Sentences with phrase «major television roles»

Uhura, whose name comes from a Swahili word meaning «freedom,» was one of the first major television roles written for an African American actor.

Her other major television role was Rachel Menken, the department store heiress / Don Draper's mistress in the first season of MAD MEN.

Sweetbitter is Purnell's first major television role.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production roles.

Television and contemporary popular music now play a major role in the education of American young people.

Recently cast in the role of Taylor, a non-binary gender identifying character in Showtime's BILLIONS, Dillon is the first non-binary gender identifying actor to ever be cast in a major television series.

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.

He's been on a couple television shows, but this is really his first major breakout role.

As in the television series, music plays a major role: Adrian Johnston wrote the evocative original score.

Written largely without interview access to the actress (now 70), the book has been framed out of necessity as a sort of biographical filmography, detailing her career in film, television, and music through not only her major roles and works — some of them not widely available to foreign audiences — but also in relation to the filmmakers with whom Kaji worked most frequently.

This rising young star scored a major industry coup portraying the popular character Boone on the hit television series Lost, and played the lead role in the television production of Marco Polo.

Gust Graas (born 1924) is a Luxembourg businessman and painter who has not only played a major role in the development of Luxembourg - based radio and television concern RTL but is also a talented abstract painter.

Traditional outreach such as door to door canvasing and television advertising still play a major role in gaining public support but these techniques will not appeal to the younger voter, and therefore will not be sustainable for much longer.

The city has played a major role in both television and motion pictures since the 1920s.