Sentences with phrase «as an actor before»

KW: I know you've worked with Denzel as an actor before [in The Manchurian Candidate and John Q], but how was it having him as a director?

The performance comes naturally to Putnam, who worked as an actor before he started teaching at Fessenden School, a private boarding school in West Newton, Mass., in 1974.

Trained as an actor before making the switch to writing, Nicholls's previous novels include Starter for Ten (originally published in the U.S. as A Question of Attraction), adapted into a film starring James McAvoy, for which Nicholls also wrote the screenplay; and The Understudy.

David Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing.

Not exact matches

As the film pushes in on the face of Jesse Eisenberg, the actor playing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, one of the final captions before credits start rolling says Facebook «is currently valued at 25 billion dollars.»

«Emergence of participatory media may change the power media have to frame social movements, as social movement actors can forcefully offer their framing, diffuse their preferred framing to large audiences in ways that would have been simply impossible or prohibitively costly before social media, challenge journalists directly, or create a strong enough attention around their own framing that it becomes harder to ignore.»

The day before, the star had gamely turned up — though conspicuously without her $ 35,000 diamond engagement ring from actor Jude Law — at Wyndham's Theatre in London, where she is performing in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

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If, for instance, you see the actor who is playing King Lear munching on a bagel backstage before the curtain goes up, it will be more difficult to fully accept the actor as Lear once the play begins.

The rapidity with which he spoke publicly convinced some ex-Mormon commenters that he might be «using this tragedy as a way to elevate himself or his religion,» and the fact that he smiled before beginning his comments became the linchpin in conspiracy theories arguing that he was a crisis actor, that his daughter Emilie (who died that day) had never really existed, and that it was all part of a government plot to take our guns.

Before all the action in the Moët Suite, Opening Night of the US Open began with the star - studded USTA Serves Opening Night Gala in the President's Suite, where actor Kevin Spacey — who led an exciting charitable auction during the Gala — as well astennis legend Billie Jean King and US tennis players Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan signed a bottle of Moët & Chandon — crystalized with the US Open logo — for the USTA Serves.

The award - winning film actor, director and producer had a long association with Chelsea dating back to the 1940s and served as a club director before accepting roles as life vice-president and then life - president.

One of the dozens of women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexually assault broke down in tears as she recalled being forced to swallow a «large white pill» to «relax» before, she says, the actor molested her in 1996.

Emails, coupled with interviews and court documents, show Flynn was not a rogue actor, as the White House has suggested, but rather was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.

After getting some blowback for criticizing a program that indirectly benefited her as Miranda Hobbes in the two Sex and the City movies (actors» salaries are not eligible for the subsidies, and the long - running TV show completed filming before the program was created), she made it clear she was serious about the issue, as the New York Post reported:

«I wish there will be a law that will state that before an actor or actress receives his or her pay, there will be some amount of money that will be deducted as tax or contribution to SSNIT so that it will serve as financial support in case they go on pension or when they need some health assistance.

Actor Francis X. Bushman, who was a disciple of Sandow, started his career as a bodybuilder and sculptor's model before beginning his famous silent movie career.

It wasn't long before the shoes gained celebrity appeal, though: famous Hollywood actors such as Cary Grant and Fred Astaire were big fans of black and white shoes, particularly brogues.

The tour is very interactive, with constant distractions, and so it can be hard to keep conversation going, In that respect, I think we made a mistake meeting just before we went in, as we were having to splice normal introductory conversation in between the actors» monologues.

Shin Ha - kyun (b. May 30, 1974) first trained as a stage actor at the Seoul National University of Arts before going on to act in a large number of plays by Posts about Park Shin Hye fanfiction written by vira65

Kim Joo Hyuk last acting award is for best supporting actor in the movie Confidential director, his co-stars Hyun Bin, Yoo Hae Thirteen years after her debut as an actress, Kim Hyun Ju of Partner and Boys Before Flowers poses nude in the October issue of Singles to

Before becoming a director, Swackhamer worked on Broadway as a stage manager and occasional actor.

The scenes with Spacey crackle — Hoult leans into the hero's attractive obnoxiousness and the older actor responds with one of his looser, funnier performances — and Zoey Deutch is unexpectedly good as Oona O'Neill, the brittle, sad - eyed debutante who toyed with the young writer before throwing him over to marry the aging Charlie Chaplin.

Before it gets to that point, however, Ed tv comes off as a fairly affable comedy that benefits substantially from McConaughey's charismatic turn as the central character - with the actor's strong work heightened by an impressive roster of supporting players (including Woody Harrelson, Martin Landau, and Dennis Hopper).

Bateman is doing a sharper - than - average version of the sighing and dead - eyed reaction shots we've seen him do before, but the stealth MVP is McAdams, who appeared on most of our radars as an effortless comedic actor in Mean Girls, but who has rarely been called upon to do the same since.

As before, Bujalski's preference for nonprofessional actors, his ear for the rhythms of conversation among bright young 20 - somethings and his adept use of a roving, hand - held camera (this time shooting in fuzzy black and white) lend the film an invigorating energy.

Because as much as Baker's suavely sly version of a gotcha artist is a welcome addition, thanks to a few not - so - hidden laws of character - actor placement, you'll guess the pilot scenario's killer before anybody else.

Before obtaining notoriety as a comic, Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein) was a promising young actor.

It wasn't long before the studios realized that Jagger's true calling was as a character actor.

The son of a barber, Richard Conte held down jobs ranging from truck driver, to Wall Street clerk before finding his place as an actor.

An accomplished singer, dancer and actor, he started his career in the music business before making the transition to acting where he emerged as one of the most promising talents of his generation.

British actor Lee Evans established himself as a comedy star in his homeland before making the move to Hollywood.

Irish stage, film and TV actor Colin Blakely worked as a sporting goods salesman before turning to acting in his late 20s.

The Wonder Years represented Mills's breakthrough; after it wrapped, she landed occasional guest parts on such series as NYPD Blue and Roseanne, and appeared infrequently in telemovies, such as Joyce Chopra's 1995 Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan.Off - camera, Mills made headlines when the never - before - married actress wed legendary Hollywood actor Orson Bean, 23 years her senior, not long after Years concluded.

Although the film failed to achieve the same amount of praise as Mann's work before it, Will Smith delivered an career - changing performance in the title role and was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

In addition to starring in the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic roles.

However, this is a sort of reunion of sorts, as some of the actors (Christopher George and Richard Jaeckel), director and crew worked on Grizzly the year before, and they came back for more as they just couldn't seem to get enough of animals on a rampage - particularly bears on a rampage.

Teller is terrific as Pazienza before the accident, all wise - guy mouth and muscular confidence; you get the sense his character and the actor aren't exactly worlds apart.

For their latest mission, Team America recruits a famous stage actor, Gary Johnston, to pose as a terrorist, thwart the weapons sales effort, and infiltrate the plans for world destruction before it's hatched.

Michael Fassbender was advised to moisturise before his Golden Globes 2014 appearance.The actor was looking his best as he collected the Best Motion...

Beginning his career on stage, the English actor made his film debut in 1992's «Alien 3» before landing roles in such films as «Moulin Rouge,» «Doom,» «Pirate of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides» and «Dredd.»

Branagh made his name with the stately prestige of Shakespeare, both as an actor and director, but he's dabbled in this kind of splashy, effects - laden spectacle before with 2011's «Thor» and last year's «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.»

(Lang is an actor Mann has employed before, most memorably as obnoxious and ill - fated Freddy Lounds in the 1986 movie, Manhunter.)

You've never seen the actor quite like this before, and he's in top form as the notorious stockbroker with what is arguably his finest performance for Scorsese yet.

While Ronan remained tight - lipped on her exact role, she did describe the characters as being «very stylized,» before commenting on the cast — which will consist of unknown talent and name actors — and their homework leading up to the shoot.

Led by Denzel Washington (2 Guns), as sometime lawman Sam Chisolm, that cast includes white guys Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Daredevil), but also actors Byung - hun Lee (I Saw the Devil), Manuel Garcia - Rulfo (Cake) and relative newcomer (and Native - American actor) Martin Sensmeier (Lilin's Brood), making the overall balance of the titular group more diverse than in 1960.

«Green Room was a title I had five or six years before Blue Ruin, so the logical progression of my films should have been Murder Party, Green Room and then Blue Ruin, but because Blue Ruin was designed from the script level to be something I could control with access to sparse locations, resources and actors, it came before Green Room as a necessity.

As Mount Vesuvius erupts, Milo teams up with rival turned ally Atticus (Islington - born actor Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje) to rescue Cassia before the volcano destroys the entire city.

Grace is not terribly convincing as the young boss who has decided to proceed with this off - the - wall mission, even if we have seen the actor play a similar role — the company - man trying to shake things up — before.

Kurt Russell heads an ensemble cast comprised primarily of character actors, including the likes of Wilford Brimley (before he became typecast as a folksy grandpa), Richard Dysart (who would later become a regular in the TV series L.A. Law), Keith David, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, and Charles Hallahan.