Sentences with phrase «of prominent actors»

Portman is joined by a bountiful group of prominent actors including Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Benedict Wong, and Oscar Isaac.

During the two month fundraiser, The Coffee Bean ® plans to raise up to $ 50,000 to fund the Adopt the Arts program furthering their efforts to adopt schools and tapping star power of prominent actors and musicians along the way.

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A range of prominent individuals and brands have hopped on the #DeleteFacebook train since the Cambridge Analytica news broke a week and a half ago, from Elon Musk to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to actor Will Ferrell to Playboy magazine.

Owned by Sina Corp., a Yahoo - like web portal that came to prominence in the early day, it's become prominent in Chinese politics, especially around environmental issues, corruption over food safety, disaster response and in Chinese celebrity culture, where a number of actors and singers have gained millions of followers (or «fans» as their called in Weibo lingo).

It is difficult to think of another singular event left up to a public voting population that received this much unified direction and expertise from such a varied group of prominent international actors.

Then there is the current Vatican Ostpolitik: Russian Orthodox Church leaders have been prominent actors in Putin's war of propaganda and disinformation, yet the ecumenical efforts of the Holy See seem premised on the wish that these churchmen are not what they manifestly are — agents of Russian state power.

The self - confidence of prominent spokespeople and main actors of the dominant system has began to hesitate and they have had to recognize some of the problems and shortcomings, particularly at three points: First, the inadequacy of the «market» to solve by itself some of the serious threats to human survival, like the deterioration of the environment and the depletion of the energy resources.

Professor Barry Buzan at the London School of Economics, one of the most prominent members of the English School, has contended that the international society is divided into two: on the one hand there is a homogenous group of international actors that share a common historical and cultural background, and on the other a group that is linked by a contractual bond.

But, according to a number of sources, her bid for the seat is predicated on a series of political deals and exchanges of favors that would leave her indebted to a vast array of political machines and prominent political actors.

Prominent administration critics such as actor Mark Ruffalo have been converted to Cuomo cheerleaders who send out press releases in support of virtually every new environmental action he takes.

Gov. Cuomo celebrated the opening of the first film and TV studio in The Bronx Wednesday — but he left the city's most prominent political actor, Mayor de Blasio — on the cutting room floor.

Cuomo's director of communications, Melissa DeRosa, began following the Twitter account of actor Mark Ruffalo, an outspoken fracking opponent and one of the governor's most prominent critics.

De Blasio also got support Sunday night from prominent members of the gay community, including actress Cynthia Nixon and actor Alan Cumming, at an «LGBT for BDB» fund - raiser.

Name Years Nationality / profession Prominent roles Jewish lineage References; Harvey Atkin: 1942 — 2017: Canadian actor: Cagney & Lacey, The Super Mario Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day - Lewis is the second child of Nicholas Blake, Poet Laureate of the.

The actor retained a firm hold on his craft, however, and delivered some of the finest work of his career late in the game, with prominent roles in David Cronenberg's 1991 Naked Lunch (as a wiseacre physician) and Bart Freundlich's family - themed psychodrama The Myth of Fingerprints (1997, as a seriously deranged father with a seedy and twisted past).

He remained busy as a prominent character actor and supporting player — part of that category of performers that includes the likes of Richard Herd and James Cromwell — into the 1980s.

An actor of stage and screen, Ron Vawter was best known for essaying the parts of Roy Cohn and Jack Smith, a pair of prominent but wildly different homosexuals, both of whom died of AIDS in the 1980s.

Some of the voice actors, like Justin Timberlake's prominent turn, strike the viewer as being cast for name recognition over value - adding performances.

A prominent role in White Squall (1996) closely followed this, where Jason had the opportunity of working with the famous director Ridley Scott and actors Jeff Bridges, Ryan Phillippe, and Ethan Embry.

A respected actor who became one of the more prominent figures in the growing African American cinema of the 1990s, Isaiah Washington has made his name in gritty crime dramas and romantic ensemble comedies alike.

With a father who was a prominent jazz trumpeter, a grandmother who danced at The Cotton Club, and a grandfather who was a member of the Nat King Cole Trio, it may seem a given that actor Wren T. Brown would pursue a career in show business.

Koteas is one of Canada's most prominent and well - respected actors, and during the late»90s, he began to amass international critical attention for his work in a number of high profile films, including David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) and Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1998).

Adding to this cornucopia, Potemkine offer us hours of television programs, interviews with his actors, technical crews and other aides who helped him create his own distinctive world, Barbet Schroeder and Françoise Etchegaray prominent amongst them.

The festival also will showcase a number of movies from prominent actors - turned - directors, organizers announced Tuesday.

«Fahrenhype 9/11» was co-scripted and narrated by Dick Morris (the former Clinton pollster, advisor to Trent Lott, and all - around political op), who also probably receives more face - time than anybody else as one of the film's interviewees, and narrated by actor Ron Silver (a former Clinton - Gore supporter who addressed the 2004 Republican National Convention), another prominent interviewee.

He has enjoyed perhaps a most unlikely of career trajectories, going from a relative unknown to a highly sought - after talent for both prominent supporting and notable leads in a span of time many (admittedly much better - looking) actors only wish they could find for themselves.

Lior Ashkenazi is one of Israel's most prominent stage, television and film actors.

The film stars a host of prominent British and American actors as Stalin's underlings, including Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, Jeffrey Tambor as Stalin's heir apparent Georgy Malenkov, Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov, Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov, Simon Russell Beale as Lavrentiy Beria and Homeland star Rupert Friend as Stalin's son Vasily.

The two most prominent actors on the cover of Operation: Endgame are Rob Corddry and Zach Galifianakis, whose stars are rising due to their comedy chops.

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment and misconduct by more than 75 women including some prominent Hollywood female actors like Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rose McGowan and Lupita Nyong» o among others after shocking exposes carried out by The New Yorker and The New York Times.

In the wake of #MeToo and the tidal wave of outrage over allegations of ongoing sexual misconduct by the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Brett Ratner, James Toback and many more, The New York Times reports that 300 prominent female actors, agents, writers, directors, producers and entertainment executives have formed a vast and ambitious initiative to fight systemic sexual harassment not only in Hollywood a but also in blue - collar workplaces nationwide.

«Liv Ullmann is one of the most prominent people in Norwegian film history, both as an actor and a director,» commented the festival.

But it's Coster - Waldau's film and the charismatic actor delivers a performance of intricacy, anguish and commitment; it's easy to see why this increasingly prominent actor was drawn to a part that provides an excellent platform for his talent.

The concept will consist of seven short films, each of which will be led by a female director and a prominent female actor.

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.

Perhaps you've seen them at a movie screening or on Instagram: plain white T - shirts spelling out the names of prominent female filmmakers or actors such as Andrea Arnold or Isabelle Huppert in black capital letters.

A closed set, two prominent actors over the cacophony of disposable protagonists and good writing over trademark set - pieces.

The actor's more prominent roles on the big screen included Desperate Hours, Regarding Henry, Basic Instinct, Lorenzo's Oil, The Scent of a Woman, Guarding Tess, Independence Day, The Game, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Meet the Parents, Far From Heaven and Cold Mountain.

Rylance, also a prominent New York stage actor, gets some hometown love (Yes, he's British, but they think of him as one of their own).

«There's a McCarthyism coming from the left,» a prominent TV and movie actor who requested his name not be used for fear of professional repercussions told Ng.

Bob Balaban — the only prominent American actor in the cast, who plays an American film producer — reportedly came up with the initial idea for the film, and most of the other forms of inspiration and discipline seem actor related as well.

It is unclear who will be playing which role and where the story wants to go, but the original film definitely holds a place in most people's hearts as a 90's treasure with two of the 90's most prominent actors in Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

No question: Ponsoldt is in his métier with his current offering, in which alcohol is so prominent it should get a credit as one of the supporting actors.

Rodriguez's career is one of the most prominent and curious dichotomies in Hollywood, as he manages to make both super violent action flicks (Machete, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) and family adventures (the Spy Kids series), employing several of the same actors in both.

Between promises of seismic changes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and key actors reaching the end of their multi-picture deals, fans have come to expect the deaths of prominent characters in Avengers: Infinity War and its still - untitled sequel.

Several of the pieces on display come in for easy laughs — check out the room full of perfectly arranged, identical - looking rock piles, or not — but the real exhibition here is the museum's curator, Christian (Danish actor Claes Bang), a divorced father of two girls and a proud, prominent member of his city's cultural elite.

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment and misconduct by more than 75 women including some prominent Hollywood female actors like Angelina, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rose McGowan and Lupita Nyong» o among others after shocking exposes carried out by The New Yorker and The New York Times

boasts some of Hollywood's most prominent actors including George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Jonah Hill, Josh Brolin, Tilda Swinton, and Channing Tatum.

Perhaps the biggest of Mallrats» many problems comes from some misguided choices in casting, plagued with awkwardly delivered acting by some of the more prominent actors.