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  • NAME: Annette Bening
  • OCCUPATION: Film Actress
  • BIRTH DATE: May 29, 1958 (Age: 55)
  • EDUCATION: Patrick Henry High School, San Francisco University
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Topeka, Kansas
  • Full Name: Anne Francine Bening
  • ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini

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Annette Bening is an Oscar-nominated actress known for films like The Grifters, Bugsy, American Beauty and The Kids Are All Right.


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Also in 1999, she turned in a great performance as a materialistic suburban real estate agent in the darkly funny hit film, American Beauty, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2000, she starred in What Planet Are You From? as a woman who marries an extraterrestrial invader,

played by Garry Shandling. She won a Best Actress Golden Globe in 2005 for her performance in the comedy Being Julia.

Bening and Beatty have four children: Kathlyn Elizabeth, Ben, Isabel Ira Ashley and Ella Corinne.

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