Sentences with phrase «first dramatic roles»

Comic actors Dave Franco (Neighbors, 21 Jump Street) and Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) take on their first dramatic roles in 6 Balloons.

Born February 17th, 1954, former model Rene Russo's first dramatic role of note was on the 1987 TV series Sable, in which she played Eden Kendall, the literary agent to a children's author - turned - crimefighter.

Yet it's still not quite Oscar - winning caliber (but still worthy of a nomination), and Stiller's playing against type doesn't come off as honest a performance as, say, Michael Keaton, in Clean and Sober (1988), that comic's first dramatic role.

Honeycutt isn't so diplomatic, offering straight out that Ferrell «is not quite up to his first dramatic role» and that the performance is «too one - note... Ferrell isn't able to track the ups - and - downs in the story's dramatic beats.

Dern isn't required to do much except look utterly lost for most of the film, while Forte feels completely out of place in his first dramatic role.

«I was intimidated coming into the process,» Forte said of his first dramatic role after years of being known as a comedian.

The film stars Betty Grable (singer, dancer and pin - up legend in her first dramatic role) and Carole Landis as sisters Jill and Vicky Lynn, who quickly shed their homespun sensibilities as they fend for themselves in New York City.

Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty - toilet - plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent - flyer - mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters.

& «Tom Goes to Mayor», taking on his first dramatic role.

This new incarnation of the classic crime novels stars Rowan Atkinson, in his first dramatic role, as Chief Inspector Maigret as he looks to catch a serial killer stalking women in Montmarte.

Not exact matches

«Our work provides the first real - world experimental evidence that these natural enemies of plants can play a dramatic role in lowering ecosystems» tipping point by killing drought - weakened vegetation and preventing plants from recovering,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

By the early»50s, Lemmon had appeared in hundreds of live TV roles, including in the dramatic series Kraft Television Theater and Robert Montgomery Presents, as well as co-starring with first wife, Cynthia Stone, in two short - lived sitcoms.

Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.

Hammer landed two of his first major roles at polar opposite ends of the dramatic spectrum: one playing the young Christian evangelical minister Billy Graham in actor - turned - director Robby Benson's chronicle of Graham's early life, Billy: The Early Years (2008), and another playing the son of Satan on the small screen fantasy adventure series Reaper.

(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.»)

For one, it's an attempt at reviving a commercially successful franchise that was laughed out of theaters twice in the early 2000s, with Angelina Jolie (in the first chapter of her conversion from dramatic riot grrl to action star) declining to continue in the lead role.

This is McConaughey's first real dramatic role in five years, following a string of comedies where it seemed he was content to ride his good looks and Texas charm until the horizon vanished.

By all accounts, this new project represents something of a turn for Cohen, giving him what's likely to be his first dramatic leading role.

But first, we discuss how she broke into the business despite having no encouragement from her parents at the time; why she loves to go on auditions even if the prospect of getting work is hopeless; her time in The Groundlings and how it led to having the part of Rita in the movie smash Bridesmaids (written for her by fellow Groundlings Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo); as well as taking on a real - life dramatic role in the upcoming Felt, the story of infamous Watergate «Deep Throat» Mark Felt — played, she says sensationally, by Liam Neeson.

Written by Bob Nelson (the first time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Wizard of Oz Breakout role for Judy Garland, one of the earlier Technicolor films (and one of the first to mix black and white with Technicolor to dramatic effect), and one of the few adaptations where the film is better than the book.

And this month, he's putting his Southern stoner act on hold in two leading roles: First up is Crown Heights, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance and hits theaters on August 18th, which finds him playing Colin Warner, a Trinidadian immigrant unjustly accused of murder in 1980.

Stephan James (in his first starring role following appearances in «Selma» and «When the Game Stands Tall») gives a breakout performance as Owens, who attended The Ohio State University in the early 1930s and became a champion under demanding coach Larry Snyder (a rare «dramatic» role for «SNL» vet Jason Sudeikis).

This is not to say that Douglas (Cape Fear), in her first leading role, is unable to hold the screen on her own; she is an appealing, likable presence with a refreshing, sometimes self - deprecating sense of humor balanced with the right amount of earnestness needed to pull off the heavier dramatic scenes.

11:00 pm — TCM — The Clock This was Judy Garland's first real purely dramatic role, directed by her then - husband Vincente Minnelli in 1945.

«While LOGAN was always going to be perceived as the last chapter in a successful «super hero» franchise, and a final performance in this role by my brilliant friend Hugh Jackman, Scott Frank, Michael Green and I always viewed the task of writing it as, first and foremost, an opportunity to make a dramatic character piece, one that just so happened to feature beloved comic book characters.

Although the material in Mr. Church wasn't really worthy of it, Eddie Murphy gave a solid performance in his first dramatic lead role, bringing nuance to his portrayal of an alcoholic cook who helps out a sick mother and her teenage daughter.

Back for his first dramatic film role in six years, Cannon highlights the benefits of his unconventional rise in the entertainment industry, what he learned working under the prolific Spike Lee, and what he feels audiences should really be upset about.

Having propped up an array of other people's films, this is perhaps his first dramatic lead role since 2004's Dead Man's Shoes, and a salutary reminder that he is one of our finest, most versatile talents.

As Tommy Saunders, the police sergeant who joined first responders and investigators in pursuing the perpetrators of the attacks, Wahlberg capably steps into the role of dramatic leading man.

The ensemble project that first put them on the map, in fact, was also the first that proved Carell — then the funnyman from «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» and «The Office» — could handle a dramatic role.

For the first time in history, the federal government has assumed a dramatic new school - funding role, that of banker of last resort, providing stopgap revenues to the nation's schools during economic downturns.

Just when you're applying for a job, first impression plays more dramatic role: on how you can build relationships and hold yourself depend employer's interest to you.