Annette Bening
Acteur·rice
29 mai 1958 · 68 years old
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Annette Bening, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
As an actor
Behind the Lines
Narrator (voice)
Turn of Mind
Dr. Jennifer White
In Love
42.6 Years
Ruthie
The Bride!
2026 · Dr. Euphronious
Lucky
2026 · Priscialla Matheson
Dutton Ranch
2026 · Beulah Jackson
Heightened Scrutiny
2025 · Self
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
2025 · Self
Poolman
2024 · Diane Espilnade
Apples Never Fall
2024 · Joy Delaney
NYAD
2023 · Diana Nyad
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023 · Self
Death on the Nile
2022 · Euphemia Bouc
Jerry & Marge Go Large
2022 · Marge Selbee
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021 · Self
Stars in the House
2020 · Self
Georgetown
2019 · Amanda Brecht
Hope Gap
2019 · Grace
Captain Marvel
2019 · Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
The Report
2019 · Dianne Feinstein
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019 · Narrator (voice)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self - Guest
The Seagull
2018 · Irina Arkadina
Life Itself
2018 · Dr. Cait Morris
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017 · Gloria Grahame
Rules Don't Apply
2016 · Lucy Mabrey
20th Century Women
2016 · Dorothea
Danny Collins
2015 · Mary Sinclair
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
The Search
2014 · Helen
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014 · Self - Interviewee
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self, Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
The Face of Love
2013 · Nikki Lostorm
Girl Most Likely
2012 · Zelda
Ruby Sparks
2012 · Gertrude
Ginger & Rosa
2012 · Bella
The Kids Are All Right
2010 · Nic
Mother and Child
2009 · Karen
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009 · Self
PoliWood
2009 · Self
The Women
2008 · Sylvie Fowler
14 Women
2007 · Narrator (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self - Guest
Running with Scissors
2006 · Deirdre Burroughs
Mrs. Harris
2006 · Jean Harris
Who Needs Sleep?
2006 · Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
2006 · Self
Being Julia
2004 · Julia Lambert
Beyond the 'Open Range'
2004 · Self
Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Open Range
2003 · Sue Barlow
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self, Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
Liberty's Kids
2002 · Abigail Adams (voice)
What Planet Are You From?
2000 · Susan Anderson
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000 · Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000 · Self
American Beauty
1999 · Carolyn Burnham
In Dreams
1999 · Claire Cooper
Forever Hollywood
1999 · Self
The Sopranos
1999 · Annette Bening
The Early Show
1999 · Self
The Siege
1998 · Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
The View
1997 · Self
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Barbara Land
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
Richard III
1995 · Queen Elizabeth
The American President
1995 · Sydney Ellen Wade
Love Affair
1994 · Terry McKay
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994 · Self (archive footage)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Self - Guest
Bugsy
1991 · Virginia Hill
Regarding Henry
1991 · Sarah Turner
Guilty by Suspicion
1991 · Ruth Merrill
Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Evelyn Ames
The Grifters
1990 · Myra Langtry
Valmont
1989 · Merteuil
The Great Outdoors
1988 · Kate Craig
Hostage
1988 · Jill
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
Wiseguy
1987 · Karen Leland / Maloy
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
1986 · Ann Tillman
Miami Vice
1984 · Vicky
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Today
1952 · Self
