Annette Bening

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 Oscarnominated performances in the comedydramas American Beauty 1999 and Being Julia 2004 which respectively won her the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Actress Benings 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 Millers 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 Dont 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia