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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 29, 1958
Place of Birth
Topeka, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
- ანეტ ბენინგი
- Аннетт Бенінг
Annette Bening
2.9 Popularity
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
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Dr. Euphronious
The Bride!
2026
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Self
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
2025
8.0
Self
Heightened Scrutiny
2025
4.3
Diane Espilnade
Poolman
2024
6.1
Joy Delaney
Apples Never Fall
2024
6.0
Self
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
7.1
Diana Nyad
NYAD
2023
7.4
Marge Selbee
Jerry & Marge Go Large
2022
6.4
Euphemia Bouc
Death on the Nile
2022
7.0
Self
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021
Credits
The Bride!
as Dr. Euphronious
2026
0.0
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
as Self
2025
0.0
Heightened Scrutiny
as Self
2025
8.0
Poolman
as Diane Espilnade
2024
4.3
Apples Never Fall
as Joy Delaney
2024
6.1
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2023
6.0
NYAD
as Diana Nyad
2023
7.1
Jerry & Marge Go Large
as Marge Selbee
2022
7.4
Death on the Nile
as Euphemia Bouc
2022
6.4
A Night at the Academy Museum
as Self
2021
7.0
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
0.0
Hope Gap
as Grace
2019
6.3
The Report
as Dianne Feinstein
2019
7.0
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self - Guest
2019
6.3
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as Narrator (voice)
2019
7.6
Georgetown
as Amanda Brecht
2019
5.9
Captain Marvel
as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
2019
6.8
Life Itself
as Dr. Cait Morris
2018
7.2
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2018
5.4
The Seagull
as Irina Arkadina
2018
5.4
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Gloria Grahame
2017
6.4
20th Century Women
as Dorothea
2016
7.3
Rules Don't Apply
as Lucy Mabrey
2016
5.7
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
2015
5.3
Danny Collins
as Mary Sinclair
2015
6.7
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
The Search
as Helen
2014
6.8
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
5.9
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self - Interviewee
2014
6.9
The Face of Love
as Nikki Lostorm
2013
6.1
Ginger & Rosa
as Bella
2012
6.0
Girl Most Likely
as Zelda
2012
5.6
Ruby Sparks
as Gertrude
2012
7.1
The Kids Are All Right
as Nic
2010
6.6
Mother and Child
as Karen
2009
6.6
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
2009
6.6
PoliWood
as Self
2009
6.5
The Women
as Sylvie Fowler
2008
5.1
14 Women
as Narrator (voice)
2007
8.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest
2007
7.2
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
as Self
2006
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Running with Scissors
as Deirdre Burroughs
2006
5.7
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
2006
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Mrs. Harris
as Jean Harris
2006
5.7
Who Needs Sleep?
as Self
2006
7.0
Being Julia
as Julia Lambert
2004
6.4
Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites
as Self (archive footage)
2004
0.0
Beyond the 'Open Range'
as Self
2004
0.0
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Open Range
as Sue Barlow
2003
7.2
Liberty's Kids
as Abigail Adams (voice)
2002
7.6
American Beauty: Look Closer...
as Self
2000
7.4
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
2000
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What Planet Are You From?
as Susan Anderson
2000
5.4
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
American Beauty
as Carolyn Burnham
1999
8.0
In Dreams
as Claire Cooper
1999
5.5
The Sopranos
as Annette Bening
1999
8.6
Forever Hollywood
as Self
1999
8.0
The Siege
as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
1998
6.3
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Mars Attacks!
as Barbara Land
1996
6.4
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Richard III
as Queen Elizabeth
1995
6.7
The American President
as Sydney Ellen Wade
1995
6.5
Love Affair
as Terry McKay
1994
5.4
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
1994
7.0
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
1992
5.4
Bugsy
as Virginia Hill
1991
6.3
Regarding Henry
as Sarah Turner
1991
6.5
Guilty by Suspicion
as Ruth Merrill
1991
6.5
Postcards from the Edge
as Evelyn Ames
1990
6.6
The Grifters
as Myra Langtry
1990
6.5
Valmont
as Merteuil
1989
6.7
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
The Great Outdoors
as Kate Craig
1988
6.5
Hostage
as Jill
1988
1.0
Wiseguy
as Karen Leland / Maloy
1987
6.5
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
as Ann Tillman
1986
4.0
Miami Vice
as Vicky
1984
7.5
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
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The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
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The Dutton Ranch
as Beulah Jackson
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Lucky
as Priscilla
N/A
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In Love
N/A
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Behind the Lines
as Narrator (voice)
N/A
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Turn of Mind
as Dr. Jennifer White
N/A
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