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Updated May 11, 2010
Annette Bening is an American Actress
Annette Bening may have moved a far distance from her birthplace in Topeka, Kansas, but her characters still contain that non-nonsense straight-talking common sense that is all American. Indeed Nic, the character she plays in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, shines with American self-reliance and self- confidence. A doctor by profession, Nic is the main breadwinner for her partner Jules (Julianne Moore) and their two kids, Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson), and is involved (perhaps too much so) in every aspect of her family’s health and well-being. Bening’s own parents were perhaps less in touch with their daughter’s dreams. As Bening recently told Angeleno Magazine, “They never went to movies or talked about show business….I remember when I started doing plays…they would call and ask, ‘What are you doing now?’ I’d say, ‘Tartuffe in San Francisco.’ They’d say, ‘Oh, that’s nice, dear.’”
The World's End
We Steal Secrets
Closed Circuit
The Deep
The Place Beyond The Pines
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Admission
Promised Land
Anna Karenina
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride & Prejudice
The Pianist
Gosford Park