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Annette Bening

Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. She began her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory Theater. She was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Coastal Disturbances and for the 2019 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for All My Sons.

English

Captain Marvel

2019
as Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson

Death on the Nile

2022
as Euphemia

American Beauty

1999
as Carolyn Burnham

Mars Attacks!

1996
as Barbara Land

Jerry & Marge Go Large

2022
as Marge Selbee

The Report

2019
as Dianne Feinstein

20th Century Women

2016
as Dorothea Fields

Life Itself

2018
as Dr. Cait Morris

Ruby Sparks

2012
as Gertrude

Ginger & Rosa

2012
as Bella

Being Julia

2004
as Julia Lambert

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014
as Herself - Interviewee

Love Affair

1994
as Terry McKay

NYAD

2023
as Diana Nyad

Rules Don't Apply

2016
as Lucy Mabrey

Forever Hollywood

1999
as Herself

Yogawoman

2011
as Annette Bening

What Planet Are You From?

2000
as Susan Anderson

Apples Never Fall

2024
as Joy Delaney

14 Women

2007
as Narrator

Georgetown

2019
as Amanda Brecht

The Siege

1998
as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger

Open Range

2003
as Sue Barlow

Hope Gap

2019
as Grace Axton

Guilty by Suspicion

1991
as Ruth Merrill

Who Needs Sleep?

2006
as Annette Bening

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006
as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")

Valmont

1989
as Merteuil

Danny Collins

2015
as Mary Sinclair

The Grifters

1990
as Myra Langtry

The Women

2008
as Sylvia Fowler

The American President

1995
as Sydney Ellen Wade

The Search

2014
as Helen

Mrs. Harris

2006
as Jean Harris

Richard III

1995
as Elizabeth

The Great Outdoors

1988
as Kate Craig

PoliWood

2009
as Self

Running with Scissors

2006
as Deirdre Burroughs

Postcards from the Edge

1990
as Evelyn Ames

Bugsy

1991
as Virginia Hill

In Dreams

1999
as Claire Cooper

The Seagull

2018
as Irina Arkadina

Regarding Henry

1991
as Sarah Turner

Guest Star

Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Annette Bening, Judd Apatow, SZA
2017
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Natalie Portman, Annette Bening, Neil Diamond
2016
Episode Tony Awards
The 73rd Annual Tony Awards
2019
Episode MPower
Captain Marvel
2023
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Annette Bening, John Mayer
2018
Episode The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Annette Bening/Richard Marx/Nick Lachey
2004
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Annette Bening, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sylvan Esso
2018
Episode The Daily Show
Annette Bening
2005
Episode The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Annette Benning/JoJo
2006
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
The 49th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1992
Episode Miami Vice
Red Tape
1987
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 16
2017
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Niall Horan
2020
Episode Saturday Night Live
Annette Bening/Gwen Stefani, Akon
2006
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Annette Bening, Norman Reedus, the Avett Brothers
2014
Episode Wiseguy
One on One
1987
Episode The Jonathan Ross Show
Vince Vaughn, Stormzy, Jamie Bell, Annette Bening, Bradley Walsh, Jamie Lawson
2017
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Annette Bening, Steve Harvey, 'The Hamilton Mixtape'
2016
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Annette Bening, Rachel Brosnahan, Royal Blood
2018
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards
2005