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
Wendy Lawson
for Wendy Lawson in MCU´s Ant-Man and the Wasp (Avengers 1980s)
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This prequel to the MCU's Ant-Man trilogy is set in 1987, when Janet van Dyne disappears into the Quantum Realm. It tells of a conflict deliberately provoked by a newly awakened version of HYDRA during the Cold War. In a SHIELD lab, Howard Stark asks Hank Pym to give him the shrinking Pym particles to stop a group of radicals who have replicated HYDRA technology. Pym tells Stark that he will only use the particles himself. Peggy Carter supports Pym in this idea and trains him for the mission. He then sets off for Berlin to stop the radicals. Two days later, Pym learns about the Winter Soldier at a research centre in Berlin and attends a test of the Winter Soldier unnoticed, where he is to receive an attack order. Pym causes an explosion in the lab and believes he has incapacitated everyone present. Back at SHIELD, Pym learns from Stark who the Winter Soldier is and that Pym probably can't do anything against him because of the Super Soldier serum. Aware of the delicate situation, Stark and Carter assemble a team of Captain Britain, Wasp, Ant-Men, Black Goliath and the missing Isaiah Bradley (former Captain America) with the Black Panther's connection. The film ends with Wasp disappearing into the Quantum Realm after her sacrifice saved many lives and prevented a major conflict.
