Sentences with phrase «performance as queen»

She is also well known for her performance as the Queen in off broadway hit, «The Queen of the Night,» for which she created and choreographed her role.

Katherine was the principle dancer for The Martha Graham Dance Company for many years, and is also well - known for her performance as the Queen in the off - Broadway hit «Queen Of The Night.»

She is also well known for her performance as the Queen in off - broadway hit, «The Queen of the Night,» for which she created and choreographed her role.

Crucially, Cate Blanchett's performance as the Queen is outstanding.

Helen Mirren, who the best actress Oscar for «The Queen» in 2007, took top honors Sunday at London's Olivier theater awards Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in «The Audience.»

It seems like aeons since I've seen her play a character that isn't completely off the wall, and her performance as Queen Elizabeth is both sincere and hilarious.

One is Blanchett's characteristically impeccable performance as the queen, a woman capable of being royal and splendid during state dinners, capricious and angry in the face of betrayal, and shrewd in matters of war and politics.

Not exact matches

His predecessor Fabio Capello's reign was far too distant, and whatever his merits as a coach his reputation was compromised by the failures of the 2010 World Cup — which memorably included a performance against Algeria so bad that a bird was able to roost in one of the goalnets — and the toxic fallout from Chelsea and then - England captain John Terry racially abusing Queen's Park Rangers centre - back Anton Ferdinand, brother of England stalwart Rio.

There was a world - leading performance in the women's sprint hurdles event too, as 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper - Nelson, pushed all the way by fellow American Queen Harrison, clocked 12.44 to Harrison's 12.46.

Surprise performances not only took place along the riverbanks to entertain the Queen as she sailed downstream, but also later as the Royals docked up to watch and wave with thanks to the passing boats.

There's unexpected sincerity in the performances, with Meester especially endearing as the ice queen finding her voice again.

Clive Owen joins them as Sir Walter Raleigh, the new world adventurer who discovers the heart of the Queen and Samantha Morton gives an award winning supporting actress performance as Mary - Queen of Scots.

Flawless may take its title from a drag queen beauty pageant that figures not - at - all - prominently in the plot, but it best serves as a description of the terrific performances featured in the film.

Cast members Alicia Vikander (as Queen Caroline), Mads Mikkelsen (as Struensee) and Mikel Boe FØlsgaard (as King Christian) deliver first - rate performances; cinematography, sets and costumes are stunning; and director Nikolaj Arcel knows when to slow down the pace as well as to speed things up as the remarkable story progresses.

Though «Queen of Katwe» ultimately gets by on the strength of its performances, namely David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong» o and newcomer Madina Nalwanga, the movie isn't quite as compelling or memorable as it probably should be.

Bassett is positively resplendent as Black Panther's Queen Mother Ramonda, but if there's one thing to nitpick about her performance in the movie, it's that there just isn't enough of it.

Suffering the most, the incandescent (literally, it so happens in this case) Cate Blanchett has her performance as the Elven queen, Galadriel, almost entirely obscured by sound effects, lighting, and visual pyrotechnics that seem only to underscore a point («the ring is evil») that has been made a dozen times previous.

And Anne Hathaway delivers a subtly satirical performance as her good sister the White Queen, gently parodying the elegant nature of such an archetype.

By 1985, Madonna was not only a chart - topping global force, she was a show - stopping performer, revealing her cinematic potential in the video for «Material Girl,» with its nod to Marilyn Monroe's «Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend» sequence from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as well as her controversial performance of «Like A Virgin» at the 1984 VMAs, in which a white wedding dress - clad, «BOY TOY» belt - bearing Madge writhed around the stage floor like the future Queen of All Media everyone (primarily she) thought she might become.

Max Irons (son of actor Jeremy Irons and recently seen as King Edward IV in the BBC's «The White Queen») and Rachel Tucker (best known for playing Elphaba in the West End's Wicked, a role she played for over 1,000 performances) will star in the U.K. premiere of Beau Willimon's Farragut North.

Before Rami Malek enters Oscar season with his upcoming performance as Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic «Bohemian Rhapsody,» he's starring opposite Charlie Hunnam in a new adaptation of «Papillon.»

While the performances and solid production values merit attention as far as major motion pictures go, The Queen does seem very much like a television docudrama that somehow got the push to be released into theaters.

Helen Mirren is very convincing as the Queen, getting lost in the character in a performance so nuanced, we actually do feel as though we come to understand her more as she handles whatever situation comes about.

In fact, Charlize Theron's rebellious one - armed road - queen Furiosa was the true hero of the piece, and her performance was as striking as her freaky psycho - on - the - catwalk facepaint.

In his only Oscar - winning performance, Bogart stars as Charlie Allnut, a reprobate who uses his little battered steamer, The African Queen, to run supplies to small villages in East Africa at the onset of WWI.

Various actors and actresses have won Academy Award acting Oscars for their tour - de-force biopic performances, such as James Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), George C. Scott as the cantakerous WWII General Patton in the widely - acclaimed Patton (1970), Katharine Hepburn as King Henry II's Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968), Sissy Spacek as legendary country singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Daniel Day - Lewis as Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), and Ben Kingsley as the charismatic, pacifist, 20th century Indian spiritual leader Mahatma in Sir Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982).

Curtis, who now appears on the Fox series «Scream Queens,» broke out as the original Scream Queen, but really made a name for herself with comedy classics «Trading Places» and «A Fish Called Wanda»; Curtis won a BAFTA Award for her role in the former and a Golden Globe nod for the latter, though neither performance struck gold with Oscar.

Lady Kenworth, a former operatic singer, is overseeing the orchestra's performance before the Queen, but her husband appears to have connections with an AWOL operative who's become disgruntled with his posting as camp director for the junior spy program.

Already becoming a star in Spain, «Night Falls» also brought Javier Bardem to wider audiences, and the film featured a show - stopping, double - duty performance by Johnny Depp as a flaming drag queen and a no - nonsense Cuban Lieutenant.

At twenty - four Saoirse Ronan, soon to play the title role in «Mary, Queen of Scots,» was generously awarded for her performance last year as Lady Bird.

Strong performances propel this overlong period drama, not only by the three marquee names but also from Chi McBride as Bumpy's easygoing cousin and Clarence Williams III as Schultz's morally conflicted gunman (look also for Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams and Queen Latifah in key supporting roles).

«The Crown,» available in all its splendor Friday, qualifies as the epic masterwork from creator / writer Peter Morgan, who has come at the modern Elizabethan era a couple of ways now, most notably with the 2006 film «The Queen,» an intimate rumination on the burdens of royalty in the scandal - driven infotainment era, when an aging Elizabeth (Helen Mirren, in an Oscar - winning performance) fought to comprehend the national grief and dismaying shift in protocol that followed the tragic 1997 death of her ex-daughter-in-law, Diana.

In the acclaimed performance that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, Sissy Spacek stars as legendary Loretta Lynn, the dirt poor Appalachian Mountains girl who rose from humble beginnings to become the «Queen of Country Music.»

Scream queen, Rose McGowan may be best known for her performances in films such as GRINDHOUSE, SCREAM and supernatural TV show Charmed, but she's just unveiled her directorial debut at Sundance 2014 with short feature, DAWN.

The Queen — terrific performance by Helen Mirren as we get a glimpse of the Royal family immediately following the Princess Di tragedy

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

It's not unlike Alex Ross Perry's Queen Of Earth, minus a performance quite as searing as Elisabeth Moss», but plus an ear for what passive - aggressive rivalries actually sound like.

Mr. Robot's Rami Malek was eventually cast as the legendary performer, and today we get our first look at him in the Bryan Singer - directed project which will chronicle Queen from their founding, to their iconic 1985 performance at Live Aid.

Taylor - Joy is on the path to becoming a bona fide scream queen — she first landed on the radar with her tremendous performance in The Witch, as well as Morgan.

As production continues on Bohemian Rhapsody, director Bryan Singer has taken to Instagram to share a new image from the Queen biopic showing Mr. Robot's Rami Malek as the band's legendary frontman Freddie Mercury; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Queen's Live Aid performance recreated in Bohemian Rhapsody set photos and video Bohemian Rhapsody will chart the -LSB-..As production continues on Bohemian Rhapsody, director Bryan Singer has taken to Instagram to share a new image from the Queen biopic showing Mr. Robot's Rami Malek as the band's legendary frontman Freddie Mercury; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Queen's Live Aid performance recreated in Bohemian Rhapsody set photos and video Bohemian Rhapsody will chart the -LSB-..as the band's legendary frontman Freddie Mercury; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Queen's Live Aid performance recreated in Bohemian Rhapsody set photos and video Bohemian Rhapsody will chart the -LSB-...]

And yet, even with Nicole Kidman turning in a lovely, quietly powerful performance as Bell, even with a bevy of solid supporting performances from the likes of James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis, Jay Abdo, David Calder and Jenny Agutter, even with Peter Zeitlinger's (Into the Inferno) stunning cinematography, Queen of the Desert still ends up as nothing more than a colossally head - scratching disappointment.

Lupita Nyong» o continues to establish herself as one of the greats, with her performance as the conflicted mother of a young chess phenom in Queen of Katwe, based on the true story of Ugandan chess champion Phiona Mutesi.

Fortitude also forms the mortar of her performance in Mira Nair's Queen of Katwe as Nakku Harriet, the Mother Courage of a family of hungry, unschooled children in a teeming, poor, ramshackle township in Uganda where skyscrapers stand in the hazy distance like the Emerald City of Oz.

-- The list as a whole includes 5 Emmy nominated performances (with wins for Uzo Aduba, Jeffrey Wright, and Archie Panjabi) and I expect those numbers to go up next month with Queen Latifah's Bessie performance clearly in the running for Emmy glory, as well as 6 Oscar nominated performances (with the sole win coming from Penelope Cruz's fiery bisexual character in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which still frames her character from within a white sensibility).

Bonham Carter has of course previously portrayed Princess Margaret's mother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, in 2010's The King's Speech, receiving Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her performance, as well as the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.

Though Charlize Theron delivers a great performance as the Evil Queen, playing the iconic villain as a raging psychopath, she goes missing for large portions of the film, while Chris Hemsworth's Huntsman isn't given enough to do to warrant his top billing.

The first was a baroque retelling of the Snow White myth that rejoiced in a scenery - chewing performance from Charlize Theron as the wicked queen Ravenna.

The performance itself is appropriately fun, a balance of power and levity in which both she and the character seem acutely aware of the necessity and burden of all that pomp and circumstance surrounding the queen's life (a better scene sees her meet with an advisor and plop down on the floor, her legs spread out as she blithely dirties a fabulous skirt that nearly engulfs her).

Queen Wilhelmina Park is the place to shop for Bonairean souvenirs, and in cruise ship season you can catch a traditional music and dance performance as you browse.

The artists here all do double duty as drag queens, musicians or designers, and the line between «artistic studio practice» and drag is blurred by their social practices and performance work.