Sentences with phrase «lead role of a lifetime»

Exhuming one of the most sordid cultural stories of the»90s, Margot Robbie lands the lead role of a lifetime.

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The Western New York region and many of its landmarks are taking a leading role in a made - for - television movie, airing Saturday night on the Lifetime Movie Network.

Nessa got a surprising call offering her the gig of a lifetime: a lead role in a major musical production.

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.

The movie never made during Ted Kennedy's lifetime purports to examine his role in events leading to the death of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A CAST ENSEMBLE — «Spotlight «BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE — Leonardo DiCaprio in «The Revenant» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE — Brie Larson in «Room» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE — Idris Elba in «Beasts of No Nation» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE — Alicia Vikander in «The Danish Girl» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A CAST ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY SERIES — «Orange is the New Black» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES — Jeffrey Tambor in «Transparent» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES — Uzo Aduba in «Orange is the New Black» BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES — Idris Elba in «Luther» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES — Queen Latifah in «Bessie» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE — «Mad Max: Fury Road» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES — «Game of Thrones» LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD — Carol Burnett

This lead to Hugh Jackman, then a relatively - unknown Australian stage actor, landing the role of a lifetime that launched his extraordinary career.

But then, out of the blue he was offered the role of a lifetime, playing a supporting role to Meryl Streep's lead in the eponymous Florence Foster Jenkins, the biographical story of a tone - deaf but wealthy New York socialite with a dream to be a world class soprano.

Those roles, and a lifetime of committed, unglamorous idiosyncrasy, led to a ton of unusually heartfelt obituaries and appreciations when Stanton died last month.

71 - year - old West, a former movie stuntman and Elvis bodyguard, distils a lifetime of experience into his first lead role, to silently heartbreaking effect; novice Savane struggles occasionally to riff off an evidently bare - bones script, but it his guileless charisma that colours the whole film.

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.

The movie also continues the midcareer blossoming for Melissa McCarthy, who once might have been destined for a lifetime of supporting parts but has stepped into lead roles after her Oscar - nominated turn in «Bridesmaids» and the success of the TV sitcom «Mike and Molly.»

The following year she received the Kraszna - Krausz Book Award for In Retrospect; in 1997 she was granted honorary degrees by three universities; in 2003 she received the distinction of an honorary OBE; and in 2010 the Sony World Photography Awards paid tribute to her leading role in the photographic community with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Topics that I work on or plan to work in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.