Annette Bening Biography and Profile

Biography

Nama : Annette Bening
Birth Name : Annette Francine Bening
Birth Date : 05/29/1958
Birth Place : Topeka, Kansas, USA
Height : 5' 8�"
Sex : F
Nationality : American
Occupation : Actress
Father : Arnett Grant Bening (b. 1926)
Mother : Shirley Bening (b. 1930)
Spouse : J. Steven White (Instructor American Conservatory Theater, 1984 - 1991), Warren Beatty (actor, since 12-Mar-92)
Relation : Ed Begley Jr. (actor)
Claim Fame : As Myra Langtry in movie "The Grifters" (1990)

Annette Bening (born May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, USA) is an American actress.

Bening's family moved to San Diego, California in 1965. In junior high, she played the lead in The Sound of Music. She finished high school in three years and attended San Diego Mesa College. She completed her drama degree at San Francisco State University. Bening then studied at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, and joined its acting company. In 1985, she moved to New York where she won a Tony Award nomination for her debut performance in Coastal Disturbances. However, she endured a five-year struggle before breaking into film.

Her first film was Manhunt for Claude Dallas, a made-for-TV movie which came out in 1986. Her first major feature film role was in The Great Outdoors (1988). She garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Grifters (1990) and Best Actress in a Leading Role for American Beauty (1999).

In 1991, Bening was offered a role as the Catwoman in the movie Batman Returns (1992). However, she chose to be pregnant, and the role went to Michelle Pfeiffer.

Bening met actor Warren Beatty on the set of the film Bugsy (1991) and the two started a secret romance. On March 12, 1992, she married Beatty. The couple has four children.

In 2005, Bening won the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy playing a 1930s stage actress in a mid-career crisis in Being Julia (2004).