Sentences with phrase «few small roles»

His father, Warren McCollum, the son of an actress in New York and a child actor himself, performed a number of small parts on the Broadway stage, and a few small roles in movies in the late 1930s and early 1940s, including the role of «Jimmy Lane» in the 1938 cult classic, Reefer Madness; he remained active in local theater groups throughout much of his life, while working as a security guard at a local research corporation.

The London - born, Canadian - based actress started out as a presenter on Canadian TV, though she managed to mix that with a few small roles on Vancouver - shot TV shows like «Kevin Hill» and the «Kojak» remake.

This leaves them with $ 24 million of salary cap room — enough space to sign LeBron James to a max contract with enough left over to sign a few smaller role players.

Not exact matches

He made a huge mistake vs Roma, perhaps he has learnt and hence the rotation, you can still say he priorities a smaller trophy to the cl, I mean we all heard shit about this squad, few believed in a cl title but he proved otherwise only to kill our hopes with stubbornness, at least he made many remember who we have and what can be done, so stop the hate and complaints, the board is not pleased with our football either but they know who they signed, let them sign better players next season and see if ev can be stubborn, soon he will be forced to use dembele more, the pressure from the board will come, for now it is what it is and if he starts paulinho and gomes he simply used 2/3 of his options for the double pivot role (we all know we can not play 433, it's madness) let us stop complaining and exercise patience.

There's less at stake in the next few sessions than in the last one, when the city's rent laws were up for renewal, so REBNY may play a smaller political role than it did in 2014, in which it bankrolled the current GOP majority.

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

While Mafra - Neto acknowledges that mosquitoes play a small role in the food chain, helping sustain small animals like fish and spiders, he would like to see fewer of them around, particularly in disease - ravaged countries.

She only made a cameo appearance — a small role but a marked improvement to her less than stellar acting career in the past few years.

Though I had done a few smaller shows, the role I remember that really forced me out of my comfort zone was being cast in the musical Carnival.

«World War Z» is packed with a lot of talented actors in small supporting roles (including James Badge Dale, David Morse and Peter Capaldi), but it's essentially the Brad Pitt Show, and he's one of the few guys who can pull off such a star - centric performance without making it feel flashy.

The first few years of his career following the departure from the show were somewhat lackluster, but Smits eventually landed the role of Senator Bail Organa in the second and third Star Wars prequels, a move that would permanently cement him in film history in the minds of at least one very large fanbase.In addition to his work with the Star Wars franchise, Smits also made an inevitable return to the small - screen mid-decade with a prominent role on NBC's The West Wing during the show's 2004 - 2005 season.

It has a few things going for it, like Anthony Hopkins who is really good and Russell Crowe in a very early and small role.

Relegated to the thankless role of Acerbic Sarcasm Machine, Zooey gets to play the best pal * to Sarah Jessica Parker and, with only a few small scenes, runs away with the entire tiresome movie.

Over the past few years, it seems like Murray has been taking on more of the smaller indie dramatic roles but here he mixes it up and I liked that a lot.

There are a few interesting cameos (beyond Julie Andrews and John Cleese as the queen and king, respectively) like Jane Lynch and Jon Hamm, who get small supporting roles, though you can barely tell it's them.

Leigh had a few small films under her belt by the age of 20 but it took a central role in Amy Heckerling and Cameron Crowe's acutely observed 1982 high - school comedy to put her on the map.

Save for a few scenes that take place on a battlefield, much of this work could easily be accomplished on stage, yet instead of making the film feel small or inadequate, this restrained setting instead gives weight to the micro expressions and gentle asides that Day - Lewis uses to bring life to his role.

He played Ziggy, one of the most memorable (and infuriating) characters on the divisive second season of HBO classic «The Wire,» a few small movie roles followed, but Ransone was hooked on heroin in his mid-20s, weighing a mere 115 pounds, and ended up 30 grand in debt, which understandably curtailed his career somewhat.

Wiig, meanwhile, has been slowly building a reputation as a very capable dramatic actress these last few years, and while her role in «Girl» is small — she's said to be excellent in it.

He'd continue with small parts on the small screen up until he got a few tiny roles in films, including A River Runs Through It.

And so it was that he returned to film a few years later with small roles in seventies classics like «American Graffiti,» «The Conversation,» and «Apocalypse Now.»

Few actors are as charming as the veteran actor, so it's no surprise he makes a small role this much fun.

Biel has made a career out of playing strong, female characters and has been in a few action movies, but perhaps her recognition would have overpowered what is essentially a small supporting role.

A few big names in today's casting round - up: Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) is set to re-team with The Brothers Grimm director, Terry Gilliam, for a small role in his upcoming film, The Zero Theorem.

Lady Bird frets over the made - up nature of her small, conciliatory roles; we see a theater teacher heartbreakingly lose himself in his own acting during an exercise; Lucas Hedges, playing one of Lady Bird's love interests, belts out a few bars of «Giants in the Sky» from Into the Woods in a moment of pure, cringey delight.

I was brought in to play a small role on a book launch a few years ago.

Among the very few things that I am satisfied with and am proud of is the fact that freefincal and Ashal's FB group Asan Ideas for Wealth have played a small role in popularizing commission - free advice from SEBI registered investment advisors or fee - only financial planners.

Still, while many have smaller roles, a few of your friends get to play much larger roles in your adventure, impacting the story in interesting ways, including one that will have all but the most stone - hearted bastards in tears.

We frequently see teams trying to make a massively ambitious game with far too few people, or overly large teams with unnecessary roles making small games.

Within a few years the materiality of oil paint takes on a more central role in his work when he begins to make paintings by depositing small amounts of liquid paint onto his canvases and tilting them this way and that to direct the paint toward the edges of some feint pencil markings.

They're small, they're more sketchlike in a way... One of the ways I'm talking about painting now is trying to talk about these little casual abstractions that look like something a painter could do when they can find a few hours in the studio when they can actually perform the role of the painter, instead of the residency - runner or the blog - poster.

I cited very few references in the thermodynamics text, mostly other text books, and the greenhouse effect plays a very small role in my book.

to name a few ROLE Working with a small, fun team, placing candidates in temporary commercial positions across the south west.

The smaller the practice, the fewer the employees and the less clearly roles are defined.

There are many big graduate recruiters who take on recent graduates into consultancy roles and companies range in size from small firms employing fewer than five people, to industry giants.

The Job role itself will involve training for the first few months, so the candidate should be willing to dedicate themselves to this, however the salary, # 20,000 basic + Commission (1st Year # 30 - 45k), will increase as you progress and as the client is a small company, promotions can be quick.

A recent investigation from the UK Millennium Cohort Study found that a variety of parenting, home learning, and early education factors explained a small portion of the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in children's cognitive ability by age 5.2 Although some US studies have examined selected factors at different stages of childhood, 24 — 27 few have had comprehensive data to examine the socioeconomic distribution of a wide variety of risk and protective factors across early childhood and their role as potential independent mediators of the SES gradients in cognitive ability at kindergarten entry.