Sentences with phrase «first leading role in a film»

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

Though passed up for the lead in the former film, Leto made an impression in a supporting role as an arrogant yuppie doomed to be the first victim of vapid serial killer Patrick Bateman.

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

Thus far her CV has consisted mainly of best friend / supporting character roles in films WARM BODIES, LUCY, and CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE; TWO NIGHT STAND is her first go at a lead.

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.

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.

Ehrenreich got an agent, and his first film was the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's 2007 film «Tetro,» the second and most acclaimed of three 2000s personal projects the director shot using money from his winery fortune.

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.

, who has made a name for himself playing creepy dudes, got his first big lead role in the 2012 horror film

It was the first time since 1958 films with female actors in lead roles topped North America's box office, according to the Guardian.

Rolling Stone recently spoke with Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, portraying T'Challa (Black Panther), as he covers the publication's March 2018 issue, as well as director Ryan Coogler — as both detail more about the highly - acclaimed film and its impact, with it being the first Marvel Studios movie to put a person of color in the lead role and to feature a mostly black cast.

When Anya Taylor - Joy first read the script for Thoroughbreds, she knew she had to play the lead role of Lily in the film written and directed by Corey Finley.

Director Tom Hooper and star Alicia Vikander of The Danish Girl — a biopic about Lili Elbe, one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery — talk to Benjamin Lee about the rise of transgender stories, the controversy over casting cis - gender actor Eddie Redmayne in the lead role and whether they're nervous about how the trans community will receive the film

For Shelter, his first film as a writer - director, Paul Bettany cast his wife Jennifer Connelly in the demanding leading role of a homeless junkie.

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.»

The first report we've got about possible actors for the film says that Paula Patton is in talks for one lead role and that another has been offered to Colin Farrell.

Well, it's being filmed as we speak — and we have our first look at Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in the lead roles.

It's not when he got the lead role in his first film, Attack The Block, aged 18, nor when he was whisked off by JJ Abrams to Hollywood for a mighty role in Star Wars.

Neither lead should be particularly recognizable to American audiences; Knudsen has worked predominantly in Denmark and this is only D'Anna's second film (the first being Berberian Sound Studio), but these roles feel like a second skin, their actions never betraying their characters» motivations.

Academy - award winning director William Friedkin discusses his early career — including making documentaries for David L. Wolper, working for Alfred Hitchcock and what he learned from studying his films, and directing his first movie Good Times (1967), starring Sonny and Cher; how his career path led to making The Exorcist, his initial reaction to reading the source material, the story's theme of Good versus Evil, and the role his own faith played in his approach to making the movie; the techniques he used to generate suspense and fear in the audience, his use of subliminal imagery, and his reasons for recently restoring deleted footage to the film.

Goon star Seann William Scott returns in the lead role as Doug «the Thug» Glatt, who in the first film went from bar bouncer to enforcer for a minor league hockey team.

Momentum Pictures has unveiled the first official trailer for an indie romantic comedy titled Half Magic, the feature directorial debut of actress Heather Graham, who also stars in the film in the lead role as «Honey».

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

That's certainly the case for the protagonist in the upcoming action film, «Bound By Debt,» which marks the first leading movie role of champion martial artist, Paul Mormando.

The first of Shakur's lead roles in six films, the final three of which were released after his September 1996 death, Juice remains the piece of acting he is best remembered for a quarter - century later.

Wilmann is nothing short of brilliant in the lead role, and it's hard to believe that Homesick is her first film acting experience.

The Globes» Musical or Comedy designation yielded three additional nominations for the film and its two leads, Farrow and Daniels, who shines in his first role following 1983 Best Picture Oscar winner Terms of Endearment.

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The first images of Dakota Johnson (50 Shades of Grey) in the film's lead role have also been unveiled.

In the clip, fans got their first glimpse at concept art from the film, which imagines lead actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the role — cape and alIn the clip, fans got their first glimpse at concept art from the film, which imagines lead actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the role — cape and alin the role — cape and all.

ShockYa (SY): Allie, you play Isabel in the new horror thriller, «The Institute,» which marks one of your first feature film leading roles.

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 remarkeIn 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 remarkein a scene from Take Shelter, second feature film by Jeff Nichols where her performance in one of her first leading roles was particularly remarkein one of her first leading roles was particularly remarked.

Danish star Nikolaj Coster - Waldau - best known these days for his roles in Game Of Thrones and Headhunters - will return to Denmark for his first Danish film in a decade as the lead of Oscar winner Susanne Bier's upcoming...

Of the films we have already seen, Chadwick Boseman buffed his stardom in the lead role in Marvel blockbuster «Black Panther,» while Joaquin Phoenix took home Best Actor at Cannes as a brutal killer trying to save a young girl from the sex trade in «You Were Never Really Here,» and Ethan Hawke earned raves as a melancholy priest out of the fall festivals for Paul Schrader's recently released «First Reformed.»

In theaters today, «Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.&raquIn theaters today, «Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.&raquin her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.&raquin a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.»

- «12 Years a Slave»'s Chiwetel Elijofor had his first feature role in Steven Spielberg's «Amistad», the story about a slave ship revolt and the trial of the once free man who led it; a film which also co-starred his biggest challenger for Best Actor, Matthew McConaughey.

In theaters January 20, «Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.&raquIn theaters January 20, «Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.&raquin her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.&raquin a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.»

Naomie Harris Photo: Kerry BrownThe star of the Videovision Entertainment's The First Grader, Naomie Harris, who plays the lead role of Jane Obinchu in the multi award - winning film, has been cast in the new James Bond film, Skyfall, the 23rd film in the James Bond franchise.

Though this will be Roberts» first outing leading a series, it marks her return to HBO, following her role in its 2014 film, «The Normal Heart.»

It's definitely going to be a showcase for Winslet as this will be her first truly leading role in a feature film since she pulled double - duty on «Revolutionary Road» and «The Reader» in 2008, and we're intrigued to see how she works with Brolin.

An Interview with Michael Stuhlbarg, Star of A Serious Man Hollywood pays Serious attention to stage star Michael Stuhlbarg in his first leading film role

A Fantastic Woman won the best foreign film Oscar: the first ever winner with a trans actor in the lead role — and that same actor, Daniela Vega, became the first trans presenter with an introduction to best song nominee Mystery of Love from Call Me By Your Name.

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.

Outlier Society productions currently include the upcoming «Thomas Crown Affair» remake that will have Jordan starring the the lead role, the forthcoming Netflix series «Raising Dion,» in which he will have a role, and a film adaptation of the YA novel «The Stars Beneath Our Feet» that will see Jordan in the director's chair for the first time.

She was cast as the lead character in the first film adaptation of Veronica Roth's «Divergent» franchise, and was signed to reprise the role in the second movie, «Insurgent».

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.

Silent Movie is a more personal film than the others, and — probably not coincidentally — the first in which Brooks has cast himself in a lead role.

I hated License to Kill when I first saw it in 1989 but many fans consider it one of the better films with the more sinister Timothy Dalton in the lead role.