Sentences with phrase «early roles in films»

Producer / Emmy ® - award winning actress, America Ferrera talks about her early roles in film and television including the hit show Ugly Betty, Real Women Have Curves, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and working with Ryan Piers Williams on the independent film The Dry Land.

Producer / Emmy ® - award winning actress, America Ferrera talks her early roles in film and television including the hit show Ugly Betty, Real Women Have Curves, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and working with Ryan Piers Williams on the independent film The Dry Land.

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A similar case to EuropaCorp's «Kursk,» the true story of a Russian submarine that sank in the Barents Sea in 2000 and killed everyone on board; though Putin had a significant role in the events, appears in the source material of Robert Moore's best - seller «A Time to Die,» and even featured in early versions of the screenplay, he's nowhere to be found in the finished film.

Any doubts of whether the 34 - year - old was ready to handle directing solo — a role that often comes much later in the film industry — have been silenced by early buzz around the film mixed with Lady Bird's current score of 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

She was memorable in early roles on Funny People and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, two films stuffed with memorable actors, but Parks and Rec — no slouch in the memorable cast department itself — is where she made a name for herself as an unparalleled master of deadpan delivery.

Meanwhile, Emily's professional life continues to soar with a role in the upcoming film We Are Your Friends, which focuses on an up - and - coming DJ's early start in the music world.

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.

I had thought the film was going to start two hours before it did, and it was my first week in a new role at work, so I've been doing extra hours and waking up almost two hours earlier than I normally do.

Choi Min - sik (b. 1963) first made a name for himself in theater before breaking into the film world with roles in Park Chong - won's early films Kuro Arirang Shin Min - a (born Yang Min - a on April 5, 1984) is a South Korean model and actress.

Taking on minor film roles beginning with 1979's Hairspray, the burgeoning young actor would subsequently appear in such films as Milos Foreman's Ragtime (1981) and Woody Allen's Zelig (1983), though early struggles with alcohol and substance abuse threatened to sideline his screen career in the mid -»80s.

After the mid»40s he played character roles, appearing in films every few years until the early»70s.

Rodgers and Hammerstein returned to Hollywood in 1955 with their own production company, overseeing the movie adaptations of Oklahoma (1955) and South Pacific (1958); three years earlier, R and H played cameo roles in the New York - filmed Main Street to Broadway, for which they contributed one forgettable number.

The best of his early film assignments was in the title role of The Little Minister (1934), in which his easily outraged Scottish piety didn't stand a chance opposite hoydenish Katharine Hepburn.

Working in relative anonymity through the»70s and early»80s, appearing in films ranging from Serpico (1973) to Slapshot (1977) to Blade Runner (1982), Walsh landed his meatiest and most memorable role in Joel and Ethan Coen's remarkable debut, Blood Simple (1984).

Rosenthal appeared in movies beginning in 1931, and he worked onscreen right up through The Big Clock in 1948, but most of his best work was concentrated in the early / mid -»40s in the films of writer / director Preston Sturges, who used the pianist / actor in various roles in his films from The Great McGinty (1940) through The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947).

Outside of major roles in early sound efforts like The Big Trail and Tom Sawyer (both 1930), he could be found playing menacing tribal chiefs and bandits in serials and B - pictures, and seedy, drunken «redskin» stereotypes (invariably named Injun Joe or Injun Charlie or some such) in big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

A handsome, athletic teenager, Young was offered a few film roles in the early»50s, but his father insisted that he get an education before launching a career.

She appeared in supporting roles in several US films after relocating to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, her final British film being Yanks (1979, a supporting actress BAFTA).

Made with the full support and cooperation of the Royal Air Force, Battle for the Skies is the definitive film history of the RAF from the early days of the Air Battalion and the Royal Flying Corps right up to its role in the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars.

The three strangers each play a different role in their game — Dollface interacts with the family first, knocking on the door and entering the home at lot earlier than in the original film.

But she was so successful in this film's terribly difficult role of Katja that her walking off with Cannes» best actress award earlier this year was universally applauded.

It was back to dramatic roles in the early 1940s, and as age crept up on Dunne, she made a seamless transition to starring character roles in such films as Anna and the King of Siam (1946) and Life with Father (1947).

Steven Spielberg's film is a paean to the essential role of a free press, one the director felt he had to make in 2017 (he first read Liz Hannah's original script earlier this year and rushed it into production).

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

One of the film's chief claims to fame is its «introduction» of Gary Cooper (who'd actually been in films since the early 1920s), in a brief but crucial role as veteran flyer with a cheerily fatalistic attitude.

Early filmed projects included the features Rowing Through (1996) and Night Sins (1997) and the television miniseries More Tales of the City, as well as prominent roles in the celebrity - themed telemovie biopics Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story (2000) and Inside the Osmonds (2001).

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While most of his film roles were supporting, Anderson was starred in the early special - effects-fest Destination Moon.

Although she had appeared in several films earlier, Cheng's first starring role in a martial arts film came, like Hsu Feng's, courtesy of director King Hu during his short - lived stint with the studio.

The film features some of the earliest screen appearances of Emmy - nominated sitcom veteran Ed O'Neill («Married... With Children», «Modern Family»), playing a mercenary reluctant to go on the mission, and a young Jim Broadbent, who is lowly credited but instantly recognizable in a brief background role.

Early 2014 Keaton had average supporting roles in two of that year's bombs: the remake of «RoboCop» and the car racing film «Need for Speed», with «Breaking Bad» «s Aaron Paul.

Disappointingly, Breckin Meyer adds to his collection of supporting roles in flops, in spite of the charm he showed in earlier films like Road Trip and Clueless.

(His first two films were featured at Ebertfest, where Nichols told us that Michael Shannon, who played intensely dramatic roles in his earlier films, brings comic relief to «Mud.»)

Earlier this year, the studio announced that legendary actor James Earl Jones would be reprising his role in the 21st - century film as Mufasa.

Just as Bill Murray did with his early work in such films as Meatballs, the roguish Rockwell effortlessly works well as a role model for a young troupe of misfit kids, and his warm and affecting performance ranks as one of his most appealing character portrayals to date.

After smaller roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's earlier films, he became a dramatic lead and then a skilled comedian, giving us all great difficulty when trying to define exactly what he is.

Highlights include the world premiere of Stake Land 2, the new sequel to one of the best vampire movies ever, which was only recently announced earlier this year after being filmed in secrecy, with Nick Damici and Conner Paolo reprising their roles from the original.

Matt Brown offered an in - depth look on how the film tackles the dangers of conformism and socialization in his essay «The Normalized Atrocities of Julia Ducournau's Raw», and earlier today we published an interview with the writer - director herself, in which she discusses her process as a writer, the fine - tuning of her cinematic language, and underscores how Raw addresses the subject of human identity in a manner that both challenges and transcends stereotypical conceptions of gender roles.

Award winner: Margot Robbie has won the Critics» Choice Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie for her role in Suicide Squad - despite the film being slammed by critics earlier this year

The film plays atmospherically on genre tropes, too: a close - up of a gun in darkness (which ends up playing no role whatsoever), the moody chiaroscuro interior of Jo's apartment, which a bulky early -»80s answering machine makes look like a whole recording studio.

After breaking out big in the early 1990s, actor Jim Carrey took on his most challenging role yet - playing Andy Kaufman in the film Man on the Moon.

The stage role will be a first for Ronan, who earlier this week was touted as a potential Oscar winner for her role in the upcoming film Brooklyn, which is based on the novel by Irish author Colm Toibin.

Most of his other early roles are disappointing, either showing his tendency to go overboard (his lawyer in «Criminal Law» is more over-the-top than Kevin Bacon's psychopath) or select roles in films where eagerness trying on new accents and psychological profiles seem to overshadow coherent character work («Chattahoochee»).

Years of slugging away in secondary film roles paid off when, in the early 1960s, Bouquet was «rediscovered» by such New Wave filmmakers as Francois Truffault.

Lelio is already making in - roads into Hollywood with another English - language movie coming out later this year called Disobedience, starring Rachels Weisz and Rachel McAdams, and he's also filming an English - language remake of his earlier film Gloria with Julianne Moore in the title role.

If the film is a shade too long — and goes off on an unfulfilling tangent about a secret from her early life — it still rises on the crooked back of the marvelous Sally Hawkins, in her most fulfilling role since Mike Leigh's «Happy Go Lucky.»

It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.

Ahead of its U.S. release later this month, Early Autumn and Indie Rights have released a UK trailer of director Shannon Alexander's comedic drama The Misguided, which features Golden Globe nominee Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) in her first film role, alongside Caleb Galati, Steven J. Mihaljevich and Jasmine Nibali.

Richard Attenborough's polished, thoroughly safe — and, consequently, Oscar - garlanded — veneration of the great political and spiritual Indian leader has no room for contradiction, so here Gandhi (Ben Kingsley in his first major role) is first seen at his assassination and subsequent funeral; the film may rewind to his earlier days, but it continues as one long embalming procedure.