Sentences with phrase «screen role»

It's so amazing to think this was his first big screen role, what a crazy debut!

Afterwards, she moved to New York acting in screen roles in theater, bit parts in movies, and some guest star appearances in a few TV series.

Hawn spent pretty much the entire 1980s and half of the»90s as a leading lady, fronting films as diverse as Private Benjamin (for which she received her second Oscar nomination) and Death Becomes Her, with her final screen role coming in 2002's The Banger Sisters.

She scored her first major screen role as a stripper taking a swim class in Ishai Setton's comedy drama The Big Bad Swim (2005), but attained much broader recognition as a young virgin cursed with a bizarre and grisly anatomical aberration in Mitchell Lichtenstein's eccentric horror comedy Teeth (2007).

Suotamo gives Chewie his biggest on screen role yet and he delivers.

The other, Julia Hart's Miss Stevens, gives New York stage stalwart Lily Rabe her first great screen role as a high - school teacher escorting three students to a drama competition and is one of the best - acted indies I've seen this year.

As I noted earlier this year in my review of The Grand Budapest Hotel, it is one of the great mysteries (and minor tragedies) of Hollywood that Abraham has had so few memorable big screen roles since his mid-1980s semi-stardom in Amadeus and The Name of the Rose.

, one of his last screen roles.)

WIth subsequent small screen roles in Kingpin and OZ that same year, the up and coming actor would become a familiar face to television viewers before once again returning to the silver screen for supporting roles in Shall We Dance?

Though McAdams» early screen roles found her specializing in the bitchy teen princess to maximum effect, closer inspection reveals a skilled dramatic actress who no doubt has the talent to move beyond the high - school trappings of such comedies as The Hot Chick and Mean Girls.Born to a truck driver and a nurse in London, Ontario, Canada, McAdams warmed to the spotlight early on by taking up competitive skating at just four years old.

An empowerment anthem designed to showcase the struggles of the circus «Oddities,» it's sung in the film by Letty, the Bearded Lady (played by Keala Settle in her first major screen role after numerous Broadway stints).

It's basically a filmed play, and the drama itself is problematic (Tennessee Williams - lite), but oh what performances are given by Cher (in her first great screen role) as the no - nonsense waitress Sissy, Sandy Dennis as the delusional Mona and Karen Black as the mysterious Joanne who arrives halfway through the film and upends the lives of the women who used to know her as Joe.

But Whiskey Tango Foxtrot offers another kind of insider's view of the workings of daily journalism, with Tina Fey in her best screen role yet as an Afghanistan - based TV reporter.

Fadden's better - known screen roles include the tollhouse keeper in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)-- which led to choice appearances in subsequent Frank Capra productions — and «possessed» townman Ira in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

Still a skinny - looking kid, Stallone scored his first memorable screen role as Stanley Rosiello.

This movie doesn't waste her talents quite as much as «Mortdecai» did — Munn at least gets to do some sensuous salsa dancing with bad - guy Benjamin Bratt — but when you compare her big screen roles with the richness of her work on «The Newsroom,» it's no wonder so many actresses flee to television.

Chris Evans may be white - hot after the blockbuster success of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but perhaps he's taking that cold season a little too seriously with his career trajectory, as his next big - screen role finds him trapped on a train in a frozen future — and chomping at the bit to move up the social hierarchy ladder.

«I first encountered Russell Crowe in Romper Stomper in 1992, a blistering breakthrough performance of incredible power and startling intensity — two elements which he has brought to over two decades of indelible screen roles including LA Confidential, The Insider, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind et al..

As the film opens in the presidential election year of 2000, Dee Roberts (played by newcomer Nicole Beharie in the second screen role of her career) is an African - American, single mother of four in a small east - central Texas town.

First major big - screen role came in 2008, withthe Martin Lawrence comedy Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins.

Kudos to Roos for giving Lisa Kudrow the best screen role of her career as Lucia, the sister of Bill's deceased partner, and the acerbic conscience of a perfectly dysfunctional modern anti-romantic comedy.

While he starts a liaison with blasé academic Rita (a mischievous Parker Posey in her juiciest screen role in years), he's also getting dangerously close to besotted student Jill (Emma Stone).

Although no actual casting announcement has been made for the role of Catwoman yet, we figured we would be proactive and compile a list of nine actresses that we think are perfect for the iconic silver screen role.

Since their notable appearance in a song and dance routine with actor Dick Van Dyck in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, these little black and white creatures have scored numerous screen roles in films like Madagascar, Cat's Don't Dance, Surf's Up, Happy Feet and this fall's sequel Happy Feet Two.

In her best - ever screen role, Jennifer Lopez stars as Karen Sisco, a US Marshal who gets kidnapped by bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney) after he breaks out of jail.

Charles Laughton gulps beer and chomps on mutton, in his first of many iconic screen roles, as King Henry VIII, the ultimate anti-husband.

All of which leaves Neuwirth to strut away with the film in proof positive that the actress needs more screen roles and quickly.

More comedy than horror, this film features early screen roles from Matthew Fox, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Matthew McConaughey.

Whether Alba's story is true or not, the star wasn't exactly ready for such a big screen role so soon, making her appearance all the more baffling.

D'Arcy's best English - speaking screen role of the»30s was as Irene Dunne's amorous music teacher in The Awful Truth (1937), in which he was hilariously beaten to a pulp by jealous husband Cary Grant.

Soon turning up in everything from Sex and the City to ER to appearing alongside Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001), Stewart began to work steadily while drifting between small and large screen roles.

However, until that happens, I'm content to watch this multi-talented actor / performer in whatever screen roles he chooses — Wolverine, an Australian drover, a deceitful partner — or, as in Real Steel, a struggling boxing promoter whose many character flaws include a willingness to sell his 11 - year - old son.

However, Langella maintained a busy schedule of stage work, and in the 1990s, finally scored a breakthrough screen role in the comedy Dave as the deceitful political puppet master Bob Alexander.

Polymath musician, writer and scourge / darling of the music press, Nick Cave has played a number of intriguing screen roles over the years.

The film may be nominally factual, and the character he plays may share Nick Cave's name, but this is as much of a performance as any of his previous screen roles.

Gant continued his big - screen roles through the tail end of that decade and well into the 2000s, but also achieved substantial recognition and audience identification on the small screen, with a regular role as Sgt. Bill Dornan on Steven Bochco's hit cop drama NYPD Blue.

One of his most sizeable screen roles was Lamont Cranston's brainy assistant Li Peng in The Shadow (1994).

The Victorville, CA native landed his first prominent screen roles in the mid - to late 2000s, in outings such as the 2006 teen comedy Accepted, the 2007 action movie Transformers, and the Michael Bay - produced remake Friday the 13th (2009).

He is helped by Demi Moore in her second screen role before all the money and glitz, which provides a more grounded performance from her.

American actor Kevin Conway's first credited screen role was as Weary in the 1971 Kurt Vonnegut derivation Slaughterhouse Five.

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.

Though Carey and director John Ford never worked together in the 1930s and 1940s, Ford acknowledged his indebtedness to the veteran actor by frequently casting Harry Carey Jr. (born 1921), a personable performer in his own right, in important screen roles.

Rickman was already a succesful actor on stage in the 1980's, but rose to prominence with unforgettable on screen roles like Hans Gruber in the original Die Hard, the Metatron in Dogma, Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest and of course Snape from the Harry Potter series.

Hammer (The Social Network, J. Edgar) is a revelation, giving his most complex screen role to date the tightrope thrill of full immersion.

Appearing in small roles for TV movies like «The Jacksons: An American Dream» and sitcoms like «Coach» and «Living Single» while attending Pratt University for chemical engineering, Terrence didn't land his first big screen role until 1995 opposite Richard Dreyfuss in «Mr. Holland's Opus.»

The emotionally rich performances by Fanning and Englert (the daughter of director Jane Campion in her first significant screen role) root the film.