I had a chance to sit down with
Annette Bening, who by the way gave an outstanding performance in this movie and may even be an early candidate for a nod, I know it is early, but I am saying, I call it when I see it. Anyhow, we had a good conversation about the movie and communication.
Annette Bening (
KAREN)
Prior to her starring role in
Rodrigo Garcias
Mother and Child, Annette Bening was most recently seen on the big screen in writer-director
Diane Englishs remake of
The Women, starring alongside
Meg Ryan,
Eva Mendes and
Jada Pinkett-Smith. Before that, she starred in the
2006 film Running with Scissors for which she was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award. She recently her next film opposite
Julianne Moore and
Mark Ruffalo, called
The Kids Are All Right.
Annette was
Julia Lambert in
Being Julia for
Sony Pictures Classics, the role that earned the actress her third
Oscar nomination. For that performance, she was also named the
National Board of Reviews
Best Actress, won the
Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a
Motion Picture Musical/Comedy, and received a
SAG nomination for Best Actress. She also starred in
Mrs. Harris with
Ben Kingsley for
HBO, earning an
Emmy, SAG, and
Golden Globe nomination.
An award-winning stage actress, Bening has spent much of her time in front of the movie camera. She starred in the critically acclaimed film
American Beauty, for which she received both an
Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress/
Drama. Her performance in the film earned her a
Screen Actors Guild Award and the
BAFTA (
British Academy) Award. Her other film credits include Neil Jordans
In Dreams, and
The Siege, opposite
Denzel Washington and
Bruce Willis.
Bening was honored at the
Boston,
Palm Springs and
Chicago Film Festivals with
Lifetime Achievement Awards, as well as receiving the
Donostia Prize at the
San Sebastian International Film Festival. She won the
Actress of the Year award at the
Hollywood Film Festival, and received the
Montecito Award at the
Santa Barbara Film Festival.
She received her first Academy Award nomination and was named
Best Supporting Actress by the
National Board of Review for her role in
The Grifters. She also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress/
Musical or
Comedy for her starring role in Rob Reiners
The American President, opposite
Michael Douglas. Bening also had supporting roles in Tim Burtons
Mars Attacks!, and in Sir Ian McKellens film
adaptation of
Shakespeares Richard III.
Her other film credits include
Love Affair with
Warren Beatty, and
Barry Levinsons
Bugsy, also opposite
Beatty, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress,
Regarding Henry with
Harrison Ford and directed by
Mike Nichols,
Guilty By
Suspicion, opposite
Robert DeNiro,
Milos Formans
Valmont, and
Postcards
From The Edge. Bening made her feature film debut in the comedy
The Great Outdoors, with
Dan Aykroyd and the late
John Candy.
Benings theater credits include the
Anton Chekhov play
The Cherry Orchard at
Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum in
2006, and
Alan Bennetts
Talking Heads, at the
Tiffany Theater in
Los Angeles. She also played the title role in Henrik Ibsens
Hedda Gabler in
March 1999 at Los Angeles
Geffen Playhouse. She will next appear on stage in
Medea at
UCLA, and in
The Female of the Species, also at the Geffen Playhouse.
Born in
Topeka, Kansas and raised in
San Diego, Bening was enrolled at a local college when she got a job as a dancer in a pre-show presented outside of San Diegos famed
Old Globe Theater. This led to a walk-on in a
Shakespearean production, this time inside the theater, and two plays with the San Diego
Repertory Theater.
Bening graduated from
San Francisco State University and was accepted by the
American Conservatory Theater in
San Francisco, where she trained until she joined the acting company. She also appeared in both summer Shakespearean festivals and regional productions until her career took her to
New York. There, Bening received both a
Tony Award nomination and won the
Clarence Derwent Award for most outstanding debut performance of the season for her role in
Coastal Disturbances, originally at the
Second Stage, then on
Broadway.
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