Sentences with phrase «one's first lead role»

While this is Bacon's first leading role in television, he's no stranger to the medium: For instance, he directed four episodes of TNT's The Closer, which starred his wife Kyra Sedgwick.

Meanwhile the great Cate Blanchett has been cast as the lead in «Blackbird,» to be written and directed by David Mamet, in whose play «Oleanna» Blanchett had her very first leading role.

The detective thriller is Carrey's first lead role in a narrative feature since «Dumb and Dumber To» in 2014.

Her first leading role, opposite Matthew McConaughey (the two had worked together before in smaller roles in «Dazed and Confused»).

She got her first leading role in a horror movie opposite Matthew McConaughey before going on to earn three Oscar nominations (including one win).

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Shelley Michelle takes on her first leading role as a secret

Making the most of her first leading role since «Z for Zachariah,» she does a brilliant job of skating along the thin line that runs between glory and the gutter.

Jessica James is her first lead role, and she's earned it after making do with bit parts like Coffee Shop Crier, African - American Spa Worker, and Jamaican Damsel.

In 2007, she won her first leading role in the feature film LEFT, in which she played five different characters.

Chris Hemsworth, in his first lead role in an American film, played the god of thunder like a feral beast, all ferocity and bravado and perpetually wet hair.

Next, «Characterization and Choreography: Nancy Allen» (16:11) allows the actress to reflect on her first leading role, her casting, her co-stars, and her relationship with De Palma, her husband at the time.

«The directorial debut of ace character actor John Carroll Lynch (Marge's husband in the movie Fargo, the creepiest suspect in Zodiac, etc.), this lightly eccentric, virtually plotless meditation on mortality would likely have attracted attention under any circumstances — indeed, even had it turned out to be terrible — simply because it offers [Harry Dean] Stanton his first leading role in a feature film since 1984's Paris, Texas.

After undergoing radical emergency surgery, Rose (former adult film star Marilyn Chambers in her first leading role in a mainstream film) develops an insatiable desire for blood.

Birkin was Colin Firth's first leading role.

The highlight of the excellent main cast is Howard, who Shyamalan eventually asks to carry his film, a task she succeeds gamely with in her first leading role.

Amber Heard is compulsively watchable, but this is her first lead role in a long time, and despite the pink dyed hair...

With her first leading role in a film, the comedian is flipping conventional film wisdom on its head.

Now, at 54, Bacon is taking the next step in that storied career with his first lead role on television with Fox's The Following.

And while he'd been a strong supporting player in films such as «Red Tails» and «Chronicle» and on TV's «Friday Night Lights» and «Parenthood,» «Fruitvale Station» would mark his first lead role.

Alyson Hannigan is great in her first lead role, but the talented Adam Campbell seems terribly miscast, apparently only hired for his accent.

And this might also be the first lead role McCarthy has had since The Gilmore Girls that embraces her as a conventionally attractive woman with an active sex life, the existence of which isn't played for comedy.

In her first lead role (she played an extremely bad girl in Gone Girl), Kirke exudes a sympathetic aura that Gerwig can bounce off like a trampoline.

Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill share an affection for obscure comedy, a knack for making crass characters endearing, heads of curly hair — and both are gifted comedians experiencing their first leading roles in major studio pictures.

Now, he's in his first leading role with «Brigsby Bear,» about one man and a children's show made just for him.

1985 brought him his first lead roles with «The Sure Thing» and «Better Off Dead.»

Her first leading role, 2015's Judd Apatow - directed Trainwreck, brought in $ 140 million worldwide against a production budget of just $ 35 million.

8 am: Nick Frost, best known for playing Simon Pegg's sidekick in Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, has landed his first lead role in a TV comedy, playing a spaceship commander in new BBC2 show Hyperdrive.

On the heels of his first leading role in «Mississippi Grind,» Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn is being sought to star in Gareth Edwards» «Star Wars: Rogue One,» multiple agency sources have told TheWrap.

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Following graduation, Rodriguez booked her first lead role in the feature film «Tiny Dancer,» before breaking out with her performance as the title character in «Filly Brown.»

For his first lead role in nearly two years, Matt Damon chose to play a man stranded on Mars in the Ridley Scott sci - fi adventure The Martian.

In his first lead role, Derek Luke plays Fisher with a persuasive mix of rage and vulnerability.

Sleeping Dogs (Arrow Academy), adapted from C.K. Stead's novel Smith's Dream, Sleeping Dogs takes place in the near future and stars Sam Neill in his first lead role in a feature as Smith, a man escaping the break - up of his marriage by finding isolation on an island off the coast of New Zealand.

Poulson, in his first leading role, acquits himself well, ably deploying an arsenal of sarcastic facial expressions.

In her second feature, the Seeking A Friend at the End of the World director aligns a spectacular cast that affords Oscar winner Susan Sarandon her first leading role since I don't know when.

He landed his first leading role in the 2001 film The Center of the World.

Just like Stallone on Rocky, the leading lady apparently made herself a package deal with the screenplay, thus landing her first leading role to date.

I'll See You In My Dreams — Perennial supporting actress Blythe Danner steps into her first leading role and turns in an excellent performance as a longtime widow shaking up her routine.

In time, the feature may only be remembered for its status as the always - impressive Sudeikis» first leading role, instead of its own attempted merits, but as generic entertainment its existence will remain inoffensive.

Cheadle who has been virtually absent from indie and mainstream films, returns to his first leading role since The Guard (2011).

It is the first lead role for Gaga — who will be credited under her real name Stefani Germanotta — in the musical ingenue role made famous by Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.

After a lengthy career filled with standout supporting turns in projects such as «Babe» (for which he received an Oscar nomination in 1995), «Star Trek: First Contact,» «The Green Mile,» «The Queen» (2006) and «The Artist,» actor James Cromwell has finally been rewarded with the first leading role of his career in the stirring new drama «Still Mine.»

In collaboration with the Parisian agency les bons faiseurs, La Semaine chose the image which better reflects this 50 +5 edition: the magnificent actress Jessica Chastain in a scene from Take Shelter, second feature film by Jeff Nichols where her performance in one of her first leading roles was particularly remarked.

It was my first leading role that I had in a feature film.

Mara landed her first lead role in the film «Tanner Hall, «starring Amy Sedaris and Tom Everett Scott.

Since his first leading role in The Indian Runner (Sean Penn, 1991), Mortensen has been drawn to scripts that explore family and fatherhood.