue Barlow
2000 American Beauty: Look Closer... as Self
2000 The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
2000 What Planet Are You From? as Susan Anderson
1999 American Beauty as Carolyn Burnham
1999 In Dreams as Claire Cooper
1999 Forever Hollywood as Self
1998 The Siege as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
1996 Mars Attacks! as Barbara Land
1995 Richard III as Queen Elizabeth
1995 The American President as Sydney Ellen Wade
1994 Love Affair as Terry McKay
1994 Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
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
1986 Manhunt for Claude Dallas as Ann Tillman