Sentences with phrase «known as character actors»

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.