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.

Filmography

• 2027In Love
• Dutton Ranch — Beulah Jackson
• Lucky — Priscilla Masterson
• 2026The Bride! — Dr. Euphronious
• Apples Never Fall — Joy Delaney, Executive Producer
• 2024Behind the Lines — Narrator (voice)
• 2024Poolman — Diane Espilnade
• 2023NYAD — Diana Nyad
• 2022Death on the Nile — Euphemia Bouc
• 2022Jerry & Marge Go Large — Marge Selbee
• 2019Captain Marvel — Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
• 2019Georgetown — Amanda Brecht
• 2019Hope Gap — Grace
• 2019The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts — Narrator (voice)
• 2019The Report — Dianne Feinstein
• 2018Life Itself — Dr. Cait Morris
• 2018The Seagull — Irina Arkadina
• 2017Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool — Gloria Grahame
• 201620th Century Women — Dorothea
• 2016Rules Don't Apply — Lucy Mabrey
• 2015Danny Collins — Mary Sinclair
• 2014The Search — Helen
• 2013The Face of Love — Nikki Lostorm
• 2012Ginger & Rosa — Bella
• 2012Girl Most Likely — Zelda
• 2012Ruby Sparks — Gertrude
• 2010I'm Still Here — Thanks
• 2010The Kids Are All Right — Nic
• 2009Mother and Child — Karen
• 2008The Women — Sylvie Fowler
• 200714 Women — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Running with Scissors — Deirdre Burroughs
• 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays — Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
• 2005Mrs. Harris — Jean Harris
• 2004Being Julia — Julia Lambert
• 2003Open Range — Sue Barlow
• Liberty's Kids — Abigail Adams (voice)
• 2000What Planet Are You From? — Susan Anderson
• 1999American Beauty — Carolyn Burnham
• 1999In Dreams — Claire Cooper
• The Sopranos — Annette Bening
• 1998The Siege — Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
• 1996Mars Attacks! — Barbara Land
• 1995Richard III — Queen Elizabeth
• 1995The American President — Sydney Ellen Wade
• 1994Love Affair — Terry McKay
• 1991Bugsy — Virginia Hill
• 1991Guilty by Suspicion — Ruth Merrill
• 1991Regarding Henry — Sarah Turner
• 1990Postcards from the Edge — Evelyn Ames
• 1990The Grifters — Myra Langtry
• 1989Valmont — Merteuil
• 1988Hostage — Jill
• 1988The Great Outdoors — Kate Craig
• Wiseguy — Karen Leland / Maloy
• 1986Manhunt for Claude Dallas — Ann Tillman
• Miami Vice — Vicky
• 42.6 Years — Ruthie
• Turn of Mind — Dr. Jennifer White

Appearances as themselves (36)

• 2025Heightened Scrutiny — Self
• 2025Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life — Self
• Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• 2021A Night at the Academy Museum — Self
• Stars in the House — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self - Guest
• 2018Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal — Self (archive footage)
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self
• 2014And the Oscar Goes To... — Self - Interviewee
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self, Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… — Self
• 2009PoliWood — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self - Guest
• 2006The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel — Self
• 2006Who Needs Sleep? — Self
• 2004Beyond the 'Open Range' — Self
• 2004Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites — Self (archive footage)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self, Self - Guest
• 2000American Beauty: Look Closer... — Self
• 2000The Directors: Milos Forman — Self
• 1999Forever Hollywood — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• 1994Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! — Self (archive footage)
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self