Sentences with phrase «landed television roles»

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While Langella landed occasional television and film roles through much of the 1970s, he was still busiest as a stage actor.

Starting out in local theatre productions, she eventually moved to television and landed a starring role in the popular soap opera Teresa.

Within a year, she made her television debut as a female police detective in the pilot for a short - lived crime drama entitled Dog and Cat; in 1978, she landed the starring role in the made - for - TV movie Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold, appropriately playing a beautiful Southern girl who comes to Los Angeles in search of stardom.

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.

Alongside her film and television work, Graynor has remained fully active on - stage, landing her most prominent role as Alison in the 2005 Broadway outing Brooklyn Boy.

In 2015, he landed the pivotal role of John, in the Mark Burnett and Roma Downey produced television series A.D..

During that same year, he soon landed a co-starring role as Marc - Andre in the television comedy TAXI 0 - 22 opposite Patrick Huard as his father.

Rifkin has no better luck with Decker, until his protégé lands a guest role on the popular television series Baywatch.

After appearing in a number of short films, Turner made the move to television by landing the lead role in the 2012 British miniseries Leaving, playing a young man caught in a relationship with a married woman nearly twice his age.

Just see his recent work in the wonderful Don't Think Twice, where he plays a conflicted improv comedian who finds his life torn apart after landing a role on a major television show.

Before landing the role of Don's doomed love interest, Spencer had starred on «All My Children,» had a few guest spots on television shows, and even led a short - lived Lifetime series.

When he began landing jobs in commercials and guest - starring roles on television shows and films; he left teaching and moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career full - time.

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

Freida Pinto Pinto was a model and television host who had done no acting apart from a few school plays when, after her first six months of auditioning, she landed the role of a lifetime — the female lead in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire which went on to win Best Picture at the 2009 Academy Awards.

Acting in films and television since his late teens, Nicholson landed a choice role in his friends» film, Easy Rider, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Producer / Emmy ® - award winning actress, America Ferrera talks about her early roles in film and television including the hit show Ugly Betty, Real Women Have Curves, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and working with Ryan Piers Williams on the independent film The Dry Land.

Producer / Emmy ® - award winning actress, America Ferrera talks her early roles in film and television including the hit show Ugly Betty, Real Women Have Curves, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and working with Ryan Piers Williams on the independent film The Dry Land.

Get Up Close to Hawaii Film Sites Hawaii's natural good looks have landed it a leading role in scores of movies and television shows.

The exhibition also demonstrates that Land Art was concerned not just with sculptural works but also media practices: Language, photography, film and television played a central role in the creation and development of Land Art.

Artist Statement From the telephone to television, from moon landings to missions to Mars, from the polio vaccine to the human genome, the United States plays a pivotal role in...