Sentences with phrase «film role»

This was her first film role as a stunt person.

At the time, he had some TV roles, but this was his first major film role.

And a much - lauded TV star tackling his first true starring film role.

Two comedic actors best known for supporting film roles and television work are teaming up to co-star on the big screen.

A serious film role may be a wise direction until the comedian has the opportunity to write another comedy for herself.

She says she still wants a breakout film role and would like to host a late - night show.

It's a sad and often - repeated truth that there just aren't that many great film roles for actresses of a certain age.

I understand the interest to revive this character during a time where female film roles have never been as popular, but writers have missed the entire point of the character.

That's because it was his first film role.

A minor diplomat before he turned to acting, Hale began appearing in minor film roles in 1934, showing up fleetingly in such well - remembered films as the Karloff / Lugosi film The Raven (1935), the Marx Brothers» A Night at the Opera (1935) and the first version of A Star is Born (1937).

His first feature film role came in 2001 with a part in the absurdist comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Petrified Forest Bette Davis and Leslie Howard are top billed in this 1936 crime drama, but the thing you'll remember is Humphrey Bogart in his first major film role as criminal - on - the - run Duke Mantee.

Carrie Fisher stars in her last film role as General Leia in «Star Wars: The Last Jedi,» in theaters on Dec. 15.

His early film roles include «Gosford Park» and as The Professor in «The Bourne Identity.»

A Night at the Roxbury, released in 1998, nearly stands out from its brethren thanks chiefly to two reasons: frequent television broadcasts (most often on cable's TBS) and for marking the first leading film role of Will Ferrell, who in just a few years has established himself as one of the biggest movie stars to ever graduate from NBC's longtime weekend fixture.

Continuing through the mid -»90s with numerous television roles (including a stint on the popular series Picket Fences), Moss» early film roles range from both lightly comical (Suburban Commando [1991]-RRB- to increasingly dramatic (Imaginary Crimes [1994]-RRB-.

His other film roles included dual characters in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984); Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987); love - struck FBI agent Mike Downey in Married to the Mob (1988); swashbuckler William Shaw in Cutthroat Island (1995); and the title role in the made - for - cable Biblical spectacle Jacob (1994).

The Olivier award - winning actor Celia Imrie, best known for film roles in Calendar Girls and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, is about to publish her first novel, Not Quite Nice.

An actor, painter, poet, photographer, and jazz musician, Viggo Mortensen's combination of rugged exterior and reflective interior have infused his wide range of film roles with equal parts gravitas and compassion — from criminals to cowboys, lovers to lieutenants, post-apocalyptic survivors to sagacious psychoanalysts, and the rightful king of Gondor.

Seizing his biggest film role in a while, Fishburne is on par with the others, even if his character doesn't have the same depths to explore.

A shame, considering this has been one of her few film roles since starting New Girl.

As time went on the public either forgot or forgave Reubens for his past indiscretions, and after a series of small film roles lead to larger roles in such films as Blow (2000), Reubens» past (as well as the Pee - Wee Herman alter - ego that made him famous) faded, giving the public a chance to reacquaint themselves with the actor outside of the context of his once - famous persona.

Rainer appeared in US small screen series The Loveboat in 1984, while her last substantial film role came in 1998, playing opposite Michael Gambon and Dominic West in The Gambler.

O.J. Simpson has just landed his first job since being released from prison last October, and his first feature film role since he was... Read More

Rosalind Chao's later film roles include Rose in The Joy Luck Club (1993) and «the Chinese Mom» in North (1994).

After a quarter - century onscreen, Charlotte actor Robert C. Treveiler gets his best film role as the dictatorial dad.

After appearing in small screen guest spots for some of the biggest shows on TV, Elizabeth made the move from New York to Los Angeles in the hopes of finding more film roles.

She garnered international attention for her debut film role as Latika in SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her role at the 2009 BAFTA Awards.

A video has gone viral of Matthew McConaughey auditioning for his first - ever film role in Richard Linklater's 1993 cult - classic «Dazed and Confused.»

While most of those movies relied on high - octane effects and a multitude of characters led by one or two big name stars, San Andreas amps up the levels of CGI action, though chooses to focus most of its attention on just the one troubled family, led by man - mountain Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson in perhaps his biggest, and indeed most important film role to date.

Her fortunes began to shift in 1996, when she had her breakthrough film role in Nicole Holofcener's Walking and Talking, a well - received independent that co-starred Heche and Catherine Keener as best friends experiencing various romantic ups and downs.

He parlayed his small - screen success into a number of supporting film roles before graduating to leading man in 1995's Billy Madison, which he cowrote with college buddy and frequent collaborator Tim Herlihy.

With high - profile film roles on the horizon and appearances in the Band of Outsiders spring look book, the new face of Bulgari fragrance is making a big comeback.

Her next film role was alongside Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978).

His first high - profile filmed role arrived around 2002, when cast in the Working Title telemovie Come Together opposite James D'Arcy.

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.

She continued popping up in excellent film roles into the 1980s, as well as appearing in TV movies like MADD: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (1983).

His first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer «Pig» Finn in Waking Ned (1998).

Trivia: Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch filmed their roles while on hiatus from their television series Sherlock (2010).

He is most widely known for the feature films Role Models and Wet Hot American Summer, the 1990s» sketch comedy series The State and for directing the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital.

«Hearts in Atlantis» (2001): Still just a boy, Yelchin made quite an impression in his first major film role opposite heavyweights Anthony Hopkins and Hope Davis.

Received her first film role at the age of 13, in the Australian comedy Dallas Doll (1994), starring Sandra Bernhard.

His first dramatic film role did not come until 1999, when he appeared in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, playing an American footballer who liked to party.

12:00 M — TCM — A Face in the Crowd A rare film role for homespun comedian Andy Griffith really shows his chops as he plays an Ozark hobo who becomes an overnight sensation on radio and TV; when the fame and power starts going to his head, the film shows the cynical dark underbelly of media sensations.

Gemma Arterton, relishing a rare film role worthy of her talents, plays Catrin, a copywriter plucked out of obscurity to write the «slop» — the stuff for ladies — for a movie about the evacuation of Dunkirk.

Morton's old - school - tie personality and men's - club looks served him well in securing numerous film roles as aristocrats or snobbish business executives.

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