Annette Bening Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
20th January 2017
Fact: Bosses at A24, the studio behind movie comedy 20th Century Women, intend to donate five per cent of the film's box office earnings to the Planned Parenthood organisation. Directed by Mike Mills, the critically acclaimed awards season contender stars Annette Bening as a single mother raising her teen son with the support of the women in her life, played by Elle Fanning and Greta Gerwig.
1st August 2014
Fact: "I had never been in a film that he directed before and I loved it, loved being directed by him. He's very well-known to be a great director and he is and we were able to improvise, which is the most fun... He's great." Actress Annette Bening found working with husband Warren Beatty on his new Howard Hughes film to be a great acting experience. The untitled new movie, which also stars Lily Collins, Alec Baldwin and Martin Sheen, is set to hit theatres next year (15).
25th June 2014
Fact: Actors Annette Bening, Ellen Burstyn, Lucy Liu, John Lithgow and Nathan Lane and director Oliver Stone were among the stars in the audience for Kenneth Branagh's final Macbeth performance at New York's Park Avenue Armory on Sunday night (22Jun14). The production of the classic Shakespeare play came to an end after a sold-out limited run, which lasted less than three weeks.
24th April 2014
Quote: "We still have that fire and attraction (for each other). And there's electricity. But there's some things that we need to work out, it's not always peaceful all the time. We're very sensitive to each other. He can look at me the wrong way and my feelings get hurt - it's not rational. But most of the time he's wrong so it's easier. He doesn't realise it enough." Annette Bening on her 22-year marriage to veteran actor Warren Beatty.
24th October 2012
Fact: Warren Beatty and Annette Bening have sold their Beverly Hills mega-mansion for $6.7 million (£4.2 million). Reports suggest a Swedish hotelier has bought the six-bedroom pad.
8th February 2012
Quote: "I have a girl crush on them. I'd kill to have half the careers they've had after 40." Hitch star Eva Mendes is in awe of her Hollywood heroines, Julianne Moore and Annette Bening.
6th February 2011
Quote: "He helps me pick out the dresses, he has very specific taste." Oscar nominee Annette Bening turns to her husband Warren Beatty for help choosing her red carpet wardrobe for awards season. Bening is nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award at the upcoming ceremony, for her role in The Kids Are All Right.
4th February 2011
Quote: "My husband, he's produced things that I've been in, but he's never directed something that I've been in, so I would love to work with him as a director. I hope he makes another movie." Annette Bening is urging her husband, acting legend Warren Beatty, to step behind the camera once again. He has only made five films as a director.
17th January 2011
Quote: "Thank you to all of my children for your love and support and to the 1962 winner of the Golden Globe for Most Promising Actor, my husband Warren Beatty." Annette Bening ages her partner as she accepts the 2010 Best Actress Golden Globe award.
3rd September 2008
Quote: "Normally on a movie, if we do get time to rehearse, I am surrounded by men and tend to wear jogging pants or jeans and no make-up. But every morning on The Women I would really worry about what I should wear. I really cared what those girls thought of me." Actress Eva Mendes wanted to win the approval of her THE WOMEN co-stars Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Meg Ryan and Jada Pinkett Smith with her wardrobe.
3rd September 2008
Quote: "Normally on a movie, if we do get time to rehearse, I am surrounded by men and tend to wear jogging pants or jeans and no make-up. But every morning on The Women I would really worry about what I should wear. I really cared what those girls thought of me." Actress Eva Mendes wanted to win the approval of her THE WOMEN co-stars Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Meg Ryan and Jada Pinkett Smith with her wardrobe.
16th March 2008
Fact: Madonna, Sharon Stone, Annette Bening and Michelle Pfeiffer all turn 50 in 2008.
16th January 2007
Fact: Top makeup artist JULIE HEWETT dashed back from Las Vegas to the Golden Globes to make Annette Bening looked amazing for the ceremony yesterday (15JAN07) - Hewett is currently making sure George Clooney and Brad Pitt look great on the OCEAN'S 13 set.
16th January 2007
Fact: Top makeup artist JULIE HEWETT dashed back from Las Vegas to the Golden Globes to make Annette Bening looked amazing for the ceremony yesterday (15JAN07) - Hewett is currently making sure George Clooney and Brad Pitt look great on the OCEAN'S 13 set.
30th October 2006
Quote: "There are moments I look at myself onscreen and think, 'Oh, my God, that's how I look?' But I don't feel the need to change it. There have to be some people out there who just look normal." Annette Bening on resisting the temptation to have plastic surgery.
26th October 2006
Quote: "Hot sex Getting away (and) having time alone " Annette Bening reveals what keeps her marriage to Hollywood icon Warren Beatty fresh
24th October 2006
Quote: "I do think our current child-centric culture is not healthy for kids... On weekends, when kids are going to birthday parties, the parents are all there. I find that bizarre." Mother-of-four Annette Bening finds modern child-rearing techniques strange.
20th September 2006
Fact: Annette Bening gave Teri Hatcher her first acting lessons at the American Conservatory Theater.
19th February 2006
Quote: <p>"I said to her, 'You know what? Unless you're going to take me to dinner and a movie, that's as far as this is going.'" THE WEST WING star Kristin Chenoweth on kissing Annette Bening in new movie RUNNING WITH SCISSORS. </p>
29th October 2005
Quote: <p>"I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years." Gabrielle Union on playing Annette Bening's lover in the upcoming movie RUNNING WITH SCISSORS. </p>
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