Annette Bening
Annette Bening
Annette Carol Beningis an American actress. She began her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory Theatre. She was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Coastal Disturbances. She is a four-time Academy Award nominee; for the films The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Juliaand The Kids Are All Right. In 2006, she received a star...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth29 May 1958
CityTopeka, KS
CountryUnited States of America
I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.
I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.
I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
I'm still very critical of myself in film.
I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.
I've tried to take roles with great demands.
If anything, I want to please people too much.
If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.
My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.
My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.
What makes us love a character is a character that tries.
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there.
Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits.