Sentences with phrase «role as a prison»

Hollywood hype being Hollywood hype, Pepper was soon being hailed as a Next Big Thing by any number of publications and his role as a prison guard in the hotly anticipated The Green Mile (1999) seemed to attest to this status.

There's a long line of familiar British faces among the cast, most notably Noel Coward in his last film acting role as the prison inmate lording it over fellow prisoners and staff alike.

The 34 - year - old star's role as prison inmate Dayanara Diaz on hit Netflix show Orange Is the New Black has made her a red carpet regular, and she's...

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Bradley Birkenfeld was released from federal prison in August 2012 after serving 2 1/2 years for his role as a Swiss banker hiding millions of dollars for wealthy American clients.

Those are the words I spoke as a trial judge in 1997 when I sentenced Bobby Bostic to a total of 241 years in prison for his role in two armed robberies he committed when he was just 16 years old.

She gave up to her father her newborn son, whom she had been nursing in prison, choosing to surrender her role as mother rather than submit.

It was the summer of 2009, and I had just completed an almost 11 - year sentence in federal prison for my role in five bank robberies I had committed as a foolish young man.

Ultimately, the children will benefit from having closer ties with their parents and crucially, parents in prison learn to value their role as parents.

David Wildstein, the professed mastermind in the so - called Bridgegate scandal, was spared prison when he was sentenced for his role in the blocking of lanes near the George Washington Bridge as political revenge against a New Jersey mayor, closing a final chapter in a bizarre episode that grounded the national political ambitions of Gov. Chris Christie.

Former Queens Councilman Dan Halloran was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in two corruption schemes, including taking thousands of dollars in bribes to help Malcolm Smith, a Democrat and the former state Senate majority leader, run for New York City mayor in 2013 as a Republican.

Former Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority Bill Baroni was sentenced to 24 months in prison for his role in the September 2013 George Washington Bridge lane - closure scandal that came to be known as «Bridgegate»

Rowland resigned as governor in mid-2004, pleaded guilty to corruption, and spent 10 months in federal prison before assuming his current role as an afternoon radio talk show host on WTIC 1080 AM.

As the project's principal investigator, I designed the experiment that randomly assigned normal, healthy, intelligent college students to enact the roles of either guards or prisoners in a realistically simulated prison setting where they were to live and work for several weeks.

Best known for his role as Theodore «T - Bag» Bagwell on Prison Break.

One of his better roles in this vein was as Unger, the vengeful football playing «screw» in the Burt Reynolds prison comedy The Longest Yard (1974).

He is most known for his roles as Angel Batista on Showtime's series Dexter and as Enrique Morales on the HBO prison drama Oz.

Vince Vaughn beefs up and gets very serious for this role as Bradley Thomas in S. Craig Zahler's brutal prison film Brawl in Cell Block 99.

There's also a delightful grab - bag of colorful supporting roles for the sparkling cast: Hilary Swank as a meticulous investigator, Riley Keough as the Logans» capable sister Mellie, Dwight Yoakam as a preening prison warden.

Next year will also see the release of Escape Plan, which reunites him once more with Stallone, taking on a supporting role as a supermax lifer at the world's toughest prison (a penal tanker, in fact).

One assumes from his coveted «and X as Y» credit that the role will amount to a cameo, yet Malkovich actually has a sizable part as English's (and England's) arch enemy, a French industrialist who plans to get Queen Elizabeth to abdicate the throne, be coronated in her place, and transform Great Britain into a prison colony, which will apparently net him oodles of cash but, more importantly, allow his inner megalomaniac to run riot.

The supporting cast is filled with recognizable talent in forgettable roles, notably Marlon Wayans as a local Boston FBI Agent and Michael Rapaport as McCarthy's brother who she sent to prison to save him from his addiction to drugs.

Deep Silver has published more than 100 games since 2003, including own brands like the action role - playing game Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, successful adventures such as the Secret Files series and Lost Horizon, the role - playing game Risen and well - known licenses like the Chernobyl shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and Prison Break: The Conspiracy, the action adventure based on the popular TV series.

This new short film sees Ben Kingsley reprise his role as Trevor Slattery, the man hired to play the Mandarin in Iron Man 3, living out his dreams of celebrity while imprisoned inside one of Marvel's most famous prisons, Seagate.

Sigourney Weaver reprises her role as Ellen Ripley for a third time and finds herself in an all - male prison - turned - cult for the worst of the worst in the universe.

Character actor Bryan Probets is particularly memorable in a small role as a major whose brain has been short - circuited by the prison camp.

Long before Matthew McConaughey was going to award shows looking like an Andersonville Prison escapee and talking like Foghorn Leghorn, he was a recent UT Austin graduate who stumbled into his breakout role as aging creep Wooderson in Richard Linklater's Dazed And Confused after running into casting director Don...

In the last couple of years, he's gone from the romantic lead in About Time to Konstantin Levin in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Anna Karenina; there's his leading role in the forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII; and there was the recent Calvary, in which he had a cameo as a creepy serial killer enduring a prison visit from a priest played by his father, Brendan, an experience he found «really cool».

He is best known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and as inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz.

Now a lonely, forgotten man approaching his fifteenth year in the old psychiatric facility, he maintains his role as a trustee by cleaning the grim prison interior, which earns him the privilege of watching and re-watching classic videos from his prized collection of memorabilia.

Affleck brings big - screen charisma, understated wit, and a hint of tenderness to the role of Chris, a man who wants to connect with other people but doesn't quite know how; Anna Kendrick does her winsome Anna - Kendrick thing as a CPA unknowingly entangled in a diabolical corporate scheme; J.K. Simmons and Jon Bernthal offer solid supporting performances as, respectively, a Treasury agent and an elite hitman; and the great Jeffrey Tambor is even tucked in there, as a white - collar con in a high - security prison.

As much a physical role as an emotional one, Gadon's portrayal of Marks shows not only a dogged determination to master a difficult character, but also a willingness to tangibly experience the gritty realities of life as a maid and prison inmate in the middle of the nineteenth centurAs much a physical role as an emotional one, Gadon's portrayal of Marks shows not only a dogged determination to master a difficult character, but also a willingness to tangibly experience the gritty realities of life as a maid and prison inmate in the middle of the nineteenth centuras an emotional one, Gadon's portrayal of Marks shows not only a dogged determination to master a difficult character, but also a willingness to tangibly experience the gritty realities of life as a maid and prison inmate in the middle of the nineteenth centuras a maid and prison inmate in the middle of the nineteenth century.

By the same token, Nolan is nearly as adept at Tarantino at scripting plum comeback roles for great character actors long off of mainstream Hollywood's radar: Eric Roberts in The Dark Knight, Tom Berenger in Inception, and now Tom Conti, a 1984 Oscar nominee for the unduly forgotten Reuben, Reuben, here playing a wise old man in a faraway prison who, at Bruce Wayne's lowest moment, nurses him back to fighting form.

Students can explore the castle's role over the centuries as fortress, prison, baroque palace, family home, wartime refuge, heritage attraction and residence used by The Queen for official duties.

DeVos, in her role as chair of the Trump administration's newly formed Commission on School Safety, will also hear Wednesday from teachers and education advocates who argue that the federal guidance is needed to prevent minority and disabled students from winding up in the «school - to - prison pipeline.»

The assemblage of buildings dating from the 12th to 20th century, reflect the castle's changing role as fortress, royal palace, military garrison and state prison.

In Ground Zeroes players once more take on the role of the legendary solider known as Big Boss, the man whom Solid Snake was cloned from, as he infiltrates a gigantic prison complex known as «Camp Omega» in 1975.

Tarsier Studios» Little Nightmares is a beautifully designed horror game in which players take on the role of a small, raincoated girl named Six as she seeks to escape an underwater prison known as the Maw.

After Werdna's defeat in Wizardry: Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord, the first in the series of influential computer role - playing games, Wizardry IV puts you in control of the evil wizard as he attempts to break out of prison.

At one point a regular on the soap opera The Edge of Night, she has recently had recurring roles in such television series as Empire and Prison Break, and played the role of Dinah in the Den Theater's acclaimed production of The Quality of Life.

Artist Devin Kenny will perform If I don't laugh / Tarda..., a powerful sonic performance incorporating music and spoken word and addressing the role of social media in the widened access to, as described by Kenny, images of «Black suffering that directly results from the machinations of white supremacy the US prison industrial complex and police state, and the aftermath of colonialism and chattel slavery».

Films, sound works, photographs and installations highlight «botanical nationalism» and other legacies of colonialism, plant migration, bio-piracy, flower diplomacy under apartheid, the role of classification and naming of plants as well as the garden planted by Mandela and his fellow inmates in Robben Island prison.

The former chief whip was brought back to a frontline Cabinet role to oversee Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act; continue to «review our legal aid systems» (as the party's manifesto euphemistically put it); as well as stave off a brewing crisis in our prisons, sort out a demoralised police force etc..

But presumably, former Enron executive Andy Fastow is elated with the six - year prison sentence he received for his role in the criminal activity that brought the demise of Enron as reported in articles like this one at Forbes.

Literacy and the prison library play an important role inside institutions as well as in reintegration planning.

Two years ago, Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for his role in running the dark web exchange, best known as a once - thriving online marketplace for drug transactions.

Discusses different reasons for women to arrive in prison, including substance abuse, physical and sexual victimization, and hospitalizations for psychological or emotional problems, as well as the role of prisons to provide appropriate treatment for women prisoners based on their experiences.

States: • Direct more funds toward prison education and training for in - demand jobs to help parents resume their role as providers once released.

the significant role of violence and abuse as a causative factor in Indigenous women entering and then re-entering prison at alarmingly high rates;

To stay out of prison, he worked as an informant to U.S. prosecutors investigating the mob's role on Wall Street.