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Indie 'Kids' adopts cast
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Variety - Found Jun. 30, 2009 Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska are set to star in "The Kids Are All Right."Director Lisa Cholodenko ... Bening, Moore for 'Kids Are All Right' - Digital Spy The Kids are All Right--Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Bening and now Mia ... - Orlando Sentinel Fivesome to Star in The Kids Are All Right - Coming Soon! Bening And Moore's Kids Are All Right - Empire Online Explore All |
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Scoop soup: casting news round-up
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Examiner.com - Found Jul. 2, 2009 Annette Bening and Julianne Moore will be lesbians and Mark Ruffallo their sperm donor in The Kids Are Alright. I'm alright with it too. |
Annette Bening And Julianne Moore Get Hitched
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Cinema Blend - Found Jul. 1, 2009 How cool would it be to have Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as your parents? Bening, Moore, Ruffalo Know The Kids Are All Right - Rotten Tomatoes Cast is set for - Monsters and Critics Explore All |
Lesbian Nursing Home Road Trip Comedy?
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Cinema Blend - Found Jul. 1, 2009 Not sure why today is the day of lesbian news-- see our earlier story about Annette Bening and Julianne Moore's new movie--or who on earth... |
Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo And Mia Wasikowska Find ...
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MTV - Found Jul. 1, 2009 EXCLUSIVE: Mike Judge Brings ?Extract? To Comic-Con - 06.30.09 ?Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel? EXCLUSIVE Trailer Premiere - 06.30.09 Alvin's Squeakquel sneak peek and a look at the Chipettes - Examiner.com Fox Tells Us To Munk Ourselves!! A Teaser For ALVIN AND THE ... - Ain't It Cool News Explore All |
How to turn heads and be nifty… at 50!
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Daily News South Africa - Found Jul. 1, 2009 ... know about Madonna, but there are others, too, including Emma Thompson, Jennifer Saunders, Annette Bening, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helen Fielding... |
Nothing Says Hollywood Like 'Old Lesbians' [Trade Roundup]
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Gawker - Found Jul. 1, 2009 Annette Bening and Julianne Moore are set to play lesbian parents whose two kids, Mia Wasikowska from In Treatment and Josh Hutcherson... |
John Farr: For Independence Day, Ten Movies That Scream America
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Huffington Post - Found Jul. 1, 2009 1999)- Leading an empty suburban life with his uptight, real-estate-agent wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), and depressed teenage daughter... |
A Stella Adler turf war in L.A.
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Los Angeles Times - Found Jun. 29, 2009 To help launch the studio, the school hosted a lecture last week with Annette Bening as part of an ongoing series of talks with prominent... |
STAGE TUBE: Kristin Chenoweth On LXTV's 'CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT'
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Broadway World - Found Jun. 27, 2009 Broderick, 'RV' with Robin Williams, 'Bewitched' with Nicole Kidman, 'Running with Scissors' with Annette Bening, and 'The Pink Panther' with... |
Annette Bening Biography
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| Annette Bening | |
 Bening at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | Annette Francine Bening May 29, 1958 Topeka, Kansas, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse(s) | J. Steven White (1984–1991) Warren Beatty (1992–present) |
Annette Francine Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress.
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Early life
Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley, a church singer and soloist, and Grant Bening, a sales training consultant and insurance salesman.12 Her parents, natives of Iowa, were practicing Episcopalians and conservative Republicans.34 Her sister and two brothers are Jane Bening (born 1953), Bradley Bening (born 1955) and Byron Bening (born 1957). The family moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1959, where she spent her early childhood. In 1965, her father took a job with a company in San Diego, California, and they moved there. She began acting in junior high school, playing the lead in The Sound of Music. She studied drama at Patrick Henry High School.
She then spent a year working as a cook on a charter boat taking fishing parties out on the Pacific Ocean, and scuba diving for recreation. She attended San Diego Mesa College, then completed an academic degree in theatre arts at San Francisco State University. Bening joined the acting company at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while studying acting as part of the Advanced Theatre Training Program. During this time she established herself as a formidable acting talent in roles like Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth.
Career
Bening moved to New York City, where she debuted off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre (McGinn-Cazale Theatre) in the role of 'Holly Dancer' in Tina Howe's widely acclaimed Coastal Disturbances (1986) opposite Tim Daly. However, despite the praise and recognition, it took some time for that success to translate to her film career. Her television debut was with the made-for-TV movie Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986). Her first major role in a theatrical feature was in The Great Outdoors (1988) playing 'Kate Craig' opposite Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. Her next role was as the Marquise de Merteuil in Valmont (1989) opposite Colin Firth.
Bening's next major feature, Stephen Frears's The Grifters (1990) starring Anjelica Huston and John Cusack, met with critical acclaim. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Grifters. She followed that with her appearance in Bugsy. Bening was offered the role as Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992), but after she became pregnant, the role went to Michelle Pfeiffer. In 1994 she played opposite 87-year old acting legend Katharine Hepburn in Love Affair. Bening was paid $3 million to play the role of 'Elise Kraft/Sharon Bridger' in The Siege (1998) co-starring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis. Her next role, in the 1999 film American Beauty, would give her the highest-profile role of her career thus far. Bening played a real-estate agent in three different movies: Regarding Henry, American Beauty, and What Planet Are You From?. She has appeared in three different Mike Nichols' movies: Postcards from the Edge, Regarding Henry, and What Planet Are You From?
She was originally cast as the mother in Disney's Freaky Friday, but dropped out. She replaced Julianne Moore in her most recent appearance, Running with Scissors, playing Deirdre Burroughs in the film adaptation of the Augusten Burroughs book. On December 9, 2006, Bening hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guests Gwen Stefani and Akon.
Bening is a council member for the California Arts Council.
Personal life
In 1985, Bening and her first husband, choreographer J. Steven White, moved to Denver, Colorado, to work at the Shakespeare Festival5 in Boulder, Colorado. They separated the following year.
She and Warren Beatty met on the set of Bugsy (1991), in which she played Virginia Hill, and the couple began a secret romance. They married in 1992. She and Beatty live in Los Angeles with their four children, Kathlyn Elizabeth Beatty (born January 8, 1992 in Los Angeles County, California), Benjamin MacLean Beatty (born August 23, 1994 in Los Angeles County, California), Isabel Ira Ashley Beatty (born January 11, 1997) and Ella Corinne Beatty (born April 8, 2000). Her marriage to Beatty provided an additional push to her career, simply because of the large amount of tabloid publicity surrounding the romance and marriage; Beatty had been a life-long "most eligible bachelor" and was considered a playboy, before he met Bening.
Bening is a supporter of the Democrats and was a political contributor to the presidential candidate of Barack Obama in 2008.6 She is a student of Iyengar Yoga.
Filmography
References
- ^ Annette Bening Biography (1958-)
- ^ PUTTING `REAL LIFE' FIRST MAKES BENING A BETTER ACTRESS
- ^ Dutka, Elaine (1999-02-21). "The Aura of Annette; If She Makes the Merging of Career and Family Appear Effortless, It's an Illusion". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/39146076.html?dids=39146076:39146076&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+21%2C+1999&author=ELAINE+DUTKA&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=COVER+STORY%3B+The+Aura+of+Annette%3B+If+She+Makes+the+Merging+of+Career+and+Family+Appear+Effortless%2C+It's+an+Illusion.&pqatl=google. Retrieved on 2008-04-29.
- ^ washingtonpost.com: Annette Bening, Acting on Her Maternal Instincts
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External links
- Annette Bening at the Internet Movie Database
- Annette Bening at the Internet Broadway Database
- Annette Bening at Allmovie
- Roger Ebert "Movie Answer Man: Hail, Columbia! Mystery solved". Retrieved Aug. 27, 2005.
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