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| Birth Name(s) : Annette Bening |
Date of Birth: May 29, 1958 |
| Status:
Married
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Partner:
Warren Beatty |
| Profession:
Actor |
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Full Annette Bening Biography
| Listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1990", Annette Benning has more than lived up to that prediction. Oscar-winning "American Beauty" (1999) is perhaps her most noteworthy role, but films such as "Regarding Henry" (1991) and "Bugsy" (1991) established her career. She took time off in the early-90s to have a child with Warren Beatty and their family has since grown to 5 members. |
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Additional Annette Bening Biography
Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is a Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actress.
Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley and Grant Bening, an insurance salesman. Her sister and two brothers are Jane Bening (born 1953), Bradley Bening (born 1955) and Byron Bening (born 1957). The family moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1959, where she spent her early childhood. In 1965, her father took a job with a company in San Diego, California, and they moved there. She began acting in junior high school, playing the lead in The Sound of Music. She studied drama at Patrick Henry High School.
She then spent a year working as a cook on a charter boat taking fishing parties out on the Pacific Ocean, and scuba diving for recreation. She attended San Diego Mesa College, then completed an academic degree in theatre arts at San Francisco State University. Bening joined the acting company at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while studying acting as part of the Advanced Theatre Training Program. During this time she established herself as a formidable acting talent in roles like Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth.
Bening's next major feature, Stephen Frears's The Grifters (1990) starring Anjelica Huston and John Cusack, met with critical acclaim. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Grifters. She followed that with her appearance in Bugsy. Bening was offered the role as Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992), but after she became pregnant, the role went to Michelle Pfeiffer. Bening was paid $3 million to play the role of 'Elise Kraft/Sharon Bridger' in The Siege (1998) co-starring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis. Her next role, in the 1999 film American Beauty, would give her the highest-profile role of her career thus far. Bening played a real-estate agent in three different movies: Regarding Henry, American Beauty, and What Planet Are You From?. She has appeared in three different Mike Nichols' movies: Postcards From The Edge, Regarding Henry, and What Planet Are You From?Bening in Being Julia
She was originally cast as the mother in Disney's Freaky Friday, but dropped out. She replaced Julianne Moore in her most recent appearance, Running with Scissors, playing Deirdre Burroughs in the film adaptation of the Augusten Burroughs book. On December 9, 2006, Bening hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guests Gwen Stefani and Akon.
In 1985, she and her first husband, choreographer J. Steven White, moved to Denver, Colorado, to work at the Shakespeare Festival in Boulder, Colorado. They separated the following year.
She and Warren Beatty met on the set of Bugsy (1991), in which she played Virginia Hill, and the two began a secret romance. They married in 1992. She and Beatty live in Los Angeles with their four children, Kathlyn Elizabeth Beatty (born 1992), Benjamin Maclean Beatty (born 1994), Isabel Ira Ashley Beatty (born 1996) and Ella Corinne Beatty (born 2000).
Unsuccessful nominations were :
- 1990 - Best Supporting Actress - The Grifters
- 1999 - Best Leading Actress - American Beauty
- 2004 - Best Leading Actress - Being Julia
An unsuccessful nomination was:
- 2006 - Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie - Mrs. Harris
Unsuccessful nominations were:
- 1992 - Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama - Bugsy
- 1996 - Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama - The American President
- 2000 - Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama - American Beauty
- 2007 - Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy - Running with Scissors
- 2007 - Best Actress in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Mrs. Harris |
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