Annette Bening

Annette Bening

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Birthday: 
29 May 1958, Topeka, Kansas, USA
Birth Name: 
Annette Francine Bening
Height: 
173 cm
Annette Carol Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children of Shirley (Ashley), a soloist and church singer, and Arnett Grant Bening, an insurance salesman. She is of German and British Isles ancestry. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State... Show more »
Annette Carol Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children of Shirley (Ashley), a soloist and church singer, and Arnett Grant Bening, an insurance salesman. She is of German and British Isles ancestry. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, eventually moving to New York where she acted on the stage (including a Tony-award nomination in 1987 for her work in the Broadway play "Coastal Disturbances") and got her first film roles, in a few TV movies.As is so often the case, her first big-screen role was in a forgettable movie, The Great Outdoors (1988), in which she had little screen time. However, her next work on-screen was in Milos Forman's Valmont (1989), a film adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Unfortunately, de Laclos' story had also just served as the source of a more Hollywoodized and successful movie version, Dangerous Liaisons (1988), which had been released the previous year, and Foreman's treatment went little noticed. Bening's career turned an important corner the following year when she co-starred with Anjelica Huston and John Cusack in Stephen Frears's powerful, entertaining screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters (1990), and her artful turn as a con artist gained her the first of several Academy award nominations. On the strength of this performance Warren Beatty cast Bening as Virginia Hill, Bugsy Siegel's fiery actress moll, in his Bugsy (1991), the story of Siegel's founding of Las Vegas. Although the movie itself did not fare well, it resulted in a relationship with Beatty which led to Bening's pregnancy and then her marriage to Beatty in 1992 - it was the second marriage for Bening, who had been separated from her first husband since 1986 but did not finalize her divorce until 1991. The couple then collaborated on the extravagant flop Love Affair (1994), though the next year her career rebounded with her turn as Queen Elizabeth in the highly-regarded 1995 production of Richard III (1995). Notable performances have since included an obsessive, pushy real estate agent in American Beauty (1999), and as the eponymous character in István Szabó's screen adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel Being Julia (2004) - both were duly noted by the Academy, with Oscar nominations.Bening has great poise and screen presence and, at her best, can turn in a very strong performance. Although her resume often features long stretches of mediocre productions before the next good part turns up, when it does, it proves worth the wait. Bening has four children with Beatty. Show less «

Annette Bening's FILMOGRAPHY

Apples Never Fall - Season 1

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The Jonathan Ross Show - Season 21

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The Kelly Clarkson Show - Season 5

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The 81st Golden Globe Awards 2024

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 31

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Sesame Street - Season 54

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What If - Season 2

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Season 9

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Nyad (2023)

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The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 11

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The Jonathan Ross Show - Season 20

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 30

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Sesame Street - Season 53

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The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 10

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Jerry and Marge Go Large

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Death on the Nile

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The Jonathan Ross Show - Season 19

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The Kelly Clarkson Show - Season 4

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 29

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Sesame Street - Season 52

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The Jonathan Ross Show - Season 17

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The Jonathan Ross Show - Season 18

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 27

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Annette Bening'S roles

Zelda
Zelda
Barbara Land
Barbara Land
Sydney Ellen Wade
Sydney Ellen Wade
Elise Kraft
Elise Kraft
Kate Craig
Kate Craig
Carolyn Burnham
Carolyn Burnham
Nikki
Nikki
Sue Barlow
Sue Barlow
Sarah Turner
Sarah Turner
Virginia Hill
Virginia Hill
Deirdre Burroughs
Deirdre Burroughs
Gertrude
Gertrude
Myra Langtry
Myra Langtry
Dr. Nicole 'Nic' Allgood
Dr. Nicole 'Nic' Allgood
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
Mary Sinclair
Mary Sinclair
Dorothea Fields
Dorothea Fields
Lucy Mabrey
Lucy Mabrey
Sylvie Fowler
Sylvie Fowler
Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame
Irina
Irina
Herself - Host
Herself - Host