Sentences with phrase «number of actors who»

I've known a fair number of actors who were terrible, but they booked work all the time because they were good at auditioning.

A number of actors who play the universe's key characters will see their current contracts come to an end after Avengers 4, including Chris Evans as Captain America, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye — Feige's comments seem to suggest that we could see some dramatic ends to the characters» storylines.

For Dr. Ventriss there's Tanaya Beatty, Leah Jones, Alex Rice, and any number of actors who just haven't gotten their big breaks.

Despite boasting interesting performances from a number of actors who have stayed relevant and respected to this day, State has largely been forgotten by the public a quarter - century after its release.

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Just like when the company was getting the original Airbnb platform off the ground, there are likely to be rough spots: a refugee that doesn't assimilate well with his or her host, a bad actor who tries to sneak into the system to get free housing, or any number of routine cultural clashes.

That's right, Old Spice and Proctor and Gamble, who have hired Crews to act in a number of commercials, sent the actor an amazing letter of encouragement:

No matter who is chosen to play the role of a character, someone will always resemble that actor, as there are a small number of genotype human appearance factors

Some well - known people have received honours this year including: • actor Kenneth Branagh receives a knighthood, Kate Winslet a CBE and Jenny Agutter an OBE • architect Zaha Hadid receives a DBE, opera director David McVicar is knighted, and comic writer Grant Morrison gets an MBE • there were MBEs for world number one ranked golfer Luke Donald, Welsh rugby union player Shane Williams and former England goalkeeper David James • satirist Armando Iannucci gets an OBE, and there are CBEs for journalist Peter Riddell and cookery writer Mary Berry • there were OBEs for singer - songwriter Gary Barlow who organised the Queen's Jubilee Concert, and Sarah Burton, designer of Kate Middleton's wedding dress

The mayor, who recently launched his reelection campaign, was joined by singer Cher, filmmaker Michael Moore, actors Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore and Rosie O'Donnell, as well as a number of community organizers, union leaders, and others.

There are a small number of unscrupulous actors who have seized on the clinical promise of regenerative medicine, while exploiting the uncertainty, in order to make deceptive, and sometimes corrupt, assurances to patients based on unproven and, in some cases, dangerously dubious products.

Among his Wakandan countrymen and retinue are a number of remarkably fleshed - out characters with complex relationships, and a veritable who's who of black actors, including Letitia Wright as his sister Shuri; Lupita Nyong» o as his ex-flame Nakia; Danai Gurira as Okoye, the head of his all - women bodyguard; and Daniel Kaluuya as his best friend W'Kabi.

Banderas» charming, often comic performance, a cute one by child actor Adrian Alonso as Zorro's son and pint - sized counterpart, an amusing one by Rufus Sewell, who plays his villainous role as a Hispanic Christopher Walken, some imaginative PG - rated methods of disposing of the bad guys and a number of rather audacious parallels to contemporary politics and warfare place this clearly in the «guilty pleasure» category; like the original, it's notably longer than it has any right to be (perhaps Steven Spielberg executive producing both of them is a factor?)

The movie also features a number of great character actors in early roles, including David Paymer and Ed Begley Jr., although none do so much with so little as James Hong, who shines in an amusing sequence as the co-pilot of a puddle jumper transporting Vince and Sheldon to Central America.

The film includes a number of deaf actors, including the female child lead Millicent Simmonds, who said she was given a number of films to watch.

The Academy Award winners for Best Supporting Actor of the 1990s are a fine display of veteran Hollywood talent finally getting overdue recognition and a number of then upcoming stars who've risen to even greater roles since their victories.

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

The number of actors going to waste here is embarrassing: Jennifer Aniston, who has nothing to do as Bruce's long - suffering girlfriend; Philip Baker Hall, wandering around like he's on break from a better film; Sally Kirkland, who comes and goes so quickly you hardly know she's there; and Freeman, continuing his seemingly endless parade of roles he's far too good for.

Kasdan - who enjoys throwing large numbers of friends, family, and whole communities together (The Big Chill, Grand Canyon, Mumford)- lets his actors go about their work in a loose, improvisatory manner.

It also marks the addition of Don Knotts, the comic actor who has made a number of Disney films over the years and voices a character in next year's Chicken Little.

One of the main reasons that «The Outsiders» is remembered today is because Coppola had the good luck to cast it with a number of up - and - coming actors who would quickly go on to become huge stars — that one film was an important stepping stone for the likes of Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, and C. Thomas Howell alone.

The 79 - year - old writer - director - actor was accompanied by two of the film's stars, Emma Stone and Parker Posey, but it was Allen who held court during the 40 - minute press conference, speaking on a number of topics including world philosophy, remaking his own work and his upcoming Amazon Studios TV series.

It had to be someone who was a number of things: an intelligent actor who wasn't going to sentimentalise the part or make it Hollywood — because Fran's never been that — but also she's a working - class character and I didn't want to patronise that.

It forces the introduction of a number of new characters when there is still much development to be had from ones we already know, and who, let's face it, see performances from talented actors that the producers are lucky to have.

A number of high - profile directors have been in the mix to direct the erotic - drama, including Gus Van Sant (who even shot a test scene with actor Alex Pettyfer playing Christian Grey) and Bennett Miller.

Pratt is an actor who now finds himself in the enviable position of being the focal point of a number of high profile franchise films (including next summer's dino - riffic «Jurassic World «-RRB- and one of the rare actors who can find even the most jaded filmgoer actually looking forward to those giant studio confections.

This week we've seen a number of actors rumoured for the role of an «older» Batman / Bruce Wayne, who'll play a major part in Zack...

Edgerton, though a fine actor who has been in a number of successful movies and is a promising director, is still not an instantly recognizable name or face to most American moviegoers, and even fewer know Negga, a versatile and affecting Ethiopian - Irish actress whose most prominent exposure has been on Season 1 of the AMC series Preacher.

Elsewhere, Willem Dafoe — who collected a number of accolades early in the season from critics groups, including the National Board of Review, for «The Florida Project» — could upset in supporting actor.

I Am Number Four is a tease, promising muscular genre goods it never delivers, led by a painfully robotic performance from English actor Pettyfer, who spends the entirety of his screen time fussing with his unconvincing American accent.

Jeff Bridges and Bruce and Laura Dern applauded casting director Stalmaster, who gave a huge number of unconventional actors their starts in the 1960s.

The last of the day's interviews was not with Spiegel, unfortunately (we were told he was too busy to speak with us), but with actor Chris Coy, who plays «Travis», the «number one henchman» of «Flemming» (played by German actor Thomas Kretschmann), the manager of the Vegas hostel where Scott and his friends are lured.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Spielberg's jury encompasses a fair number of people who have launched their careers at Cannes or had their international reputations made here, including: actress Nicole Kidman; Romanian director and former Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu; two - time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz; Taiwanese - American director and multiple Oscar - winner Ang Lee; British director Lynne Ramsay; veteran French actor Daniel Auteuil; Indian actress Vidya Balan, and Japanese director Naomi Kawase.

Despite this history and the number of Hispanic actors who continue gracing the silver screen today, only a handful of Latinos can be counted among those who've won Academy Awards for acting.

Writer / director Danny Strong (co-creator of «Empire,» screenwriter of the «Mockingjay» films and actor in «Gilmore Girls» and «Buffy») introduces us to Salinger before all of that happened, young, ambitious, and like Catcher in the Rye «s Holden Caulfield, a smart aleck who has left or been asked to leave a number of top schools.

Harry Styles is one of a number of young actors who communicated a wordless sense of desperation.

There are a number of intriguing subplots, not the least of which is one involving sixty - something actor Ambrose Hilliard (beautifully underplayed by Bill Nighy) who must come to grips with the fact he's no longer an above - the - title star and is instead the veteran character guy called in to play the loveable drunken uncle who gets killed off before the third act.

Co Down - born Dornan (right), who dated Keira Knightley from 2003 - 2005, beat a number of stars to win the role after British actor Charlie Hunnam pulled out.

He meets Michelle (Samantha Morton) who introduces him to heroin, at which point the film moves into twitchy self - help groups in the company of a number of obvious American actors like Dennis Hopper.

And yet for three decades, Americans, who have generally shown themselves to be rational economic actors, haven't been pursuing the profitable path of education in sufficient numbers.

Over the years, the historic Coronado Motor Hotel has been honored to accommodate a number of celebrities including: Tom Mix who won an Oscar for his role as Father O'Malley in «Going my Way»; actor, USO and Oscar host Bing Crosby, Hattie McDaniel who won an Oscar for her supporting role as Mammy in «Gone with the Wind», Bounty Hunter's Duane Lee «Dog» Chapman, Sr., and musician Collin Raye.

Voice actor Jim French, who's voiced a number of common characters in Valve video games, has handed away this week on the age of 89.

Voice actor Jim French, who's voiced a number of in style characters in Valve video games, has handed away this week on the age of 89.

The actor has played a number of roles in the art market as buyer, charity auction impressario and a behind - the - scenes agent for sellers who feared a buyer would default on an auction bid.

In the spirit of Granovetter's threshold model, the «threshold» is «the number or proportion of others who must make one decision before a given actor does so».

During the 23 years she has practised family law in England, Charmaine has represented a vast number of public figures including pop stars, actors and actresses, members of parliament, well known sports men and women, TV personalities, entrepreneurs, medical practitioners, bankers, accountants and other clients» who require efficient no nonsense financial advice.

But there's still that 10 % of funds (bad actors) who use any number of excuses for putting captive lawyers in the counsel seat.

But I think what was also clear is that the methods of rate - limiting this weren't able to prevent malicious actors who cycled through hundreds of thousands of different IP addresses and did a relatively small number of queries for each one.

But I think what was also clear is that the methods of rate limiting this weren't able to prevent malicious actors who cycled through hundreds of thousands of different IP address and did a relatively small number of queries for each one.

The social networks could deploy a number of measures, he told TechNewsWorld, ranging from monitoring the IP addresses of suspect accounts to refining their analyses of the language in posts, looking for key indicators of actors who don't speak English as their first language.