Sentences with phrase «presence as an actress»

As if she knew she would be busy starting a family in 2011, Portman followed her glorious turn in Black Swan with a flurry of projects now keeping her as prominent a cinematic presence as any actress this year.

Not exact matches

The media icon, known as the Grand Dame of Television, the Queen of TV and Mayor of Hollywood wears many hats as an actress, writer, producer, host, environmentalist and just generally delightful presence on the big and small screens.

Thomas Edison, actress Katharine Hepburn and the families of George H.W. Bush and Henry DuPont have graced the resort with their presence as well.

Despite Reaser's notable stage presence, however, it was her roles in film and television that truly served to solidify her career as an actress.

Nicely played by Violante Placido (whose mother, the actress Simonetta Stefanelli, played Michael Corleone's ill - fated Italian wife in «The Godfather»), Clara's presence brings some life to both Jack's existence and the movie as a whole, but don't get your hopes up.

The Parts Of This Film That Don't Feel Like They're Made Entirely Of Poop: A rollicking penguins - sliding - on - their - bellies moment that takes place on the spiraling floor of the Guggenheim Museum and the presence of British actress Ophelia Lovibond as Jim Carrey's peculiar personal assistant with a particular penchant for pronouncing words that begin with the letter «P.»

She's a strong character who guides the film with the strength her presence, both as a character and as an actress.

«I didn't know Frances very well before making the film, but the picture of her I had of a good actress and a particularly strong one behind the scenes and in interviews was as much a presence as her actual voice.»

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

The involvement of Ricci and 50 Cent are distractions, weakening the film with their presence, as Ricci's scenes don't require an actress of her abilities, while 50 Cent's requires someone who greatly exceeds his.

Blanchett is a commanding presence, as always, an actress capable of projecting simultaneous warmth and frigidity (though the latter is here a measure of the repression of that natural warmth).

To make it a family affair, Vanessa Paradis — renowned French actress and the younger Depp's mother — delivers the back story of the Nazi presence in Canada as the Colleens» history teacher.

Janelle Monáe, an artist and actress with so much presence and style that we've always thought of her as a otherworldly space queen, has joined the new anthology series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as the villain for an episode titled «Autofac» opposite Black Mass «Juno Temple.

She presented but she wasn't a major presence at the event because, as you know, Julianne Moore was the honoured Best Actress there.

I'm not convinced either has the presence for the big screen, although Aniston was terrific in «The Good Girl» (a small movie) and Parker, who strikes me as more of a character actress than a leading lady, was suitably kooky and vivacious in Steve Martin's «L.A. Story» and hilarious as Johnny Depp's exasperated wife in Tim Burton's low - scale «Ed Wood.»

With a screen presence that exists on a spectrum between earthy and ethereal, actress Mackenize Davis comes across as both otherworldly and familiar.

Will voters spark to Prince and appreciate her as an actress, not just a winning presence?

Two - time nominee John Hawkes failed to get a mention for The Sessions, although Helen Hunt (pictured left) did for her performance as the woman who awakens his character to sex, while the presence of the pint - sized Wallis in the actress line - up meant nothing for previous winner Marion Cotillard, who had been considered a shoo - in for Rust and Bone.

Given both of Winslet's performances this year are housed in what we expect to be revealed next Thursday as failed Oscar bait that no one particularly likes, we were originally going to bank on the Academy's resistance to allowing a questionable double bid just because Winslet's presence is considered obligatory (especially after the same hustle netted Cate Blanchett a best actress nomination for fucking Elizabeth: The Golden Age last year).

This thriller, about a reporter (Halle Berry) who infiltrates a business tycoon's office (Bruce Willis) in order to investigate the murder of a childhood friend, has some minor story problems, but as a vehicle for Berry, it's terrific, capitalizing on her strengths and appeal as an actress and screen presence.

Perhaps it's the writing, perhaps her ability to play off formidable actress Juliette Binoche, but Valentine is one of those indelible screen presences, disarming in the way she remains inexplicable as her own character, allowing herself to be swept up in the tempest of her boss» mounting mid-life crisis, intermingling her own feelings with those on the pages of Maloja Snake.

But this does high - caliber actresses such as Freida Pinto, Imogen Poots, Teresa Palmer and Isabel Lucas no favors, as their presence feels entirely incidental.

Eva Marie Saint, at 93, as grand a presence as she was when she won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in 1954's «On the Waterfront.»

The film even has a few good ideas of its own, which give the film a stronger female presence than any other iteration of the franchise on top of that — Marian (Alyssa Milano) is the head of a rad vigilante group called the Power Corps (because no one could think of a more nineties name, apparently) and the Lees are trained by Satori Imada (Julia Nickson), who acts as the orphans» badass mother figure (despite the actress being barely ten years older than the guys, but she gets a token grey streak in her hair to «establish» her wisdom).