Sentences with phrase «of gifted actresses»

Not helping either are misconceived performances by a pair of gifted actresses.

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Notable bearers for «God's Gift» are Dorothy Bush (sister to George Washington Bush), Dorothy Mary Hodgkin (we have a Nobel Prize Winner here people) and Dorothy Allison, Dorothy Coburn, Dorothy Dell and Dorothy Philips (all actresses... very much like all the common Chris actors, you know, the Pratt, Pine, Hemsworth and Evans brood of brothers).

For correctly guessing all six winners (Best Movie: «Argo,» Best Director: Ang Lee, Best Actor: Daniel Day - Lewis, Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz and Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway), she wins a $ 100 gift certificate to the Mattituck Cinemas, courtesy of Times / Review NewsGroup.

A lovely and gifted actress, Michael Michele has won acclaim for her portrayals of strong and capable women on television as well as in feature films.

Plaza doesn't stray too far from her brand — Tatiana is unsurprisingly droll and cutthroat — but the actress continues to prove that she's more than just her affectations, and her performance is backboned by a heartfelt riot of inner chaos and an uproarious talent for pratfalls (seriously, she has a gift).

«The latest big - screen iteration of the blockbuster video game isn't a film for the ages, but it's actually pretty good fun; an old - fashioned treasure - island adventure tale gilded in circa - 2018 wokeness (Lara Croft's breasts no longer command a lead supporting role) and anchored by an Oscar - winning actress far more gifted than the story requires.

I can't say she's the most gifted actress out there, yet she has two (in my opinion) wholly deserved Oscars — both simply cases of the right person connecting with the right role.

Morton is one of those tingly actresses whose skin barely covers her soul, and to watch her search for tender mercies in a crazy - hostile world is a gift.

That bold declaration not only represents a strong young woman but is also a gift for fans of the actress who plays her, Jessica Williams, the former «Daily Show» correspondent and current co-host of the «2 Dope Queens» podcast.

A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Acactress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece ActressActress).

Again, a strong cast, consisting of Lili Taylor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah and Mary Steenburgen, reminds us that Sayles is one of American cinema's most gifted directors of actresses.

The astonishingly gifted writer - director of «Thoroughbreds» is going places, which could also be said for Olivia Cooke («Vanity Fair») and Anya Taylor - Joy («Split»), the two note - perfect lead actresses who star in Finley's icy psychological thriller — a refined, upper - class riff on «Heavenly Creatures,» «Fun,» and the entire wicked subgenre in which two -LSB-...]

The astonishingly gifted writer - director of «Thoroughbreds» is going places, which could also be said for Olivia Cooke («Vanity Fair») and Anya Taylor - Joy («Split»), the two note - perfect lead actresses who star in Finley's icy psychological thriller — a refined, upper - class riff on «Heavenly Creatures,» «Fun,» and the entire wicked subgenre in which two girls, perfectly harmless on their own, prove to be homicidal in one another's company.

It's a gift of a part for an actress of such extraordinary range as Toussaint and she makes it her own, pulling off the remarkable feat of being a standout in a show absolutely brimming over with cherishable, note - perfect powerhouse performances.

Love & Friendship, based on the little - known Lady Susan, is as clever and seamless a marriage of source material and sensibility as one would expect, and gives Kate Beckinsale — a gifted comic actress who somehow ended up in a latex - fetish vampire franchise — the kind of role she too rarely gets.

Meanwhile, after years of being identified as a preternaturally gifted kid actress, Ronan felt that «Brooklyn» had finally allowed Hollywood to see her as an adult.

Rarely had I seen an actress, or actor for that matter, so fearless, so sure of him - or herself, and with such a preternatural gift for discovering humor in the most unexpected places.

Like Mike Leigh's Happy - Go - Lucky several years before it, Aisling Walsh's Maudie proves to be an remarkable showcase for the subtle gifts of actress Sally Hawkins.

Or, as Emma Stone said while accepting her best - actress BAFTA February 12, «In a time that's so divisive, I think it's really special that we were all able to come together tonight, thanks to BAFTA, to celebrate the positive gift of creativity, and how it can transcend borders and how it can help people to feel a little less alone.»

Florence Pugh is a gifted actress who will make a stunning Charlie, and Park is a filmmaker of extraordinary vision whose entry into the world of le Carré - style espionage should be irresistible.»

The performances are quite solid all around but the true standouts Lili Taylor as Carolyn Perron and the group of gifted young actresses playing the Perron girls.

Though touched by scandal due to her illicit affair with director Roberto Rossellini, Bergman used her undeniable gifts to earn the forgiveness of her fans and secured her place as a top leading actress.

The magnetic actress on her ballet background, the challenges of portraying a Manson cult girl, and the renewal of FOX's The Gifted.

Ant - Man star Michael Pena jokes about his disappointment after TV mogul - turned - actress Oprah Winfrey decided to present each of her castmates and crew members on new film A Wrinkle In Time with a top - of - the - line juice machine as a wrap gift.

At age 24, with three Oscar nominations under her belt, Saoirse Ronan is undoubtedly one of the most gifted young actresses working today, and now nod...

One sequence required Benedict and Rachel, who portrays his fellow surgeon and love interest Christine Palmer, to break down as they mourn the loss of his surgical gifts, and The Notebook actress admits she found it unusually easy to turn on the waterworks for the long shoot.

Clearly, Charlize Theron is one of the toughest actresses working today, which is on full display in her latest film, Atomic Blonde, where she takes her gifts to another level playing a Cold War spy around fall of the Berlin Wall.

There are so many fine and famous sixty - to - seventy - something actresses in the world that we never get to see anymore so it's always a treat when someone not named Meryl, Glenn, Judi, Maggie or Helen is gifted one of those older lady parts.

The actress, who is the daughter of actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern, received many cherished gifts from the late actress, but she holds the...

Maud's transformation is similar to the one in «Norma Rae,» and as in that movie a gifted actress takes a set of standard movie coincidences and makes them work.

So when he finds his hands injured in a car crash, taking away the gift that made him so successful and self - important, his moping self - pity is far from sympathetic — and the resulting breakdown of his relationship with former colleague Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) is both a subplot that never rises above hollow cliche and a waste of a great actress.

But does she have the comedy chops to play one of the most gifted comedic actresses of all time?

But McDormand, at age 60 one of our most gifted and least calculating actresses, fearlessly challenges us to love her character anyway.

Witherspoon has proven herself a gifted comic actress in Election and last year's Legally Blonde, but her performance and charm here are largely diminished by the tedium of the material.

Actress Butterfly McQueen describes the dilemma of intelligent and gifted black actors forced to play iconic stereotypes, and there's added material on Selznick's decision to prune away the novel's more racist elements from the screenplay.

Gwen Herlihy the cheated on then widowed wife is played by Tea Leoni who is one of those actresses who has the rare gift to be able to bring a sort of «everyday woman'type of beauty and grace to any role she comes into.

The seven - year - old actress cried tears of joy after she beat off competition from «Gifted» star McKenna Grace, «Logan» actress Dafne Keen», «Wonderstruck's Millicent Simmonds, and «Wonder» actor Jacob Tremblay to pick up the Best Young Performer honour for her role as Moonee in «The Florida Project» at the annual ceremony on Thursday (11.01.18).

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So let's erase that from history; let's say Anne Hathaway does not win Best Supporting Actress for playing Fantine in Les Mis — and does not, you know, compare her personal struggles to those of a 19th - century orphan - prostitute — and life goes on with us merely regarding her as a gifted, if somewhat overbearing, theater kid who grew up.

These are two gifted actresses at the apex of their craft.

In 2007, Byrne was the beneficiary of the 21st century's greatest gift to actresses struggling to find a decent role in a movie: the cable television drama.

Given to him as a gift by his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, these Daytonas are set apart by subtle but important differences, such as an art - deco font for the numerals on the subdials and small squares at the end of the hash marks.

While absorbing the ways of radio, from writing to directing, he meets some extraordinarily brave and gifted people who touch his life in ways he could not have imagined — actresses Rue, Pauline, and Hazel; actor - director Waldo, creator of the magnificent black show Freedom Road; and enigmatic station owner Loren Harford, among others.

Among their adopters is actress Mandy Moore, who said her dog Joni «has been one of the greatest gifts in our world.»

My recent series entitled, Female Protagonist, is a creative collaboration with gifted actresses that empowers the female voice, body, character & existence — coupled with short videos of each artist, revealing an up close & personal glimpse of themselves they keep under lock and key.

Trained as an actress, singer, and painter, Louise Nevelson experienced a major turning point at Christmas 1957, when she received a case of liquor as a gift and realized that «the crate, with its cellular divisions... was in itself a sculpture.»