Sentences with phrase «serious roles in movies»

During his career as a stand - up comedian and actor, Williams starred in serious roles in movies like Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, Good Morning Vietnam, August Rush and Insomnia.

With a rare serious role in the movie Greenberg, Ben Stiller has generated Oscar buzz for the first time in his career.

Not exact matches

Most folks from the west aren't familiar with his more serious roles in China or how brutal some of his early movies were, so it was refreshing to see him portraying a man who lost everything.

That movie nudged him toward being considered a Serious Actor, a designation he nurtured with roles in three films shown at major festivals: Lee Daniels» The Paperboy and Todd Nichols» Mud (both at Cannes this year) and the popular indie comedy Bernie (London Film Festival).

Birdman is Alejandro González Iñárritu's inspired, single - take backstage nightmare about a failing movie star played by Michael Keaton, haunted by «Birdman», the dumb superhero role which made him rich and famous and which he huffily rejected in favour of a serious career that has failed to take flight.

And Nivola, indelibly poignant as the doomed Mark Madoff in Barry Levinson's HBO movie The Wizard of Lies, brings simmering warmth and low - key strength to the complicated role of a serious man who can't accept the role of nice Orthodox Jewish prince.

It's great to see Emma Thompson back in the game as Harold's narrator / author (I must admit I never got around to seeing Nanny McPhee, and the Harry Potter movies have so many stars these days you don't have time to appreciate each one) and Queen Latifah is another comedic actress doing well at a serious role here.

Also, I do think Chris Pratt can play a serious dramatic role, but in a movie like this, where it is very self - serious most of the time, and doesn't give his character much to do, let Chris Pratt make jokes, and release some of the forced tension.

At the film's recent press day, Speedman spoke about his creative collaboration with Egoyan with whom he worked previously on Adoration, how Egoyan wrote the role specifically with him in mind, why he was drawn to the complicated character and enjoyed the challenge of an enigmatic story, the backstory he created for his character, his research with the Kitchener - Waterloo detectives, working with Reynolds and Dawson, how they had fun while doing serious work on a dark movie, and his upcoming films: October Gale, a romantic thriller with Patricia Clarkson, and Out of the Dark, a horror - thriller with Julia Stiles.

«The End of the Tour» lacks the melodrama we expect from the movies, but for the right audience, it deserves status as an eye - opener and a look at the way an actor who is known for comedy does an effective about face in a serious, somber role.

The actor has had to get in serious shape for his recent movie roles, but each actually required very different training.

After decades of abrasive stand - up comedy, acting roles in both teenage - beach - girl and serious movies, and contributing to making the «Toy Story» films huge box office successes as Mr. Potato Head, Don Rickles left the world stage at the age of 90 when he passed away suddenly at his home in Los Angeles.