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.
in 1999, The Baltimore police department are called about the disappearance of Hae Ling, a local 18 year old Asian girl, who has been missing for 3 days. They send their best detective on the case, Jack Vance, Jack interviews a few students and faculty members of Woodlawn high school after a dozen interviews Jack still has no until he receives an anonymous tip on the Whereabouts of Hae's body, they exclaim that the body was dumped in the woods. After contemplation Jack checks the woods and sure enough it was but as he's about to report the body, he encounters a group of drug traffickers who are there to collect Hae's body, they ask Jack if he was the new recruit and he says yes. Jack discovers a large underground drug trafficking ring, which has been under everyone's noses the whole time, Jack must singlehandedly take down the operation from the inside, all while making sure to keep his cover from the leader and infamous drug lord, Santiago Almada. (Loosely based on the real life murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999).
