Sentences with phrase «mainstream as a character actor»

Success has not shined upon most of the actors in this film, David Paymer is the most known in the mainstream as a character actor and he's only in the movie for less than five minutes.

Not exact matches

Mike White — «Year of the Dog» Maybe one of the purest expressions of «screenwriter - turned - director» (though he's also an actor given to appearing in character roles in some of his films) Mike White had, in years leading to 2007, carved out quite a distinctive place for himself as an indie screenwriter dealing more in low - key human dramedy than some of the more bombastic Shane Black - types, or more mainstream Steve Zaillian - types on our list.

One of American cinema's finest character actors, Dern, whose career took off in the Seventies, proved too eccentric, too unconventional to work as a mainstream leading man in commercial fare, but here he's wonderfully worthy of this auspicious lineage.

Curtis is played by character actor Michael Shannon, known for twitchy supporting roles in mainstream films, including his Oscar - nominated turn as a mentally fractured man in «Revolutionary Road.»

LOS ANGELES — Veteran British character actor David Ryall, who's best known to mainstream American audiences as «Harry Potter's» Elphias Doge, died on Christmas Day.

By the same token, Nolan is nearly as adept at Tarantino at scripting plum comeback roles for great character actors long off of mainstream Hollywood's radar: Eric Roberts in The Dark Knight, Tom Berenger in Inception, and now Tom Conti, a 1984 Oscar nominee for the unduly forgotten Reuben, Reuben, here playing a wise old man in a faraway prison who, at Bruce Wayne's lowest moment, nurses him back to fighting form.

Mainstream audiences might recognize Chon as a supporting actor in those wildly successful sparkling vampire films, but lately he's emerged as a unique voice for low - budget, character - driven dramedies.