Sentences with phrase «major roles in films»

Looking at her major roles in films of recent years, it's becoming apparent where her strong - suit lies.

In 1997, Randle played a major role in the film adaptation of Todd McFarlane's popular comic Spawn (1997).

Advancements in military weapons play a major role in this film.

Plemons has been mentioned before for a major role in the film but the other names are new.

Washington is accompanied on screen by Viola Davis, who also won a Tony for that 2010 revival of the play, and got one of her first major roles in film from her director in Antwone Fisher, years before her cinematic breakout with her Oscar - nominated role in Doubt.

Stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ellen Page and Peter Dinklage open up about their experiences working on set and explain the themes of time - travel and how it plays a major role in the film.

Speaking with Inverse, Stefan Kapičić revealed Colossus plays a major role in the film's narrative.

The kicker is that Brian Wilson's song «Love and Mercy» plays a major role in the film, a tune with these lyrics in the opening line: «I was sitting in a crummy movie with my hands on my chin.»

Ripley might play a major role in the film along with Hicks.

Benedict Cumberbatch has become synonymous with the role of Doctor Strange in the lead up to the film's release, however what we didn't know until now is that Cumberbatch actually played a second major role in the film.

Not exact matches

In a series of broadcasts by Britain's Channel 4, Nix was filmed making controversial statements about his firm's work on elections, including how Cambridge Analytica played a major role in Trump's presidential victory, including «all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting.&raquIn a series of broadcasts by Britain's Channel 4, Nix was filmed making controversial statements about his firm's work on elections, including how Cambridge Analytica played a major role in Trump's presidential victory, including «all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting.&raquin Trump's presidential victory, including «all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting.»

David Oyelowo, who plays the civil rights leader in the film, is everywhere this year — from roles in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and J. C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year to his major role as King.

Estevez recently worked on his independent film The Public which he wrote, directed and starred in — but outside that hasn't had a major role since 2012.

The actor would be the youngest to take on the role (he's 26 years old), and he has only been in a handful of major films; both points which actually may be an asset rather than a handicap.

Oscar nominee Kate Hudson is in Buffalo to film her role in «Marshall,» the major motion picture being shot across Western New York.

So influential are these stars that, when news spread recently a major Nollywood star had been cast in a small role in a Hollywood film, Marvel's «Avengers: Infinity War», Nigerians went wild.

Dr. Hyman plays a substantial role in a major film produced by Laurie David and Katie Couric, released in 2014, called

Dr. Hyman plays a substantial role in a major film produced by Laurie David and Katie Couric, released in 2014, called Fed Up, which addresses childhood obesity.

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs, and, after being forced to migrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English - speaking roles in The Thief of Bagdad, and, in Hollywood, Casablanca, in which he appeared as Major Strasser.

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She also posed for a well - publicized layout in Playboy which, coinciding with the film's release, certainly didn't hurt her growing popularity.While Basinger's career took off after Never Say Never Again, and she appeared in several major hits (including The Natural, 9 1/2 Weeks, and Batman, the latter of which led to a brief romance with pop star Prince), quality roles tended to elude her.

Danny's first major movie appearance came when he landed the role of Moff in the clubbing film Human Traffic (1999).

The film follows its naive heroine, Tracy (Amanda Bauer), who drives across the country from Wisconsin to live with her boyfriend Mark (Jack DePew), who has booked a lead role in a major film.

Despite winning critical acclaim for her performance, it would be four years, save for a cameo in the Coens» Raising Arizona (1987) and various small roles, before she would be featured in another major film production.

Roth began acting during her years as an expatriate, earning her first major film role in Ivan Zuleta's cult film Arrebato (1979).

He made his first appearance in an American film in Victor Halperin's grisly thriller Torture Ship, playing one of the criminals on whom well - intentioned (but quite mad) scientist Irving Pichel plans to perform glandular experiments, but he soon moved up to higher budgeted films from the major studios, although still almost inevitably in sinister roles.

Outside of major roles in early sound efforts like The Big Trail and Tom Sawyer (both 1930), he could be found playing menacing tribal chiefs and bandits in serials and B - pictures, and seedy, drunken «redskin» stereotypes (invariably named Injun Joe or Injun Charlie or some such) in big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

After appearances in a handful of feature films, Michele scored another major TV role in the series Homicide: Life on the Street in 1998.

Her next major film role was in 2014's apocalyptic thriller Left Behind.

A native of Trinidad (with East Indian ancestry), Bednob originally attended the University of Toronto as a sociology major — a field far removed from acting, though Bednob had naturally played the role of class clown in school for years, which seemed to predestine him for stage and film.

After having his first major Broadway success with A Shot in the Dark, Matthau began working on the screen, usually in small supporting roles that cast him as thugs, villains, and louts in such films as The Kentuckian (1955) and King Creole (1958).

No one expected that he would be able to take a lead in a major film after really doing nothing but supporting roles.

Bruce Campbell kicks major butt in the role and is just as great as he was in the original films.

Her performance is not that of an actress in a star's role, but that of an actress creating a character that happens to be major within the film.

He began his career a mere decade ago, in his mid-twenties, with films in which he and his friends played characters based on himself and his friends (among them was Greta Gerwig, whose first major role was in his 2007 film «Hannah Takes the Stairs»).

However, unlike silent star Marsh, Parker's characters usually enjoy a satisfying «worm has turned» moment — one of her first major film roles was as the abused wife in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) A more self - reliant Parker was seen in the 1990 AIDS - related TV movie Longtime Companion, as the supportive «earth mother» to a group of urban homosexual men.

During the»30s he played high - energy, gregarious leads in many «B» - movies and second leads in major films; later he moved into character roles.

Her next major film assignment was Lady Anne in Olivier's Richard III (1955), which led to a steady stream of costume roles in films like Alexander the Great (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1959), The Buccaneer (1959), and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962).

Other film work includes Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of WARHORSE and Peter Guillam alongside Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Colin Firth in Tomas Alfredson's TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, STARTER FOR 10, AMAZING GRACE, STUART: A LIFE BACKWARD, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and the role of Paul Marshall in Joe Wright's Oscar nominated ATONEMENT.

Though his first major film role in Penny Marshall's Calendar Girl (1993) came and went without fanfare, he enjoyed some success as a 90210 director.

That movie nudged him toward being considered a Serious Actor, a designation he nurtured with roles in three films shown at major festivals: Lee Daniels» The Paperboy and Todd Nichols» Mud (both at Cannes this year) and the popular indie comedy Bernie (London Film Festival).

Instead we are presented with an absolute turd of a film with shockingly bad «action» set pieces (despite not actually requiring major action set pieces for the plot), dreadful visuals that might as well be that «Gladiators» TV show complete with glitter and sparkles, a god awful thrash / heavy metal soundtrack just in case you forgot this film was suppose to be tough and your obligatory dire big name cast hot of the heels of other poor major blockbusters (yeah stick him / her in it, big name, can't go wrong, doesn't matter if they actually fit the role or not pfft!).

Upon his return from military service, Damone resumed his film career, enjoying featured or co-starring roles in major musical productions like Hit the Deck (1955) and the screen adaptation of Kismet (1955).

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

Hathaway has left other major films roles in the past, including the lead in 2007's Knocked Up that ultimately went to Katherine Heigl.

Among the topics discussed are the worst part of fame (Curtis says it's «isolation»), how Curtis's role (and particularly her striptease) in James Cameron's True Lies had a «major impact» on Gaga, and the challenges of filming sex scenes, plus there's a telling moment when Curtis asks «Is Gaga a character?»

It didn't hurt that Cable (Josh Brolin) and Domino (Zazie Beetz) became major players in the film as well as, especially after Deadpool 2 reshoots bolstered both of their roles.

His first major film role was gangster Ajax in Walter Hill's 1979 action drama The Warriors.

Richard Attenborough's polished, thoroughly safe — and, consequently, Oscar - garlanded — veneration of the great political and spiritual Indian leader has no room for contradiction, so here Gandhi (Ben Kingsley in his first major role) is first seen at his assassination and subsequent funeral; the film may rewind to his earlier days, but it continues as one long embalming procedure.