Sentences with phrase «known as a dramatic actor»

Jamie Foxx is the rare comedian who didn't really hit it big in movies until he began appearing in dramatic roles — like his lead performance in Ray, for which he was awarded the 2004 Best Actor Oscar — and is now better known as a dramatic actor than a comedic one.

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The rule of faith demands that Scripture be read as a coherent dramatic narrative, the unity of which depends on its principal actor: the God who has forever known himself and who, in the history of redemption, has revealed himself to us, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

As he did with Jonah Hill, Miller will direct an actor known for comedy in a dramatic role, with Steve Carell playing du Pont.

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.

What made it even more remarkable at the time was that Kline was known almost exclusively as a dramatic actor, in films like Sophie's Choice, The Big Chill, and Cry Freedom — only people who'd seen him onstage or in The Pirates Of Penzance could have anticipated such a broadly comic turn.

Director, co-writer and producer Alejandoro González Iñárritu, well known by cinephiles for his «Birdman,» which features Michael Keaton as a popular actor trying to deal with the problems of his current life, now puts his skill on creating a dramatic biopic of fur trapper Hugh Glass (played by DiCaprio) who, in 1823 in an area which became the Dakota Territory, is brutally attacked and mauled by a bear while scouting for an expedition.

What is acclaimed dramatic actor Tony Leung, better known for starring in arthouse flicks such as In The Mood For Love (2000), doing in a frivolous family fantasy movie such as this?

If you're like most people, you probably know James Franco best as the goofy comic actor from «Pineapple Express,» «This Is the End,» «The Interview» and the like, or the intense dramatic actor who earned an Oscar nomination for «127 Hours,» played «Spider - Man's» best friend / nemesis in Sam Raimi's movies and headlined an acclaimed James Dean TV biopic after getting his start on «Freaks and Geeks.»

Vaughn had done dramatic roles earlier in his career, but he became known mostly as a comedic actor from the early 2000s on, making the shift seen in this film not so shocking.

Once upon a time, in a fabled land known as «The Nineties», Neeson was an acclaimed dramatic actor.

He had one of the funniest lines of the night and that's saying a lot considering how serious of a dramatic actor he is known as being.

This goofy take on NASCAR and southern culture also established John C. Reilly as a comedic force of nature, back in the era when he was known primarily as a dramatic character actor.