Richard III
film by Loncraine [1995]
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Bening
- In Annette Bening: Career
…also played Queen Elizabeth in Richard III (both 1995). She later appeared with Denzel Washington in the thriller The Siege (1998). For her portrayal of the success-obsessed wife of the protagonist in American Beauty (1999), Bening was again nominated for an Oscar.
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McKellen
- In Ian McKellen
David Hare’s Plenty (1985) and Richard III (1995), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play that is set in a fictionalized version of England in the 1930s; McKellen also cowrote the screenplay. In 1998 he portrayed director James Whale in Gods and Monsters, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination,…
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