Sentences with phrase «screen career»

While the star didn't completely abandon her big screen career, it allowed her to pursue new projects and find fresh opportunities.

Director Mimi Leder kicked off her big screen career with Dreamworks's first major film The Peacemaker.

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Starring: Tina Fey, Martin Freeman, Margot Robbie, Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, Christopher Abbott Tina Fey furthers her attempt at having a big screen career by taking on the true story of journalist Kim Barker.

She begins her big screen career as Mandy Park in «Honey, I Blew Up the Kid» in 1992.

Dabbling between the sitcom and film work, Woody's big screen career didn't really begin to soar until late in the «Cheers» run with the 1991 release of «White Men Can't Jump,» with Woody opposite Wesley Snipes.

In Jason Segel's case, fresh - off the finale of the CBS sitcom «How I Met Your Mother», this is a low point in his big screen career which has included some solid work both writing and in front of the camera.

The brief 26 years of Jean Harlow's life were marked with tragedy, disappointments, heartbreak and, of course, a tremendously successful screen career.

Bening's moll - in - the - making snipes at Beatty's flirty hood - on - the - rise, defining herself most decisively as a woman of fierce impenetrability, a trait that has been revived and reshaped throughout her 30 - year screen career.

He earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for «Silver Linings Playbook,» but reuniting with Scorsese is just what his big screen career needs most right now.

It is true that Locke's flagging screen career was regenerated by her appearance in Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales.

It's also simultaneously an encouraging follow - up for Headhunters» Morten Tyldum, an impressive debut for screenwriter Graham Moore, and a big - screen career highlight for Benedict Cumberbatch.

He began appearing in films in 1958, going on to a sporadic but intermittently busy screen career; he often played cowpokes and «good ol' boys.»

The younger brother of silent - film leading man Bobby Harron, John Harron began his own screen career in 1921, a year after his brother's accidental death.

With ruggedly handsome looks and a lengthy screen career, actor - producer Nick Nolte has established himself as a major industry figure.

From his early days on the south side of Chicago to a flourishing screen career, Antwon cites every successful career step taken as a direct result of well - defined goals and his faith in God.

With the news that Pete's Dragon star Bryce Dallas Howard is teaming up with Tourism New Zealand and National Geographic Travel to persuade North Americans to visit our shores, we felt it was time to remember the best moments of the 36 - year - old's screen career so far.

Parker's appearance in another dull film does nothing to support her claim she can adequately lead on the big screen in spite of the enormous success in her small screen career, but the near - certain success of Sex and the City later this year may allow her the breathing space to get one last shot at breaking through in a character other than Carrie.

Kicking off his English - language screen career a decade ago, he's matched his considerable skills against some of the industry's most revered talents and taken direction from a vanguard of visually dynamic filmmakers with his memorable appearances in such movies as «The Dark Knight,» «Contagion,» «2012» and «Captain America: The Winter Soldier.»

Like many, I hope Aaron Paul finds success, but his post - «Breaking Bad» big screen career gets off to a lackluster start in Need for Speed, an unintelligent and underwhelming racing movie that won't do much for anyone who isn't riveted by the sights and sounds of fast cars in motion.

Even Stockard Channing — whose performance as Rizzo, the tough leader of the Pink Ladies, gives Grease the closest thing it has to real drama — had a mostly uneventful screen career until she resurfaced in the early»90s with her Oscar - nominated role in Six Degrees of Separation (1993).

The film version did not catapult Bogart to major stardom but served as a turning point, a break, in his otherwise slow - moving screen career.

And McDonagh keeps his stage and screen careers separate.

It also featured a character endowed with passion, ambition and street smarts, brought to life by an actress whose screen career almost ended before it began.

The cast (Leslie Caron became a major star after this, Maurice Chevalier revitalized his once glorious screen career, and Louis Jourdan finally found his forte in Hollywood) were all beyond reproach.

By credible, I mean that Maria goes to great lengths to screen career professionals and make sure they have earned the credentials they claim.

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It's impossible to contest the importance of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, the movie that popularized the spaghetti Western worldwide, launched the big - screen career of Clint Eastwood, and inspired a wave of future filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino.

Bryan Cranston — a Best Actor Oscar nominee for «Trumbo» — continues his rewarding post - «Breaking Bad» big - screen career with another juicy real - life role in the highly entertaining «The Infiltrator.»

Tina Fey furthers her attempt at having a big screen career by taking on the true story of journalist Kim Barker.

Peele started his on - screen career as a cast member on Mad TV in 2003, at the same time as Keegan - Michael Key.

There's this unspoken suspension of disbelief in any city - building game that some offscreen authority has chosen you as the most qualified entity for the job, that you must have some fantastic off - screen career which informed this.

A versatile performer whose patrician features and keen intelligence have distinguished him in both leading and supporting roles, Colm Feore spent 13 seasons as a classical actor at the Stratford Festival before embarking on a successful screen career that has encompassed both art films and more populist fare.

(While he's done a number of thrillers in his 15 - year screen career, he's only starred in three true horrors — Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2, and The Conjuring.

After a series of clips showing her stellar big screen career, Streep's The Deer Hunter co-star De Niro joked, «My first thought was, I was amazing in Deer Hunter.

Patrick Stewart is known both for his Twitter presence and his stage and screen careers.

In his screen career of more than 30 years, Jeff Daniels has starred in a wide range of films, including «Terms of Endearment,» «The Purple Rose of Cairo» and «Dumb & Dumber.»

Taking on minor film roles beginning with 1979's Hairspray, the burgeoning young actor would subsequently appear in such films as Milos Foreman's Ragtime (1981) and Woody Allen's Zelig (1983), though early struggles with alcohol and substance abuse threatened to sideline his screen career in the mid -»80s.

Sometimes billed Arnold Gregg, Ohio - born Arnold Gray (born Samberg) began his screen career in Universal two - reel action melodramas.

Englishman Simon McBurney enjoyed two distinct phases of his screen career; he began as a character player, who excelled at playing ruddy - faced, wizened, vaguely sinister types, often of a European or Eastern European origin.

Despite his education and stage work, however, Askam's screen career was spent mainly in action fare and Westerns.

Ringo Starr's screen career has always been something of a magical mystery tour, and following the offbeat likes of The Magic Christian, Son of Dracula and Lisztomania, the former Beatle continued his solo screen career by headlining this likable comedy.

An enterprising actor / writer / associate producer, handsome, cleft - chinned George O'Hara began his screen career with Mack Sennett, who cast the youngster opposite Marie Prevost in the delightful Love, Honor and Behave (1920).

Crosby managed to score on radio in 1931, and a series of two - reel comedies made for Mack Sennett helped him launch a screen career; his starring feature debut was in 1932's The Big Broadcast.

With the advent of the sound era, however, he began his screen career in earnest in 1929.

The role should have been a breakthrough but most of her footage ended up on the cutting - room floor and she spent the remainder of her screen career playing catty and sometimes downright vituperative women in potboilers.

That, however, was it for Francis, who spent the remainder of her screen career in low - budget — and sometimes even «no - budget» — potboilers and bit roles.

But while it (and Basinger) received good reviews, her screen career didn't take off in a big way until 1983, when she was cast opposite Sean Connery in the James Bond adventure Never Say Never Again.