Sentences with phrase «screen roles since»

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.

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

His touching, effortless performance — his first screen role since suffering a stroke — is the reason why Miramax is giving the film a one - week awards qualifying engagement, and indeed it is great to see the former Spartacus back where he belongs; his acting skills are in tip - top shape even if his body isn't.

«Hotel Artemis» (June 8): In her first on - screen role since 2013, Jodie Foster stars as The Nurse, a caretaker in a hospital for bad guys in this action thriller that also stars Sterling K. Brown, Jeff Goldblum and Dave Bautista.

Not exact matches

The role of now regular surveillance, screening and monitoring processes as recorded by the Health Protection Agency has also contributed greatly to a significant reduction in key infection rates of MRSA bacteraemia, a 75 per cent reduction since 2003/04, when more patients were dying from what are largely avoidable infections.

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.

Cruise is probably the most graceful physical performer to occupy the screen since Burt Lancaster, and in this sort of action role, he's just about peerless... He may not be a great actor, but to find a greater movie star would be a nigh impossible mission.

He showed his darker side as an actor in Faster (2010) and Snitch (2013), starring in both, but it was his supporting role in Fast Five that helped elevate him higher in his status as a screen hero and since then he's rarely looked back.

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).

Meanwhile, on the small - screen, Alda played presidential - hopeful Arnold Vinick on NBC's political drama The West Wing, another Senator and his first regular series role since M * A * S * H.

It's been four years since Mel Gibson played a lead role in a movie, and with all of the tabloid headlines in the meantime it's been easy to forget how magnetic he is on screen...

If you put an overtly comedic actor like Will Ferrell or Jason Sudeikis into his role here, that would be one thing but since Statham has spent most of his screen career playing the straight version of this role, it makes his performance even funnier as a result.

Since her breakthrough role in 1977's The Lacemaker, Huppert has proved herself one of Europe's finest, and most prolific, screen actresses.

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.

And Olympia Dukakis (rarely seen on screen since her Oscar - winning performance in «Moonstruck») is memorable as Bob's Aunt Vicky, who gets to play a small, but important role in undercover charade.

Steven Spielberg's Nixon - era drama about The Washington Post and its role in publishing the Pentagon Papers has been picking up awards since late November (we aren't that crazy about it), though up until now it's only played in a few theaters; adding almost 2,800 new screens, it earned $ 19.3 million this weekend to land at No. 2.

Laurie Metcalf has dominated the small screen since she was cast as Roseanne Barr's beleaguered sister, Jackie Harris, in Roseanne in 1988 (a role she's currently reprising in the sitcom's ABC revival debuting next year).

This has been on my must - see list ever since it was announced, and that excitement has only grown with each new reveal, from the casting of Chris Pratt in the lead role, to landing Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper to voice the movie's CGI characters, to the strong buzz emerging from early screenings that have pegged it as one of the studio's best films to date.

Davis, of course, has been a familiar on - screen face since her small but memorable early roles in eventual classics like «Tootsie» and «Fletch,» continuing through star turns in enduring iconic films including «Beetlejuice,» «The Fly,» «A League of Their Own,» «The Long Kiss Goodnight,» «Stuart Little» and career high points like her Oscar - nominated turn in «Thelma & Louise» and her Oscar - winning performance in «The Accidental Tourist.»

The former proved that she had chops far deeper than her famously «bubbly» image, and her abilities were then further tested a year later, again opposite Shahrukh Khan, in an even more intensely dramatic role in Yash Chopra's Indo - Pak «love legend» Veer - Zaara; and she has since continued to challenge herself — and triumph — in more ambitious projects such as Deepa Mehta's harrowing Canada - set domestic abuse tale Heaven on Earth (which should reach U.S. screens sometime this year).

She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming - of - age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the biographical drama The Social Network (2010), the thriller remake The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the romantic drama Carol (2015).

It's been a while since the Godzilla franchise put a foreigner in such a predominant role, and although Frye doesn't exactly nail line delivery, he does at least command some presence on screen.

That role sometimes paired Offerman on screen with his real - life wife Megan Mullally, an equally gifted comedian who has continually shined in guest sitcom appearances since her breakout role as the boozy socialite Karen Walker on «Will & Grace.»

Jason Statham reportedly swam with real sharks to prepare for his role in The Meg, but we're not sure why since the shark he's set to battle on screen...

Even small cameos by Heather Graham (who has not lit up the screen since her role in «Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer «-RRB- and Melissa McCarthy (who should stop starring in drudge like «Identity Thief «-RRB- does nothing for this picture.

The programme also featured one of Claudia Karvan's earliest roles, in Gillian Armstrong's High Tide, which had not screened since its original release in 1987.

The three Hollywood legends are to bring another story to life on the big screen for the first time since 1995 after Scorsese's long - term editor Thelma Schoonmaker spilled that Pesci had agreed to a role in the gangster flick.

David Thewlis (Dragonheart) gets most of the screen time, which is a shame since he's totally unappealing, and Kilmer is totally wasted in a role that has very little for him to do and with which he does little with.

Woodley hasn't done much screen work since her Descendants breakthrough, short of continuing her starring role in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, the ABC Family series that will soon wrap its fifth and final season.

Greg Dyke, chairman of the BFI, said, «Cate Blanchett is a compelling and brave actress whose mesmerizing screen presence has captivated audiences since her earliest roles.

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.

Reunited with his native British accent, Boyega displays a natural charisma he hasn't had since his screen debut in «Attack the Block,» and which has been lacking in his role as Finn in the «Star Wars» movies.

Atomic Blonde (July 28) has been lovingly referred to as Jane Wick since it screened at SXSW, and I can think of no actress better for the ass - kicking role than Charlize Theron.

Sadly, as you may have heard on the social grapevine, CVG is closing down, and since Future couldn't find another role for me I was given the big Game Over screen.

Since the whole point of doing background screening is to mitigate human risks, it is imperative that your background check be tailored to address all the risks inherent in the role in question.

Klimas is a founding member of NAPBS, and since the association's inception in 2003 has served in a variety of roles, most recently as the chair of the Background Screening Credentialing Council (BSCC).

«It has been nearly 10 months since the EEOC issued its new April 25, 2012 criminal record guidance and HR professionals, employers, and background screening firms are adjusting to the new reality,» says Landin, who joined the ESR management team in April 2011 and assumed the role of President in September 2011.