Sentences with phrase «landed small roles»

While the film was not released until 1987 and received poor distribution, Doe's rugged good looks and cool charisma registered well on screen, and he soon landed small roles in Oliver Stone's breakthrough film Salvador and Wayne Wang's neo-noir drama Slam Dance.

Welles, played by McKay, is introduced through the eyes of Richard, a stage - struck New York high school kid who, through a combination of chance and chutzpah lands a small role in the production.

Not exact matches

After landing various small roles, including appearing as a suitcase girl on the game show «Deal or No Deal,» the actress got her big break on «Suits.»

The first few years of his career following the departure from the show were somewhat lackluster, but Smits eventually landed the role of Senator Bail Organa in the second and third Star Wars prequels, a move that would permanently cement him in film history in the minds of at least one very large fanbase.In addition to his work with the Star Wars franchise, Smits also made an inevitable return to the small - screen mid-decade with a prominent role on NBC's The West Wing during the show's 2004 - 2005 season.

Keener graduated from Wheaton College in 1983 and in 1986 she landed her first film role, a small part in About Last Night.

The actress also found a great deal of success on the small screen — Ivey starred in television productions of The Long, Hot Summer (1985), Dixie: Changing Habits (1985), We Are the Children (1987), and Decoration Day (1990) before landing several prominent sitcom roles.

In 1958, he landed his first major screen role, playing a small - town Brando wannabe in Rally Round the Flag Boys.

Jason continued with small acting and voice - acting roles in sitcoms, cartoons, and films until 1992, where he landed the role of Dash X in «Eerie, Indiana» (1991).

Hammer landed two of his first major roles at polar opposite ends of the dramatic spectrum: one playing the young Christian evangelical minister Billy Graham in actor - turned - director Robby Benson's chronicle of Graham's early life, Billy: The Early Years (2008), and another playing the son of Satan on the small screen fantasy adventure series Reaper.

Not long after, he moved to Los Angeles, landing his first film role in POWWOW HIGHWAY and making his TV debut in a small role in the ABC TV movie LONGARM in 1988.

Continuing to take smaller roles in big movies between her stage work, Jones followed Erin Brockovich with a turn as one of the residents on land forced to come to grips with the tragic effects of The Perfect Storm (2000).

Finally, in what feels like the smallest lead role, is optimistic ad sales agent Mary (Drew Barrymore), who is trying to make use of today's technologies to land a man.

Leaning into acting, she scored a small role in «Neighbors 2,» but landing a coveted spot in the all - female «Ocean's 8» lineup in a cast led by Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway gave her Hollywood career a next - level bump.

Monty Python star Michael Palin has landed another Tv acting role after returning to the small screen last year (13) in black comedy The Wipers...

Just as impressive in a smaller role is the relatively unknown Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong «o, who plays Patsey, Epps» pet «property», who is not only the best cotton picker on the land, but also has the affection, for better or worse, of Epps, to the point where his jealous wife (Paulson, Game Change) commits her own wicked acts against her.

If you are not familiar with the lead actress, Jessica Rothe, it is not surprising because she is only just getting started after a very small role in last year's «La La Land».

Ed Helms started with smaller film and television roles before landing the part of Andy Bernard on «The Office.»

After making his big screen debut in a small role in John Sayles» Baby It's You, he quickly became one of the most in - demand young actors of his generation, with major roles in Robert Altman's Streamers, Alan Parker's Birdie, and Gillian Armstrong's Mrs. Soffel, before landing the leading role in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.

One really cool thing about working or volunteering with non-profits is that a small team or limited resources often allow you to take on more of a leadership role than you would have been able to land in a for - profit company.

There are a variety of agricultural and land management strategies that could play a small but useful role.

Among the many mitigation measures currently under development, some could provide new opportunities to hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers, pastoralists and forest dwellers, through their roles as sequesters of carbon, through the changes they can make in their land use and cultivation practices to reduce GHG emissions, and as small scale producers of clean energy.

Three small islands are only about 1,500 acres total, but this little bit of land has played a major role in evolutionary history as well as human history.

I would like to show you how a small investment in yourself and your career can result in landing quality interviews, formidable salary increases, bigger and better titles, and more fulfilling job roles.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.