Annette Bening, actress: biography, personal life, filmography

As you know, real actresses, like good wine: do not age, but acquire their own special charm, with age. American Annette Bening (Annette Bening) can be safely attributed to women of this sort. Despite the fact that she is almost sixty - she is full of charm and optimism.

Annette Bening: biography of the early years

The future star was born in a small provincial town Topeka, in Kansas. Her parents were ordinary people, quite far from the world of show business. Annette's mother was a housewife who raised four children, and in her spare time she sang in a church choir. My father worked as an insurance agent. Our heroine was the youngest child in the family, because of this, parents often did not have time to deal with her upbringing, so Annette was often left to herself.

From early childhood, Annette Bening had artistic abilities. Having inherited from her mother a pleasant singing voice, the girl successfully debuted in the main role in the school production "Sounds of Music".

At seventeen, Annette went to study acting at Patrick Henry High School. After that the girl continued her studies at San Diego Mesa College and the University of San Francisco.

Career in the theater

At first Annette Bening wanted to be a good theater actress. To achieve this, after graduation she participated in numerous productions.

The debut of the actress in the professional theater scene took place in 1980 at the Shakespeare Festival in Colorado. Later, she played at the repertoire of San Diego and on the stage of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

In the years 1985-1986. Annette Bening performed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. During this period, she participated in productions "Pygmalion" and "Cherry Orchard".

The following year, the actress's talent was noticed, and she was invited to perform on Broadway. Here she made a very successful debut in Tina Howe's play "Coastal Noise".

The beginning of a career in film and television

As soon as the career of Benning in the theater went uphill, the woman began to try herself as an actress of cinema and television.

Annette debuted in the telefilm "Hunting for Claude Dallas", after which there were several roles in the episodes of various television series. In the movie, this actress first starred in 1988 in the film "In the Lap of Nature".

The following year, Miss Bening took the first major role in the movie "Valmont." In this tape, she played a charming intriguer Marquise de Merteus. The role succeeded Bening so well that she was nominated for the prize of the Chicago Film Critics Association as the best promising actress.

Best Actress Movies

The nineties became the most fruitful in the career of Annette Bening. In 1990, she starred in the leading role in the film Kidaly, for which she was first nominated for an Oscar and a British Academy Award. Critics appreciated her acting skills, and soon Benning began to invite famous directors.

In the following years she proved that she is a versatile actress, Annette Bening. Films with her participation differed not only in the plot, but also in the genre. The heroines that Bening played were not alike. So, in "Something about Henry" with Harrison Ford, she played a loving and caring husband; In "Bugsy" - a fatal beauty that killed her lover; In the "American President" - a naive lobbyist, in which the US president fell in love.

She finished the decade with an actress in the movie "American Beauty," for which she was again nominated for an Oscar.

Career Bening in two thousand

With the beginning of the new millennium, the actress again begins to appear in television series, which she has not done for almost ten years. In the cinema, she is invited less often, compared to the nineties. However, even those rare roles that she is invited to play, the actress performs with incredible skill, which does not go unnoticed.

In 2003, Benning starred in the western "Open Space" with Kevin Costner. And next year she plays in the adaptation of the novel by Somerset Maugham Theater. Annette Bening, for the role of the aging actress Julia Lambert in this movie, is again nominated for an Oscar. However, like the previous two times - unsuccessfully.

In the following years, such films as "On the Sharp Face", "Women", "Mother and Child", "Ruby Sparks", "Search", "Denny Collins", "The Rules Are Not Applicable", "The Seagull" , "Children are OK" and others.

For the last film, the actress was again unsuccessfully nominated for an Oscar. But for the role in this film, she was awarded the Golden Globe and the Gay and Lesbian Association award.

Today, Bening is not as demanded in the profession as in the past, but she has enough time to spend with her family.

Annette Bening: family and children

At the beginning of her career, the actress quite often made novels. So, while studying in college she met with Ned Bellamy. Later, she was associated with a short relationship with Ed Begley and Andrew Lack.

In 1984, Annette married J. Stephen White, a well-known choreographer. Unfortunately, this marriage lasted only seven years, after which the spouses peacefully issued a divorce.

On the set of the film "Bugsy" Bening met with the famous actor Warren Beatty and in 1992 married him. Despite the 22 years of age difference, this union turned out to be really happy. Annette and Warren had four children.

Interesting facts about the actress

• Although a full debut on the stage of Bening is considered participation in the school production of the musical "Sounds of Music", Annette's first acting experience was in the Spanish-language production of "Three Little Pigs" in high school.
• Being a very smart girl, Annette graduated from school one year earlier. "The time saved" actress spent a job as a cook, to collect money for college.
• Despite the fact that the actress has not won a single Oscar, she is the owner of two Golden Globes ("Theater", "Children are OK"), as well as other less well-known film awards.
• Annette Benning is fond of yoga. These exercises help the actress to relieve the nervous tension that accumulates during filming.
• In real life, the actress is not like her heroines. She is more calm and a little shy.
• In 2010, the oldest daughter, Bening Kathleen, changed the sex with surgery, thus becoming Stephen. The parents of the newly born Stephen were shocked by the act of her daughter. However, over time, they had to accept. Fearing problems with his other children, since then he has spent a lot of time Annette Bening with the children.
• The actress is an ordained minister of the monastery of the Universal Church of Life.

During her career, Bening achieved a lot. She starred in many beautiful films. Despite the great love of the audience and the respect of film critics, so far she has not received the cherished "Oscar". However, fans of the talent Annette Bening still hope that she will be awarded this award, after all, and Leonardo DiCaprio received his "Oscar" only with the fifth attempt.