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Annette Bening

Annette Carol Bening 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.

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Filmography

Captain Marvel

2019
as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson

Death on the Nile

2022
as Euphemia

American Beauty

1999
as Carolyn Burnham

Mars Attacks!

1996
as Barbara Land

Jerry & Marge Go Large

2022
as Marge Selbee

The Report

2019
as Dianne Feinstein

20th Century Women

2016
as Dorothea Fields

Life Itself

2018
as Dr. Cait Morris

Ruby Sparks

2012
as Gertrude

Ginger & Rosa

2012
as Bella

Being Julia

2004
as Julia Lambert

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014
as Herself - Interviewee

Milos Forman: Co te nezabije...

2009
as Annette Bening

Love Affair

1994
as Terry McKay

NYAD

2023
as Diana Nyad

Rules Don't Apply

2016
as Lucy Mabrey

Forever Hollywood

1999
as Herself

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

1986
as Ann Tillman

Yogawoman

2011
as Annette Bening

What Planet Are You From?

2000
as Susan Anderson

A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps

2019
as Narrator

14 Women

2007
as Narrator

Georgetown

2019
as Amanda Brecht

Poolman

2024
as Diane

The Siege

1998
as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger

Open Range

2003
as Sue Barlow

Girl Most Likely

2012
as Zelda

Hope Gap

2019
as Grace Axton

Mother and Child

2009
as Karen

Guilty by Suspicion

1991
as Ruth Merrill

The Face of Love

2013
as Nikki

Who Needs Sleep?

2006
as Annette Bening

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006
as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")

Valmont

1989
as Merteuil

Danny Collins

2015
as Mary Sinclair

The Grifters

1990
as Myra Langtry

The Kids Are All Right

2010
as Nic

Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites

1995
as Annette Bening

The Women

2008
as Sylvia Fowler

The Bride

2025

Warren Beatty, une obsession hollywoodienne

2015
as Annette Bening

The American President

1995
as Sydney Ellen Wade

The Search

2014
as Helen

Mrs. Harris

2006
as Jean Harris

Richard III

1995
as Elizabeth

American Beauty: Look Closer...

2000
as Annette Bening

The Great Outdoors

1988
as Kate Craig

PoliWood

2009
as Self

Running with Scissors

2006
as Deirdre Burroughs

Postcards from the Edge

1990
as Evelyn Ames

Bugsy

1991
as Virginia Hill

In Dreams

1999
as Claire Cooper

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

2017
as Gloria Grahame

The Seagull

2018
as Irina Arkadina

Regarding Henry

1991
as Sarah Turner