Top Ten: Annette Bening's Best Performances
The one and only Annette Bening turns 60 today. But, really, she's ageless. And with agelessness comes the superpower of never-peaking. She's been brilliant from the start and, if anything, keeps getting moreso. Herewith our ten favorite performances by The Bening, though should you ask us on another day the films and the order would change.
THE BENING'S 10 BEST
10 Mother and Child (2009/2010)
Released in the early summer of 2010 to little fanfare, and immediately eclipsed by a much bigger summer hit in The Kids Are All Right, she was moving playing an unlikeably negative and guarded woman who'd once given up a child (Naomi Watts) for adoption.