Sentences with phrase «film debut playing»

Each makes his feature film debut playing himself.

The actress made her film debut playing her mother's on - screen daughter in 1999's «Crazy in Alabama,» which stepfather Antonio Banderas directed.

He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991).

Singer, writer, and actor of stage and screen, Renoly Santiago made his film debut playing Raul in the Michelle Pfeiffer vehicle Dangerous Minds (1995).

Not exact matches

The film will debut with its original cast, including the late Carrie Fisher, as well as introduce some new characters played by Laura Dern, Benicio Del Toro and Kelly Marie Tran.

Taye Diggs made his feature film debut in How Stella Got Her Groove Back and plays the role of Dr. Sam Bennett in Private Practice.

After debuting onscreen in a bit as a bellboy in Dead Heat on a Merry - Go - Round (1966), he played secondary roles, typically a cowboy, in several films of the late»60s and in such TV series as Gunsmoke, The Virginian, and Ironside.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Rhys Meyers made his film debut in A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (1994), and then played the young assassin in Neil Jordan's biopic MICHAEL COLLINS (1996).

Neil LaBute's debut film was an adaptation of his own darkly comedic 1992 play, and its provocative, Mamet-esque dialogue marked the writer - director as a rising star in indie film world in the late 1990s, while also launching the career of star Aaron Eckhart, here playing one of a pair of coworkers seeking cruel revenge against women.

In 1998, she made her feature - film debut in Tango, in which she played an aspiring dancer who becomes entangled in a romance with a film director.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

In 1932 he won great acclaim for his work in the play The Animal Kingdom, leading to an invitation from Hollywood where he made his film debut in 1932.

After making her film debut in That Night (1992), Heigl balanced movie work with high school, playing a small role in Steven Soderbergh's Depression - era drama King of the Hill (1993), starring as Gérard Depardieu's difficult daughter in My Father the Hero (1994), and Steven Seagal's niece in the action sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).

Taron Egerton, who made his feature film starring debut in Kingsman: The Secret Service, portrays Eddie the Eagle, and Hugh Jackman plays a ski jumping expert from Lake Placid who helps Eddie train for the Calgary Olympics.

Theo Taplitz, in a remarkably mature, nuanced feature film debut, plays Jake, an introverted thirteen - year - old with dreams of being an artist who moves with this family from Manhattan to Brooklyn when his father inherits an apartment and a storefront there.

While the films marks Olsen's screen debut and is certainly the most anticipated of her upcoming features, it's hardly the only place she'll appear: The 22 - year - old has already shot four other films, including the dramatic comedy «Peace, Love and Misunderstanding» opposite Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener, and she plays Josh Radnor's younger friend and love interest in the college - set «Liberal Arts.»

But watching it is, distilled into a pure essence, watching the film debut of one of our national treasures, Willem Dafoe, in a film directed by the woman who would next helm Near Dark, and of the man who would play the Cowboy in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and serve as producer on Lynch's «Twin Peaks» and Wild at Heart, which reunited him with Dafoe.

Korean director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut plays like one giant homage to Alfred Hitchcock (particularly his 1943 film «Shadow of a Doubt»), but with a decidedly unique and erotic twist that's every bit as perverse as his previous work — the kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days.

Norton, a fan of Anderson's work since he saw the director's feature film debut, BOTTLE ROCKET, plays Henckels, the captain of the Lutz military police in Anderson's vividly imagined, fictitious European country of Zubrowka.

The events of the film take place before Han Solo makes his debut in Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, and Chewbacca will be playing a key role.

In the company of several of her Actor's Studios colleagues, Barbara made her film debut in East of Eden (1955), playing the nurse in the closing scenes.

She was reportedly paid more to play Annie than was spent in total on her film debut.

Zhao follows up on her debut film, the critically acclaimed «Songs My Brothers Taught Me» (2015), with this production that features three members of the Jandreau family playing their fictional selves.

eOne Films has debuted the official US trailer for The Program, the film by Stephen Frears telling the story of Lance Armstrong, played by Ben Foster.

Biel will play the estranged wife of Butler's character while Noah Lomax will make his feature film debut as Butler's son.

The streaming service debuted the film at the Venice Film Festival and played it at Telluride and Toronto.

He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009.

While not much is known regarding Duke's role in Black Panther, the news that he has joined Infinity War seemingly confirms Man - Ape is set to play a larger role in T'Challa's life after his debut film.

Johnson plays a rescue - chopper pilot who makes a dangerous journey across the state in search of his estranged daughter (Alexandra Daddario, who made her starring film debut in the Lehigh Valley - shot «Bereavement.»)

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

We'll be seeing Saoirse again in January when director Josie Rourke's debut film for Working Title, Mary, Queen Of Scots, opens (though it will most likely play the autumn film festivals first).

Both his short and feature debuts, «La Vie des morts» and «La Sentinelle,» premiered on the Croisette in the early 1990s, and all of his films, bar 2004's «Kings and Queen,» have played the fest, with 2008's «A Christmas Tale» being the most recent.

«You don't need to go ride today...» Sony Classics has debuted the second official trailer for the phenomenal film The Rider, which premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival and played at every other major film festival - Telluride, Toronto, Sundance.

The first official trailer for Jafar Panahi «s Tehran selfie Taxi has debuted, thanks to TIFF where the film will be playing.

After making an impressive film debut in Our Song in 2000, she went on to win the NAACP Image Award just five years later for playing Ray Charles» wife, Della, opposite Jamie Foxx in Ray.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

Dillinger (Arrow, Blu - ray + DVD), the 1973 gangster film and directorial debut of John Milius, plays on that image of the gentleman gangster who courted the public and the press while he robbed banks across the American Midwest.

His career took off when he starred in Amenábar's feature film debut, the surprise hit THESIS (1996), followed by OPEN YOUR EYES (1997) where he played alongside Penelope Cruz and received a Goya nomination for his performance.

In his debut film performance, Irvine does a nice job playing Albert, who mostly has to react to whatever the horse is doing.

Alice Lowe, co-writer of Ben Wheatley's Sightseers, has made her directorial debut with Prevenge, a darkly satirical slasher film in which she plays a pregnant woman who is convinced her foetus is ordering her to kill

With familiar ABBA tunes that played in 1994 film starring Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths, the musical debuts in Sydney, Australia

Chadwick Boseman debuts as Black Panther, who he will go on to play in a solo film in November 2017.

From 1927, the year of his debut for Shochiku studios, to 1962, when, a year before his death at age sixty, he made his final film, Ozu consistently explored the rhythms and tensions of a country trying to reconcile modern and traditional values, especially as played out in relations between the generations.

Chow Yun - fat, at this time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the road to a successful film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong Film Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.

Although the movie's trailer advertised it as «the role he was born to play,» it turns out that Paramount producer Hal Wallis had originally lined Elvis up to make his film debut in The Rainmaker starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn.

Martin McDonagh (pictured above), the award winning Irish playwright behind The Pillowman and the Oscar winning shot film Six Shooter, made his feature film debut in 2008 with In Bruges, an extraordinarily black dramedy about two hit - men (played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, the latter of whom picked up a Golden Globe for his efforts) on vacation in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges.

This is the second narrative feature film by writer / director Derek Cianfrance, who followed his little - known, Sundance - playing 1998 debut Brother Tied (made at age 23) with a number of shorts and music documentaries.

After he burns down a rival's gin, said rival, an Italian played by Eli Wallach (terrific in his film debut), seduces his wife.