Celebrity Biographies
Annette Bening
They say that in Hollywood there are few good roles for mature actresses, but she has embroidered quite a few. She embodies women who are the opposite of her true personality better than anyone. Specializing in selfish, unfaithful, unstable and seductive women in the cinema, in real life she is the woman who made Warren Beatty, Hollywood’s golden bachelor, settle down. She openly states that her favorite performance is when she plays Winnie the Pooh, in the hallway of her house for her children. This is Annette Bening, a madrassa who has little to do with the evil Marquise de Martueil, from Valmont or Carolyn Burnham, Kevin Spacey’s hedonistic wife, in American Beauty .
The youngest daughter of Grant, an insurance salesman, and Shirley, an occasional singer, Annette Francine Bening was born on May 29, 1958, in Topeka (Kansas), although her family soon moved to San Diego, where she grew up. She did not even think of becoming an actress when she was little. “My parents didn’t take me to the movies, so I didn’t even know that there were people who made a living from this,” she says. She was an extremely shy girl, although she enrolled in dance classes. In order to study acting at the American Conservatory Theatre, she Annette went to work as a cook on a chartered yacht. At that school, she fell in love with one of her teachers, Steven White, whom she married in 1984, although she would divorce a few years later. Upon finishing her studies, she was very successful in New York theaters, so much so that she was nominated for a Tony,Coastal Disturbances , from 1987.
Annette Bening spent a lot of time in Hollywood trying to get cast in a movie. She was eventually cast as Dan Aykroyd ‘s wife in the wacky sitcom Two Rampant Brothers -in-Law , and shortly thereafter she appeared in the series Miami Vice . Her first major role was that of the Marquise de Merteuil, starring in Valmont , Milos Forman ‘s adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons , which she did a good job, overshadowed because it was shot shortly after Stephen Frears ‘ famous version.. This last filmmaker could not suppress his curiosity, he went to see the film that was competing with him and was seduced by Annette Bening, for which reason he recruited her for The Swindlers . With her portrayal of her trickster Myra Langtry, the actress garnered some popularity, and her first Oscar nomination, in the category of best supporting role.
Shortly after playing Harrison Ford ‘s wife , in About Henry , she met actor Warren Beatty , when they both starred in Bugsy , the biography of the gangster who founded Las Vegas. No one gave a damn about the relationship, because of Beatty’s womanizing character, whom her sister Shirley McLaine had said was the only actress Beatty hadn’t had an affair with. But the couple walked down the aisle in 1992, and Beatty and Bening have had four children thus far. She had a true maternal vocation.
“I am proud of my private life but it is curious to have to feel proud of something that is absolutely normal and instinctive, such as being a mother; I have always wanted to have children and be an actress, although that is difficult to combine. I have never considered my life in a divided way, but rather the need to have responsibilities seems like a great gift to me”, said the actress, who over the years has continued to weave an enviable filmography. Although A Love Affair , a remake of You and I that Annette starred in with her husband, she didn’t have much traction, she made up for it with the successes of The President and Mrs. Wade and Mars Attacks! , and she gave her staff the creeps with her children’s writer role inWithin my dreams , a horror film by Neil Jordan . Her most recognized role of hers was that of Carolyn, the unfaithful wife of American Beauty , in which the actress reflected the disorientation of modern society, work for which she was again nominated for an Oscar. By the way, that year, 2000, she attended the delivery ceremony in an advanced state of gestation of her fourth offspring, keeping half the world in suspense. She has kept up the quality ever since, in movies like Open Range and Meeting Julia .
She has a film pending release whose title suits her, Diva , in which she plays a television actress, and she has just finished filming Mrs. Harris , a thriller based on a true crime.