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
Martha Kent
for Martha Kent in Superman: Beacon of Hope
Suggested by riotxvl
On the planet Krypton, Jor-El and his wife Lara-Lor Van, sent their baby son Kal-El to space before their planet exploded. Kal-El landed on a farm in a small town in Kansas, called Smallville, where Martha and Jonathan Kent found him, named him Clark and raised him as their own. Clark experienced different abilities as he grew older because of being exposed to earth's solar radiation. When he was ready he left Smallville to reconnect with his Kryptonian heritage and find himself. In the present day he finds his calling by helping the people of Metropolis with the name Superman. He also gets a job at the Daily Planet, where he meets Lois Lane and immediately falls in love with her. Another co-worker, John Corben, gets into a big car accident in an attempt to rob a bank to buy expensive things to impress Lois. The genius, millionaire, Lex Luthor saves him and makes him a cyborg. John, now calling himself Metallo, blames Clark for his accident. Clark and Lois start dating, while John keeps building up hate. Metallo breaks in STAR Labs to look for a bigger power source, but he encounters Superman and they fight. Lex then gives Metallo a fuel called Kryptionite which weakens Superman. Metallo finds out Clark and Superman are one in the same and they battle again, but Metallo's hatred is too strong and makes him overheat. Superman tries to save him, but fails. After the battle, the people of Metropolis now recognize Superman as their hero.
