Annette Bening
Highest Rated: 96% Richard III (1995)
Lowest Rated: 13% The Women (2008)
Birthday: May 29, 1958
Birthplace: Topeka, Kansas, USA
Revered by film directors for her ability to take characters into deep, unexpected, emotional places, Annette Bening was a Tony-nominated stage actress before parlaying her dramatic intensity into award-worthy film performances. Early in her movie career, she made an impression as a wise-beyond-her-years sex kitten in "The Grifters" (1990) before exploding onto the scene as sultry mob moll, Virginia Hill, in the biopic, "Bugsy" (1991). And though she never lost that sly, brainy, sex appeal, she became more often associated with complex, professional women on the verge of self-destruction in darkly humorous dramas like "American Beauty" (1999), "Being Julia" (2004) and "Running with Scissors" (2006). The A-list leading actress managed to maintain a solid output of well-received films by limiting herself to just one carefully chosen project per year, and retreating for extended periods into her very private family life with actor and director Warren Beatty and the couple's four children. The formula would prove to be successful, with critically lauded performances in select films like "The Kids Are All Right" (2010) and Beatty's longtime passion project "Rules Don't Apply" (2016), reminding critics and audiences alike that the supremely talented Ms. Bening was an actor still very much in demand and at the top of her game.
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Annette Bening
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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21% |
|
Poolman | Diane (Character) | - | 2023 |
85% |
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Nyad | Diana Nyad (Character) | - | 2023 |
67% |
|
Jerry & Marge Go Large | Marge (Character) | - | 2022 |
61% |
|
Death on the Nile | Euphemia (Character) | $45.6M | 2022 |
62% |
|
Georgetown | Amanda Brecht (Character) | - | 2019 |
64% |
|
Hope Gap | Grace (Character) | $95.8K | 2019 |
83% |
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The Report | Senator Dianne Feinstein (Character) | - | 2019 |
79% |
|
Captain Marvel |
Supreme Intelligence/ |
$426.8M | 2019 |
83% | No Score Yet | A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps | Narrator | - | 2019 |
13% |
|
Life Itself | Dr. Cait Morris (Character) | $4.1M | 2018 |
67% |
|
The Seagull | Irina Arkadina (Character) | $1.2M | 2018 |
81% |
|
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Gloria Grahame (Character) | $1.0M | 2017 |
88% |
|
20th Century Women | Dorothea (Character) | $5.7M | 2016 |
55% |
|
Rules Don't Apply | Lucy Mabrey (Character) | $3.6M | 2016 |
78% |
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Danny Collins | Mary Sinclair (Character) | $5.5M | 2015 |
20% |
|
The Search | Helen (Character) | - | 2014 |
44% |
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The Face of Love | Nikki (Character) | $309.4K | 2013 |
23% |
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Girl Most Likely | Zelda (Character) | $1.4M | 2012 |
78% |
|
Ginger & Rosa | Bella (Character) | $1.0M | 2012 |
79% |
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Ruby Sparks | Gertrude (Character) | $2.5M | 2012 |
36% |
|
Yogawoman | Narrator | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Milos Forman: Co te nezabije... (Milos Forman: What doesn't kill you...) | Self | - | 2011 |
93% |
|
The Kids Are All Right | Nic (Character) | $20.8M | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
|
Poliwood | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
79% |
|
Mother and Child | Karen (Character) | $1.1M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Milos Forman - What Doesn't Kill You | Self | - | 2009 |
13% |
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The Women | Sylvie Fowler (Character) | $26.9M | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
|
Fourteen Women | Narrator | - | 2007 |
32% |
|
Running With Scissors | Deirdre Burroughs (Character) | $6.8M | 2006 |
43% |
|
Mrs. Harris | Jean Harris (Character) | - | 2005 |
77% |
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Being Julia | Julia Lambert (Character) | $7.7M | 2004 |
79% |
|
Open Range | Sue Barlow (Character) | $58.3M | 2003 |
41% |
|
What Planet Are You From? | Susan (Character) | $6.3M | 2000 |
87% |
|
American Beauty | Carolyn Burnham (Character) | $130.1M | 1999 |
25% |
|
In Dreams | Claire Cooper (Character) | $11.9M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
|
Forever Hollywood | Self | - | 1999 |
44% |
|
The Siege |
Elise Kraft/ |
$40.9M | 1998 |
56% |
|
Mars Attacks! | Barbara Land (Character) | $37.8M | 1996 |
91% |
|
The American President | Sydney Ellen Wade (Character) | $59.0M | 1995 |
96% |
|
Richard III | Queen Elizabeth (Character) | $2.4M | 1995 |
28% |
|
Love Affair | Terry McKay (Character) | - | 1994 |
68% |
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Guilty by Suspicion | Ruth Merrill (Character) | $8.4M | 1991 |
84% |
|
Bugsy | Virginia Hill (Character) | $48.2M | 1991 |
49% |
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Regarding Henry | Sarah Turner (Character) | $41.0M | 1991 |
83% |
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Postcards From the Edge | Evelyn Ames (Character) | $36.9M | 1990 |
91% |
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The Grifters | Myra Langtry (Character) | $10.1M | 1990 |
48% |
|
Valmont | Merteuil (Character) | $572.9K | 1989 |
40% |
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The Great Outdoors | Kate Craig (Character) | $37.3M | 1988 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 28% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2024 |
47% | 42% | Apples Never Fall |
Joy Delaney (Character), Executive Producer |
2024 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2022 2024 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2014 2018-2019 2024 |
No Score Yet | 19% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2016 2018 2020 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2012 2014 2017 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Great Performances | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2018-2019 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2013 2018 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014 2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 2006 |
92% | 96% | The Sopranos | Herself (Guest Star) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sesame Street | Guest | 1993-1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wiseguy |
Karen Leland / |
1987 |
71% | 88% | Miami Vice | Vicky (Guest Star) | 1987 |