Sentences with phrase «role on the big screen»

We kick of the list with dear old Matt, whose southern drawl and familiar roles on the big screen tug on heartstrings in this biographical drama based on the life of AIDS patient Ron Woodroof.

An asset as a thesp for two decades now, from youthful leads («The Faculty,» «The Slaughter Rule») to more recent character roles on big screen («Argo») and small («Heroes,» «American Horror Story»), DuVall demonstrates a deft hand guiding her cast here.

Allison Williams will also surprise in her debut role on the big screen with her twist on the «good girl,» a role that audiences often associate her with HBO's Girls.

His breakthrough role on the big screen came 10 years later.

Her charismatic presence, however, had not yet been given a role on the big screen that merited her considerable talents.

Not only is the biracial Irish actress tearing up the small screen as the badass Tulip in AMC's «Preacher,» but her first major role on the big screen earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

But the closest Hef has come to creating a starring role on the big screen is a James Franco cameo in Lovelace, which has Amanda Seyfried as porn star turned anti-porn icon Linda Lovelace.

The actor's more prominent roles on the big screen included Desperate Hours, Regarding Henry, Basic Instinct, Lorenzo's Oil, The Scent of a Woman, Guarding Tess, Independence Day, The Game, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Meet the Parents, Far From Heaven and Cold Mountain.

In recent years, there have been few pleasures more enjoyable than watching Charlize Theron in an action role on a big screen.

The third season of her brilliant sketch show on Comedy Central served as a stupendously enticing prelude for her first starring role on the big screen in «Trainwreck,» the latest improv - based ensemble piece from director Judd Apatow.

The action film, directed by Jeremy Rush, will star Frank Grillo, who has long been in the waiting wings for a lead role on the big screen after his strong central turn in MMA drama Kingdom (exclusively on - demand through Virgin in the UK) and scene - stealing performances in the Captain America franchise.

A Nightmare on Elm Street may have been Johnny Depp's first role on the big screen, but he showed no sign of nerves with a magnificent performance as Glen Lantz, one of the main characters who experience the horrific nightmares of Freddy Krueger.

But I am ecstatic that the talented Jane Levy has finally received her first starring role on the big screen.

This marks Gibson's first role on the big screen since The Expendables 3 (2014) and it looks like he is once again embracing the action genre.

With the new trailer for the coinciding film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, it appears that all three actors will also be reprising their roles on the big screen.

It leapt from the pages of a scientific journal to the posters and slides of the transnational summits, to official government pamphlets selling the Kyoto Protocol, to a starring role on the big screen in an Oscar winning movie [An Inconvenient Truth], to the classrooms of every schoolhouse in the western world.»

Fellow actors, comedians, filmmakers and fans have been paying tribute to Gene Wilder all over the web, and now movie theaters are offering the chance to celebrate the man's life by enjoying two of his most iconic roles on the big screen again.

Not exact matches

Quite whether this will lead to future roles remains to be seen, but it will certainly be a thrill to see the silky Italian tactician on the big screen.

She first appeared on the big screen in 2006 with a small role in the film ACCEPTED and later had a starring role as Brooke Crawford in the primetime soap opera WICKED WICKED GAMES, which was her first appearance on the small screen.

With success on the small screen soon prompting James to try his talent in feature films, a supporting role in 50 First Dates and a co-starring role opposite Will Smith in Hitch found the television favorite's amiable humor translating well to the big screen.

It wasn't until 2012 that she appeared on the big screen again for the mythological fantasy adventure Thor in the role of Frigga, Thor's mother.

It's not a terribly big role, but Novotny is utterly magnetic whenever she's on screen, casting a mysterious, mournful glow over her scenes.

Actress Malinda Williams launched her career with scattered guest appearances on The Cosby Show and NYPD Blue, but branched out into big - screen roles in the mid -»90s.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

Though Goodman's status as an amiable big guy was well established by the early 2000's, he didn't actually appear on - screen for two of his most beloved roles.

A movie with the bleakest vision of Wolverine yet, but also hands down the best treatment the character has received on the big screen in the fifteen plus years Jackman has inhabited the role.

Although, for a time, Downey's stormy offscreen life and personal problems threatened to challenge his public image, he quickly bounced back and overcame these setbacks, with a continued array of impressive roles on the big and small screens that never sacrificed his audience appeal or affability.The son of underground filmmaker Robert Downey, Downey Jr. was born in New York City on April 4, 1965.

In 2003, Deschanel appeared in minor capacity as a receptionist in Sam Raimi's Spider - Man 2, with her role in Ghost House Pictures» 2004 frightener Boogeyman serving to prove that she was much more than just another pretty face.As the 2000's rolled on, Deschanel would prove to be an even bigger force on the small screen, playing forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance «Bones» Brennan, partner of FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), on the popular Fox crime drama series Bones.

In 2000, he finally earned recognition as a talented young actor, thanks to his role as Laura Linney's wry, observant son in Kenneth Lonergan's much - acclaimed directorial debut You Can Count on Me, causing both critics and audiences to remark that perhaps big screen bankability had not been limited solely to Culkin the Eldest.

It's an essential purchase if you're new to the series and love role - playing games, but a harder sell if you've already explored every nook and cranny of the vast and beautiful game world on a bigger and more capable screen.

Staking claim on her fame with her role in the comedy - horror spoof Scary Movie, Regina Hall has frequented the big screen in roles that far from betrayed her age.

No one else could carry the role of Elizabeth I now on the big screen; it is a role that Blanchett has made her own, and it's the role that made her career.

So thank you, to everyone who has played a role in helping take this from an idea in Veronica Roth's head to a movie on the big screen.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

And on March 15 2018, Lara Croft returns to the big screen in Tomb Raider, with the Oscar - winning Alicia Vikander in the title role.

He's famous for his takes on Shakespeare and so it should come as no surprise that one of his first big screen roles required him to look at home in a doublet and hose.

At twenty - eight, Jones already has more than a decade of experience on the big screen, having made his début at sixteen in the Coen brothers» Oscar - winning No Country for Old Men as a teenager who stumbles upon Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh after a car accident, a role he landed after his first - ever audition.

He continues to be seen on television and on the big screen in a variety of projects including an episode of Battlestar Galactica (2006), the film Changeling (2008) with Angelina Jolie, recurring roles in the series 24 (2009) and The Listener (2009), and in the miniseries The Borgias (2011) as a 15th - century cardinal.

No, he's not hitting on older actresses this time, but instead debuting the look of his next role, that of Ig from the big - screen adaptation Joe Hill's supernatural thriller Horns.

Jordan Phipps is making big waves this year in the genre community, with a stellar performance in this year's festival favorite Close Calls and a lead role in the upcoming Halloween horror anthology 10/31, so we were thrilled to catch up with Jordan on the Orange Carpet for quick interview following our screening of Close Calls at the 2017 Halloween International Film Festival in Kill Devil Hills, NC, where she would go on to win the Best Actress award.

Following her Oscar - winning performance in 12 Years a Slave — and subsequent red carpet domination — Nyong» o's legions of fans will relish the chance to finally see her face on the big screen again (apart from a bit role in 2014's Non-Stop).

Kwanten and Canning are beautiful people to look at on the big screen; they're also quite charming in their roles.

Sherlock Holmes has, of course, been everywhere on big and small screens within the last several years — «The Judge» actor Robert Downey Jr. portrayed the detective, with actor Jude Law as his sidekick Watson, in the 2009 movie «Sherlock Holmes» and the 2011 sequel «Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,» while actor Benedict Cumberbatch took on the role for the BBC TV series, which is still running, with «Fargo» actor Martin Freeman as Watson.

Glover, who once lobbied to portray Ultimate Marvel's Spider - Man character Miles Morales on the big screen, also has an unspecified role in the upcoming Spider - Man: Homecoming.

Tumblr, pay attention: Sebastian Stan, who made everyone lose their damn minds in The Winter Soldier and then leveraged his popularity to secure roles in exactly one weird - sounding indie sports comedy, is finally going to be in another (non-Marvel) movie that you'll actually be able to see on the big screen.

My point, is that for a younger generation, the only opportunity to have seen any portrayal of Marshall on the big screen, would have been the small role in «The People vs. Larry Flynt» (1996).

In the last few years there has been an increasing backlash against the continued and nearly universal casting of cisgender actors in transgender roles, as well as the stereotypical characterizations of trans and non-binary people as portrayed on the big screen.

She had smallish TV roles in the likes of «Body of Proof» and «Blue Bloods,» and on the big - screen in «Our Idiot Brother» and gave an excellent performance in Alex Gibney «s «Client 9,» but it's «Boardwalk» that really provided a showcase.

The script was reportedly inspired by the real - life ordeals of Harlow and Clara Bow and Harlow is clearly in on the gag and having fun with it, playing the public role of the big screen glamour girl while her private life is all chaos and frustration.

Danner has easily translated her talents from the stage to the small screen (her Emmy wins came care of her supporting work on «Huff,» the Showtime series she won back - to - back awards for in 2005 and 2006) and into feature film offerings, but the vast majority of her big screen roles have consisted of supporting turns that she elevated with her natural grace and unique sense of humor.