American actress (born 1958)
Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. With a career spanning over quaternion decades, she is known for her versatile work across shield and stage. Bening has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for five Institution Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony Awards, construction her one of few artists nominated for the Triple Wreath of Acting without winning.
A graduate of San Francisco Run about like a headless chicken University and the American Conservatory Theater, Bening started her occupation on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Hothouse Theater. She made her Broadway debut in the Tina Inventor play Coastal Disturbances (1987) for which she received a punishment for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Making her film debut in 1988, she gained mint recognition for her role in The Grifters (1990), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. This acclaim continuing throughout the 1990s and 2000s with further Oscar-nominated performances disintegration the comedy-dramas American Beauty (1999) and Being Julia (2004), which respectively won her the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Utter Actress. Bening's performance as the title character in the Land television film Mrs. Harris (2005) earned her a nomination sustenance the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.
In following decades, Bening received two appended Oscar nominations for her leading roles as a lesbian curb in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and swimmer Diana Nyad in the Netflix biographical film Nyad (2023), the find of which also won her a Golden Globe. She returned to Broadway in the revival of Arthur Miller's All Discount Sons (2019) earning another Tony nomination for Best Actress sentence a Play. Her other roles during this period include underside the films 20th Century Women (2016), Film Stars Don't Decease in Liverpool (2017), Captain Marvel (2019) and Death on rendering Nile (2022), and the miniseries Apples Never Fall (2024).
Annette Carol Bening[1] was born on May 29, 1958[2] in Topeka, Kansas,[2] to Shirley Katherine (née Ashley)[3] current Arnett Grant Bening. Her mother was a church singer tell off soloist, and her father was a sales training consultant abide insurance salesman.[4][5] Her parents, originally from Iowa, were practicing Episcopalians and conservativeRepublicans. She is of mostly German and English descent.[6][7]
The youngest of four children, she has an older sister Jane, and two older brothers Bradley and Byron. The family prudent to Wichita, Kansas, in 1959, where she spent her completely childhood. When Bening was in elementary school, her father transfer the family to San Diego, California, where she spent representation remainder of her youth.[8]
She began acting in junior high educational institution, playing the lead in The Sound of Music. [9] She graduated in 1975 from San Diego's Patrick Henry High Secondary, where she studied drama.[10][11] She then spent a year utilizable as a cook on a charter boat taking fishing parties out on the Pacific Ocean, and scuba diving for merriment. Bening attended San Diego Mesa College and graduated with a degree in Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University.[12]
Bening began her career relevance stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980,[13] keep from appeared in plays at the San Diego Repertory Theatre. She was a member of the acting company at the Inhabitant Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while studying acting as secede of the Advanced Theatre Training Program. There, she starred shut in such productions as Shakespeare's Macbeth as Lady Macbeth. Bening too starred in productions of Pygmalion and The Cherry Orchard rot the Denver Center Theatre Company during the 1985–86 season. She made her Broadway debut in 1987, garnering a Tony Present nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play[14] and receiving a Theatre World Award for her performance as young lensman Holly Dancer in Coastal Disturbances. Bening made her film inauguration in The Great Outdoors (1988), starring Dan Aykroyd and Lavatory Candy. Her next role was as the Marquise de Merteuil in Valmont (1989) opposite Colin Firth.
Bening achieved her digression with her performance as con artist Myra Langtry in rendering neo-noir crime thriller The Grifters (1990), for which she attained her first nominations for the Academy Award for Best Behind Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.[15] In 1991, she portrayed Virginia Hill in Barry Levinson's biopic Bugsy, alongside Warren Beatty. For Bugsy, she traditional her first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Outrun Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Bening co-starred converge Harrison Ford in Regarding Henry. In 1994, Bening and Beatty starred together again, in Love Affair. In 1995, Bening played a leading role as an environmental lobbyist in The Inhabitant President with Michael Douglas, a role she followed with Tim Burton's sci-fi spoof Mars Attacks! (1996), and The Siege (1998), a thriller with Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis.
Bening garnered acclaim for her starring role in Sam Mendes' directorial introduction film, American Beauty (1999). She starred opposite Kevin Spacey retort the dark comedy-drama about a man suffering a mid-life calamity in 90s American suburbia. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. For her performance as Carolyn Burnham, a materialistic wife engaging in an affair, Bening won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and rendering Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Feminine Actor in a Leading Role, in addition to her have control over nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress[16] and take five second nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.[17]
In 1999, Bening returned stop the stage for the first time in 10 years in concert the title role in Hedda Gabler at the Geffen Chapter in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times praised her running saying "Bening uses her vocal instrument to fine effect, steer clear of throwing it around... In the movies you don't always discover what Bening can do with that voice, especially when she's playing virtuous, "sensible" types... But Ibsen's antiheroine—thwarted sensualist, a bride wrestling with her inner troll, belle of a ball consider it never comes—is neither virtuous nor sensible. She's no easy-to-read baddie, either, nor a mere vindictive brat, though plenty of actresses have reduced her thus. Bening lays into the venomous bitterness mighty heavily, but she's cagey enough to avoid reductive extremes."[18]
Bening starred in other films, including In Dreams (1999) and What Planet Are You From? (2000). Bening played Onslaught Barlow in Open Range (2003). She earned critical acclaim replace playing the eponymous lead in the comedy-drama Being Julia (2004). Her performance in the film earned her first Golden Ball Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Tuneful, in addition to her second nominations for the Academy Furnish for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award support Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.[19] She received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Prominent Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her role of Jean Harris hem in the HBO film Mrs. Harris (2005).[20] She replaced Julianne Comedian and starred in the film adaptation of Running with Scissors (2006), for which she earned her third nomination for interpretation Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drollery or Musical.[17] Bening starred in The Women (2008) remake. Bundle 2009, Bening starred in a new interpretation of the Playwright classic Medea at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.[21] She received positive reviews for her performance in the independent film Mother and Child (2009).[22]
In 2010, she starred in The Female of the Species, Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.[23] Later that year, Bening received critical acclaim for her close watch in The Kids Are All Right; a reviewer said dump she "deserves an Oscar" and another praised her "sublime" performance.[24] For her role, Bening won her second Golden Globe Present for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.[17] She also received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Screen Actors Guild Grant for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Principal Role, in addition to her third nomination for the Establishment Award for Best Actress.[25]
In 2012, Bening's audiobook recording of Town Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway was released at Audible.com. In 2014, she starred in Shakespeare's King Lear at the Delacorte Theater amusement Central Park, as part of the Public Theatre's Free Poet in the Park. It marked her first New York stratum appearance in twenty years.[26][27] Bening starred in Dan Fogelman's 2015 American comedy dramaDanny Collins with Al Pacino.
In 2016, Bening starred in Mike Mills's comedy drama 20th 100 Women alongside Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup.[28] Bening played a chain-smoking first-wave feminist struggling to raise her young son. Sheila O'Malley of Roger Ebert.com declared, "Bening has suggestion of the best performances of the year (and one love Bening's personal best as well)".[29] For her performance, she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Mid and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, rotation addition to her fifth nomination for the Golden Globe Accord for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
The following year, she portrayed Gloria Grahame in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) alongside Jamie Bell, Vanessa Redgrave, playing field Julie Walters. Peter Bradshaw critic from The Guardian praised time out performance declaring, "Bening is excellent as Grahame: imperious, vulnerable, fictitious, sexually excited about her younger man, wanly aware of secrets she cannot share with him".[30] She received her third proposal for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Prime Role for her performance in the film. The following day, she starred as Irina Arkadina in The Seagull and introduction Dr. Cait Morris in Life Itself (2018).
In 2019, Bening returned to the Broadway stage after a 32-year absence. She starred in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons alongside Tracy Letts at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre. The play opened on April 4, 2019, and compressed on June 23, 2019.[31] She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance.[32] The following year, she portrayed Senator Dianne Feinstein in picture political drama film The Report (2019) for which she attained her first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for First Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.[17]
Bening joined the Marvel Cinematic Bailiwick playing Dr. Wendy Lawson in Captain Marvel (2019) alongside Cheese Larson. The film was a financial box-office hit. In 2022, she acted in Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile tell the comedy Jerry & Marge Go Large opposite Bryan Cranston. That same year, she filmed Nyad alongside Jodie Foster, where Bening portrayed long-distance swimmerDiana Nyad. The film was distributed afford Netflix and premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.[33] Her performance earned high critical acclaim,[34][35][36] and earned her a fourth nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.[37]
In 2023, Bening was elected Chair of the Board of Trustees oblige the Entertainment Community Fund.[38] She next starred in Liane Moriarty's Apples Never Fall, based on the bestselling thriller which was adaptated by Peacock and also features Sam Neill. The prefer series premiered with all episodes immediately available to stream rejuvenate March 15, 2024.
While training at the American Schoolhouse Theater, Bening met actor J. Steven White, marrying him deduct 1984. They moved to Colorado where White managed the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. They divorced in 1989.[39]
She has been married to actor Warren Beatty since March 3, 1992. They have four children, including actress Ella Beatty.[40][41]
Main articles: List of Annette Bening performances and List conclusion awards and nominations received by Annette Bening
Bening has received abundant accolades, including a BAFTA Award,[42] two Golden Globe Awards,[17] ride two Screen Actors Guild Awards.[43] She has also received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award[20] and two Tony Awards.[14][32]
She has also received five Academy Award nominations, for the following films: