Annette Benning at Galway FIlm Fleadh
The Galway Film Fleadh/Hubbard Casting in association with Fás Screen Training Ireland are delighted to announce that Annette Bening will deliver the Actors Masterclass at the 22nd Galway Film Fleadh.
Annette Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas and raised in San Diego. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, eventually moving to New York where she acted on the stage. Renowned for her ability to take characters into deep, unexpected, emotional places, Annette’s years of study culminated in a Tony-nominated performance in Tina Howe's Coastal Disturbances, a New England-set summertime saga in which the newcomer starred as a passionate, free-spirited young photographer on a beach vacation.
Her formative theatrical years also included starring roles in Shakespeare, Chekhov, and other classic dramas at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and the Denver Centre Theatre Company, where she spent a year in 1985.
Early in her movie career, she made an impression as a wise-beyond-her-years sex kitten in The Grifters (1990) which earned Annette a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. She went on to demonstrate her versatility by portraying nurturing, supportive wives in Guilty By Suspicion (1991) and Regarding Henry (1991) before returning to a more seductive role opposite future husband Warren Beatty in Bugsy (1991), earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress for her portrayal of the tempestuous and uncontrollable girlfriend of doomed gangster Bugsy Siegel, Virginia Hill. And though she never lost that cunning, brainy, sex appeal, she became more often associated with complex, professional women on the verge of self-destruction in darkly humorous dramas like American Beauty (1999), Being Julia (2004) and Running with Scissors (2006).
After appearing in Tim Burton's odd sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks! (1996), Annette starred alongside Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the controversial thriller The Siege (1998) and teamed with Aidan Quinn as a psychic with connections to a killer in Neil Jordan's In Dreams (1999). In 1999, she gave a stellar, career-defining performance as the domineering real estate broker married to a man in a midlife crisis in the acclaimed American Beauty (1999). For her characterization of the tightly wound, image conscious, suburban overachiever, Annette earned nominations from the Academy Awards as well as the Golden Globes.
She earned some of the best reviews of her career the following year when she starred as a diva stage actress caught up in a May-December romance with a young social climber in Being Julia (2004), a bravura turn that earned the versatile actress a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination.
Annette was most recently seen on the big screen in writer-director Rodrigo Garcia's Mother and Child, starring alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Naomi Watts. She will next be seen in Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right, opening July 7th, in which she plays opposite Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo
The Master Class will take place in the Radisson Hotel, Galway (date tbc) and costs €50. Please apply online at www.screentrainingireland.ie. For further information please contact Bronagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com or contact Criona Sexton/Sorcha Loughnane at FÁS Screen Training Ireland, 01 6077437/016077468.
Please note places are limited. Deadline for applications: Friday the 25th of June.
Annette Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas and raised in San Diego. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, eventually moving to New York where she acted on the stage. Renowned for her ability to take characters into deep, unexpected, emotional places, Annette’s years of study culminated in a Tony-nominated performance in Tina Howe's Coastal Disturbances, a New England-set summertime saga in which the newcomer starred as a passionate, free-spirited young photographer on a beach vacation.
Her formative theatrical years also included starring roles in Shakespeare, Chekhov, and other classic dramas at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and the Denver Centre Theatre Company, where she spent a year in 1985.
Early in her movie career, she made an impression as a wise-beyond-her-years sex kitten in The Grifters (1990) which earned Annette a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. She went on to demonstrate her versatility by portraying nurturing, supportive wives in Guilty By Suspicion (1991) and Regarding Henry (1991) before returning to a more seductive role opposite future husband Warren Beatty in Bugsy (1991), earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress for her portrayal of the tempestuous and uncontrollable girlfriend of doomed gangster Bugsy Siegel, Virginia Hill. And though she never lost that cunning, brainy, sex appeal, she became more often associated with complex, professional women on the verge of self-destruction in darkly humorous dramas like American Beauty (1999), Being Julia (2004) and Running with Scissors (2006).
After appearing in Tim Burton's odd sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks! (1996), Annette starred alongside Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the controversial thriller The Siege (1998) and teamed with Aidan Quinn as a psychic with connections to a killer in Neil Jordan's In Dreams (1999). In 1999, she gave a stellar, career-defining performance as the domineering real estate broker married to a man in a midlife crisis in the acclaimed American Beauty (1999). For her characterization of the tightly wound, image conscious, suburban overachiever, Annette earned nominations from the Academy Awards as well as the Golden Globes.
She earned some of the best reviews of her career the following year when she starred as a diva stage actress caught up in a May-December romance with a young social climber in Being Julia (2004), a bravura turn that earned the versatile actress a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination.
Annette was most recently seen on the big screen in writer-director Rodrigo Garcia's Mother and Child, starring alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Naomi Watts. She will next be seen in Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right, opening July 7th, in which she plays opposite Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo
The Master Class will take place in the Radisson Hotel, Galway (date tbc) and costs €50. Please apply online at www.screentrainingireland.ie. For further information please contact Bronagh Keys at 091-562200 or email: masterclasses@galwayfilmfleadh.com or contact Criona Sexton/Sorcha Loughnane at FÁS Screen Training Ireland, 01 6077437/016077468.
Please note places are limited. Deadline for applications: Friday the 25th of June.
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