Sentences with phrase «several small roles»

In the early 1970s, Macy was cast in several small roles in the TV properties of producer Norman Lear; this led to a lengthy (72 - 78) engagement as Walter Findlay, husband of fiery feminist Maude Findlay (Bea Arthur) on the popular sitcom Maude.

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This is especially true if you'll be working with a small team of people who will be required to fill several roles.

In a pair of follow - up tweets Musk further explained that «Mary Beth was an amazing assistant for over 10 yrs, but as company complexity grew, the role required several specialists vs one generalist,» and «MB was given 52 weeks of salary & stock in appreciation for her great contribution & left to join a small firm, once again as a generalist,»

Government should seriously consider introducing a new role of Infrastructure Minister to back major projects, and pension funds would be more likely to invest in schemes if several smaller proposals were packaged together, a former Cabinet Minister has said.

That may sound like a small fraction, but lakes play a key role in several planetary processes.

«This research is one of several recent studies that bring to light a new role for tRNAs to produce small functional RNAs, in this case, functional tRNA halves.»

A small amount of calcium is also found in muscle and blood cells, where it plays several important roles:

He showed up in roles both large and small in feature films, and was prominently cast in several of MGM's Crime Does Not Pay short subjects.

The actress also found a great deal of success on the small screen — Ivey starred in television productions of The Long, Hot Summer (1985), Dixie: Changing Habits (1985), We Are the Children (1987), and Decoration Day (1990) before landing several prominent sitcom roles.

Vince had small roles in several shows before he hit it big with his role in the hit movie Swingers.

Along with supporting parts in Raising Helen and Racing Stripes and the lead in the second straight - to - DVD Bring It On sequel, several more small TV roles followed before 2006, when she was cast on Heroes as the cheerleader with the ability to spontaneously heal herself.

After several of these smaller roles, Loy was offered parts as exotics, often playing a temptress and homewrecker.

Kenny Wormald takes the Kevin Bacon role of Ren, a hard - edged Boston kid who moves in with relatives in the small Georgia town of Bomont, which is still recovering from a tragedy that inspired the passage of several rules about teenage behavior, among them a dance ban.

The psychedelic band Tomorrow (featuring a pre-Yes Steve Howe) has a small, non-musical role, and the score also includes several sweet songs that Redgrave and Tushingham warble themselves.

Sherlock Holmes has, of course, been everywhere on big and small screens within the last several years — «The Judge» actor Robert Downey Jr. portrayed the detective, with actor Jude Law as his sidekick Watson, in the 2009 movie «Sherlock Holmes» and the 2011 sequel «Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,» while actor Benedict Cumberbatch took on the role for the BBC TV series, which is still running, with «Fargo» actor Martin Freeman as Watson.

The biggest news to celebrate may be that after several years of absence, Owen Wilson also returns to the fold for the first time since 2007 (though he had a small voice role in «Fantastic Mr. Fox»).

The series «Twin Peaks» had several supporting players, but these notable actors played small roles on the show before moving on to bigger and better things

Rex Linn, who plays Tennessee Harry in the film, recently revealed that Quentin Tarantino himself would appear in a small role — as he has in several of his other directorial efforts, including Inglourious Basterds, Death Proof, Pulp Fiction, and Reservoir Dogs.

The cast is first - rate, probably because even the small roles are vivid: Danny DeVito as Jackie's long - suffering brother; Patti LuPone as Jackie's sister - in - law, who can barely contain her hatred of him — and then can't contain it; Edie Falco as Eddie's agent; Charles Grodin as a comedian from the old days; Cloris Leachman as a 95 - year - old comic actress on her last legs; and several comedians, including Jimmie Walker and Brett Butler, as themselves.

It brought the creative team of director Adam McKay and Will Ferrell (who had previously worked together on TV's Saturday Night Live) a platform to develop the projects that were closest to their hearts, and also opened up several doors for co-star Steve Carell, who was best known at that time for his work alongside Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on The Daily Show, as well as a small - role in the Jim Carrey - starring Bruce Almighty.

But at its glorious center is a transfixing performance from Rita Blanco, an award winning actress from Portugal that's worked with Canijo in several other film projects (she can also be seen in a small role in Michael Haneke's Amour).

While several famous actors have appeared in small roles on the show (Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane among them), we're looking at the actors who've surprised us with their roles as lawyers, criminals, judges, and the likes.

She even had an actress in mind for the lead: Sheila Vand, who played a small but pivotal role in Argo and starred in several of Amirpour's film - school shorts.

CES National Affiliate Centers The central presence of several Coalition of Essential Schools National Affiliate Centers — the Center for Collaborative Education, the Los Angeles Small Schools Collective, the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools, CES Northwest, and the Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools — in this issue of Horace emphasizes the crucial role that intermediary organizations play in transforming

Voting for the 2017 Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award is now open, and several Catholic novels are in the running, including Frozen Footprints, Seventy Times Seven, After the Thaw, and An Unexpected Role.

Grace has also held editorial roles at several smaller academic and nonfiction presses.

Several prominent ecologists point to the fact that cats play an important role in many ecosystems, often stepping in to fill the place of now extinct or greatly diminished small predators.

Like many of our staff members, Jessanna has several roles at the clinic including assisting with small animal appointments and surgery, large animal chute work, and working in our milk quality lab.

Since we're a smaller team we each have several roles we fulfill, so a broad and deep knowledge of game design is a huge advantage.

In a small «printmaking cottage» next door is the current artist - in - residence, a role which print artists take up for anywhere from one week to several years.

It is now agreed that at least 16 mineral elements are indispensable for normal nutrition, and several more are always found in small amounts of the body, although their precise physiological role has not been determined.

In a small medical office, one or two people will perform the roles of several different functions.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.