RUNNING WITH SCISSORS

ANNETTE BENING (Deirdre Burroughs) won a Golden Globe award and received an Academy Award® for her performance in "Being Julia." She also garnered an Academy Award® nomination for her starring role in "American Beauty," and won a SAG, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for the same performance. Bening previously received an Academy Award® nomination and was named Best Supporting Actress by the National Board of Review for her role in "The Grifters”; and earned a Golden Globe nomination for her starring role in Rob Reiner's "The American President," opposite Michael Douglas.

Her film credits also include Mike Nichols' "What Planet Are You From?;" Neil Jordan's "In Dreams;" "The Siege;" "Love Affair" with Warren Beatty; Barry Levinson's "Bugsy," also opposite Beatty, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination; "Regarding Henry" with Harrison Ford and directed by Mike Nichols; "Guilty By Suspicion," opposite Robert De Niro; and Milos Forman's "Valmont."

Bening had supporting roles in Tim Burton's "Mars Attacks!," Sir Ian McKellen's film adaptation of "Richard III," and "Postcards From The Edge." She recently starred in "Mrs. Harris” with Ben Kingsley for HBO and starred alongside Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall in "Open Range.” Bening made her feature film debut in the comedy "The Great Outdoors," with Dan Aykroyd and the late John Candy.

Bening will next be seen on screen in writer/director Ryan Murphy's "Dirty Tricks”, an adaptation of the hit off-Broadway play, opposite Meryl Streep and Gwyneth Paltrow; and "A Hole in the Earth” with William H. Macy.

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