Actress Annette Bening is the Oscar-nominated star of 1999's American Beauty and, since 1992, the wife of Warren Beatty. She began her career on the stage, in San Diego, San Francisco and New York. She was nominated for a Tony for her performance in the play Coastal Disturbance (1987), and early in her movie career she received rave reviews and an Oscar nomination for her role in The Grifters (1990, starring John Cusack). During the 1990s she appeared in big-budget dramas and comedies, including Regarding Henry (1991, opposite Harrison Ford), Bugsy (1991, starring Warren Beatty), The American President (1995, with Michael Douglas) and Mars Attacks! (1996, with Jack Nicholson). Since then she's spent her time raising four kids with Beatty and making the occasional film, including Open Range (2003, starring Kevin Costner) and The Women (2008, with Meg Ryan).

Extra credit: There's no truth to the rumor that Bening was the model for the Columbia Pictures logo; the model was Jennifer Joseph.