Sentences with phrase «ordinary woman whose»

Nikki Baughan: Following in the footsteps of Sarah Gavron's similarly themed Suffragette in its focus on an ordinary woman whose domestic discord opens her eyes to wider issues, this Swiss drama features a brilliant central performance from Marie Leuenberger.

Dowd, who's mostly played stock wives and mothers for the past 25 years (Kim Kelly's mom on Freaks And Geeks; Bettie Page's mom in The Notorious Bettie Page, etc.), takes full advantage of this nearly impossible role, depicting the manager not as a terminally gullible hick, but as a perfectly ordinary woman whose first instinct, in common with most of us, is to assume that others are trustworthy until they demonstrate otherwise.

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One of them is Vicki Saunders, whose startup, SheEO, aims to raise capital from ordinary women (by definition, people outside the usual capital networks) to finance female - led companies.

Janet Leigh is the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis, whose first movie role was playing another ordinary woman confronted by a serial killer: Laurie Strode from Halloween.

Marling, who starred in and co-wrote Another Earth, lends a credible and appealing down - to - earth quality to her workaholic academic, while Berges - Frisbey, who appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, brings a quicksilver quality to Sofi that makes her both tangible and elusive; she's one of those women whose looks change based on angle and circumstance, who can look stunning one moment and rather ordinary the next, a quality that piques fascination.