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This week's birthday women are beautiful, powerful and as strong as their tiger counterparts.
Annette Bening (5/29/1958) - 51.
From starring in The Sound of Music at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego to a part in The Great Outdoors with Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, Annette Francine Bening was destined for stardom with the stars.
Her next big role was with Anjelica Huston and John Cusack in the Grifters for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Bening was cast to be the Catwoman in Batman Returns but lost it due to pending motherhood.
In 1994, she was cast in Love Affair with the legendary Katharine Hepburn who was 87 at the time. Bening went on to star in The Siege with Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis, American Beauty with Kevin Spacey, Regarding Henry with Harrison Ford, American President with Michael Douglas and Bugsy with Warren Beatty.
Bening was married to choreographer Steven White briefly in 1984. In 1992 Bening did what no other woman had ever done before; she married long time Hollywood playboy Warren Beatty. Amazingly, Bening captured both Beatty's eye and heart. They have four children: Kathlyn Elizabeth, Benjamin McLaine, Isabel Ira Ashley, and Ella Corrine.
Best line: I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: Isn't that that Bening woman?
Sally Kellerman (6/2/1937) - 72.
When she was just eighteen Sally Clarie Kellerman had a recording contract with Verve Records. Having attended Hollywood High School, Kellerman no doubt h
ad thoughts more of Hollywood glamor than algebra.
And at just 20 Kellerman's thought of stardom became reality when she was cast in the '50's flick Reform School Girl. She went on to star on TV and in films including a pilot of Star Trek called Where No Man Has Gone Before and The Boston Strangler.
But her most famous character, Major Margaret "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan, in the movie M*A*S*H, had first angered then humiliated her. She subsequently refused the role when the TV version was produced.
Kellerman continued to act in films and found success in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield and Blake Edwards' That's Life! She also continues to make great music and her latest CD, a blues/soul rock mix, was released in February 2009.
Kellerman was married to director Rick Edelstein from 1970-1971 and since 1980 has been married to producer Jonathan Krane, 15 years her junior. She adopted her niece Claire and twins Jack and Hannah.
Best line: I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.
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