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
Elsa Hillberry
for Elsa Hillberry in Where The Stars Fades
Suggested by jakubduda
It begins with Thadeus McCoy, head of McCoy Family ranch, he soon finds himself in an accident that causes him serious injuries. In the hospital, he claims that his name is McCoy, but his real name is Cole Bergeron and he is a legendary actor, he was known mainly for westerns in which he played since middle of the 20th century. Due to his mental health, he is moved to the Starry Sky Institute, an institution for mentally, physically ill, drug-addicted or old actors. He shares room with Elsa Hillberry, who sees and talks to Marilyn Monroe. They can't stand each other, then become friends and want to make film together. In home for fading stars of Hollywood, He meets young beauty Holly Warren, America's sweetheart, everyone fell in love with her, she got together with colleague Ray Tucker, got pregnant, after an unexpected miscarriage, they broke up and she tried to commit suicide. Another is Luther Barbera, former icon, blockbuster actor who defied tyranny of director, for whom the skirmish turned fatal. Christina Finnighan, the queen of romantic comedies, decided to end her career early and started drinking when the quality of her films deteriorated. Jerry Harrold was idol in 90s, but along came the drugs. Gordon Fry, the greatest comedian ever, was unhappy alcoholic in real life. Cindy Freemont killed man after sexual assault. Joe Rembrandt, has lost joy and doesn't want to live. Cole and Elsa come up with an escape plan. Start filming with others. Joe Fell in love W Holly.
