Annette Bening
Born: 1958-05-29 in Topeka, Kansas, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Dutton Ranch as Beulah Jackson
- The Bride! as Dr. Euphronious
- Lucky as Priscialla Matheson
2025
- Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life as Self
- Heightened Scrutiny as Self
2024
- Apples Never Fall as Joy Delaney
- Poolman as Diane Espilnade
2023
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- NYAD as Diana Nyad
2022
- Death on the Nile as Euphemia Bouc
- Jerry & Marge Go Large as Marge Selbee
2021
- A Night at the Academy Museum as Self
2020
- Stars in the House as Self
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self - Guest
- Captain Marvel as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
- The Report as Dianne Feinstein
- Hope Gap as Grace
- Georgetown as Amanda Brecht
- The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts as Narrator (voice)
2018
- Life Itself as Dr. Cait Morris
- The Seagull as Irina Arkadina
- Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool as Gloria Grahame
2016
- 20th Century Women as Dorothea
- Rules Don't Apply as Lucy Mabrey
2015
- The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Danny Collins as Mary Sinclair
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- And the Oscar Goes To... as Self - Interviewee
- The Search as Helen
2013
- The Face of Love as Nikki Lostorm
2012
- Ruby Sparks as Gertrude
- Ginger & Rosa as Bella
- Girl Most Likely as Zelda
2010
- The Kids Are All Right as Nic
- I'm Still Here ... (Thanks)
2009
- Mother and Child as Karen
- PoliWood as Self
- Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
2008
- The Women as Sylvie Fowler
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
- 14 Women as Narrator (voice)
2006
- Running with Scissors as Deirdre Burroughs
- Mrs. Harris as Jean Harris
- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
- Who Needs Sleep? as Self
- The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel as Self
2004
- Being Julia as Julia Lambert
- Beyond the 'Open Range' as Self
- Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Open Range as Sue Barlow
2002
- Liberty's Kids as Abigail Adams (voice)
2000
- What Planet Are You From? as Susan Anderson
- American Beauty: Look Closer... as Self
- The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
1999
- The Sopranos as Annette Bening
- American Beauty as Carolyn Burnham
- In Dreams as Claire Cooper
- The Early Show as Self
- Forever Hollywood as Self
1998
- The Siege as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
1997
- The View as Self
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Mars Attacks! as Barbara Land
1995
- The American President as Sydney Ellen Wade
- Richard III as Queen Elizabeth
1994
- Love Affair as Terry McKay
- Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self - Guest
1991
- Bugsy as Virginia Hill
- Regarding Henry as Sarah Turner
- Guilty by Suspicion as Ruth Merrill
1990
- The Grifters as Myra Langtry
- Postcards from the Edge as Evelyn Ames
1989
- Valmont as Merteuil
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- The Great Outdoors as Kate Craig
- Hostage as Jill
1987
- Wiseguy as Karen Leland / Maloy
1986
- Manhunt for Claude Dallas as Ann Tillman
1984
- Miami Vice as Vicky
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self