Sentences with phrase «serve as actors»

In this four - minute, multi-screen video, the objects serve as actors on a small stage.

In his elaborate, surreal set pieces, banal objects and consumer goods serve as both actors and props.

Waithe knew getting the little things right was vital, so she assembled a team of local creatives (including rapper Common, who serves as both an actor and producer) to give The Chi an air of authenticity and level of detail rarely achieved in entertainment.

Served as an actor - facilitator, creating anxiety - response behaviors in subjects during videotaped session.

Not exact matches

The Montreal - born actor has won Emmys, a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, and the honour of serving as Grand Marshal of this year's Calgary Stampede.

After the success of the first season, all of the lead female actors reportedly received «sizeable» raises, including a reported $ 1 million per episode for Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, who also serve as executive producers on the series.

Actor John Travolta — best known as starring in films such as Pulp Fiction and Grease — will be among the numerous celebrity attendees, serving as a special guest speaker.

Crisis actors, to be clear, are a real thing, but they are not hired to serve as fake victims of real tragedies.

The folk wisdom that gets expressed from time to time by various actors thus serves as a kind of implicit Greek chorus commenting on the action.

However, the juxtaposition between her apparent happiness and our expectations of traumatic stress and mourning in the wake of personal tragedy served as grist for conspiracy theorists who claim that she is a crisis actor and the murder was staged for some nefarious purpose or other.

Serve up some fancy finger foods to your family friends as you watch your favorite actors walk the red carpet and give their acceptances speeches.

Poor parsnips too often serve as crowd actor And then, ultimate indignity, they get discarded, as in chicken soup.

Built in a nine - acre industrial stretch just a block away from Inman Park's gorgeous Victorian homes, the site has a pretty unique history — it most recently served as the production facility, warehouse, and headquarters for actor Tyler Perry, best known for innumerable movies centered around his alter ego, the outspoken Atlanta matriarch Madea.

Before all the action in the Moët Suite, Opening Night of the US Open began with the star - studded USTA Serves Opening Night Gala in the President's Suite, where actor Kevin Spacey — who led an exciting charitable auction during the Gala — as well astennis legend Billie Jean King and US tennis players Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan signed a bottle of Moët & Chandon — crystalized with the US Open logo — for the USTA Serves.

But suddenly the young man who says that he set his watch and dorm - room clock 10 minutes ahead to try to stay on schedule, who served as the Chiefs» co-captain, who spent time volunteering at last summer's Special Olympics and who had just appeared as one of nine varsity athletes on the university president's Christmas card, was being described as the instigator of a scuffle during an intrasquad scrimmage — a bad actor no longer wanted by his coach or teammates.

When Paul Robeson, the black actor and singer, went to the U.S.S.R. after he was virtually hounded out of the U.S. for being a Communist sympathizer in the 1950s, Max's father served as Robeson's booking agent for several of his singing performances there.

The award - winning film actor, director and producer had a long association with Chelsea dating back to the 1940s and served as a club director before accepting roles as life vice-president and then life - president.

Media Advisory WHAT: Five Acres Soiree Under the Stars Gala on Saturday, June 4, 2016 WHO: Serving as co-emcees will be actor Matthew Lillard, currently seen on «Bosch,» on Amazon and of the «Scooby Doo» franchise along with actress Carla Gugino of, «Entourage» on HBO and the new film, «Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Background: Actor Matthew Lillard has been a longstanding supporter of Five Acres and served as emcee at the gala for the last three years.

WHAT: Voices for Five Acres, Swingin» on a Star Gala on May 17 WHO: Serving as emcees will be actor Matthew Lillard, currently seen on «The Bridge» on FX, and Wendy Burch, Emmy award - winning reporter and anchor on KTLA.

Jesse Ventura (born James George Janos; July 15, 1951) is an American media personality, actor, author, former politician and retired professional wrestler, who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003.

[3] She has also served as a member of the board of trustees for the Actors Fund and the AFTRA Health and Retirement Funds.

The process that culminated in the 2011 referendum not only saw a significant amount of institutions sprout and bloom as major actors in favour of electoral reform, but also served as a course of education for voters unfamiliar with alternative methods of voting.

«I wish there will be a law that will state that before an actor or actress receives his or her pay, there will be some amount of money that will be deducted as tax or contribution to SSNIT so that it will serve as financial support in case they go on pension or when they need some health assistance.

The reality is more complex, as local actors, like the separatists in Ukraine, often serve as proxies for another country, like Russia.

Beal continued appearing in films during the war years while serving in Special Services as actor and director of Army Air Force camp shows and training films.

From actress Jane Lynch to actor Zachary Quinto to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, stars who serve as inspirations on National Coming Out Day

Dax Shepard, who serves as co-director, one of the several producers, writer, and star of Hit and Run, appears to be heading in the right direction for actors - turned - directors with his off - kilter debut film.

For his performance as the title character DEXTER, Hall (who served as an executive producer) won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in 2010 and the 2007 TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.

Picking out any to discuss is a problem; I could write an essay on the subtleties and joys of each actor, from James Spader's surprising energy and comedy to David Straitharn's astonishing deftness juggling exasperation with and admiration for the president he serves as Secretary of State.

He spent three years there, serving as a dresser to such actors as Ralph Richardson and Nigel Hawthorne.

As for the movie's star, Shannon's notoriously idiosyncratic sensibilities serve him quite well here - as the actor delivers as relentlessly oddball and weird a performance as one has come to expect (although it's just as clear that this marks the apex of his career in terms of his ability to tackle similarly over-the-top figures in the futureAs for the movie's star, Shannon's notoriously idiosyncratic sensibilities serve him quite well here - as the actor delivers as relentlessly oddball and weird a performance as one has come to expect (although it's just as clear that this marks the apex of his career in terms of his ability to tackle similarly over-the-top figures in the futureas the actor delivers as relentlessly oddball and weird a performance as one has come to expect (although it's just as clear that this marks the apex of his career in terms of his ability to tackle similarly over-the-top figures in the futureas relentlessly oddball and weird a performance as one has come to expect (although it's just as clear that this marks the apex of his career in terms of his ability to tackle similarly over-the-top figures in the futureas one has come to expect (although it's just as clear that this marks the apex of his career in terms of his ability to tackle similarly over-the-top figures in the futureas clear that this marks the apex of his career in terms of his ability to tackle similarly over-the-top figures in the future).

Clearly, no actor would say no to a phone call from Steven Spielberg asking if they'd like to participate in an Abraham Lincoln movie, so even the smallest part is filled by either a big name movie star or a noticeable character actor, among them Lukas Haas, Hal Holbrook, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones (serving as the de facto emotional center for the movie), David Strathairn, Lee Pace, Jackie Earle Haley, Bruce McGill, Gregory Itzin, Jared Harris, Michael Stuhlbarg and Walton Goggins.

It serves the same purpose as the «Excellence in Film» collection and presents shots from the actor's flicks.

Comic actor Bob Saget served as producer and director of this made - for - TV film, inspired by the true story of Saget's sister Gay, who died in 1994 at the age of 47.

Everyone knows about different acting methods and a lot of people knew about what Carrey did on the set of Man on the Moon but obviously we never saw it, but that's what this documentary is and although it's not spectacular or anything, it gives another look at the work of the actor and it becomes an excellent companion to the film and especially serves as a testament of one of Jim Carrey's best acting jobs.

These comments perhaps serve as a testament to just how far digital performance capture has come in recent years, to the point where some actors actually prefer the process to - or at least would put it alongside - traditionally filmed roles.

Hamilton and D'Abo are both understated and terrific here, as are the character actors who served as Baumbach's rep company during the first phase of his career: Eigeman, unsmiling and hostile; the hilarious Jacott, all self - aware neuroses; and obligatory»90s indie mascot Eric Stoltz as Chet, the bartender who's still working on his thesis and maintaining an encyclopedic knowledge of classes and campus events.

Serving as a great contrast to the broke wannabe actor are the onslaught of cameos made by Amanda Seyfried, Jason Ritter, Aubrey Plaza, Jake Johnson, and Michael Cera, all basically playing themselves as highly successful people in Hollywood.

There are a lot of good actors that pop up in small roles (including Helena Bonham Carter as a tough prostitute with a wooden leg that packs a punch and Barry Pepper as a crooked Army captain), but many of them don't seem to serve much purpose other than to overcomplicate things.

Performance wise, there are some faults with the lesser known actors but as always, Shannon delivers a solid show and with scars on his back that resemble shotgun shells, it only serves to fuel the films enigmatic nature and understated detail.

More importantly, though, the mostly dynamite visuals aren't asked to carry the movie; the dazzling style always serves a story that is sufficiently engaging in the hands of actors as capable as Franco and Williams.

This is a movie that places mood and character above all else, and while that might not be everyone's cup of tea, Michaël R. Roskam's «The Drop» is a well - paced and expertly acted film that serves as a fitting end to one actor's career and the exciting emergence of another.

It was essentially a heavily edited and heavily dubbed version of the 1954 Japanese original: 16 minutes of footage were cut, while actor Raymond Burr served as the English narrator.

The same guys have returned for this sequel where they serve as both the writers and the lead actors.

In contrast to his scene - stealing performance in «Mud» — which primarily served as comic relief — this dark role comes as a shock, but proves what a capable young actor he is.

Nolan North serves as the voice actor for Deadpool and does a fantastic job.

It isn't that post-meltdown Sheen lacks the charisma to anchor a picture, but that Coppola, on rockier ground with his second feature after the much more aesthetically bold and thematically rich CQ, is serving two masters: his own whimsy; and his obvious desire to stage a career intervention for his friend, recasting the actor's overexposed mania as hangdog sadness — probably the last thing anyone wants to see Sheen embody.

But in recent years, he has established himself as a drama actor, which has served him well in such films as Noah Baumbach's «Greenberg» and the underrated «The Secret Life of Walter Mitty».

This, combined with the film's extensive use of local non-professional actors, made Toni one of the biggest precursors of the Italian neorealist movement (no less than Luchino Visconti served as the assistant director!).