Sentences with phrase «actress turned director»

That she, a 34 - year - old actress turned director from Sacramento, and he, a 38 - year - old bi-racial actor turned director from the Upper West Side, would have been scarce in that age — as they still are today — wasn't lost on the pair.

A Vogue profile celebrating William's performance in «My Week With Marilyn» last fall mentioned that «one of her idols, an actress turned director whose memoir Williams had been carrying around with her wherever she went, offered her a role in an upcoming film adaptation of a nineteenth - century stage classic.»

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«That's What She Said», an upcoming film from «True Blood» actress turn director Carrie Preston, has a trailer.

Not exact matches

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

For the London unveiling of Unbroken, the actress / director turned heads in a customized Ralph & Russo Spring 2014 Couture dress complete with capelet.

Actress («Arranged,» TV's «New Girl») turned actress - writer Zoe Lister - Jones becomes an actress - writer / director with «Band Aid,» a frothy romantic comedy about marriage and miscaActress («Arranged,» TV's «New Girl») turned actress - writer Zoe Lister - Jones becomes an actress - writer / director with «Band Aid,» a frothy romantic comedy about marriage and miscaactress - writer Zoe Lister - Jones becomes an actress - writer / director with «Band Aid,» a frothy romantic comedy about marriage and miscaactress - writer / director with «Band Aid,» a frothy romantic comedy about marriage and miscarriage.

Appearing in Simpatico and giving birth to a baby boy the same year, the tireless actress continued to turn up in such quirky films as Death to Smoochy, Full Frontal, and eccentric director Spike Jonze, follow - up to Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.

It is rather unusual for a director to shoot a documentary which pivots on her private family life, being the one behind the camera to interview others, her side of story mostly remains elusive, actress - turned - director Sarah Polley's latest acclaimed documentary about the startling discovery

Synopsis: The cast and crew of a Broadway play are thrown into a romantic roundelay when a lecherous director (Owen Wilson) hires a hooker - turned - actress (Im... [MORE]

The director: Maïwenn (France) The talent: Actress - turned - writer - director Maïwenn Le Besco (who prefers going by her first name, and whom US viewers might remember as the blue - tentacled soprano from «The Fifth Element») takes the lead role herself, starring opposite French rapper - turned - actor Joeystarr.

From actress turned writer / director Marielle Heller (A Walk Among Tombstones) comes the latest new - age, post-modern, feminist movement film that doesn't accomplish much more than Aubrey Plaza did with raunchy comedy The To - Do List.

An astoundingly confident debut feature from actress - turned - director Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird chronicles an entire year in the life of its eponymous teenage protagonist in just ninety minutes, without ever feeling scant or vague.

In actress - turned - writer / director Greta Gerwig's autobiographical coming - of - age drama, Ronan is Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, a Catholic high school senior who longs to escape her stultifying lower - middle - class Sacramento environs for East Coast college life.

In the documentary Stories We Tell, Canadian actress - turned - director Sarah Polley points her camera at the people in her life to get the skinny on her late mother, Diane.

Far fewer industry observers were predicting the film to factor into the highly competitive races for best picture, director and supporting actress, where Lesley Manville received a nomination for her magnificently icy turn as Woodcock's sister and business partner.

The talented actress - turned - director Joan Chen (Xiu Xiu) should get the lion's share of the credit as to why what would ordinarily be a routine tearjerker works somewhat, along with an endearing performance by Ryder.

After winning the Best Actress Oscar for Stephen Frears» 2006 «The Queen,» Helen Mirren was reluctant to reprise the role but unable to turn down director Stephen Daldry and writer Peter Morgan when they wanted her to topline their Broadway play «The Audience.»

Binoche gives a world - class performance in this bittersweet time - travel comedy - drama by award - winning actress - turned director Sylvie Testud.

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Spider - Man, Turn Off the Dark, would have reteamed the 22 - year - old actress with her Across the Universe director, Julie Taymor.

This documentary, from writer - turned - director Ron Nyswaner (The Painted Veil screenplay), tells the story of lifelong character actress Mary Louise Wilson (who finally won a Tony Award in 2007 after years on stage and screen) as she heads back to her native New Orleans to teach an acting class at Tulane University.

After her misbegotten turn last summer as a down - on - her - luck sadsack in «Tammy» left even the most fervent «Mike & Molly» fans worried that the actress had lost her mouthy mojo (although her supporting part in «St. Vincent» provided some solace), it is gratifying to see her back in the arms of her best collaborator — director Paul Feig.

I'm trying to think of an actress - turned - director whose first film was positioned so favorably and the only name coming to mind is Angelina Jolie.

Actress - turned - director de Clermont - Tonnerre, whose credits in front of the camera include The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, developed Mustang through the Sundance Labs and received the Sundance Institute / NHK Award for the project in 2015.

This is the third feature by Lebanese actress - turned director Nadine Labaki and is based on an original story penned by Labaki and Jihad Hojeily -LSB-...]

I like Branagh as a director, though, and if they get a good actress as Cinderella it could turn out well.

George Miller's «Mad Max: Fury Road» led the charge, as the 2015 blockbuster earned seven awards including Best Picture, Director (for George Miller's extraordinary helming) and Best Actress (for Charlize Theron's stunning, muscular turn as Furiosa).

Polley is a 34 - year - old actress - turned - director likely still best known for her roles in late «90s and early 2000s indie films, from Atom Egoyan's «The Sweet Hereafter» to Doug Liman's «Go» to Zack Snyder's «Dawn of the Dead.»

It nevertheless goes without saying that Waitress carves out a place for itself as a likeable endeavor that stands as a fitting farewell for Shelly, with the actress - turned - director's surprising decision to eschew certain conventions of the romantic - comedy genre elevating the movie a slight degree above its similarly - themed brethren.

She was inspired after seeing her friend Tamra Davis» Instagram post, which in turn was inspired by a comment made by actress Saorise Ronan about her Oscar - nominated «Lady Bird» director Greta Gerwig.

He first met Greta Gerwig, the Sacramento - born 34 - year - old New York actress - turned - writer - director of family drama «Lady Bird,» on their Vanity Fair photo shoot in Bel Air.

The «Moonlight» director told Telluride audiences about the time he met the actress - turned - filmmaker a decade ago.

Just turned 30, the latter actress had been around since Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon (1976) and, after years of working with director Nicolas Roeg (a significantly older Englishman she would marry), was seemingly a viable leading lady.

After thanking co-star Woody Harrelson and the film's writer and director, Martin McDonagh, «for not being a dick,» Rockwell turned his attention to the film's lead actress, Frances McDormand.

When the Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story actress died under mysterious circumstances in a drowning accident in November 1981, special - effects - guru - turned - movie - director Douglas Trumbull had a choice: either claim Wood's insurance money (as the producers wanted) or finish the movie.

Check it out below... She's Funny That Way revolves around married Broadway director Arnold (Owen Wilson, Zoolander) who falls for a prostitute - turned - actress named -LSB-...]

Diane Keaton started her career in one of the best films of all time, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, and then followed up with some of her best work when she teamed with director Woody Allen, winning her Best Actress Oscar for her hilarious turn in Allen's Annie Hall.

The title stands for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a short - lived 1980s TV show of which I have no memory whatsoever, and it stars Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) and Betty Gilpin (Nurse Jackie) as L.A. - based actresses - turned - wrestlers whose major conflict is outside the ring, and comedian Marc Maron as the down - on - his - luck movie director who hires them to be part of an all - woman wrestling show that's as much soap opera as it is fighting.

The movie is based on Hillary Jordan's novel of the same name and follows the unlikely friendship of two World War Two veterans, one white and one black, as they return from war and find common ground as their families face difficulty in their local community, and the actress signed up for the film in the hope the director could turn the story into something «big and epic».

Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) and Betty Gilpin (Nurse Jackie) star as L.A. actresses - turned - wrestlers whose major conflict is outside the ring, and comedian Marc Maron as the down - on - his - luck movie director who hires them to be part of an all - woman wrestling show that's as much soap opera as it is fighting.

Deutch has Hollywood running through her veins — her parents are director Howard Deutch and actress / director Lea Thompson, while her sister, Madelyn, is also an actress — and may have dabbled briefly in competitive jazz dance growing up (Thompson also briefly flirted with a career in dancing before turning to acting), but she always knew she wanted to act.

Luxembourg - born, French - based actress - turned - director Anne Fontaine is no novice to feature films or erotic material; her filmography includes Coco Before Chanel and Nathalie..., the film remade as America's Chloe.

The acting, particularly from Hoffman, Samantha Morton and Emily Watson as a pair of interchangeable PAs, and Dianne Wiest as a testy actress who turns up late in the day, gets behind the writer - director's ideas and gives them both spring and gravity.

Australian supermodel - turned - actress Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) has signed on for a role in The Neon Demon, the upcoming female - led horror from director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), where she'll join the previously announced Elle Fanning (Maleficent).

Oscar - winning screenwriter - turned - director Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network») is not to be underestimated; he adapted Molly Bloom's truth - is - stranger - than - fiction gambling thriller starring twice - nominated Jessica Chastain («The Help,» «Zero Dark Thirty») as a brilliant skier - turned - high - stakes - poker - wrangler — she's a long shot in this year's overcrowded Actress category.

Director Paul WS Anderson and actress partner Milla Jovovich are turning from Resident Evil to another game adaptation: Monster Hunter...

The famous model - actress daughter of film star Ingrid Bergmann and director Roberto Rossellini lives on a farm in Long Island, New York, where her chicken - raising hobby has turned into a work of art.