Hollywood stars Annette Bening and Warren Beatty are on a charm offensive to help get their 18-year-old daughter Ella Beatty into the prestigious Juilliard School, sources tell “Page Six TV.”
The legendary music, arts and acting school is notoriously difficult to get into, and the audition process is famously tough. We hear that at this stage, there are about 50 finalists who have been attending a three-day intensive immersion at the Lincoln Center-based school to face teachers, administrators, matriculating students and run a gamut of performance and dance workshops.
Four-time Oscar nominee Bening even showed up last Friday with her daughter and stood in line with other proud parents. We hear that when the parents were asked to introduce themselves by first names and hometowns in front of the group, Bening said she was “Annette from Kansas.” (The “American Beauty” star was born in Topeka.)
Sadly for some excited moms in the group, there was no sign of handsome Beatty. (Perhaps after last year’s Oscars snafu, the family was worried he’d plug the name of the wrong student.)
Ella will find out in the coming weeks if she made it in. She’s made a splash before with her famous parents when she accompanied them on the red carpet of Los Angeles’ AFI Fest in 2016 when her mother was honored. One enthused report at the time read, “Ella, 16, stunned in a navy blue bandage mini-dress and nude-colored pumps. The beauty (who’s the youngest of four) is a perfect mix” of Bening and Beatty.
The starry parents have three other kids: Stephen, Benjamin and Isabel.
Other stars who got their start at Juilliard include Robin Williams, Kevin Spacey, Kelsey Grammer, Adam Driver, Kevin Kline and wife Phoebe Cates, Val Kilmer and Jessica Chastain — who seems to mention graduating from the school in nearly every interview she does.
