Sentences with phrase «after her breakout role»

After breakout roles as Hollis in the «Divergent» film series and as country - pop crooner Clayton Carter on CMT's «Nashville,» the young talent co-stars with John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, and Will Poulter in Kathryn Bigelow's gripping nonfiction feature «Detroit,» which hits theaters nationwide Aug. 4.

«As you can imagine, the morning was a little rough,» admits Hawkins, who, after his breakout role as Dr. Dre in Straight Outta Compton, played the lead role on Fox's highly anticipated 24 spinoff, 24: Legacy, and is the star of the Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation.

Mere months after her breakout role opposite Chris O'Donnell in «Circle of Friends,» Minnie Driver briefly turned up in «GoldenEye» — playing Russian gangster Valentin Zukovsky's mistress and unglamorously warbling Tammy Wynette's classic «Stand By Your Man.»

Dev Patel is a wonderful actor who has continued to make a name for himself after his breakout role in Slumdog Millionaire.

Not exact matches

Originally a left back, England Under - 21 star Sessegnon has grown into a much more advanced role this season earning comparisons with Gareth Bale, who enjoyed a similar breakout season after a positional change.

Soon after his breakout in «Bottle Rocket,» Wilson had a small role in Stiller's second movie as director, the dark Jim Carrey comedy «The Cable Guy,» then paired with him on addiction drama «Permanent Midnight,» but the film that really launched them as co-stars was Stiller's absurdist comedy «Zoolander,» with the actors playing moronic male models.

After coming to fame in a breakout role, they transition from bit player to leading man, churning out countless features based on a simple formula.

After her splashy breakout role in The Wolf of Wall Street, the Australian actress was quick to line up a franchise role in Suicide Squad and establish her own production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, to take creative matters into her own hands.

The Oscar - winning The Danish Girl actress scored the lead role in Tomb Raider after scene - stealing work in Tom Hooper's quiet drama and a breakout turn in the tremendous sci - fi pic Ex Machina.

Hunnam, best known to many for FX's «Sons of Anarchy» (though I'll always identify him with «Undeclared»), does not ooze charisma in what could be his breakout role after dropping out of Fifty Shades of Gray.

After a couple of supporting roles (and I literally mean a couple, like 2 — including another job with Woodley) he emerges here as a breakout star that has far more going for him than simply romantic lead.

Long before Matthew McConaughey was going to award shows looking like an Andersonville Prison escapee and talking like Foghorn Leghorn, he was a recent UT Austin graduate who stumbled into his breakout role as aging creep Wooderson in Richard Linklater's Dazed And Confused after running into casting director Don...

The tone of the film is an international Bad Boys and it gives the studio another project with Jordan, who comes off his breakout role in Fruitvale Station and heads into the Fantastic Four reboot after previously starring in the Fox sleeper Chronicle.

Rebecca Ferguson was the first to sign on for Daniel Espinosa «s sci - fi thriller Life, hot on the heels of her breakout role in Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, and Ryan Reynolds «casting was revealed just days after Deadpool «s record - breaking opening weekend.

Tracy Morgan returns to a leading role on television after «30 Rock» and a near - fatal car accident in the TBS comedy «The Last O.G.» alongside «Girls Trip» breakout Tiffany Haddish and Cedric the Entertainer.

Yet another rite of passage for a number of actors is that awkward experience between the release of your breakout role, which is then sometimes followed up by other films that were filmed before your breakout role but were released after you hit it big.

Originally, the role that McCarthy is playing was written for a male, but Bateman insisted that the part be changed after he saw McCarthy's breakout role in the blockbuster comedy Bridesmaids.