Sentences with phrase «role as a spy»

«In reverse chronological order, Cline - Ransome's pithy, lyrical lines lay out the prolific achievements of Harriet Tubman, from her campaign for women's suffrage to her role as a spy during the civil war to her iconic work as a conductor on the underground railroad, all the way back to her childhood.

Plus Michael Ironside will reprise his role as the spy, which might point to an upcoming announcement for a new entry in the Splinter Cell franchise coming soon.

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Using the simple name Eve, she released two solo rap albums — Let There Be Eve... Ruff Ryder's First Lady... and Scorpion — before making her first film appearance in a brief role as J.J. in XXX, a spy thriller whose title song she also composed.

Mosab Yousef details his transition as the son of a prominent Hamas leader to a Shin Bet spy, while Gonen Yitzhak explains his role in luring Mosab over to the Shin Bet and their operations carried out over the course of a decade from 1997 to 2007.

Desplechin regular Mathieu Amalric returns as the same academic from the filmmaker's 1996 My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument, though the actor quickly takes a nostalgic supporting role as the movie shifts into teenage flashbacks that alternately take the tone of domestic melodrama, spy thriller and gushing romance.

Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot form a good team as the sexy and sophisticated undercover agents (enough to make you wonder how they would fare in a more traditional spy movie), but they're mostly wasted in underwritten roles.

Acting veteran and multiple Tony Award — winning thespian Mark Rylance pulled off somewhat of an upset in the supporting actor category, winning for Steven Spielberg's Cold War — era drama «Bridge of Spies» ahead of Sylvester Stallone's projected win for reprising his role as Rocky Balboa in «Creed.»

CAST: Paul Rudd (This is 40, Role Models) as Ant - Man / Scott Lang, Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Lost) as Hope van Dyne, Corey Stoll (This Is Where I Leave You, The Bourne Legacy) as Yellowjacket / Darren Cross, Bobby Cannavale (Spy, Chef), Michael Peña (Cesar Chavez, The Martian), Tip «T.I.» Harris (Identity Thief, Entourage), Wood Harris (Justified, The Wire), Judy Greer (Tomorrowland, 13 Going on 30), David Dastmalchian (The Dark Knight, Prisoners), as Paxton, and Michael Douglas (Last Vegas, The Game) as Dr. Hank Pym.

Below, on Charlie Rose, she also talks about how she digs back into the Holocaust (as she did for one of her favorite roles as an Mossad spy in John Madden's «The Debt») in order to play elderly Jewish woman Maria Altmann, who 60 years after she fled Vienna during World War II, fought to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting «Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I.» The Weinstein Company now opens Simon Curtis's «Woman in Gold,» co-starring Ryan Reynolds, on April 1.

Taking a break from his role as Superman, Henry Cavill took a trip to the swinging 60s to star in Guy Ritchie's spy action - comedy The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. It's a much more light - hearted role than...

Whether playing a butch serial killer (her Oscar - winning turn as Aileen Wuornos in Monster), a gun - toting warrior (as in Mad Max: Fury Road) or a svelte and lethal spy (as in last year's Atomic Blonde), she hurls herself into her roles, holding absolutely nothing back.

Liman also earns points by casting Julia Stiles and Clive Owen in seemingly throwaway roles, as spies looking to take Bourne down.

Bobby Cannavale isn't nearly as entertaining as he has been in other films this year (Spy, Annie) as the fiancée of Scott's ex-wife Maggie, played by Judy Greer... getting yet another small, thankless role in a blockbuster this summer (she was previously seen in Tomorrowland and Jurassic World).

He reprised his role as the confident, charming spy in From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice.

Bryan Cranston, John Goodman and Alan Arkin are all on board as well, as, respectively, Affleck's C.I.A boss, an Oscar - winning make - up artist, and an O.S.S. spy - turned - movie producer, and now McNairy's joining them, in an unknown role.

In a supporting role, the great character actor Raymond Massey has a juicy villain part as an evil psychiatrist running a Nazi spy ring.

Samuel - whose recent big - screen outings include Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, Spike Lee's Oldboy and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where he reprised his Marvel role as S.H.I.E.L.D leader Nick Fury - will next star in Matthew Vaughn's spy comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service.

OSS 117: Lost in Rio (Unrated) This sequel, another spoof of the spy genre, set in 1967, a dozen years after the original, and again starring Jean Dujardin in the title role as a hapless secret agent now en route to Brazil to track down a high ranking Nazi fugitive (Alex Lutz) living in exile in South America.

Rhames will next be seen reprising his role as Luther Stickell alongside Tom Cruise in the spy sequel Mission: Impossible — Fallout, which opens in cinemas this July.

Having already been filmed as a really quite creepy TV series in 1979 starring Alec Guinness as spy master George Smiley, this version, with Gary Oldman in the Smiley role, has a lot to live up to.

Tom Hardy Takes «Splinter Cell:» Tom Hardy is fantastic as Bane in «The Dark Knight» and in supporting roles in «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,» «Inception» and more, but it's time for him to be the big hero.

The film was originally developed as a project for Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) with Nicole Kidman attached to star as Elbe, though the role went to Eddie Redmayne after Tom Hooper took over — possibly the only time in the history of Hollywood that a project has traded one star for another of the opposite sex without a script re-write.

That led to his role as a Soviet agent in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies and to an Oscar for best supporting actor.

Best performance by an actor in a small role: Jim Beaver (as a tough - minded businessman in «Crimson Peak»), Ben Fransham (as a Nosferatu look - alike in «What We Do in the Shadows»), Haley Joel Osment (as a rich man's spoiled and useless son in «Entourage»), Dakin Matthews (as the judge in «Bridge of Spies») and B.D. Wong (as the perverse scientist in «Jurassic World»).

Even the small roles are affectionately written and acted, from True Blood «s Fiona Shaw as deadpan spy boss Carolyn to Penny Dreadful «s David Haig as Eve's hapless superior Bill.

My previous description of the basic plot doesn't even mention the star of the movie, Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), the new young heroine played by Isabela Moner, supporting roles by Anthony Hopkins (as the leader of the Witwiccans), Jerrod Carmichael (as Cade's assistant), John Turturro (reprising his role from the first three films), Josh Duhamel (also reprising his role from the previous films, but this time as a spy), Tony Hale (as a Nasa JPL nerd), Glenn Morshower (reprising his military role), and many others.

And it is a joy to see the still - lovely and very game Ann - Margret as a grocery store clerk with a crush on Al. «SNL's» Kenan Thompson and Siobhan Fallon Hogan are bright spots, but the gifted Matt Dillon, Christopher Lloyd, Josh Pais, and Peter Serafinowicz («Spy») are vastly under - used in one - dimensional roles.

Here's an exclusive clip with Tom Hiddleston talking about his role voicing villain Lord Nooth: «Red Sparrow» Jennifer Lawrence stars as a former ballerina turned lethal agent in this international spy drama, out on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, and DVD May 22.

The big screen adaptation stars Henry Cavill in the title role as Napoleon Solo, a suave, sophisticated spy employed by U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement), a top secret, international espionage agency.

It's hard to believe that Firth was never considered for the role of James Bond, because he's perfectly cast as the sophisticated but badass super spy, a man capable of taking out an entire gang of thugs armed only with an umbrella, and look good doing it in his bespoke suit.

The spy thriller franchise's boss is open to recruiting a black or female star into the leading role as 007, and she insisted that she would prefer to «push the envelope a little bit» when it comes to traditions.

This is the first Oscar nomination for the hardworking actor, who began her long career in 1977 in the crime series «Baretta,» although she also had an uncredited role as a girl playing with a rubber ball in «The Spy Who Never Was» the year prior.

Julia Roberts shines in a great small role as a sultry spy, and Matt Damon and Brad Pitt turn up in hilarious cameos as «Dating Game» losers.

Cavill and Hammer are so fun in their roles that further adventures would certainly be welcomed, but failing that, Ritchie would be wise to seek out more projects within the spy genre, because it's well - tailored to his strengths as a filmmaker.

The spectre - snagging quartet gets a makeover for the new millennium as Kristin Wiig (SNL, Bridesmaids), Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids, Spy), Kate McKinnon (SNL, Sisters), and Leslie Jones (SNL, Top Five) takeover the title roles.

British actor Hayley Atwell will reprise her role as Agent Carter from the Marvel movie series, in a show exploring her life as a spy while Captain America is frozen in ice

Final Verdict: Spy acts as a sleeper hit, never relying too heavily on the comedy or the fact its lead is often used in a far more obvious role.

Speaking with Digital Spy, Doug Jones stated he would «love» to reprise his role as Billy Butcherson in the upcoming Hocus Pocus remake / sequel.

Yesterday we brought you a batch of spy photos from the Dubrovnik set of Star Wars: Episode VIII [take a look here], and now thanks to TMZ we have a few more, which reveal a couple of alien creatures, as well as a landspeeder; check them out here... SEE ALSO: Billie Lourd's role will be -LSB-...]

Jennifer Lawrence — in a role that comes with a bad haircut and bad accent («a gluss uv woodka, plizz»)-- plays Dominika, who washes out as a ballerina and is sent by authorities to a drab institution in the snowy Russian hinterlands to learn how to be the spy who'll shag you.

I hated that he beat Slyvester Stallone (nominated for «Creed») for Best Supporting Actor in 2015 for his role in «Bridge of Spies» and then even more after «The BFG» but he was simply amazing as James Halliday!

Beloved director Steven Spielberg took the reigns for the 2015 film adaptation starring Tom Hanks, but it was beloved English thespian Mark Rylance who took an award for his role as a soft - spoken Russian spy.

This intriguing title features Washington in a little - known role as the mastermind behind an intricate Revolutionary War spy network.

Alpha Protocol unites role - playing, stealth, and action gameplay into a single experience that captures what it feels like to operate as a modern day spy.

Will the player be locked in to certain spy roles, or can they play out any given mission as a Bond, Bourne, or Bauer type?

As her project, she decided to adopt the role of a spy, gathering intelligence on the agency itself, which she assembled into a detailed report, subjecting the agency to its own surveillance.