Sentences with phrase «british stage actor»

I'm somewhat less happy with the characterization of Amon Goeth, the camp director, but the performance of British stage actor Ralph Fiennes in the part is good (in fact, I suspect Fiennes may wind up with the most prizes).

British stage actor William Stack made his first film appearance in 1918's The Girl From Downing Street.

British stage actor and producer Wilson Benge inaugurated his Hollywood career in 1922.

Throaty - voiced, kittenish leading lady Glynis Johns was the daughter of British stage actor Mervyn Johns; she was born while her father and concert - pianist mother were on a tour of South Africa.

The Conservative politician will be played by Alexander Hanson, the Norwegian - born British stage actor who played opposite Elaine Paige in Sunset Boulevard in 1995 and played Pilate in the 2012 UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's popular musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

Even if the De Laurentiis house style demanded a degree of euro - pudding casting (including some slumming by the likes of Silvia Mangano, Max von Sydow, and Jürgen Prochnow), there's a fair number of British stage actors (Francesca Annis, Patrick Stewart) to infuse the awesomely stilted dialogue with its requisite gravitas.

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He appeared in a handful of British films from 1930 - 35, but otherwise remained exclusively a stage actor.

British supporting actor Alan Howard is primarily a stage actor, but he also occasionally appears in feature films.

Active the London theatrical circles from 1925, British actor Esmond Knight first set foot on a movie sound stage with 1931's The Ringer.

A rough - cut British actor with a dark and slightly brooding presence, Dominic Cooper initially cut his chops on the London and Gotham stages, with two very different roles: adventurer Will Parry in the Royal National Theatre's epic production of Philip Pullman's iconoclastic fantasy His Dark Materials, and that of the womanizer Dakin in the Broadway run of Alan Bennett's The History Boys.

The five actors nominated for the prestigious award, which honours the future stars of cinema, include Brits Jack O'Connell, who began his career in the E4 drama Skins in 2007 and this year took the lead role in the Angelina Jolie - directed feature Unbroken, and Gugu Mbatha - Raw, already an established name on stage and television, who was named best actress at this year's British Independent Film Awards for her portrayal of Dido Elizabeth Belle in the period drama Belle.

Here his approach isn't much more subtle, but it suits the material better, since this is presented as a controversial exposé, complete with opening and closing remarks from Derek Jacobi, an actor revered for his Shakespeare stage performances in the British theater.

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who is having a stellar year with «Star Trek Into Darkness» and the upcoming «12 Years a Slave,» «The Fifth Estate» and «August: Osage County,» will be brushing up on his Shakespeare next fall on the London stage, London's Daily Mail reported Friday.

It's a part that evokes the extreme physicality of Daniel Day - Lewis in «My Left Foot» and has already attracted a slew of attention for the 32 - year - old British stage veteran — while reigniting the, well, theory that British actors are just better than other actors at playing period drama.

Rylance, also a prominent New York stage actor, gets some hometown love (Yes, he's British, but they think of him as one of their own).

In a statement, Goodman said: «I'm delighted to be returning to the stage... in such a fantastic project with two brilliant British actors both of whom I've admired for some time.

The actor has gone on to great acclaim in Roy Williams» stage hit «Sucker Punch» as well as becoming something of a British TV staple, with appearances on «Doctor Who and «Psychoville» among many others.

British writer and actor Phoebe Waller - Bridge plays the title role in this funny, highly profane but surprisingly poignant dramedy (originally a stage play) about a sexually compulsive woman in London.

Twenty - five years old, British, a stage actor by training — oh, and a total newcomer to the world of film acting.

British actor who found global fame in the rebooted Star Wars franchise to take lead role on London stage

The Bard's tale of an English king invading France almost on a whim is predictably fine fodder for Branagh's cast of British stage stalwarts (including Judi Dench and Paul Scofield), but what's surprising is the RADA - trained actor's handle on the material as cinema.

Starring «Homeland» star Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and lauded British actor Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, this meticulously staged (well, almost) six - part drama is sure to be a spring highlight.

Update: Australian - British film and stage actor Hugo Weaving who starred in movies such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Little Fish, The Matrix, V for Vendetta has been cast in Jasper Jones, set to commence principal photography on 26th October in Western Australia.

Read by a full cast of British stage and screen actors, this captivating production brings new life to a familiar and timeless horror classic, making it a splendid choice both for fans and for those new to the novel.

In Sydney in 2014, the British artist presented her first theater piece, a monologue for the actor Stephen Dillane on death, families, and the nature of performance; in New York two years later, she transformed it into Event for a Stage, a moving and dizzyingly intricate 50 - minute film.

An actor playing an actor while a film - maker films him for a celluloid portrait and an audience looks on — that's the intriguing, if slightly perplexing, basis of an experimental work by the British visual artist Tacita Dean, featuring the British actor Stephen Dillane, to be staged next week as part of the Sydney Biennale.

«The stage Grace, it's not a facade, it's not a fake — it's a manifestation,» said Ms. Fiennes, a British filmmaker and sister of the actors Ralph and Joseph, who has also made films about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek and the painter Anselm Kiefer.