Sentences with phrase «character actress by»

A dauntingly versatile character actress by the 1980s, Lu racked up several impressive film and TV credits, including her chilling portrayal of the Dowager Empress in The Last Emperor (1987) and her moving performance as natural - born «survivor» An Mei in The Joy Luck Club (1993).

A well - established West Coast character actress by 1959, Buzzi came to Broadway to appear in the short - lived revue Misguided Tour; it was here that she created the first of her many memorable «alter egos,» half - witted magician's assistant Shakuntula.

Not exact matches

It's hard to find a film or television character portrayed by a Black actress that does not personify the StrongBlackWoman in some way.

Zoe Barnes (played by actress Kate Mara), one of the main characters on the very popular Netflix show House of Cards, helped keep the name Zoe on our top 100 list this year.

It could be American actress Emma Stone, who in 2014 starred as Gwen Stacy, Spiderman's girlfriend, in Spiderman 2 — not to mention Emma Swan, the character in the show Once Upon a Time, played by actress Jennifer Morrison.

The character Chanel # 3 on Scream Queens is played by Billie Lourd, an American actress.

Shot by Mario Testino, the actress unsurprisingly looks gorgeous on the cover; best of all, she still looks totally like herself — not like one of the characters she's played as tends to happen with Vogue.

Amy Pond, also known as Amelia Pond, is a fictional character portrayed by Karen Gillan in the long - running British science fiction television series Actress Susie Amy: Goodbye Chardonnay, hello lesbian vampire.

It's a stunning story, dark and comical in equal turns, and the film relays the events in splendid fashion as well as giving us a star - making turn by Australian actress Margot Robbie as the eponymous character.

Sparta's «real» royal family has been imprisoned or killed, except for an infant boy who was smuggled out by philosopher Hermocrates (Ben Kingsley) and his spinster sister Leontine (Irish character actress Fiona Shaw).

By the mid-1920s, Fazenda was an extremely popular character actress, contributing frolicsome comic characterizations to such films as The Bat (1925), The Babe Comes Home (1926), The Cradle Snatchers (1927) and Noah's Ark (1928).

Filmmaker Will Gluck has hard - wired Easy A with a fast - paced, easygoing opening hour that's consistently elevated by Stone's winning performance, as the actress does a superb job of transforming her character into a likeable (and surprisingly relatable) figure that one can't help but root for and sympathize with.

Despite the nearly all - female cast, girl power is in short supply, as the actresses aren't given much complexity to work with, their whisper - thin characters eventually killed one by one by the unnatural forces within Area X, where genetic mutation takes place at hyperspeed.

The film follows the actress, played magnificently by Juliette Binoche as she hesitates and then prepares for the new production, and Assayas manages to mix the actress's feelings with the text of the play so that you never quite know if the actress or her character in the play is speaking.

As Antonina, though, Chastain seems bound up as an actress, held back in creating a character mainly by the demands of doing a Polish accent.

I was genuinely moved by all three characters, due to the acting, it was extremely well done, especially for an indie, James really plays his character well, I was surprised with his phenomenal performance, and Kristen was very good, stepping out off her stereotypical role as Bella, I'm sick off people saying she can not act, how can you judge an actress if you've only seen the twilight movies, she really stepped up to the mark.

By the way, if you like Kathy Bates movies, you'll probably be frustrated with this one, since as Tripp's mother, the invaluable character actress is made to whipsaw between playing sappy domestic slave to her son's laundry and salty, overly sexual wife.

Particularly pivotal is the presence of Marjane's grandmother, a profoundly memorable character voiced by ninety - year - old actress Danielle Darrieux.

(It almost would have been better if her character was played by an African actress.)

Now that we had the Oscars last night, it is time to gather a list of games that enhanced their storytelling by featuring real - life actors, actresses and other celebrities — not just as voice actors, but sometimes even as the main characters.

Players will take to the skies with Dusty and other characters, including Ishani, voiced by actress Priyanka Chopra; Echo, voiced by actor Anthony Edwards; and Bravo, voiced by actor Val Kilmer, as they embark on global missions, air races and grand adventures around the world.

By going with an actress four years older than the character in the book, Lionsgate has locked itself into a cast packed with very late teens or actors in their early twenties as compared to if they'd gone with someone like 14 - year - old Chloe Moretz who would have called for a far younger Peeta and Gale.

Natalie Portman has hinted at being a versatile actress, willing to go deep to access the emotional soil for a part, but never has she committed this fully and completely, giving herself over as actors sometimes do — Robert DeNiro is Raging Bull, Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Names Desire, Charlize Theron in Monster, Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose, Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (Tootsie, Rain Man, etc.) These are those rare occasions when the actor is eclipsed by the character, the performance that then reaches something more than likable, believable; it becomes moving art.

Ravanello's undeniably bland performance is offset by both Ryan and Bennett's ingratiating work, as the actresses - particularly the former - prove fairly adept at freeing their respective characters from the constraints of their two - dimensional origins.

It's cheerfully ridiculous, Johnson looks right at home in a landscape stalked by marauding mutant monsters, and Harris is a good enough actress to make her thinly written character seem almost real.

Director Martin Scorsese was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) was named Best Actor, and Helen Mirren (The Queen) continued her march to the Oscars as she was named Best Actress as both actors brought characters to real, and even sympathetic, life.

In 2009, the actress Melissa Rauch joined the cast, mostly as a romantic interest for the character played by Simon Helberg.

No one paying to see this movie remembers the original cast so these actors and actresses are not challenged by the famous names that originally created the characters.

While the same can't be said for Mirren, whose character could have been played more convincingly by a host of fine French actresses, she is very likeable in the role, speaking all of her lines in English with a regality and refined quality that has been her bread and butter for many a year.

Instead, she's steered towards her obvious flair for theatricality by the kindly Sister Sarah Joan (a warm, empathetic turn from character actress Lois Smith).

Most of that comes from the character played by one of my favorite actresses... Abigail Breslin.

Returning to Underland as Alice and the White Queen meant returning to Oscar winning costuming by Colleen Atwood which presented the actresses with tools to get more into their characters mindsets at whichever point in time they were in.

It highlights «Love, Simon,» the gay coming - of - age teen romantic drama from Fox, as a positive sign, as well as the Oscar win for Chile's «A Fantastic Woman,» which stars trans actress Daniela Vega as a trans character, released by Sony Classics.

Ginny had dreams of being an actress, while Mickey fancies himself a writer, and we're often reminded that life is a series of parts being played by characters with a succession of fatal flaws.

The SAW Award - nominated actress, who appeared flattered by the director's assessment of her acting skills, admitted that the thing that she loves the most about her character is that «she's kind of a badass from the beginning.

(It doesn't hurt that mixed - martial - arts competitor - turned - actress Gina Carano has joined the franchise as Hobbs» partner, and another Fast & Furious character played by Michelle Rodriguez has been somehow resurrected.)

Christina Hendricks says «Mad Men» has changed her wardrobe.The 37 - year - old actress is a big fan of the clothes worn by her character Joan Harris in...

It's deeply odd to see an actress of Helen McCrory's standing struck dumb by her character's lack of lines.

Casting the right actress is a key factor to attaining some sense of likeability for Megan's character since we're supposed to believe her growth and reconciliation by the end of the formula.

That we are able to discern so much about a character from about 25 minutes of exposition, composed simply of fragments of daily life — no high drama, no overt statements of purpose or desire — has to do with the meticulous attention paid by the director and his leading actress to rhythms, textures, and small details of behavior.

The Irish actress Saoirse Ronan fills Susie with such yearning and vitality in both life and death that contemplating the character's desecration is arduous in the extreme, but the sanitising by Jackson and his co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens on one hand, and the glorifying of Susie's post-murder consciousness on the other, cost the movie integrity.

But the real star of Love Is All You Need, as I'm sure the generous Brosnan would acknowledge, is Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, who is simply wonderful as the film's central character, Ida, a hairdresser whose sunny disposition is being sorely tested by life as the story gets under way.

The real star is Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, who is simply wonderful as the film's central character, Ida, a hairdresser whose sunny disposition is being sorely tested by life as the story gets under way

The bodyguard we saw in Civil War is a character named Ayo, played by German actress Florence Kasumba.

Margo Martindale's work on the stage and small screen has earned her multiple Emmys, a Tony nomination, and — perhaps the most prestigious honor — having virtually every reference to her name preceded or followed by «beloved character actress.»

It's a comedy about the making of a movie as three filmmakers meet in Starbucks, call on their lead actress (played by Eugene Domingo as both herself and the character in the movie) and plan their poverty drama's shoot which will take place in a garbage dump.

But what's roiling inside this woman is something we must discern by simply watching Rampling, an actress unparalleled at revealing the inner life of a character through looks, gestures and words left unsaid.

The plot of Paris, Texas is disarmingly simple, focusing on the dramatic after - effects of a marriage's breakdown on young Hunter (played by Hunter Carson, son of writer L. M. Kit Carson and actress Karen Black); his father, Travis (a name that still had sinister resonance eight years after Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and played with shell - shocked intensity by Harry Dean Stanton); and his mother, Jane, a plain name almost willfully ill suited to the fragile, feral character embodied in the film by Nastassja Kinski.

She's not a bad actress by any means, but she was such a huge star in the 90's that there's a certain cache to her that can be difficult to divorce from the characters she's playing.

«American Pie» actress Tara Reid has spoofed «The Hunger Games» character Effie Trinket who is played by Elizabeth Banks in the Suzanne Collins adaption.