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
Queen Marlena
for Queen Marlena in Jon M. Chu's Masters Of The Universe (2013)
Suggested by smurphys_law
After Warner Bros gave up the rights to make a MOTU movie, Sony and Columbia Pictures stepped up to acquire the rights and start from scratch with a new script with Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch producing the film under their production company Escape Artist Productions, the writing duo of Mike Finch and Alex Litvak pitched a treatment to Mattel and Sony which won them over and they were hired to write the script, but not too long after Sony hired Richard Wenk to rewrite it and Jon M. Chu was hired to direct, fresh off of G.I. Joe: Retaliation Chu was offered to read the script which although skeptical initially he ended up loving the script and accepted the offer and the movie was scheduled to release on March 29th 2013, however almost a year after he joined on Chu's initial enthusiasm for the project faded away and left the project and moved on the other things, however what if Jon M. Chu stood on the project and the movie went ahead? this is who i feel could've been casted in the roles
