Age: 68
female
Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage. Bening has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, making her one of the few artists nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting without winning. A graduate of San Francisco State University and the American Conservatory Theater, Bening started her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory Theater. She made her Broadway debut in the Tina Howe play Coastal Disturbances (1987), for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Making her film debut in 1988, she gained further recognition for her role in The Grifters (1990), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. This acclaim continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s with further Oscar-nominated performances in the comedy-dramas American Beauty (1999) and Being Julia (2004), which respectively won her the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Actress. Bening's performance as the title character in the British television film Mrs. Harris (2005) earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. In the following decades, Bening received two additional Oscar nominations for her leading roles as a lesbian mother in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and swimmer Diana Nyad in the Netflix biographical film Nyad (2023), the former of which also won her a Golden Globe. She returned to Broadway in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons (2019), earning another Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play. Her other roles during this period include the films 20th Century Women (2016), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), Captain Marvel (2019), and Death on the Nile (2022), and the miniseries Apples Never Fall (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Annette Bening, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Annette Bening
Samantha Franklin
for Samantha Franklin in An American In Prague
Suggested by jakubduda
John Franklin is a real American, patriot, baptist, drinks only US beer, listens Country, loves the family ranch they own for generations, his family and football, not a soccer but the real one, an American football, as He always says. On his grass he uses only John Deere not any Japan substitutes and he always has a gun in his truck. He cares of family and dog, he loves to play sports and even soccer with his dau Connie, especially after her mom Julia died. He rides horses, do fishing, hunting and bbq. Lives the way his dad and grandpa taught him. Can you even imagine him being sent to Europe? But it happens, his boss sent him to Prague for 2 weeks. He left best friend, sister, parents, colleague here and flight to Czechia. He feels lost, nothing is right in country in a middle of Europe, but maybe even this place deserves 2nd change. John finds Philly and Co's where they do cheesestakes, buy american in candy store and finds his own lil America in this country, but real happiness becomes when he meets Pam, dau of boss of the company his company wants to own. They date but secretly and she shows him beauty of the Czechia and He the beuty of USA. And maybe there is something in common between these countries but what more, there is something between Joe and Pam and its called TRUE LOVE. Can he let Julia go forever? He is in contact with all in USA and ready to finish here and leave. But Pam? Can he take Pat's company and dau and leave? And will Connie think about Pam?
