Acting credits
90
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Annette Bening
Acting
Career Snapshot
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3.3
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Movies: 64Series: 27Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 516
IMDb ID: nm0000906
Known for: Acting
Born: May 29, 1958
Age: 68
Place of birth: Topeka, Kansas, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1952 - 2026
Years active: 75
Average TMDB rating: 6.38
Wikidata: Q190602
Also known as
Annette Carol Bening
Other jobs
Executive Producer (1)Thanks (1)
Biography
Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage. Bening has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, making her one of the few artists nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting without winning. A graduate of San Francisco State University and the American Conservatory Theater, Bening started her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory Theater. She made her Broadway debut in the Tina Howe play Coastal Disturbances (1987), for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Making her film debut in 1988, she gained further recognition for her role in The Grifters (1990), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. This acclaim continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s with further Oscar-nominated performances in the comedy-dramas American Beauty (1999) and Being Julia (2004), which respectively won her the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Actress. Bening's performance as the title character in the British television film Mrs. Harris (2005) earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. In the following decades, Bening received two additional Oscar nominations for her leading roles as a lesbian mother in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and swimmer Diana Nyad in the Netflix biographical film Nyad (2023), the former of which also won her a Golden Globe. She returned to Broadway in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons (2019), earning another Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play. Her other roles during this period include the films 20th Century Women (2016), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), Captain Marvel (2019), and Death on the Nile (2022), and the miniseries Apples Never Fall (2024).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Annette Bening.
The Bride!
as Dr. Euphronious
2026 Movie
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
as Self
2025 Movie
Heightened Scrutiny
as Self
2025 Movie
Behind the Lines
as Narrator (voice)
2024 Movie
Poolman
as Diane Espilnade
2024 Movie
NYAD
as Diana Nyad
2023 Movie
Jerry & Marge Go Large
as Marge Selbee
2022 Movie
Death on the Nile
as Euphemia Bouc
2022 Movie
A Night at the Academy Museum
as Self
2021 Movie
Hope Gap
as Grace
2019 Movie
The Report
as Dianne Feinstein
2019 Movie
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as Narrator (voice)
2019 Movie
Georgetown
as Amanda Brecht
2019 Movie
Captain Marvel
as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
2019 Movie
Life Itself
as Dr. Cait Morris
2018 Movie
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Movie
The Seagull
as Irina Arkadina
2018 Movie
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Gloria Grahame
2017 Movie
20th Century Women
as Dorothea
2016 Movie
Rules Don't Apply
as Lucy Mabrey
2016 Movie
Danny Collins
as Mary Sinclair
2015 Movie
The Search
as Helen
2014 Movie
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self - Interviewee
2014 Movie
The Face of Love
as Nikki Lostorm
2013 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Annette Bening.
Lucky
as Priscilla Masterson • 7 eps
2026 Series
Dutton Ranch
as Beulah Jackson • 9 eps
2026 Series
Apples Never Fall
as Joy Delaney • 7 eps
2024 Series
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self • 1 eps
2023 Series
Stars in the House
as Self • 1 eps
2020 Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
2019 Series
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2014 Series
The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2007 Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self • 2 eps
2003 Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2003 Series
Liberty's Kids
as Abigail Adams (voice) • 1 eps
2002 Series
The Early Show
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
The Sopranos
as Annette Bening • 1 eps
1999 Series
The View
as Self • 2 eps
1997 Series
The Daily Show
as Self • 1 eps
1996 Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
1992 Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1988 Series
Wiseguy
as Karen Leland / Maloy • 1 eps
1987 Series
Miami Vice
as Vicky • 1 eps
1984 Series
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host • 1 eps
1975 Series