Sentences with phrase «first leading role»

The beginning of the end most likely came in 1997, when the release of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn gave the alias (played by Eric Idle) his first leading role in a motion picture, as «a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee [who] realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big budget action film he knows is horrible.»

In the wake of the saddening news yesterday that one of my favourite actors, the marvellous Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away due to a suspected overdose, I thought it fitting to look back at his first leading role where he proved his extensive talents.

Berthelsen's first leading role was in the Danish sci - fi thriller short, NATSKYGGE, which premiered in 2015.

As preparation for the first leading role of her career, Rachel Brosnahan looked to an unlikely place for guidance: amateurs.

So it's great to see her given what is, in effect, her first leading role as an adult — she's 21 now — in such an unashamedly commercial production as Brooklyn, which arrives in cinemas on Friday.

World Premiere Notable: The first leading role for Saylor who is best known for playing Dana Brody on «Homeland.»

Blythe Danner, with Sam Elliott in «I'll See You In My Dreams,» is celebrating 50 years in the business with her first leading role in a film.

It would be two years later in 1998 with American History X that he had his first leading role, though, and it was a role that proved we had witnessed the arrival of one of the most powerful and exciting actors of his generation.

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.

Qualley does a fine job with her first leading role, showing her to be on par with a Kristen Stewart with far more range.

Employing a workshop format to cast the film, he ended up with quite the impressive roster; working with DiCaprio again for the first time since his take on «Romeo & Juliet,» he also has a galaxy of stars in support, including Maguire, and, playing against type, Mulligan as the materialistic, sometimes simple - minded Daisy Buchanan; curiously, it's her first leading role in a big Hollywood production.

But the fact that Field is doing so in her first leading role in 20 years is on the same level of a cinematic event as Lily Tomlin's hardcore domination of «Grandma» or Blythe Danner's delicate command of «I'll See You in My Dreams.»

At just 13 - years - old, Jared Gilman has already gone through a number of auditions, but also managed to land his first leading role, the role of the unpopular yet tenacious Sam Shakusky in Moonrise Kingdom.

«Dheepan» marks his first leading role in a film (after a supporting part in the 2011 Indian film «Sengadal»), but his commanding screen presence suggests it will not be his last.

Just like Stallone on Rocky, the leading lady apparently made herself a package deal with the screenplay, thus landing her first leading role to date.

Cheadle who has been virtually absent from indie and mainstream films, returns to his first leading role since The Guard (2011).

In time, the feature may only be remembered for its status as the always - impressive Sudeikis» first leading role, instead of its own attempted merits, but as generic entertainment its existence will remain inoffensive.

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Meanwhile the great Cate Blanchett has been cast as the lead in «Blackbird,» to be written and directed by David Mamet, in whose play «Oleanna» Blanchett had her very first leading role.

Her first leading role, 2015's Judd Apatow - directed Trainwreck, brought in $ 140 million worldwide against a production budget of just $ 35 million.

While this is Bacon's first leading role in television, he's no stranger to the medium: For instance, he directed four episodes of TNT's The Closer, which starred his wife Kyra Sedgwick.

The highlight of the excellent main cast is Howard, who Shyamalan eventually asks to carry his film, a task she succeeds gamely with in her first leading role.

Birkin was Colin Firth's first leading role.

After undergoing radical emergency surgery, Rose (former adult film star Marilyn Chambers in her first leading role in a mainstream film) develops an insatiable desire for blood.

In 2007, she won her first leading role in the feature film LEFT, in which she played five different characters.

Making the most of her first leading role since «Z for Zachariah,» she does a brilliant job of skating along the thin line that runs between glory and the gutter.

Shelley Michelle takes on her first leading role as a secret

Jessica James is her first lead role, and she's earned it after making do with bit parts like Coffee Shop Crier, African - American Spa Worker, and Jamaican Damsel.

Amber Heard is compulsively watchable, but this is her first lead role in a long time, and despite the pink dyed hair...

Now, at 54, Bacon is taking the next step in that storied career with his first lead role on television with Fox's The Following.

And while he'd been a strong supporting player in films such as «Red Tails» and «Chronicle» and on TV's «Friday Night Lights» and «Parenthood,» «Fruitvale Station» would mark his first lead role.

Alyson Hannigan is great in her first lead role, but the talented Adam Campbell seems terribly miscast, apparently only hired for his accent.

1985 brought him his first lead roles with «The Sure Thing» and «Better Off Dead.»

With his first lead role, 11 - year - old Smith had an opening weekend that stacked up well against the track record of his superstar father, Will Smith, who has had only two debuts bigger than «The Karate Kid» («I Am Legend» at $ 77.2 million and «Hancock» at $ 62.6 million).

Following graduation, Rodriguez booked her first lead role in the feature film «Tiny Dancer,» before breaking out with her performance as the title character in «Filly Brown.»

For his first lead role in nearly two years, Matt Damon chose to play a man stranded on Mars in the Ridley Scott sci - fi adventure The Martian.

In his first lead role, Derek Luke plays Fisher with a persuasive mix of rage and vulnerability.

Sleeping Dogs (Arrow Academy), adapted from C.K. Stead's novel Smith's Dream, Sleeping Dogs takes place in the near future and stars Sam Neill in his first lead role in a feature as Smith, a man escaping the break - up of his marriage by finding isolation on an island off the coast of New Zealand.

Neill — in his first lead role in a feature — plays Smith, a man escaping the break - up of his marriage by finding isolation on an island off the Coromandel Peninsula.

Furthermore, his first lead role was in 2009's «Dance Flick,» the parody of films like «Step Up» that Wayans Sr. directed.

It is the first lead role for Gaga — who will be credited under her real name Stefani Germanotta — in the musical ingenue role made famous by Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.

In collaboration with the Parisian agency les bons faiseurs, La Semaine chose the image which better reflects this 50 +5 edition: the magnificent actress Jessica Chastain in a scene from Take Shelter, second feature film by Jeff Nichols where her performance in one of her first leading roles was particularly remarked.

5:00 am — TCM — Roman Holiday Audrey Hepburn's first lead role, and the one that immediately catapulted her into stardom.

She received her first lead role in a major feature, in the $ 35 million remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).

But Tracy becomes an interesting mix of self - consciously awkward and oddly sure of herself, which makes her just as fascinating a character as the similarly paradoxical Brooke, and a hell of a turn to announce yourself with as your first lead role.

4:00 pm — TCM — Roman Holiday Audrey Hepburn's first lead role, and the one that immediately catapulted her into stardom.

Scott Waugh's fast - paced actioner NEED FOR SPEED races into cinemas later this week with the film marking the first lead role of Breaking Bad's...

Film icon Jerry Lewis returns to the big screen for his first lead role in two decades.

It stars Dustin Hoffman (74) as a weary gangster, his first lead role in a television series (he won an Emmy in 1986 for his performance as Willy Loman in a television adaptation of Death of a Salesman), Nick Nolte (70) as a trainer for whom the word grizzled appears to have been created and eye - catching supporting roles for Michael Gambon (71) and Dennis Farina (67).

Newcomer Spencer Lofranco doesn't seem quite ready for his first lead role opposite a strong supporting cast that includes Ving Rhames, Mary - Louise Parker and Taissa Farmiga.