{"id":771987,"date":"2026-07-19T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:58:13","slug":"meet-benjamin-beatty-who-joined-mum-annette-bening-on-the-red-carpet-for-apple-tvs-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771987\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Benjamin Beatty, who joined mum Annette Bening on the red carpet for Apple TV\u2019s Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Beauty star Annette Bening<\/a> just made a red carpet appearance for her latest role \u2013 in Apple TV\u2019s Lucky crime thriller miniseries, starring Anya Taylor-Joy<\/a>. The 68-year-old actress attended the premiere in a classy black suit, matching her son Benjamin Beatty, who joined her for the event.Here\u2019s what to know about Annette Bening and Warren Beatty\u2019s son Benjamin, who accompanied her on the red carpet for the series produced by Taylor-Joy and Reese Witherspoon<\/a>.He has three siblings, including a trans brother\"BenjaminBenjamin Beatty is the second of Annette Bening and Warren Beatty\u2019s four children. Photo: @geffenplayhouse\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Benjamin Beatty\u2019s parents married in 1992 after starring opposite each other in the biographical crime drama film Bugsy (1991). They have four children: Benjamin, 31; his older brother Stephen, 34; and his two younger sisters, Isabel, 29, and Ella, 26. In 2012, Stephen shared in a YouTube video for We Happy Trans that he had started transitioning from female to male during adolescence.<\/p>\n

Benjamin was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 2013, he enrolled at prestigious Northwestern University, announcing the news on Instagram with a photo of his admission letter.<\/p>\n

His aunt is a six-time Golden Globe winner\"BenjaminBenjamin Beatty with actress Ella Purnell (left) in a photo from 2016. Photo: @purnellove\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Beatty doesn\u2019t just come from actor parents \u2013 he comes from a whole actor dynasty. He is a nephew of Shirley MacLaine, the renowned six-time Golden Globe winner, and cousin to her daughter Sachi Parker, who\u2019s known for her appearances across television and film, such as in the iconic Christmas movie Scrooged (1988).<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Beatty was exposed to the industry from an early age. In 2004 his mother shared with People magazine how she often took her children on set, including in different countries where she filmed. \u201cThey get a chance to see the world in a way that you don\u2019t if you\u2019re just a tourist,\u201d the actress said.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also been in movies\"BenjaminBenjamin Beatty with John Kani (centre) at the opening of \u201cMaster Harold\u201d… and the Boys, in April. Photo: @geffenplayhouse\/InstagramBeatty appeared in his first film Hail, Caesar! in 2016, joining a star-studded cast that included Josh Brolin, George Clooney<\/a>, Scarlett Johansson<\/a> and Channing Tatum. Two years later came his second role in the sci-fi film UFO, playing opposite Gillian Anderson and Ella Purnell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Beauty star Annette Bening just made a red carpet appearance for her latest role \u2013 in Apple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[329477,71826,5896,329478,329475,329481,329476,236,88,329479,24194,194869,3031,329480,20819,165609,132150],"class_list":["post-771987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-american-beauty","tag-annette-bening","tag-apple-tv","tag-athol-fugard","tag-benjamin-beatty","tag-broadway-world","tag-bugsy","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-geffen-playhouse","tag-george-clooney","tag-golden-globe","tag-los-angeles","tag-master-harold-and-the-boys","tag-northwestern-university","tag-shirley-maclaine","tag-ufo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}