Sentences with phrase «stage actress»

A "stage actress" is a term used to describe a female performer who acts in live theatrical productions, such as plays or musicals. Full definition
It was here that she laid the groundwork for her reputation as a talented stage actress.
Anyway, it was more or less her first film and she'd been a great stage actress.
She is also an accomplished stage actress who won Tony Awards for her performances in Rabbit Hole and The Little Foxes.
She is an opera singer and stage actress in Chile.
Susan Anspach, a screen and stage actress best known for playing non-conformists in «Five Easy Pieces,» «Blume in Love» and other films, has died at age 75.
Rabe has been dynamite on TV, as well as an incredibly accomplished stage actress.
In addition to Hathaway, Les Mis also offered up another possible nominee in stage actress Samantha Barks for her work as Eponine.
Synopsis: Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is a popular but aging stage actress who is losing passion for her career.
Of special note is Chicago stage actress Deanna Dunagan who gives a remarkable performance as Nana — at times heartbreaking, at other times completely frightening, she is obviously giving her all to the role and it pays off.
Squibb, a New York stage actress, portrayed Jack Nicholson's wife in Payne's «About Schmidt,» but she was also cast partly thanks to an audition tape.
While remaining a prominent stage actress, she continued appearing in films intermittently until the early»80s.
Redmayne is committed to the emotions of his scenes, particularly in «Empty Chairs at Empty Tables,» and his interactions with Cosette (a fine Amanda Seyfried, playing an underwritten character) and Eponine (the marvelous stage actress Samantha Barks) benefit from this.
One of America's most respected dramatic actresses, Cicely Tyson has worked steadily as a television, film, and stage actress since making her stage debut in a Harlem YMCA production of Dark of the Moon in the 1950s.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, son of veteran New York Broadway stage actress Teresa Yenque, Jose Yenque grew up in the theater.
Never mind what Alice found (a title grabbed from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland), what I found was an awkwardly told story with limited acting from everybody but veteran stage actress Judith Ivey — whose menacingly teasing performance as the maternal moral corrupter of youth gives the film its only authority.
The cast is everything one could hope for, including the always delightful Annette Bening as aging but still vibrant stage actress Irina Arkadina, who brings her younger lover, Boris Trigorin, to visit the country estate of her ailing brother Sorin (the venerable Brian Dennehy).
Among the non-Asian actors tested for the main roles were Barbara Stanwyck, stage actress Katherine Cornell, and Nils Asther.
Mostly unknown stage actress Olympia Dukakis became a name overnight and was nominated, and then won, Best Supporting Actress for playing the depressed but mighty Rose Castorini.
As Shayne struggles to maintain control of his own play when others agree with Cheech's contributions, his marriage threatens to dissolve when he becomes enamored of his leading lady, a once - vaunted stage actress named Helen Sinclair (Wiest, The Lost Boys).
Annenberg leads a talented cast of Angeleno artists, including Bradley J. Herman, Maxx Maulion, stage actress Nija Okoro, local standup Isadora O'Boto, MMA champion Krzysztof Soszynski, Linda Bisesti and Chia Chen.
She makes her New York stage debut in «The Walking Dead» star Danai Gurira «s play «Eclipsed,» which opened Wednesday at the Public Theater, and proves herself a magnificent, fully formed stage actress.
Born in Chicago on March 11, 1969, Terrence spent a majority of his childhood in Cleveland, Ohio before moving to New York City to pursue a career in acting under the guidance of his grandmother and famous stage actress Minnie Gentry.
Given the absolutely compelling, quiet but richly nuanced performance by Srinivasan — a professional stage actress from Chennai, India — you can imagine it being a thoroughly satisfying film in just those terms.
Stories We Tell revolves firstly around Diane Polley, the director's energetic mother and sometimes stage actress, who died of cancer when Polley was eleven years old.
It's in Sun Valley where we meet the distinguished stage actress, Marian Seldes.
Marian Seldes, the legendary US stage actress, has died in New York at the age of 86 following a lengthy illness.
By 27, British screen and stage actress Holliday Grainger [16] tackled roles in a continental triumvirate of novelistic adaptations — Lady Chatterley's Lover, Anna Karenina (2012), and Great Expectations (2012).
It's a difficult play to translate to screen, and the new setting might be a little «Downton» - ish for our tastes, but if anyone can capture the shifting power dynamics of the original, it's Ullman, and the chance to see Chastain (who was a celebrated stage actress before she made her name in the movies) tear into a role like this one is worth the price of admission, or even a flight to Toronto, on its own.
A-List guests: Taylor cosied up to actress Julia Roberts, Rebel Wilson (L) and Amber Rose (C) after hitting the stage
Halley Feiffer (a playwright and rather successful stage actress) is superb as well, and also appeared in You Can Count On Me, the first time I took notice of the fantastically talented Laura Linney.
There is strong sentimental support for Metcalf, who is best known as one of the stars of Roseanne and widely considered one of the finest stage actresses of her generation.
Holly Solomon had been an aspiring stage actress and was enrolled at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio shortly after moving to Manhattan.
Anna Kendrick (born August 9, 1985) is an American film and stage actress best known for the role of Natalie Keener in the 2009 film Up in the Air.
Disney's «Into the Woods» has added Tammy Blanchard and Billy Magnussen to its cast.The Tony Award - nominated stage actress and «Nightcrawler» actor...
An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.
A prominent Chicago stage actress, she has also starred Off Broadway in THE ROAD at Lincoln Center, and originated the role of Susannah De Luce in BRILLIANT TRACES at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York's West Village.
After that, she joined the legendary Everyman Theatre in Liverpool where she established herself as a talented stage actress.
Dolores Hart was a highly successful screen and stage actress.
Actress and comedian Marcia Wallace began her career as a stage actress, appearing with the improv troupe The Fourth Wall and in off - Broadway plays in the late»60s.
She began her career as a stage actress in New York, appearing in the Roundabout Theatre's THE GLASS MENAGERIE.
Essentially a stage actress, Michigan - born Ruth Nelson appeared sporadically in films from her first movie appearance in Of Human Bondage (1934) to her last in Awakenings (1990).
The daughter of an opera tenor and a stage actress, Rutherford was performing on - stage from childhood.
Actress Leona Maricle was primarily a stage actress, but during the early»30s and»40s, she also graced many films.
Alma had been a stage actress for nearly sixty years before making her first film, These Three (1936), in which she played the easily shocked grandmother who swallowed the scandalous lies told by spiteful little Bonita Granville.
Lydia wants to be a stage actress, a career choice her mother finds less than ideal, because actresses don't make a lot of money.
Highly acclaimed as a stage actress, she's not exactly a household name among movie stars, though you should go back and notice her in single - scene performances that walk away with the whole movie in both True Grit and The Bourne Legacy.
Mackenzie Davis is a Canadian film, television and stage actress, who garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards for her performance in The F Word, which was subsequently rereleased internationally under the title What If.
After enjoying minimal success as a stage actress, Brittany hired a manager and moved to California to pursue a full - time acting career.
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