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Annette Bening

Birth date: 29.05.1958

Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, eventually moving to New York where she acted on the stage (including a Tony-award nomination in 1987 for her work in the Broadway play "Coastal Disturbances") and got her first film roles, in a few TV movies. As is so often the case, her first big-screen role was in a forgettable movie, this one the 1988 Dan Aykroyd vehicle The Great Outdoors (1988). However, her next work on-screen was in Milos Forman's Valmont (1989), a film adaptation of de Laclos's "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Unfortunately, de Laclos's story had also just served as the source of a more Hollywoodized and successful movie version, Dangerous Liaisons (1988), which had been released the previous year, and Foreman's treatment went little noticed. Bening's career turned an important corner the following year when she co-starred with Anjelica Huston and John Cusack in Stephen Frears's powerful, entertaining screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters (1990), and her artful turn as a con artist gained her the first of several Academy award nominations. On the strength of this performance Warren Beatty cast Bening as Virginia Hill, Bugsy Siegel's fiery actress moll, in his Bugsy (1991), the story of Siegel's founding of Las Vegas. Although the movie itself did not fare well, it resulted in a relationship with Beatty which led to Bening's pregnancy and then her marriage to Beatty in 1992 - it was the second marriage for Bening, who had been separated from her first husband since 1986 but did not finalize her divorce until 1991. The couple then collaborated on the extravagant flop Love Affair (1994), though the next year her career rebounded with her turn as Queen Elizabeth in the highly-regarded 1995 production of Richard III (1995). Notable performances have since included an obsessive, pushy real estate agent in American Beauty (1999), and as the eponymous character in István Szabó's screen adaptation of the Maugham novel Being Julia (2004) - both were duly noted by the Academy, with Oscar nominations. Bening has great poise and screen presence, and at her best can turn in a very strong performance. Although her resume often features long stretches of mediocre productions before the next good part turns up, when it does, it proves worth the wait. Bening has four children with Beatty.

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Filmography

# The Villa Golitsyn (2010) # Mother and Child (2010) # The Women movie download page (2008/I) .... Sylvia Fowler # "Saturday Night Live" .... Host / ... (1 episode, 2006) ... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title) ... aka SNL (USA: informal title) ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) ... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title) ... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title) ... aka The Best of Saturday Night Live (USA: rerun title) - Annette Bening/Gwen Stefani/Akon (2006) TV episode .... Host/Various # Running with Scissors movie download page (2006) .... Deirdre Burroughs # Mrs. Harris (2005) (TV) .... Jean Harris # Being Julia (2004) .... Julia Lambert ... aka Csodálatos Júlia (Hungary) # Open Range (2003) .... Sue Barlow # "Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776" (2002) TV series .... Abigail Adams (unknown episodes) # What Planet Are You From? (2000) .... Susan Anderson # American Beauty movie download page (1999) .... Carolyn Burnham # In Dreams (1999) .... Claire Cooper # The Siege (1998/I) .... Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger # Mars Attacks! (1996) .... Barbara Land # The American President (1995) .... Sydney Ellen Wade # Richard III (1995) .... Queen Elizabeth # Love Affair (1994) .... Terry McKay # Bugsy (1991) .... Virginia Hill # Regarding Henry (1991) .... Sarah Turner # Guilty by Suspicion (1991) .... Ruth Merrill ... aka Liste noire, La (France) # The Grifters (1990) .... Myra Langtry # Postcards from the Edge (1990) .... Evelyn Ames # Valmont (1989) .... Merteuil # The Great Outdoors (1988) .... Kate Craig # Hostage movie download page (1988) (TV) .... Jill ... aka Against Her Will # "Wiseguy" .... Karen Leland (1 episode, 1987) - One on One (1987) TV episode .... Karen Leland # "Miami Vice" .... Vicky (1 episode, 1987) - Red Tape (1987) TV episode .... Vicky # Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986) (TV) .... Ann Tillman