1. Annette Carol Bening was born on May 29,1958 and is an American actress.
41 Facts About Annette Bening
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Annette Bening made her Broadway debut in the Tina Howe play Coastal Disturbances for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
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In following decades, Annette Bening received two additional Oscar nominations for her leading roles as a lesbian mother in The Kids Are All Right and swimmer Diana Nyad in the Netflix biographical film Nyad, the former of which won her a Golden Globe.
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Annette Bening returned to Broadway in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons earning another Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play.
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Annette Carol Bening was born on May 29,1958 in Topeka, Kansas, to Shirley Katherine and Arnett Grant Bening.
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Annette Bening's mother was a church singer and soloist, and her father was a sales training consultant and insurance salesman.
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Annette Bening began acting in junior high school, playing the lead in The Sound of Music.
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Annette Bening graduated in 1975 from San Diego's Patrick Henry High School, where she studied drama.
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Annette Bening then spent a year working as a cook on a charter boat taking fishing parties out on the Pacific Ocean, and scuba diving for recreation.
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Annette Bening attended San Diego Mesa College and graduated with a degree in Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University.
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Annette Bening began her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and appeared in plays at the San Diego Repertory Theatre.
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Annette Bening was a member of the acting company at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while studying acting as part of the Advanced Theatre Training Program.
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Annette Bening made her Broadway debut in 1987, garnering a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play and receiving a Theatre World Award for her performance as young photographer Holly Dancer in Coastal Disturbances.
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Annette Bening made her film debut in The Great Outdoors, starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy.
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Annette Bening achieved her breakthrough with her performance as con artist Myra Langtry in the neo-noir crime thriller The Grifters, for which she earned her first nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
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Annette Bening garnered acclaim for her starring role in Sam Mendes' directorial debut film, American Beauty.
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Annette Bening starred opposite Kevin Spacey in the dark comedy-drama about a man suffering a mid-life crisis in 90s American suburbia.
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In 1999, Annette Bening returned to the stage for the first time in 10 years playing the title role in Hedda Gabler at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
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Annette Bening lays into the venomous sarcasm mighty heavily, but she's cagey enough to avoid reductive extremes.
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Annette Bening earned critical acclaim for playing the eponymous lead in the comedy-drama Being Julia.
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In 2009, Annette Bening starred in a new interpretation of the Euripides classic Medea at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.
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Annette Bening received positive reviews for her performance in the independent film Mother and Child.
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Later that year, Annette Bening received critical acclaim for her performance in The Kids Are All Right; a reviewer said that she "deserves an Oscar" and another praised her "sublime" performance.
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Annette Bening received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, in addition to her third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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In 2012, Annette Bening's audiobook recording of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway was released at Audible.
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Annette Bening starred in Dan Fogelman's 2015 American comedy drama Danny Collins with Al Pacino.
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In 2016, Annette Bening starred in Mike Mills's comedy drama 20th Century Women alongside Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup.
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Annette Bening played a chain-smoking first-wave feminist struggling to raise her teenage son.
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Annette Bening received her third nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the film.
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In 2019, Annette Bening returned to the Broadway stage after a 32-year absence.
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Annette Bening starred in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons alongside Tracy Letts at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre.
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Annette Bening was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance.
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Annette Bening joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing Dr Wendy Lawson in Captain Marvel alongside Brie Larson.
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That same year, she filmed Nyad alongside Jodie Foster, where Annette Bening portrayed long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad.
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Annette Bening's performance earned high critical acclaim, and earned her a fourth nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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In 2023, Annette Bening was elected Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Entertainment Community Fund.
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Annette Bening next starred in Liane Moriarty's Apples Never Fall, based on the bestselling thriller which was adaptated by Peacock and features Sam Neill.
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Annette Bening has been married to actor Warren Beatty since March 3,1992.
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Annette Bening has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Annette Bening has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony Awards.
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Annette Bening has received five Academy Award nominations, for the following films:.