It was on my third movie, The Grifters. We were doing a scene outside, and I’m teetering along on these high heels. Stephen Frears said to me, “I want you to stop, then look, then start walking.” So, ...

Anne Francine Bening, better known as Annette Bening, was born on May 29, 1958, in Topeka, Kansas, to insurance salesman A. Grant Bening and church singer Shirley Bening. The youngest of four children ...

One of the year’s most acclaimed acting performances, now receiving Oscar buzz, came from Annette Bening, a four-time Academy Award nominee known for such films as “The Grifters,” “American Beauty” ...

Annette Bening is meeting the moment. The acclaimed actor is currently in the midst of her fifth campaign for an Oscar statuette, this time for her intense and very physical performance in “Nyad,” ...

Annette Bening, a two-time Golden Globe winner who recently received her fifth Oscar nomination, was named Thursday as the 2024 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.The ...

Five-time Academy Award-nominated actress Annette Bening will be honored with the inaugural Arlington Award at the 39th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF). Bening will receive ...

Bening is on her fifth career Oscar nomination — revisit the acclaimed work that made her a star. Annette Bening really should have gotten an Oscar by now, shouldn’t she? A consummate professional, ...

Annette Bening still likes to swim, despite the brutal eight hours a day she spent in the water for her Netflix film Nyad. Bening stars as Diana Nyad, who, at 64, became the first person ever to swim ...