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Annette Bening

Born 1958-05-29
📍 Topeka, Kansas, USA

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).

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Filmography 92

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