Sentences with phrase «screen role after»

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).

While Conlin's first screen role after graduation was grounded firmly in reality (she was chosen to appear in a documentary film detailing the lives of young actors in New York City), it was only after moving to Los Angeles that her career truly began to catch on.

Not exact matches

After deciding on the role to fill, they go through the traditional route of posting ads to different job boards, screening candidates, interviewing those who seem the most qualified and then hiring the person who is the best fit.

The role allowed Hayek to obtain a Screen Actors Guild card, and after doing so, she continued to audition until she appeared on a Spanish - language cable access talk show that happened to count director Robert Rodriguez amongst its viewers.

After starring with a pre-Clueless Alicia Silverstone in the 1994 TV movie The Cool and the Crazy, Leto was cast in his first big screen role in How to Make an American Quilt (1995).

Even this was an offbeat lead role and unfortunately, as a result of a lawsuit, The Ghost Ship (and with it Knaggs» most interesting and fully realized screen performance) was withdrawn from distribution soon after release in 1944 and suppressed for 50 years, until the mid -»90s.

After being cast as Lorene Rogers in a TV remake of From Here to Eternity (a role she reprised in a subsequent series based upon the film), Basinger finally made her way to the big screen in the low - budget drama Hard Country.

It's heartening, too, that after several entries that focus almost entirely on the kids, Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Jim Broadbent, and, in particular, Rickman return with substantial roles and significantly more screen time.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully with this long - delayed big - screen continuation that revives the series six years after it headed off the air in 2002.

Just a few short months after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sailed into the multiplexes, Harris would trade her Jamaican accent for a Bronx inflection when she took the role of a tough New York cop in director Michael Mann's Miami Vice - a slick, big screen adaptation of the show that made pink t - shirts and white blazers all the rage in the 1980s.

Harris» feature films for 2004 include the live - action remake Thunderbirds and the thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth.Though her star was steadily rising in Hollywood, it wasn't until 2006 that Harris would really make a splash on stateside screens; and after supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Cafter supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's CAfter the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

After having his first major Broadway success with A Shot in the Dark, Matthau began working on the screen, usually in small supporting roles that cast him as thugs, villains, and louts in such films as The Kentuckian (1955) and King Creole (1958).

After stage work, Freeman began taking bit roles in major - studio features in 1948, seldom getting screen credit but always making a positive impression.

While at work on Fifteen Minute Hamlet, Louiso moved to L.A. to further pursue his screen career, and, after appearing in such films as Scent of a Woman (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), and Jerry Maguire (1996), he had his most high profile role to date in Stephen Frears» widely celebrated adaptation of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity (2000).

After the war, his film parts multiplied, and he was very busy on the screen during the 1950s, in productions as different as Anthony Asquith's The Importance of Being Earnest and Tony Richardson's Look Back in Anger, and playing every kind of character role from coroners (in Cast a Dark Shadow) to British admirals (in Sink the Bismarck!)

After he completed his studies, he was cast in the off - Broadway production of Horton Foote's Laura Dennis, and, as a member of Douglas Carter Beane's Drama Department, he appeared in John Cameron Mitchell's off - Broadway production of Kingdom of Earth.Sarsgaard made his screen debut in Tim Robbins» Dead Man Walking (1995) but had his first substantial role in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), which cast him as the ill - fated son of John Malkovich's dueling Muskateer.

While he has accrued several noteworthy screen assignments (including the starring role of a nasty hockey player in 1992's The Cutting Edge), D.B. Sweeney is best remembered for his even - keel portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988); if he looked like a «natural» on the ballfield, it was because Sweeney had once actually played minor league baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.

In a supporting yet pivotal role (obtained after screen testing for the lead), Franco invested pain and pathos into the minor part, succeeding again in the inevitable sequel.

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.

After much searching and screen tests — Lucas has said he wanted a young, fresh - faced actor for the role — he found Mark Hamill.

«In the Cut» (Screen Gems) Meg Ryan openly campaigned for this role after Nicole Kidman dropped out.

Just after The Greasy Strangler screening at Fantastic Fest, and just ahead of tomorrow's VOD and theatrical release, we sat down with the actress to discuss her initial hesitation in taking the role, the ballsy nature of the film, her dance moves, and more.

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.

Taking on the lead role of college - bound Marcus Messner is Logan Lerman... an actor who has been on screen since he was 8 years old, and seems to have the eternal youth DNA so sought after by Ponce de Leon.

Although this is not a biographical study, Thomas» book does proceed in a basically chronological manner, beginning with Lorre's work on the European stage in the 1920s and early 1930s, following his move to Hollywood and roles as a leading actor in the 1930s, proceeding to a study of his work as a supporting actor at Warner Bros. in the 1940s, his not - so - triumphant return to Europe to direct and star in Der Verlorene after WWII and finally his late screen roles in the 1950s and 1960s.

The «After Hours» star returns to the big screen opposite Rebecca Hall and Jason Sudeikis in «Tumbledown,» and talks to Backstage about his role, the audition that won him comparisons to Travis Bickle, and getting pinched by Tennessee Williams.

After the twin relative disappointments of «The Crucible» and «The Boxer,» Day - Lewis disappeared from the screen for five years, taking up cobbling in Florence and starting a family with Miller while turning down roles ranging from Aragorn in «The Lord of the Rings» to the Fiennes» brothers roles in «The English Patient» and «Shakespeare in Love.»

Some twelve years after the conclusion of Alias, actress Jennifer Garner is set for a return to the small screen, with TV Line reporting that she is set for a leading role in the new HBO comedy series Camping.

Early Hollywood portrayals of African - Americans in stereotypical roles are a source of anger and embarrassment decades after those images disappeared from the screen.

Saturday brings a pair of classics named after the dames that haunt our heroes: Gilda (1946), starring Rita Hayworth in her most iconic screen siren role as a sex kitten who digs her claws into the bodyguard (tough guy Glenn Ford) of her crippled sugar daddy husband (George Macready), and Laura (1944), with Gene Tierney as the beauty in a painting who obsesses homicide detective Dana Andrews.

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.

His best - known plays include Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), the Pulitzer Prize - winning The Piano Lesson (1990) and the Tony Award - and Pulitzer - winning Fences (1987), now on the screen courtesy of actor - turned - director Denzel Washington, whose third outing in that role this is, after Antwone Fisher (2002) and The Great Debaters (2007).

After her memorable role as Samantha Thomas in 1989's Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, she took a lengthy break from acting to concentrate on her family, returning to the screen in 2015 in Patrick Rea's award winning short film Howl of a Good Time.

After landing a few acting roles, including stints on The Cosby Show and the MTV game show Remote Control, he began writing for SNL in 1990 and soon became a popular on - screen player, known for his crude humor and underdog appeal.

In joining the cast, Petersen found his first on - screen role since leaving CSI in 2009 after nine seasons as Gil Grissom.

Whichever Game of Thrones catchphrases you prefer, it's hard to not get excited about Cyanide Studios» upcoming action role - playing game, especially after seeing the first screens.

«Dheepan» marks his first leading role in a film (after a supporting part in the 2011 Indian film «Sengadal»), but his commanding screen presence suggests it will not be his last.

«This rider covers the crew, and it covers the on - screen roles of the smaller parts, you know, the folks who make their living doing part after part, who also combine that with waiting tables.

Monty Python star Michael Palin has landed another Tv acting role after returning to the small screen last year (13) in black comedy The Wipers...

But Thor's big screen presence could have been very different initially, after Chris Hemsworth revealed that he came very close to turning the role down in the first place.

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.

Actress Elizabeth Banks has come under fire from the director of her first movie, after she branded the role the biggest mistake of her screen...

For a piece in today's Calendar section about actresses and nudity in Oscar - winning roles, the Los Angeles Times «Rachel Abramowitz talks to Marisa Tomei about her on - screen nudity in both Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and The Wrestler, and the well - toned actress pooh - poohs talk about a new direction for her career: «I happened to get offered The Wrestler after I did that movie,» she says.

After appearing in small screen guest spots for some of the biggest shows on TV, Elizabeth made the move from New York to Los Angeles in the hopes of finding more film roles.

Carrell made the film after a string of solid supporting roles in similar ensemble - oriented comedies but before The Office established him a small screen star and plays the role as amiable if socially awkward, with an undercurrent of melancholy in his isolation from the rest of the world.

After learning he has been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, he said:

From the stage after the screening, Blunt, who will soon appear in the title role of Disney's «Mary Poppins Returns,» spoke about their collaboration.

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.

Keira in Hollywood snub Keira Knightley's Oscar hopes were left in tatters after she was snubbed by the Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in hit film Atonement.

FILM COMMENT sat down with Poitras after a public screening for a conversation that ranged from what revelations still surprise her, to the role of narrative in documentary and journalism, to how she knew she was being followed in Hong Kong.