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Annette Bening

Annette Bening

Birthday: 1958-05-29 | Place of Birth: Topeka, Kansas, USA

Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958)[2] is an American actress. She began her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory Theater. She was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Coastal Disturbances and for the 2019 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for All My Sons. She is a four-time Academy Award nominee for the films The Grifters (1990), American Beauty (1999), Being Julia (2004), and The Kids Are All Right (2010). In 2006, she received a film star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bening won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for American Beauty, two Golden Globe Awards for Being Julia and The Kids Are All Right, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Mrs. Harris. In 2019, she played the roles of Supreme Intelligence and Mar-Vell / Wendy Lawson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Captain Marvel, which became her highest-grossing release.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Death on the Nile

as    Euphemia Bouc

2022
Jerry & Marge Go Large

as    Marge Selbee

2019
Georgetown

as    Amanda Brecht

2019
The Report

as    Dianne Feinstein

2019
Hope Gap

as    Grace

2019
Captain Marvel

as    Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson

2018
Life Itself

as    Dr. Cait Morris

2018
The Seagull

as    Irina Arkadina

2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

as    Gloria Grahame

2016
20th Century Women

as    Dorothea Fields

2016
Rules Don't Apply

as    Lucy Mabrey

2015
Danny Collins

as    Mary Sinclair

2014
The Face of Love

as    Nikki Lostorm

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as    Self - Interviewee

2013
Ginger & Rosa

as    Bella

2013
Girl Most Likely

as    Zelda

2012
Ruby Sparks

as    Gertrude

2010
The Kids Are All Right

as    Nic

2009
Mother and Child

as    Karen

2009
PoliWood

as    Self

2008
The Women

as    Sylvie Fowler

2007
14 Women

as    Narrator

2006
Running with Scissors

as    Deirdre Burroughs

2006
Mrs. Harris

as    Jean Harris

2006
Who Needs Sleep?

as    Self

2004
Being Julia

as    Julia Lambert

2003
Open Range

as    Sue Barlow

2000
2000
What Planet Are You From?

as    Susan Anderson

1999
American Beauty

as    Carolyn Burnham