Sentences with phrase «own screen career»

Patrick Stewart is known both for his Twitter presence and his stage and screen careers.

Having started his on - screen career in 1986, Maldonado is a familiar face to Spaniards.

He earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for «Silver Linings Playbook,» but reuniting with Scorsese is just what his big screen career needs most right now.

Taking on minor film roles beginning with 1979's Hairspray, the burgeoning young actor would subsequently appear in such films as Milos Foreman's Ragtime (1981) and Woody Allen's Zelig (1983), though early struggles with alcohol and substance abuse threatened to sideline his screen career in the mid -»80s.

Sometimes billed Arnold Gregg, Ohio - born Arnold Gray (born Samberg) began his screen career in Universal two - reel action melodramas.

An enterprising actor / writer / associate producer, handsome, cleft - chinned George O'Hara began his screen career with Mack Sennett, who cast the youngster opposite Marie Prevost in the delightful Love, Honor and Behave (1920).

Crosby managed to score on radio in 1931, and a series of two - reel comedies made for Mack Sennett helped him launch a screen career; his starring feature debut was in 1932's The Big Broadcast.

It is true that Locke's flagging screen career was regenerated by her appearance in Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales.

He embarked on a screen career in the latter country in 1915, as a leading man with J.C. Williamson Prod., Southern Cross Feature Film Co., and Haymarket Pictures Corp..

Doctors, lawyers, assayers, prospectors, clergymen — John Elliott played them all in a screen career that lasted until 1956, the year of his death.

A pleasant gamin face, a charming French accent, and a relationship with Stan Laurel were the main ingredients in the screen career of Alice Ardell.

During her 12 - year (1938 - 1950) screen career, she was most often seen as a garrulous telephone operator, most memorably in Abbott and Costello's Who Done It?

Extremely violent, extremely preposterous, extremely entertaining, The Matrix succeeds at two extremely difficult tasks: as a vast, exciting virtual - reality movie and as a defibrillator for Keanu Reeves» big screen career.

He appeared in a number of stage productions, and he became one of the founding members of CityKids Repertory, a theatre group that visits high schools and community centers throughout New York.Washington began his screen career on television, appearing in the soap operas As the World Turns and One Life to Live.

Billed by Paramount as Glenn Erickson, he began his screen career as a leading man in Westerns.

It's also simultaneously an encouraging follow - up for Headhunters» Morten Tyldum, an impressive debut for screenwriter Graham Moore, and a big - screen career highlight for Benedict Cumberbatch.

A supporting actor who is probably best known to audiences for his work in High Fidelity, in which he played a shy music geek with a penchant for shoe - gazing and Belle and Sebastian, Todd Louiso began his screen career in the late 1980s.

He began appearing in films in 1958, going on to a sporadic but intermittently busy screen career; he often played cowpokes and «good ol' boys.»

While at work on Fifteen Minute Hamlet, Louiso moved to L.A. to further pursue his screen career, and, after appearing in such films as Scent of a Woman (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), and Jerry Maguire (1996), he had his most high profile role to date in Stephen Frears» widely celebrated adaptation of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity (2000).

With ruggedly handsome looks and a lengthy screen career, actor - producer Nick Nolte has established himself as a major industry figure.

The earlier Walker began his screen career with pioneering film companies such as Kalem and Thanhouser and reached stardom as Viola Dana's leading man in Blue Jeans (1917), a charming bit of Americana directed by the much - neglected John D. Collins.

Active until 1942, William Pawley worked steadily for 20th Century Fox during the last months of his screen career.

From his early days on the south side of Chicago to a flourishing screen career, Antwon cites every successful career step taken as a direct result of well - defined goals and his faith in God.

Kelly's screen career began in 1958, when he appeared in Dublin Nightmare.

If you put an overtly comedic actor like Will Ferrell or Jason Sudeikis into his role here, that would be one thing but since Statham has spent most of his screen career playing the straight version of this role, it makes his performance even funnier as a result.

After Shakespearean work on stage after college, his screen career began with «bad Shakespeare» as part of the Richard III play within the Oscar nominated comedy The Goodbye Girl (1977) in which he mostly lays like a corpse on a table while Dreyfus overacts the hunchback around him.

American character actor Stanley Price reportedly launched his screen career in 1922.

When he returned to civilian life, he immediately resumed his screen career with a series of fascinating films, including The Black Angel and James Cagney's production20of The Time of Your Life.

Turner was a smart casting choice, though this would come to be the motion picture that would mortally wound her big screen career.

A versatile performer whose patrician features and keen intelligence have distinguished him in both leading and supporting roles, Colm Feore spent 13 seasons as a classical actor at the Stratford Festival before embarking on a successful screen career that has encompassed both art films and more populist fare.

At 47, with a screen career spanning 22 years, he has made only 8 features.

This is one of many unforgettable characters in the screen career of reigning «Indie Queen» Parker Posey, who collaborated with Guest on four, improv - based features, starting with 1996's equally uproarious ensemble piece, «Waiting for Guffman,» where she played a Dairy Queen worker perpetually lost in her thoughts.

With the news that Pete's Dragon star Bryce Dallas Howard is teaming up with Tourism New Zealand and National Geographic Travel to persuade North Americans to visit our shores, we felt it was time to remember the best moments of the 36 - year - old's screen career so far.

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Starring: Tina Fey, Martin Freeman, Margot Robbie, Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, Christopher Abbott Tina Fey furthers her attempt at having a big screen career by taking on the true story of journalist Kim Barker.

After a series of clips showing her stellar big screen career, Streep's The Deer Hunter co-star De Niro joked, «My first thought was, I was amazing in Deer Hunter.

Antonia Campbell - Hughes's screen career has included a wonderful turn in Jane Campion's «Bright Star» and a recurring role in BBC sitcom «Lead Balloon».

Tina Fey furthers her attempt at having a big screen career by taking on the true story of journalist Kim Barker.

The brief 26 years of Jean Harlow's life were marked with tragedy, disappointments, heartbreak and, of course, a tremendously successful screen career.

With «Downton Abbey» now in the rearview for Dan Stevens, the actor is hoping the success of the hit drama can help translate into a big screen career.

The brainchild of Bob Rafelson, making his directorial debut; his producing partner and Monkees cocreator Bert Schneider; and Jack Nicholson, a coscreenwriter on the project, Head was the fanciful beginning and ignominious end of the TV - bred supergroup's big - screen career.

Kicking off his English - language screen career a decade ago, he's matched his considerable skills against some of the industry's most revered talents and taken direction from a vanguard of visually dynamic filmmakers with his memorable appearances in such movies as «The Dark Knight,» «Contagion,» «2012» and «Captain America: The Winter Soldier.»

Wayans had followed in his siblings» footsteps on «In Living Color», graduated to the WB sitcom «The Wayans Bros.» and alongside that began developing a promising big screen career in movies like the urban drama Above the Rim and the Wayans family spoof Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.

Never Apologize (Warner) is not a documentary, it's a theater piece: Malcolm McDowell's remembrance of director (and his longtime friend) Lindsay Anderson, who launched McDowell's screen career by casting him in as the rebellious hero of «If...» The full title of the one - man - show, a mix of readings from Anderson's papers, personal reminiscence and re-enactments of memorable moments, is «Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson [And Their Celebrated Colleagues],» and along with his affectionate impression of Anderson is a collection of delicious impressions of «their celebrated colleagues,» among them Alan Bates, Richard Harris and John Ford.

Bening's moll - in - the - making snipes at Beatty's flirty hood - on - the - rise, defining herself most decisively as a woman of fierce impenetrability, a trait that has been revived and reshaped throughout her 30 - year screen career.

Like many, I hope Aaron Paul finds success, but his post - «Breaking Bad» big screen career gets off to a lackluster start in Need for Speed, an unintelligent and underwhelming racing movie that won't do much for anyone who isn't riveted by the sights and sounds of fast cars in motion.

It's impossible to contest the importance of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, the movie that popularized the spaghetti Western worldwide, launched the big - screen career of Clint Eastwood, and inspired a wave of future filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino.

But the guys have moved on: Keegan - Michael Key builds his impressive big - screen career, while his partner - in - comedy, Jordan Peele, has chosen an unusually ambitious route, writing and directing an original horror film about an interracial couple and the extreme troubles they encounter.

(While he's done a number of thrillers in his 15 - year screen career, he's only starred in three true horrors — Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2, and The Conjuring.

In Jason Segel's case, fresh - off the finale of the CBS sitcom «How I Met Your Mother», this is a low point in his big screen career which has included some solid work both writing and in front of the camera.

In what ways has your roots in the theater informed your on - screen career?