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Birth Name: Annette Carol Bening

Age: 65, born 29 May 1958

Country of origin: United States

Currently Residing In: United States

Height: 5' 7"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Warren Beatty

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Description: 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 T 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 Forman'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. ... (more)

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" Barbara Land - Mars Attacks! "I am an alcoholic, but I haven't had a drink in three months!" "

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" Carolyn Burnham - American Beauty "Oh, you don't complain? Then please, excuse me, I must be psychotic, then! If you don't complain, what is this? Yeah, let's bring in the laugh-meter and see how loud it gets." "

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" Nic - The Kids Are All Right "I need your observations like I need a dick in my ass!" "

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"Annette Francine Bening29 May 1958Bening has 4 children:• Stephen Ira Beatty (1992);• Benjamin Beatty (1994);• Isabel Beatty (1997);• Ella Beatty (2000);"

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Actresses who deserves the Oscar (Since 70s) (46 person items)

"#4 NOMINATIONS 1-The Kids Are All Right (2010) 2-Being Julia (2004) 3-American Beauty (1999) 4-The Grifters (1990) (Supporting Role)"

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"1- American Beauty (1999)2- Captain Marvel (2019)3- Mars Attacks! (1996)4- Death on the Nile (2022)5- The Kids Are All Right (2010)"

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" 2011 - NOMINEE Best Actress in a Leading Role ANNETTE BENING as Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood in THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT 2010 | dir: Lisa Cholodenko 2000- NOMINEE Best Actress in a Leading Role ANNETTE BENING as Carolyn Burnham in AMERICAN BEAUTY 1999 | dir: Sam Mendes 1991 - NOMINEE Best Actress in a Supporting Role ANNETTE BENING as Myra Langtry in THE GRIFTERS 1990 | dir: Stephen Frears "

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"Mar-Vell• Kree scientist who used to live on Earth where she worked with the United States Air Force in the framework of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., using the name Wendy Lawson.• Together with Carol Danvers and Maria Rambeau, Mar-Vell worked on harnessing the energy of the Tesseract to create a Light-Speed Engine which according to her, would help end the Kree-Skrull War.• Despite being a Kree herself, Mar-Vell intended to offer the technology to the Skrulls so they could relocate far from the"

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