On the other were two men better
known as character actors: Christoph Waltz and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Mostly
known as a character actor and supporting player, he first appeared on television in 1954 and made his feature film debut in 1957, going on to more than 200 screen credits.
Not exact matches
No matter who is chosen to play the role of a
character, someone will always resemble that
actor,
as there are a small number of genotype human appearance factors
As one of the best
known French
actors working today, Vincent Cassel has a penchant for playing compelling
characters driven by a deeper desire.
In spite of his directorial success, Kramer was only
known to Hollywood
as a
character actor.
He's surrounded by stereotypical, yet colorful
characters played by recognizable
character actors like Paul Rodriguez, Louis Anderson, Jamie Gertz, and pre-Matrix Laurence Fishburne
as Voodoo, a messenger who doesn't care about what he delivers, even if it is for the local drug runner,
known as The Gypsy.
One year later, Apfel appeared again
as an
actor known for playing distinguished
characters in films such
as Romance of the Underworld (1928), and the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon.
A 33 - year - old
actor and comic best
known for his long - running role
as Maurice in the Britcom «The IT Crowd,» Ayoade has an evident gift for the kind of slightly offbeat comedy that's about the differences between a
character's self - perception and the way the world sees him.
The British
actor, best
known as Loki in the «Thor» and «Avengers» series, disappears into the
character's skinny body and twangy voice.
Best
known as Steve, the boyishly charming nice - guy bartender (and the perfect complement to his onscreen romantic partner, snappish Miranda Hobbes) in HBO's blockbuster original series Sex and the City, the slightly diminutive, raven - haired American
character actor David Eigenberg was born in Manhasset, NY, on May 17, 1964.
By contrast, the very fine
character actor Catherine Keener is excellent
as his
no - nonsense partner: she's every inch the believable special agent, controlled, efficient, dedicated, human but highly disciplined (
as was, come to think of it, Clint Eastwood in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»).
You
know, in a show with such a good
actor as the central
character, it's tough to find any humanity in him.
I really really dislike the main
character like he's actually in real life gonna get the girl of his dream, are you serious??? He has a crooked smile, wears pajamas all day outside of his house and talk's like a gay poet, I just think he sucks
as an
actor, uggh I don't
know why I dislike him so much after this movie.On the other hand Rachel Bilson is very cute and not
as bad of an
actor This movie solely focuses on telling the story and making us like the
characters for themselves.
to son (and unrepentant ginger), Tim (Domnhall Gleeson — son of the great
character actor Brendan Gleeson, but best
known as a Weasley boy from Harry Potter).
But the real winner here is Spall, the ever great
character actor, (best
known for Mr. Turner and Secrets and Lies),
as the romantic lead.
It had been
known that the filmmakers wanted to skew younger with the cast of the film, but fans love when these
actors reprise their roles
as their
characters.
No, the white
characters in «Mudbound» are products of their time, and there's an honesty to that which sometimes supersedes choices that might otherwise have been more satisfying or dramatic — much
as the casting favors
actors whose weathered faces and strained expressions look
as if they might have been lifted from Richard Avedon's «In the American West» series.
Much of this positivity can be credited to the casting of Gal Gadot in the title role, a role that she will
no doubt be associated with for pretty much the rest of her career in the same way that Christopher Reeve was with Superman, and that isn't to say either
actor is typecast but they just nailed everything about the
character they portray so much that it is difficult to think of them
as anything else.
Three years ago, The Guardians of the Galaxy was considered the first big risk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, completely removed from the rest of the Avengers on other planets with
characters even avid comic book readers weren't overly familiar with, all led by an
actor who was primarily
known as the chubby goofball on an NBC workplace sitcom.
Their parts were reportedly written for other
actors (Eli Wallach had been meant to reprise his classic turn
as the Mexican bandit), but once you settle in to their personas, you forget they're acting and can accept the two well -
known stars
as the
characters they are meant to be.
Where Gore Verbinski («The Ring») at least
knew how to set a disconcerting, sickly mood, Gutiérrez can't unnerve you with a location or a situation; he overdoses on close - ups of his
actors without indicating he cares about them
as characters, to the detriment of any spatial coherence or framing tension.
In 1988 the
know - it - alls in Hollywood laughed when it was learned that 20th Century Fox had given $ 5 million to a television
actor to star in a film whose lead
character had already been offered to, and turned down by, such stars
as Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone, Don Johnson and Richard Gere.
An erudite, Jewish Ivy League graduate — and closeted gay man — who spoke nine languages and was a regular guest on a popular TV quiz show, Berg was an incredibly multifaceted
character far removed from Rudd's recent efforts that would allow him to stretch
as an
actor,
as he worked with language coaches and tried to tap into a man who wouldn't let himself be
known.
For the most part, the films showcased Dern
as a
character actor who specialized in psychopaths and misfits, and a guy who
knew how to jazz up a scene with an arsenal of quirks that became
known as Dernsies.
The great
character actors of the Warner Bros. stock company fill in the supporting roles, with Ginger Rogers in a memorable role
as the gold - digging chorine
known as «Anytime Annie,» Una Merkel
as her chorus girl buddy, and Ned Sparks
as a wise guy investor dropping wry remarks with a cynical sneer.
Marginalized in the initial sequences was Reeves, the lone
actor well -
known in the U.S. Universal opted to reshoot a major fight scene near the end of the film,
as well
as a few other scenes to sharpen the focus on Reeves»
character Kai.
But don't worry, all of our old friends are back, with Jack Black (Bernie)
as Po, Dustin Hoffman (Chef)
as Shifu and
character actor James Hong (R.I.P.D.)
as Mr. Ping (the goose),
as well
as the Furious Five, all of whom have various well -
known actors voicing them, even if they have few lines, including Angelina Jolie (Maleficent) and Lucy Liu (Elementary).
After a few comments from the
actors — Lilly
knows almost nothing about her
character as she's not yet seen a script, Stoll alludes to his
character being the scientist bad - guy, and Rudd prepares for superhero stardom — they played a video made just for Comic - Con,
as the film hasn't started any filming.
As he proved by playing Mark Zuckerberg, Eisenberg certainly
knows his way around making a
character empathetic without ignoring his inherent arrogance and that's exactly what Baumbach needs from his
actors.
For the most part throughout his career, Sam Elliott has thrived
as a
character actor, best
known for supporting work in films such
as «Tombstone», «The Big Lebowski» and «Hulk» — and for countless TV roles in the 70s and 80s.
I
know it would have been far more enjoyable with a different
actor as the title
character.
Thomas Middleditch's
character is described in Entanglement
as a «sad cartoon carrot,» which strikes me
as a line written after the
actor (better
known for HBO's Silicon Valley) was cast.
Newcomer Julian Dennison, a New Zealand
actor best
known for his roles
as Kevin in Paper Planes and Ricky in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, appears
as Russell «Hot Stuff» Collins, another new
character coming to the sequel which is now in theaters.
As is the case with most
actors involved in Marvel Studio releases, Wong doesn't
know precisely how his
character will fit into the film.
For a three - week rehearsal period, Bardem said the director put his
actors in many different settings that were not in the script
as a way of fleshing out the world and making sure that they
knew exactly how the
characters would respond to everything.
She is
known for starring in two TV series,
as the title
character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown (1988 — 1998), for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and
as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy - drama Boston Legal (2004 — 2008), for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Screen
Actors Guild Award.
Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American film and television
actor best
known to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans for his various roles playing non-human
characters, often in heavy makeup, in films and television series such
as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
There's a decent supporting cast, with Ben Whishaw
as a Copenhagen bachelor attracted to Lili (for a long time it's not clear if he
knows she's still a man underneath) while the Belgian
actor Matthias Schoenaerts does his handsome best to bring to life a
character who feels he's been invented especially for the film — the childhood friend who once found Einar so attractive he kissed him, but whose romantic attentions are now firmly fixed on Gerda.
No, that's not Martin Sheen
as the Soultaker, it's his brother, Joe Estevez, a veteran
character actor who has appeared in dozens of direct - to - video genre pics, frequently with Robert Z'dar, another DTV favorite.
As for everyone else, Anthony Mackie is the movie's best
actor in which he plays a
character who you don't
know whether or not he's a bad guy.
Affable
actors,
known characters, familiar situations; it could easily be more of the same
as the first installment.
I've also been very tempted go choose the popular
character actor known as Michael Shannon.
The
actor is best
known for portraying the Norse god Thor in films such
as Thor, Thor: The Dark World, and The Avengers, in which Hemsworth manages to bring a great amount of humor to his
character.
His portrayal of a deeply sad man who is having trouble dealing with his past and moving on with his life is so realistic that we
no longer see the
actor playing the role, but instead view this
character as a real person.
(Better
known for tough guy
characters in Rollerball and Mission: Impossible,
actor Jean Reno also displays his previously undisclosed talent for deadpan humor in this role
as Martin's straight man.)
Alongside the untitled Avengers 4, this marks a definitive conclusion for the Marvel Cinematic Universe
as we
know it —
characters will die,
actors will depart the MCU for good, and nothing will be the same.
He was
known mainly for his stellar work
as a
character actor, and later,
as a bonafide lead and Oscar winner.
The 38 - year - old
actor is set to reprise his role
as multiple - personality sufferer Kevin Wendell Crumb - which he first starred in M. Night Shyamalan's 2016 thriller «Split» - who kidnaps Anya Taylor - Joy's
character Casey
as he attempts to battle his darkest personality
known as The Beast.
At a push I would say Josh Brolin
as Thanos was great, but the truth is each performance was just
as good
as the rest, when you have
actors like Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans who have played these
characters for so long, you just accept what they do with the
character because you hope they
know what they're doing.
Imelda Staunton and Timothy Spall seem like strange choices at first, since both are
character actors, likely best
known for the roles
as undesirables in Harry Potter.