The Galway Film Fleadh/Hubbard Casting in association with FÁS Screen Training Ireland have announced that Annette Bening (American Beauty) will deliver the Actors Masterclass at the 22nd Galway Film Fleadh.
Multi Academy Award and Golden Globe winner and nominee, Annette Bening’s breakthrough role was as a wise-beyond-her-years sex kitten in ‘The Grifters’ in1990 which earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. She received two other Oscar nominations for both ‘American Beauty’ for which she received a Screen Actors Guild award, and ‘Being Julia’ for which she won a Golden Globe award. Annette’s other noteworthy projects include ‘Mars Attack!’, ‘In Dreams’, ‘The Siege’. She will next be seen in Focus Features' ‘The Kids Are All Right’, which opens on July 7th, in which she plays opposite Julianne Moore (The Hours) and Mark Ruffalo (Zodiac). The actress, born in Kansas and living in San Diego, is wife of fellow actor and ‘Bugsy’ co-star Warren Beatty.
Annette’s Master Class will take place in the Radisson Hotel, Galway The date of the masterclass is tbc and costs €50. For tickets 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. Applicants are asked to note that places are limited and that the deadline for applications is Friday the 25th of June.