Annette Bening
Known For
Acting
Born
1958-05-29 in Topeka, Kansas, USA
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.
Most Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
The Daily Show
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
The Sopranos
as Annette Bening
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest
The View
as Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
Miami Vice
as Vicky
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Spécial cinéma
as Self
The Oscars
as Self
The Bride!
as Dr. Euphronious
Captain Marvel
as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
American Beauty
as Carolyn Burnham