Annette Bening of ALL MY SONS: A Look Back on Her Career Since Her Last Broadway Appearance!
By: Stephi Wild Apr. 22, 2019
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Annette Bening is back on Broadway! The award-winning actress has been away from the Great White Way for over 30 years, but she is now back, starring in All My Sons at the American Airlines Theatre.
Bening was last seen on Broadway in Coastal Disturbances, where she made her Broadway debut from March 4, 1987-January 3, 1988. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for this role.
Since then, she has appeared in over 30 films.
What has Bening been up to since she was last seen on Broadway? Let's take a look...
Annette Bening made her film debut in 1988 in The Great Outdoors.
Her breakout role came in 1990 when she starred in The Grifters. Bening was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this role.
Watch a clip from the film below:
In 1999, Bening starred in Sam Mendes' directorial debut film, American Beauty. The film won five Academy Awards, including for Best Picture. Bening was nominated for her second Academy Award for Best Actress for this performance. In addition, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
Watch a clip from the film below:
In 2004, she played the title role in Being Julia. For this role, Bening won a Golden Globe, and NBR Best Actress. In addition, she was a runner-up for NYFCC and was nominated for an Academy Award for this performance.
Next, Bening played Jean Harris in the 2005 HBO film Mrs. Harris. For this role, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Watch a clip from the film below:
Bening's next Golden Globe nomination came in 2006, for the film adaptation of Running With Scissors. Bening replaced Julianne Moore for this role.
Making her return to the stage in 2009, Bening starred in a new interpretation of the Euripides play Medea, at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. The following year, she starred in Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species at Geffen Playhouse in LA.
Her next feature film came in 2010, with The Kids Are All Right. For this role, she won a Golden Globe, NYFFC Best Actress, and was a runner-up for NSFC. She earned her fourth Academy Award nomination for this role.
Watch her accept her award in the video:
Bening took the stage once more in 2014, in King Lear at the Delacorte Theater, as part of The Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park. This performance marked Bening's first New York stage appearance in 20 years.
Watch a montage of clips from the production below:
Before her return to Broadway, Bening returned to the big screen multiple times, most namely in 20th Century Women, for which she won a Golden Globe. She then appeared in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool in 2017, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award.
Watch the trailer for the film below:
The role she is currently promoting is in the film Captain Marvel, where Bening plays the Supreme Intelligence and Mar-Vell/Dr. Wendy Lawson.
Hear her talk about her role in the film below:
Other films Bening has appeared in throughout her vast career include Valmon (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Guilty By Suspicion (1991), Bugsy (1991), Regarding Henry (1991), Love Affair (1994), Richard III (1995), The American President (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996), The Siege (1998), In Dreams (1999), What Planet Are You From? (2000), Open Range (2003), The Women (2008), Mother and Child (2009), Ruby Sparks (2012), Ginger & Rosa (2012), Girl Most Likely (2012), The Face of Love (2013), The Search (2014), Danny Collins (2015), Rules Don't Apply (2016), The Seagull (2018), Life Itself (2018), and The Report (2019).
The cast of All My Sons is led by Golden Globe winner and Academy, Tony & Emmy nominee Annette Bening as "Kate Keller" and SAG Award nominee & Tony Award winner Tracy Letts as "Joe Keller."
The pair return to Broadway in the play that launched Arthur Miller as the moral voice of the American Theater. In the aftermath of WWII, the Keller family struggles to stay intact and to fight for their future when a long-hidden secret threatens to emerge-forcing them to reckon with greed, denial, repentance, and post-war disenchantment across generations.
All My Sons is now in previews and officially opens tonight, April 22. It plays a limited engagement through June 23, 2019.
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