Sentences with phrase «stage actor mervyn»

2001 Kathleen Turner Kathleen Turner, an Oscar - nominated movie and stage actor, grew up as the daughter of a U.S. ambassador, living in Canada, Cuba, Washington, DC, England, and Venezuela, and speaking 5 languages.

My professional life has also included work in a few unexpected areas: as a software developer and as a professional stage actor.

HURD, A FILM AND STAGE ACTOR, who combined his art with activism, was among her subject.

She is an accomplished stage actor and appeared as Christine in the UK touring production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels while her other credits include playing The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot, Princess Fiona in Shrek and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde.

Prior to that, he was a TV and stage actor, getting his start as a teenager in the hit series Fifteen for Nickelodeon at Universal Studios Florida.

Update: Australian - British film and stage actor Hugo Weaving who starred in movies such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Little Fish, The Matrix, V for Vendetta has been cast in Jasper Jones, set to commence principal photography on 26th October in Western Australia.

A stage actor by training, Reddick is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Good as they (and McEvoy) are, the movie is stolen by another stage actor new to film with the Waugh - like moniker Fenella Woolgar.

In the marvelous black comedy «The Humbling,» based on the 2009 Philip Roth novel, Al Pacino plays 67 - year - old Simon Axler, a celebrated stage actor for whom acting has become a sham.

Faded stage actor Simon Axler (Al Pacino) stumbles through a complex relationship with teacher Pegeen (Greta Gerwig) in «The Humbling.»

Stage actor Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro) returns to his ancestral home land upon hearing that his brother was murdered.

As the only child of veteran Swedish stage actor Maria Fahl Vikander, that can't have come as the greatest surprise.

The fab all - star cast includes Edward Norton as a «difficult» but talented stage actor, Emma Stone as Keaton's surly, drug - recovered daughter, Zach Galifianakis as a hyperkinetic theater manager, Naomi Watts as an actress making her broadway debut, and the endless tracking shot that literally makes all the world a stage.

Embodying his own twist on the Spock role as a deeply depressed and cynical stage actor reduced to inhabiting the convention circuit for a show he didn't even enjoy shooting, Rickman dripped with disdain and disgust in every second of his screen time on

But according to Dafoe, the awards season we know now is wildly different from the one he first encountered as a 31 - year - old stage actor.

Notes on Captain America: The Winter Soldier Empire brilliant stage actor Mark Rylance will play Johnny Depp's father in Eyesore in Wonderland's sequel Through the Looking Glass The Wrap Matt Damon planning to go solo on Mars in the sci - fi thriller The Martian about an astronaut marooned there.

The great stage actor Colman Domingo is sorely wasted as Parker's friend and fellow revolutionary, Hark.

Tom Bateman plays Bouc, acclaimed stage actor and Tony winner Derek Jacobi portrays Masterman, Michael Peņa is Marquez, and Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr. plays Doctor Arbuthnot.

The Salesman, from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), picked up two awards: one for Farhadi's screenplay, the other a Best Actor prize for Shahab Hosseini, who plays a stage actor whose wife is assaulted in their home.

Abraham was a little - known stage actor («The Ritz») when Milos Forman cast him in the terrific role of Salieri, the 18th century court composer who was destroyed by envy for the younger, more talented Mozart (Tom Hulce).

Tony winning stage actor Mark Rylance (who's done a couple of shows at the Guthrie Theater) plays Abel.

He plays egotistical stage actor Phoenix Buchanan.

He was a great theater director because he was a great stage actor.

Hanks» performance is complimented by a star - making performance by Rylance, who in his native England is regarded as the greatest stage actor since Laurence Olivier.

You'll also spot local faces: former WBZ anchorman Scott Wahle fleeing a building, stage actor Lewis Wheeler in a brief speaking part, and Erica McDermott — one of the sisters in «The Fighter» — here beautiful, black haired, and silent in church.

As the stage actor makes his mark in film and television, he continues to search out roles to push him to new places, including opposite Claire Danes in the new season of Homeland and opposite his real - life wife Rebecca Hall in the film Permission.

Said Russian mole Rudolf Abel (played by renowned stage actor Mark Rylance) and Donovan start off as mutually uncomfortable with each other, the former out of incredulity and the latter out of fear.

Twenty - five years old, British, a stage actor by training — oh, and a total newcomer to the world of film acting.

Noted stage actor Richard Armitage is among the voice cast.

This lead to Hugh Jackman, then a relatively - unknown Australian stage actor, landing the role of a lifetime that launched his extraordinary career.

I'm somewhat less happy with the characterization of Amon Goeth, the camp director, but the performance of British stage actor Ralph Fiennes in the part is good (in fact, I suspect Fiennes may wind up with the most prizes).

Set in the «70s, Alvarez plays Doug, a freshman in high - school aspiring to become a stage actor with some personal demons to overcome.

Rylance, also a prominent New York stage actor, gets some hometown love (Yes, he's British, but they think of him as one of their own).

In an interview done for the 25th anniversary edition, Hoffman recounts his odyssey from New York stage actor to unlikely WASP protagonist, including the studio makeup people's desperate efforts to «do something about the nose.»

None quite as fun, though, as Hugh Grant in his role as an unhinged stage actor.

It's no mystery that Donald Terras is excited about the recent discovery of a long - lost movie filmed in Chicago starring stage actor William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes.

He's also got estranged daughter Sam (Emma Stone) to deal with as she apparently hates working in the theatre, alongside the drama of angry and possibly alcoholic stage actor Mike Shiner (Ed Norton) bringing a reality to his play but also messing with his calmness and life in general.

Let me tell you upfront, this outstanding stage actor, extremely talented film actor named James McAvoy, yeah he is palying the main actor you morons, so give the man the credit that he deserves and recognition, and not a low name in the «details»...

The story here is but a wisp — Paddington is framed by a nefarious D - list stage actor (Hugh Grant on ripping form) and has to go to prison — but it's this core - level simplicity that makes the bounty of small pleasures that much more pleasurable.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971) is an American film and stage actor.

Cage acts as if he's performing this movie in character as a classically trained English stage actor.

He's a classically trained stage actor, and if you have the opportunity to see him on the stage, I can not recommend it enough.

Martindale, best known for her roles on the television shows «Justified,» «The Americans,» and «The Good Wife,» is also a stage actor of note, being nominated for a Tony in 2004.

Instead, Warner went with an established A-list movie star (Hepburn) and Alan Arkin, a New York stage actor who had just had a Hollywood breakthrough with his performance in Norman Jewison's The Russians Are Coming!

Domino tells the true story (albeit an exaggerated and not entirely truthful one), of the daughter of Laurence Harvey, a stage actor, who went from being a fashion model to taking up arms as one of the most notorious bounty hunters around.

Anna Paquin (True Blood) actually plays the moody protagonist Lisa Cohen, a relatively wealthy New York City teen, daughter of a somewhat successful stage actor (played by J. Smith - Cameron).

In Lenny, veteran stage actor and manager Julian Barry adapts his Broadway play of the same name, which ran for thirteen months at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Born in Chicago, Leonard began as a stage actor, making his film debut in 1908 at the Selig Polyscope studios in Chicago; his directing career began in 1913 at Rex, a former independent then operating as a unit within Universal.

Check out the work that's finally made the esteemed stage actor a part of film history.

The death of his brother Billy is partly to blame for Rick's demise, which is partially why he sympathizes with his deteriorating father (Dennehy), a fading stage actor.