Sentences with phrase «other actresses playing»

She was joined by two other actresses playing real - life figures: Aja Naomi King, the How to Get Away with Murder actress, delivered a powerhouse performance as Nat Turner's wife, Cherry, in The Birth of a Nation.

Not exact matches

Along with another early silent - screen actress, Mae Marsh, Clifford would turn up in about every other Ford film, usually playing pioneer women.

These movies and a few others show that Whoopi was a serious actress when she did «The Color Purple», and «Ghost», and we really lost her when she started playing second hand characters such as nuns («Sister Act» sequels), and playing off the radar «Star Trek» characters not to mention we totally lost her when she went from acting into the daytime talk show circuit of garbage.

Unlike other actresses - turned - models, Hutton achieved critical acceptance fairly rapidly, earning respectable reviews for such projects as the 1977 TV miniseries The Rheinman Exchange and the 1984 adventure film Lassiter (in which she played a literally bloodthirsty villainess).

Grainger first came to the attention of American audiences in the television series THE BORGIAS, and has appeared in such television productions as BONNIE & CLYDE, playing the titular role of Bonnie and earning nominations from the Critics» Choice Awards for Best Actress in a Movie or Mini-Series and the Satellite Award for Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television; and in LADY CHATTERLEY»S LOVER among others.

Not unlike the season's other highly - praised story of sisterly reunion, «Rachel Getting Married,» the film sees two sterling actresses supporting each other, each playing impeccably off the other's gestures and silences.

In part for it's creation of the 1950s in a fascinating way, but moreso, the way the two actresses play off of each other.

Susan Anspach, a screen and stage actress best known for playing non-conformists in «Five Easy Pieces,» «Blume in Love» and other films, has died at age 75.

Other confirmed names include Jack Kesy as the film's central villain (though the identity of the villain has yet to be confirmed), Japanese actress Shioli Kutsuna and Julian Dennison — though it has not yet been revealed which characters they'll be playing.

She was so brilliant in that film; way more canny and intelligent than so many other older actresses would have played it.

In the hands of many other writers, the titular, self - proclaimed Lady Bird — real name Christine McPherson played by renowned Irish actress Saoirse Ronan — would come across as whiny, entitled, and unlikable to the point where the entire film comes crumbling down.

Kim Basinger richly deserved her Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a conflicted femme fatale; unfortunately, her male costars are so uniformly fine that they may have canceled each other out with the Academy voters: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, and James Cromwell play LAPD officers of varying stripes.

But the winner of this category will come down to two other actresses who played mothers, Metcalf and Janney.

The beautiful, diminutive Mexican actress Salma Hayek who plays Frida and had a lifelong ambition to play that role, co-produced the film with a host of others and thereby beat out other actresses such as Madonna and J. Lo who also wanted the part.

My lingering problem is the amount of fluttering butterflies that the film creates, it paints a picture that any wedding you wish to have is possible, which is untrue, but I don't believe the film was about creating a realistic explanation, but more show the journey the parents make, but again, the journey only seems to consist of daddy, as esteemed actress Diane Keaton, who plays other Nina, plays a largely unimportant role, perhaps a traditional scenario calls for a father and his daughter, but the mother is as equally important.

The other two are nicely played by young British actor Noah Jupe and the hearing - impaired actress Millicent Simmonds, so fine in the recent Wonderstruck.

The truth is the Jurassic World is really a wonderful movie as Chris Patt and other actor and actresses play their role.

While other actresses have been linked for the role of Bella Donna, The Wrap claims that Lea Seydoux (Spectre, Inglorious Basterds, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol) has now been given an official offer to play the female lead in the X-Men spin - off Gambit, which stars Channing Tatum as the lead hero.

In other words, if Madonna — who apart from the sex scenes barely registers as an actress in Body of Evidence — had played Stone's part in Basic Instinct, she would have «owned» the movie too.

Former Olympic skater's other special guests were actress Mckenna Grace, who played a young Harding, and film's screenwriter

The actresses playing the other bridesmaids also stay outside the realm of caricature thanks to a level of vulnerability they all bring to their performances.

That's in addition to the Oscar nominees still playing in town: A Separation (Best Foreign Language and Best Original Screenplay nominee) is still at The Egyptian, Albert Nobbs (Best Actress and others) is running at the Harvard Exit, Pina (Best Documentary) is in 3D at The Cinerama (could you find a better venue for it?)

Others balked at Franco's mere presence at the Globes — including Breakfast Club actress Ally Sheedy, who worked with Franco on a play in 2014.

Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz musician, scraps by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to frail the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

This was not an easy role to play, and every single time we see her on screen, she's walking a razor's edge that any other actress without complete conviction would have failed utterly and completely.

Other major movie awards went to James Franco, who won Best Actor in a Comedy for his turn as Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist; Gary Oldman, who won Best Actor in a Drama for playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour; and Allison Janney, who won Best Supporting Actress for playing Tonya Harding's mother in I, Tonya.

«Kate Plays Christine «In the other Sundance film dealing with the Christine Chubbuck tragedy, «Actress» director Robert Greene takes an elliptical run at the story, telling it through the novel medium of following an actress, Kate Lyn Sheil, as she is preparing for the role of Chubbuck, which she will play in the film - within - the Actress» director Robert Greene takes an elliptical run at the story, telling it through the novel medium of following an actress, Kate Lyn Sheil, as she is preparing for the role of Chubbuck, which she will play in the film - within - the actress, Kate Lyn Sheil, as she is preparing for the role of Chubbuck, which she will play in the film - within - the - film.

The other players with whom Adrian interacts, chiefly the three aspiring actresses whom he has tricked into appear in his special film, are also played by actresses (Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton, Alexandra Stone) who share their character's forenames.

Writer - director Shane Black's horribly enjoyable action comedy The Nice Guys is an jauntily arch return to this tradition, the story of two dishevelled and incompetent private detectives in 1970s Los Angeles — played by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling — who have been expensively tasked with solving the mystery surrounding the death of a missing porn actress, and what other kind of fascinatingly damaged female character can there be?

Regardless of the cause, Bella isn't about to let the Volturi get their hands on her daughter Renesmee (played by Mackenzie Foy and at least nine other actresses who have their own faces replaced with a digitally altered version of Foy's).

Released last week, this is definitely one of the best short fan films we have seen, using some great camera angles, what feels like an actual Panaglide camera that Carpenter would die for, slow burn suspense, and a killer performance from leading actress Suzee Dunn playing «Jamie», who is stalked by Myers for no apparent reason (other than it's Halloween).

SPC's other foreign possibility is Sebastián Lelio's transgender drama, «A Fantastic Woman,» which played well with Chilean actress Daniela Vega on hand.

While McDormand's point of view is that of a valiant mother, two other actresses this year play characters who must escape the clutches of mothers who threaten to destroy them, even when their intentions are good.

«We spent four months playing lovers, you're up in each other's faces quite a bit,» actress tells TheWrap

In other Robopocalypse news, A-list actress Anne Hathaway is reportedly in discussions to play the female lead in the film.

Boseman is no doubt the king here, but it's obvious that he steps back to let others shine, especially the three solid women leads: Lupita Nyong» o as Nakia, a Wakandan spy and warrior; his Queen Mother Ramonda, played by the incomparable Angela Bassett; and his ferocious, tech - savvy little sister Princess Shuri, a newcomer British actress Letitia Wright.

And in the essay, Peet talked about aging in Hollywood, a topic that has been discussed by other actresses such as Meryl Streep, Sarah Silverman and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who told TheWrap last May that she was turned down for a role in a movie because she, at 37, was too old to play the love interest of a 55 - year - old man.

Ben Verlander, plays minor league baseball for the Lakeland Flying Tigers in Florida, is reportedly dating model and actress Alexandra Daddario after Upton introduced the pair to each other, according to CBS Detroit and the sports blog Terez Owens.

If negotiations work out, the iconic role of the young Native American princess will be played by none other than Irish - Italian actress Rooney Mara.

There's no competing with the longtime actress, who was superb in The Other Place, performed maniacal laps around Bruce Willis in Misery and recently earned her fourth Tony nomination — this time for playing Nora Helmer in A Doll's House, Part 2.

«Up in the Air» co-stars Farmiga, playing Clooney's frequent - flyer soul mate, and Anna Kendrick, playing a smart but inexperienced efficiency expert, are competing against each other for supporting actress.

The film is produced by Union and Will Packer (Think Like a Man, Girls Trip) and finds the actress performing in a thriller, unlike other roles she has played.

Howardís dream cast also included two other prominent female charactersñJill (played by the beautiful Elizabeth Hurley), the opportunistic actress who dates Ed just because of his celebrity; and Edís eccentric mom, Jeanette (embodied by Sally Kirkland), whose life crumbles when Ed becomes famous.

The movie deglamorizes both Mallory and the actress playing her; by the final scenes, the character's very much the raw adolescent the other two mistakenly see as a replacement daughter.

On the other hand, in the company of incandescent actresses such as Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack in «Friends With Money,» Aniston — ostensibly the biggest name in the cast — faded out, becoming blurry and indistinct almost like that actor played by Robin Williams in Woody Allen's «Deconstructing Harry.»

We stayed for all that, yeah, but also for the cast of little - known actresses (Betty Gilpin, Gayle Rankin, Sunita Mani and Sydelle Noel, among others) playing a ragtag band of preposterous, body - slamming misfits.

There are other standouts in the pack, such as German director Tom Tykwer's (Heaven, The Princess and the Warrior) whirlwind romance between an American actress, played by Natalie Portman (V for Vendetta, Revenge of the Sith), falling for a blind Parisian, as well as Sylvain Chomet's (The Triplets of Belleville, The Old Lady and the Pigeons) quirky tale of a mime who finds his soul mate in another mime while in prison.

The young actress said she went back and forth between being intimidated by the iconic role and treating Juliet like any other character she'd played before.

The other actors all acquit themselves well enough with the exception of the actress playing the younger daughter.

Those seeking a less indulgent portrait of a French artist could lose themselves in the meager charms of Michel Hazanavicius» «Redoubtable,» a self - consciously playful if largely panache - free sendup of Godard (played by Louis Garrel, with dark sunglasses and a heavy lisp) during his short - lived second marriage to the actress Anne Wiazemsky (an excellent Stacy Martin), who appeared in his film «La Chinoise,» among others.