Annette Bening

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RECENT CREDITS

Poliwood (TV) Nov. 2, 2009

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribu... (TV) Jul. 19, 2009

The Women (FILM) Sep. 12, 2008

The 2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV) Jan. 28, 2007

Running with Scissors (FILM) Oct. 20, 2006

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HIGHLIGHTS

2008 Played the editor of a prominent fashion magazine in Diane English's female ensemble "The Women," a remake of the 1936 play by Clare Boothe Luce

2006 Portrayed the title role in "Mrs. Harris" (HBO); received Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress

2006 Played an unstable mother in the film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' "Running With Scissors"; received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy

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Mother and Child -Cast

Actor

Film

The Kids Are All Right -Cast

Actor

Film

Under My Skin

Actor

Film

State of the Union (Flat Penny) -Cast

Actor

Film

Dirty Tricks -Helen Thomas

Actor

Film

Diva (Warner Bros/Mad Chance) -Deanna Denninger

Actor

Film

Hemingway & Fuentes -Mary Welsh

Actor

Film

Lying Awake

Actor

Film

920 Sacramento -Cast

Actor

Film

A Hole in the Earth -Elizabeth

Actor

Film

A Philosophical Investigation

Actor

Film

A Woman of No Importance -Cast

Actor

Film

Poliwood 2009 -Cast

Actor

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Michael Douglas 2009 -Cast

Actor

The Women 2008 -Sylvie Fowler

Actor

Film

The 2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards 2007 -Presenter

Actor

Running with Scissors 2006 -Deirdre Burroughs

Actor

Film

The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2006 -Presenter

Actor

Mrs. Harris 2006 -Jean Harris

Actor

The 77th Annual Academy Awards 2005 -Presenter

Actor

The 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards 2005 -Presenter

Actor

Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope 2005 -Cast

Actor

Being Julia 2004 -Julia Lambert

Actor

Film

Open Range 2003 -Sue Barlow

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Film

The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2003 -Presenter

Actor

Liberty Kids 2002 -of Abigail Adams

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The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2002 -Presenter

Actor

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts 2001 -Presenter

Actor

The 73rd Annual Academy Awards 2001 -Presenter

Actor

7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards 2001 -Presenter

Actor

What Planet Are You From? 2000 -Susan

Actor

Film

Forever Hollywood 2000 -Herself

Actor

Film

American Beauty 1999 -Carolyn Burnham

Actor

Film

The 71st Annual Academy Awards Presentation 1999 -Presenter

Actor

The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1999 -Presenter

Actor

In Dreams 1999 -Claire Cooper

Actor

Film

The Sopranos 1999 -Herself

Actor

The Test Dream (2004) -Herself

Actor

TV Episode

The Book That Wrote Itself 1999

Actor

Film

The Siege 1998 -Elise Kraft, Sharon Bridger

Actor, Actor

Film

The 52nd Annual Tony Awards 1998 -Presenter

Actor

Mars Attacks! 1996 -Barbara Land

Actor

Film

The Barbara Walters Special (03/25/96) 1996 -Interviewee

Actor

Richard III 1995 -Queen Elizabeth

Actor

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The American President 1995 -Sidney Ellen Wade

Actor

Film

The 67th Annual Academy Awards 1995 -Presenter

Actor

Love Affair 1994 -Terry McKay

Actor

Film

An American Reunion: The 52nd Presidential Inaugural Gala 1993

Actor

The 64th Annual Academy Awards Presentation 1992 -Presenter

Actor

49th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1992

Actor

Bugsy 1991 -Virginia Hill

Actor

Film

Regarding Henry 1991 -Sarah Turner

Actor

Film

Guilty By Suspicion 1991 -Ruth Merrill

Actor

Film

Postcards From the Edge 1990 -Evelyn Ames

Actor

Film

The Grifters 1990 -Myra Langtry

Actor

Film

Milos Forman: Portrait 1989

Actor

Valmont 1989 -Marquise DeMerteuil

Actor

Film

The Great Outdoors 1988 -Kate

Actor

Film

Hostage 1988 -Jill

Actor

The 41st Annual Tony Awards 1987

Actor

Manhunt For Claude Dallas 1986 -Ann Tillman

Actor

Fourteen Women

Narrator

Film

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Highlights

2008 Played the editor of a prominent fashion magazine in Diane English's female ensemble "The Women," a remake of the 1936 play by Clare Boothe Luce

2006 Portrayed the title role in "Mrs. Harris" (HBO); received Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress

2006 Played an unstable mother in the film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' "Running With Scissors"; received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy

2004 Portrayed an aging British actress in the 1930s in "Being Julia"; based on the novel Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham; received Best Actress SAG and Academy Award nominations

2003 Starred opposite Kevin Costner (also directed) and Robert Duvall in the western epic "Open Range"

2002 Voiced Abigail Adams on the short lived PBS animated series "Liberty's Kids"

2000 Co-starred with Garry Shandling in Mike Nichols' "What Planet Are You From?" (third collaboration with Nichols)

1999 Played the shrewish, status-seeking wife of a man undergoing a mid-life crisis in "American Beauty"; was the feature film debut for writer Alan Ball and director Sam Mendes; received Best Actress Acad

1998 Returned to the stage after a decade as Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" at the Geffen Playhouse

1998 Appeared with Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis in Edward Zwick's "The Siege"

1996 Played Jack Nicholson's wife in Tim Burton's blockbuster spoof "Mars Attacks!"

1995 Co-starred with Michael Douglas in Rob Reiner's "The American President"; received a Golden Globe nomination for Actress in a Musical/Comedy

1994 Re-teamed with Beatty for "Love Affair," a pallid remake of "An Affair to Remember" (1957) and "Love Affair" (1939)

1991 Garnered further acclaim in "Regarding Henry" (re-teaming her with director Mike Nichols)

1991 Met future husband, Warren Beatty co-starring in Barry Levinson's "Bugsy"

1990 Offered a strong turn as a ditsy wanna-be actress in Mike Nichols' "Postcards From the Edge"

1990 Delivered brilliant portrayal as the bubbly, treacherous con-artist Myra Langtry in Stephen Frears's "The Grifters"; received Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination

1989 First leading role as the manipulative, seductive Marquise de Merteuil in Milos Forman's "Valmont"

1988 Feature film debut as Dan Aykroyd's onscreen wife in "The Great Outdoors"

1988 Played a Central Park Zookeeper in the Off-Broadway production of Michael Weller's "Spoils of War"

1987 Received a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut in "Coastal Disturbances"

1987 Landed guest spots on episodes of "Miami Vice" (NBC) and "Wiseguy" (CBS)

1986 Moved to New York City

1986 TV-movie debut in "Manhunt for Claude Dallas" (CBS)

1986 Off-Broadway stage debut as Holly Dancer in Tina Howe's widely acclaimed "Coastal Disturbances"

1985 - 1986 Performed with Denver Center Theater Company

1980 Performed with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival

Raised in Wichita, Kansas until the age of seven

Family moved to San Diego, California in the mid-1960s