Sentences with phrase «comic actress»

With only a few scenes to really show what she can do, she makes the most of them, showing she's more than just a skilled comic actress.

Witherspoon has proven herself a gifted comic actress in Election and last year's Legally Blonde, but her performance and charm here are largely diminished by the tedium of the material.

Love & Friendship, based on the little - known Lady Susan, is as clever and seamless a marriage of source material and sensibility as one would expect, and gives Kate Beckinsale — a gifted comic actress who somehow ended up in a latex - fetish vampire franchise — the kind of role she too rarely gets.

But whenever the laughs come, they come big, and the movie never bores, thanks to three stellar performances: Streep, mostly known for her dramatic work, proves to be an adept comedienne; Willis, famous for macho action roles, makes a surprisingly convincing geek; and Hawn continues to prove whe's one of the finest comic actresses in film today.

Slate, a beguiling comic actress with shrewd dramatic instincts, knows how to make even faulty or contrived sequences come off.

The cast is first - rate, probably because even the small roles are vivid: Danny DeVito as Jackie's long - suffering brother; Patti LuPone as Jackie's sister - in - law, who can barely contain her hatred of him — and then can't contain it; Edie Falco as Eddie's agent; Charles Grodin as a comedian from the old days; Cloris Leachman as a 95 - year - old comic actress on her last legs; and several comedians, including Jimmie Walker and Brett Butler, as themselves.

Keaton is a fine comic actress who combines physical humor with great intensity.

The wonderful comic actress Elizabeth Banks makes her directorial debut with her segment, about a teen girl getting her first period, but it's frenetic and cruel and doesn't suggest much of a future for this part of her career.

Mila Kunis has always been a great comic actress (and probably, one of the most beautiful actress of her generation).

The movie as a whole isn't that great, but there's one five - minute stretch in the middle of the erotic (ish) drama Fifty Shades Of Grey that suggests what might've been, had the filmmakers remembered they'd hired a skilled comic actress as their lead.

Melissa McCarthy is a very talented comic actress.

Writer - director Maggie Carey's teen sex comedy is a gender - flipped riff on the virginity - themed coming - of - age story, with deadpan comic actress Aubrey Plaza playing a prissy high school brainiac who dedicates her last summer before college to researching and practicing sexual activity.

Ms. McAdams is one of cinema's most accomplished and appealing comic actresses.

Which isn't to say it's not fun to see Lisa Kudrow (another skilled, and frequently underestimated comic actress) as the unhappy wife, or the great June Squibb as a no - nonsense senior.

The busy comic actress («A Good Old - Fashioned Orgy,» television's «Children's Hospital») and director («In a World...») has released her second feature, «I Do... Until I Don't,» as a writer - director - performer.

«Girls» was named best comedy and Dunham, who stars as Hannah Horvath in the series about young women in their 20s navigating young adulthood in New York City, was named best comic actress.

Hugh's new trophy wife Sondra (Amy Poehler) is also in the mix, so we have three major comic actresses working at their best level here, insisting on the truth of the people they are playing and letting any laughs take care of themselves.

Finally, you have undoubtedly heard that the fine comic actress Eileen Brennan passed away earier today at 80 years of age.

This is becoming a great time for female comic actresses, and with the success of Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig has moved right up the list, says Ryan Miningham.

Seventh Generation, the producer and distributor of environmentally safe household products, is about to launch a $ 15 million advertising campaign starring comic actress and comedian Maya Rudolph.

South Plantation High School, «The Addams Family»: Best Musical; Comic Actress in a Musical, Kelly Walsh; Orchestra, «Cousin It's Pits»; Costumes, Hannah Singer; Marketing and Publicity, Ashley Cador and Sydney Wheeler

She is frequently a co-host, presenter, and comic actress on variety shows and talk shows, including Nitido, El Gordo y la Flaca, and Este Noche Tu Night con Felipe Viel.

The wonderful comic actress has starred in many of her own shows, and also sung some killer pop singles.

Then you add Oscar winners like Penelope Cruz into the equation, alongside the sorely underrated Cameron Diaz (a gifted comic actress, who like Sandra Bullock in recent years, should probably already have been belatedly given her dues as a serious dramatic actress a long time ago, particularly for her excellent work in Vanilla Sky and an incredible vanity free performance in Being John Malkovich).

American Heritage School, «Completeness»: Comic Actress in a Play, Katrina Hickey; Sound, Rachel Banach

Although Wiig is a comic actress, there are a few dramatic scenes here where she flashes her range.

Predominantly a comic actress - her breakthrough film was Nicholas Stoller's Forgetting Sarah Marshall in 2008 - she has done videogame adaptations (Max Payne), rom - coms (Friends with Benefits) and the stoner comedy Ted, directed by MacFarlane, opposite a flatulent, bong - smoking teddy bear.

A gifted comic actress, Banks makes her character's generic transition — from ovulation - app - wielding control freak to a woman at the mercy of her biology — specific and watchable.

In part, this is because director Paul Fieg and Co. made the bold and progressive decision to recast the main roles with comic actresses.

DAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: Jennifer Lawrence is a wonderful dramatic and comic actress, but she can't pass for the star of the Bolshoi Ballet, the so - called pride of Russia, in the espionage thriller «Red Sparrow.»