Annette bening biography

Nationality: American. Born: Topeka, Kansas, 29 May Family: married Steven White divorced ; married Warren Beatty actor , ; four children with Beatty.

Annette bening age

Referred to as "the thinking man's sex symbol," Annette Bening has firmly established herself as one of Hollywood's most talented and most professional actresses. But perhaps the role that has made her most familiar to the American public is as the girlfriend-then-wife of Hollywood's most famous former lothario, Warren Beatty, with whom she has had four children.

After her film debut as Dan Aykroyd's sex-starved wife in the forgettable The Great Outdoors "I tried to pick my projects more carefully after that," she says , Bening auditioned for a role as a courtesan in director Stephen Frears's film version of Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. But Bening played the same role in 's Valmont , director Milos Forman 's version of the same story.

While interesting, Forman's film and Bening's performance suffered in comparison, and audiences already knew the story from the previous film, so Valmont fared poorly. Ironically, Frears was so impressed by Bening's performance in Valmont that he hired her to play one of the leads in his next film, 's The Grifters —the role that marked the turning point in Bening's film career.

This contemporary film noir classic contains three outstanding performances: Anjelica Huston plays Lily Dillon, a hard-as-nails con artist with platinum blond hair who works for a big-time bookie placing huge last-minute bets at racetracks to change the odds. John Cusack plays Roy Dillon, the son Lily hasn't seen in eight years, who has the innocent face to occasionally get away with penny-ante swindles but lacks the killer instinct for anything more.

And Bening plays Myra Langtry, a gold digger with a killer smile, spiky hair, and leopard-skin miniskirts, who uses her body as a Gold Card when she's short of cash, and who is hoping to use Roy to get back into the big time.