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
Isabeau
for Isabeau in Roses Season 6: The French Queen
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Taking place from 1428-1437, Season 6 focuses on the Regency of England while Henry VI is in his minority. With Henry VI's mother, Catherine of Valois - a French princess - ruling as England Regent with the guidance of France's Queen Dowager Isabeau - who has a reputation for her malicious cunning - unrest against the monarchy grows as more flock to support Yorkist claims to the throne. Richard, Head of Houses York and Mortimer now positioning himself as an English nationalist to gain the loyalty of those unhappy with French rule. In an attempt to appease English nationalists, Catherine appoints Thomas Hoccleve, a famous English writer, and his wife, Bonne, an advisor to Isabeau, as the Duke and Duchess of Anjou. Meanwhile the holder of the French Crown remains disputed between Catherine of Valois' young son, King Henry VI if England, and her older brother, Charles VII of France. Near the end of the season Isabeau passes away and Catherine falls ill. With growing unrest in England, season 6 sets in motion the events that eventually lead to the Wars of the Roses.
