Sentences with phrase «breakout role»

He's been on a couple television shows, but this is really his first major breakout role.

A few weeks ago, we reported that Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, best known for breakout roles in ATONEMENT and THE LOVELY BONES, was rumoured...

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.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Wizard of Oz Breakout role for Judy Garland, one of the earlier Technicolor films (and one of the first to mix black and white with Technicolor to dramatic effect), and one of the few adaptations where the film is better than the book.

With breakout roles in The Departed and The Boy In the striped Pyjamas, she has gone on to win a host of awards.

Isaac's breakout role came in «Inside Llewyn Davis.»

«This was just before Dark Angel,» Ramona refers to the actress» breakout role on television.

Daniel Craig is a very well - known British actor, but it wasn't until his early breakout roles in films like Layer Cake and Road to Perdition that he ever made it on the radar of American film watchers.

There is no doubt that Eric Stoltz's latest teen feature film Class Rank won't exactly mirror the classic formula of «Some Kind of Wonderful» — Stoltz's breakout role back in 1987 — although it borrows the classic scenario that has the leads asking, «Are we just friends?

World Premiere Notable: Potential breakout role for Holbrook who has an Untitled Terrence Malick Film, «Jane's Got A Gun» and «Boomtown» also expected for 2016.

David Koechner has been appearing in comedic roles since the mid-1990s, when he was part of the «Saturday Night Live» ensemble, but it's arguable that his real breakout role didn't occur'til 2004, when he played Champ Kind in «Anchorman» and made the word «whammy» into a catchphrase.

He's enjoyed breakout roles in some of the biggest films of the year, but A-list status apparently doesn't guarantee an invite to the Golden Globes.

The eyes will all be on Shailene Woodley (The Spectacular Now) as Tris, this trilogy's answer to Catniss Everdeen, and Theo James (TV's Golden Boy) in his potentially breakout role as Four, a leading figure among the Dauntless.

Spotlight on Aaron Eckhart Aaron Eckhart's blistering breakout role...

Rachel Brosnahan checks all the right boxes as a young actress with a huge breakout role in a 50s - set comedy about standup comedy.

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.

Hollywood hasn't really known what to do with the actress since her ostensible breakout role in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor (2001).

But it's the awesome Exarchopoulos, delivering her best performance since her Palme d'Or winning breakout role in Blue is the Warmest Colour, who really steals the show.

Is this a dramatic breakout role for Dwayne Johnson, or will he suffer from being typecast as a mindless action star?

He had an Oscar - nominated breakout role in Get Out and played a crucial supporting role in Black Panther, which just had one of the best opening box office weekends in history.

That father, aka «The Judge», is played by Robert Duvall, whose breakout role as an actor was as Boo Radley in «Mockingbird».

Known for her raunchy, off - color humor, the stand up comedienne turned actress is being recognized for her upcoming breakout role in this summer's upcoming comedy film, «Trainwreck» produced by Judd Apatow.

But if Equity at times feels small screen, Gunn proves Skyler's anything but the limit in a gripping breakout role.

The film hits 7th July with the returning Ashley Bell back in her impressive breakout role of Nell.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt Gordon - Levitt might have ranked even higher on this list if I hadn't found him a tad self - regarding in his supposed breakout role in «(500) Days of Summer,» but there's no mistaking that the 28 year - old actor has the goods — and has had them for several years now, ever since his affectingly stoic childhood turn in «A River Runs Through It» way back in 1992.

Tiffany Haddish's breakout role as wild card Dina in the summer comedy smash Girls Trip is one of those supporting performances that often seems to be operating on its own plane within the movie — it's of the film, but it's so distinct from everything else that it becomes a discrete element, too.

Vinaite's breakout role came in Sean Baker - helmed The Florida Project, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival.

Written by Harmony Korine and coproduced by Gus Van Sant, the film tells the story of a single day in the life of a group of sexually active teenagers in New York City and offered breakout roles for actors Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson.

The Canadian actress» breakout role on David Fincher's Mindhunter on Netflix is just the latest in a string of dark projects requiring dedication, intensity, and her own natural «malleability.»

In the lead role of Phiona Mutesi, newcomer Madina Nalwanga has been cast in a potential breakout role.

That movie was his real breakout role.

No matter which cadence escapes their lips, one thing remains true: Black British actresses are no less deserving of breakout roles in Hollywood films than their peers.

Hayward was only 12 when she landed her film debut — and breakout role — in Wes Anderson's «Moonrise Kingdom.»

Ever since his breakout role in 2013's «Inside Llewyn Davis,» Oscar Isaac has become one of Hollywood's most reliably great actors.

Reynolds had a multidecade career in movies and television, with a breakout role in «Singin» in the Rain» at age 19, the same age her daughter starred in «Star Wars.»

The actress was hot off her breakout role in «The Wolf of Wall Street» and searching for movies that could be star vehicles for her when she came across Rogers» script.

Before his breakout role as Aaron Samuels in the hit movie, Mean Girls, Jonathan Bennett launched his career on the small screen.

He was Oscar - nominated for Best Supporting Actor, in 2008, for his breakout role in the Assassination of Jesse James, but he's yet to emerge from the Oscar race victorious.

Jenna's family isn't the only thing that's grown in the years since her breakout role.

She wore her hair curly for her breakout role in 2004's movie adaptation of «The Phantom of the Opera.»

The rumor at the time was that Jennifer Hudson was pressured to wear this look by Vogue's Andre Leon Tally, who briefly took her under his wing following her breakout role as Effie White in Dreamgirls and had been guiding her fashion choices throughout awards season.

But, picking an actor's breakout role isn't always easy, a hard truth we learned while putting together this list.

Her breakout role was in 2010's Carlos, followed by legendary horror director Tobe Hooper's Djinn in 2012.

Miss Piggy is a Muppet character known for her breakout role in Jim Henson's The Muppet Show.

Carpenter's breakout role was in the sleeper hit film, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE.

Kevin Bacon followed his breakout role in Footloose with this story of a washed up stock broker who finds his calling as bicycle messenger.