Annette Bening, a two-time Golden Globe winner who recently received her fifth Oscar nomination, was feted on Tuesday with a raucous parade full of colourful costumes and drag performers as part of festivities honouring her as Harvard University’s ...

Annette Bening has said she initially turned down the role in her latest film because she “thought there were too many words”. The American Beauty actress, 62, plays a woman whose husband suddenly leaves her after 30 years of marriage in Hope Gap.