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Date of Birth : May 29th 1958

Although some of her recognition may stem from her 1992 marriage to Warren Beatty, Annette Bening has established herself as an actress capable of far more than domesticating one of Hollywood’s most notorious playboys. After winning raves for her role in 1990’s The Grifters, Bening turned in a series of strong performances in films ranging from The American President to Richard III to American Beauty. Born in Topeka, Kansas, on May 29, 1958, Bening moved with her family to San Diego, California when she was very young. It was there that she began to pursue her career, first as a dancer in various productions at a local college.

Eventually graduating from San Francisco University (an education she paid for by working as a cook on a charter boat), Bening acted with San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre before moving to New York to further her stage experience. Her career in New York had its auspicious moments, such as winning a Tony Award nomination and a Clarence Derwent Award for Outstanding Debut Performance for her performance in Coastal Disturbances, but Bening endured a five-year struggle before breaking into film.

She made her debut as Dan Aykroyd’s irritable wife in The Great Outdoors in 1988; more substantial work followed in the form of Milos Forman’s Valmont, a 1989 adaptation of Chodleros de Laclos’ Les Liaisons Dangereuses that featured Bening as the scheming, manipulative Marquise de Merteuil. The film suffered in comparison to Stephen Frears’s Dangerous Liaisons, which had been released the previous year; fortunately, the same couldn’t be said of Bening’s next major effort, 1990’s The Grifters. Stephen Frears’s gripping, stylish adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel of the same name, The Grifters met with almost unanimous critical acclaim, much of which was aimed at the performances of Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, and Bening as the film’s protagonists. Bening won special praise for her portrayal of an ill-fated con artist, accruing Best Supporting Actress nominations from the Academy, the New York Film Critics Circle, and the British Academy. Her performance also won the attention of Warren Beatty, who was so impressed with her work that he cast her as his love interest in his 1991 Bugsy. Although the film proved a relative disappointment, it did result in both a Golden Globe nomination for Bening and a 1992 marriage for her and Beatty.

Following lead roles in 1998’s The Siege and 1999’s In Dreams, Bening could be seen in American Beauty (also 1999) as Kevin Spacey’s status-obsessed, control-freak wife. As part of the film’s superb ensemble cast, which also featured Chris Cooper, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, and Mena Suvari, the actress won praise for her work, and the added distinction of being part of what many hailed as one of the best films of the year.


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