News: Annette Benning

After this week’s Running With Scissors, Benning will be teaming up again with its writer/director Ryan Murphy for his Watergate political drama Dirty Tricks. Playing journalist Helen Thomas – a Washington Press Corp veteran who reported on the White House for 40 years from 1960 through to 2000 – she’s unlikely to have an especially prominent role, but her presence even in a small part in a film is always a good sign of quality.

After that she’s likely to be taking a more major role in a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic play A Woman of No Importance. Whether this will be a period-set costume drama or a modern update is as yet unknown, but her co-stars will include Sean Bean and Lindsay Lohan.