Annette Bening Quotes

Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has received many accolades, including a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globes as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, and four Academy Awards.

Bening 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 made her Broadway debut in the Tina Howe play Coastal Disturbances for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She played the title role in a Geffen Playhouse production of Hedda Gabbler . She returned to Broadway in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons earning another Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play.

Bening won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for playing a materialistic wife in American Beauty , and received nominations for four Academy Awards for her roles in The Grifters , American Beauty, Being Julia , and The Kids Are All Right . She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for playing the title role in the television film Mrs. Harris . Her other notable films include Postcards from the Edge , Bugsy , Richard III , The American President , 20th Century Women , Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool , The Seagull , The Report , Captain Marvel , Death on the Nile , and Nyad .

She serves as Vice Chair on the board of trustees for The Actors Fund. She has been married to actor Warren Beatty since 1992.



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✵ 29. May 1958
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Annette Bening Quotes

“Sometimes just wanting to do a good role, a great role, isn't a good enough reason to do it.”

THR Full Oscar Actress Roundtable 2017, at 9 Min 19 Sec https://youtube.com/watch?v=IaZVY7O2Ku0?t=559
From interview with The Hollywood Reporter Actress Roundtable

“Creativity is really about excess. And when you want to make something there is a kind of obsession that has to come with it in a healthy way, in a way that is intoxicating, you are engulfed by something.”

THR Actress Roundtable 2011, at 23 Min 01 Sec https://youtube.com/watch?v=4OePQsi3U-8?t=1381
From interview with The Hollywood Reporter Actress Roundtable

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