Annette Bening

Acting

Born 1958-05-29 Topeka, Kansas, USA 94 credits BAFTA Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award 1 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1 Crystal Award 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1

Awards

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 5 nominated

2024 Best Actress Nominated Nyad
2011 Best Actress Nominated The Kids Are All Right
2005 Best Actress Nominated Being Julia
2000 Best Actress Nominated American Beauty
1991 Best Supporting Actress Nominated The Grifters

BAFTA Awards 1 won

— Best Actress in a Leading Role Won

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

— Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Won

Tony Awards 1 nominated

1987 Best Featured Actress in a Play Nominated

Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award 1 won

2024 Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award Won

Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1 won

2024 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Won

Crystal Award 1 won

2011 Crystal Award Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

2006 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

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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.