Sentences with phrase «starring roles she took»

It's her Oscar - nominated debut as a standalone director, but not her first rodeo: on top of the starring roles she took in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (2012) and Mistress America (2015), she wrote those films with him, and collaborated early in her career on several shoestring productions by Joe Swanberg.

Not exact matches

Singer and actor Justin Timberlake took on a role in Allen's 2017 film «Wonder Wheel,» starring alongside Kate Winslet.

Through Harpo, Winfrey has also taken an active role in a variety of movie and theatre productions including Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and Beloved, which Winfrey also starred in.

When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star: The film producer Harvey Weinstein hired her for the lead in the Jane Austen adaptation «Emma.»

Along with Vaughn, Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch have also been linked to starring roles in True Detective season two, which will take place in California and may or may not be about the «secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system»...

In Mary Magdalene, he stars opposite his real - life girlfriend Rooney Mara (she takes on the title role), who he is thought to have been dating since 2016.

She's starred in horror films (Saw V, The Unborn, Venom), taken on raunchy roles and dressed in a way some have labelled inappropriate.

Greek Shrimp Tacos with Feta Broccoli Slaw... Plump, juicy shrimp take a starring role in these healthy, delicious tacos!

It's just enough to enhance the ginger and not take away from its starring role.

As black beans take a starring role in this recipe, I am entering it into My Legume Love Affair (MLLA) hosted this month by Cooking with Siri.

Pumpkin spice is the movie star version of pumpkin, expected to take on high calorie recipe roles and be the talk of the season.

The Pear Almond Tart allows this subtle fruit to take on a starring role.

But when the cheese takes on more of a starring role, as it does here, cashews take it to perfection.

Even though parsnips are slightly higher maintenance, they add a distinctive flavor and took the starring role in my salad.

Sure, meat and cheese take the starring role in traditional dishes, but most of the texture and flavor in Mexican cuisine comes from plant - based foods.

Tottenham star Dele Alli took to Twitter to troll Chelsea fans and indeed all of his critics after he played a starring role in Spurs» weekend victory at Stamford Bridge.

maybe he is not fit for a starring role now but i give him a max of 1 yr and i believe after nxt season he is going to take all you gooners your breaths away

Donnarumma would pose as the ideal long - term goalkeeper to take over from the former Chelsea star, but to land him, we would most likely have to guarantee him a first - team role.

(Daily Star)... Meanwhile, Barca defender Lilian Thuram may leave the Catalan giants and waltz over to Arsenal to take up a player - coach role.

French attacker Antoine Griezmann was signed from Real Sociedad earlier this week and is sure to be a star of this new side, taking up a role on the right - hand side.

With Arsenal due to take on the MLS All - Stars tomorrow we might get a chance to see the versatile player in his new role.

The 17 year - old is expected to play a part in tonight's Europa League tie in Serbia, where we will be taking on Red Star Belgrade, and he may well be set to make his first senior outing in his favoured attacking role.

Former star recruit Justin Tranquill, meanwhile, more than held his own as a freshman and is taking on a leadership role as a sophomore.

Do you take a team that's true NBA talent was a once in a generation superstar like Anthony Davis surrounded by role players at best in the NBA, or do you take a team full of solid starters who have long NBA careers like we expect of Lyles, Ulis, Willie and maybe Andrew mixed with a star like Booker?

I would assume that, if the answer to the title is the France international star Olivier Giroud, then Arsenal fans will still get to see our flying England forward Theo Walcott as well, probably right from the kick off, but he would be playing in one of the wide forward positions rather than the centre forward role he took up against Chelsea at Wembley last weekend.

Howson played a starring role for his side and would have done enough to deserve the Man of the Match award as the 27 - year - old produced a smart finish to hammer home past Brad Guzan as the hosts importantly took the lead to put the pressure on Remi Garde's men.

For years now Arsene Wenger has spoken about the Arsenal and England international star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain's best position being in central midfield, and more specifically the sort of box - to - box role that has usually been taken by Aaron Ramsey or Santi Cazorla.

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Former U.S. women's national team star Brandi Chastain has taken an active role in trying to prevent concussions and head injuries among youth players.

Gaining access to an A-list Hollywood star has proved problematic, but Mr. Clooney was put on the spot about this at the Venice film festival today as he took part in a press conference about his latest role.

From Mike Tyson starring in The Hangover after having served a prison sentence for rape, to Chris Brown playing at the Grammies when a few years earlier he beat his girlfriend en route to the awards, to Mel Gibson taking on starring roles after severely beating his partner.

Megyn Kelly, who arrived at Fox News 12 years ago as a TV news neophyte but rose to become one of its two biggest stars, has decided to leave the network to take on a broad new role at NBC News for an undisclosed amount.

Tarantulas, the hairy spiders that stole movie scenes and won hearts in popular films like «Home Alone,» «Raiders of the Lost Ark,» and «Dr. No,» take a starring role in a new study that reorganizes their group, reclassifying the majority of 55 known tarantula species and adding 14 new ones, including the creepy - crawly named for Cash.

The Apple Crisp Smoothie takes inspiration from apple crisp with apple as the star and oats and cinnamon playing a supporting role.

Supplementing what faithful fetish chat live viewers might find to be far too pass» for their breed of folk, Mistress Preston takes on a more dominating role wherein you'll witness her engaging in leather - bridled pony play; the real - life smothering of an innocent teddy bear; enforced orgasms;» co-ed wrestling ala Andy Kaufman; panty / stocking face - sitting; armpit sniffing;» jerking a guy off with an actual pearl necklace wrapped around his wiener; taking a load of non-orthodontist recommended man - paste onto her braces; and, some other atypical activities starring cigars, balloons and shoes.

Once he discovered that Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig would take on the starring roles, he knew something had to be done.

Kidman took refuge in the theater, and landed her first professional role at the age of 14, when she starred in Bush Christmas (1983), a TV movie about a group of kids who band together with an Aborigine to find their stolen horse.

Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then - husband Cage as a burnt - out paramedic.Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects.

She also posed for a well - publicized layout in Playboy which, coinciding with the film's release, certainly didn't hurt her growing popularity.While Basinger's career took off after Never Say Never Again, and she appeared in several major hits (including The Natural, 9 1/2 Weeks, and Batman, the latter of which led to a brief romance with pop star Prince), quality roles tended to elude her.

At age 13, she took her vibrant stage presence and star quality to Broadway, and by the next year she had made it to Hollywood, where MGM studio executives suggested she change her name to Rita.Mostly appearing in musicals, her most notable roles of the»50s include Zelda Zanders the Zip Girl in Singin» in the Rain and Tuptim in The King and I.

The Room's audience is a devoted lot and the idea of Franco taking on the starring role of the filmmaker with the mysterious origin story - an ambiguous age, accent, and source of bottomless wealth to finance the project and its endless takes - may strike some as tampering, but rest easy.

Harris» feature films for 2004 include the live - action remake Thunderbirds and the thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth.Though her star was steadily rising in Hollywood, it wasn't until 2006 that Harris would really make a splash on stateside screens; and after supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

The film Creation, which some people take to refer to both the creation of the Origins book and the creation / evolution controversy, stars Paul Bettany, who is best known for his roles in popular movies such as «The Da Vinci Code,» «Master and Commander,» and «A Beautiful Mind» (in which he won the London Film Critics» Award for Best British Actor).

She works her way into the cast, and eventually sets her sights on taking the starring role.

Not only does the network cast Matt LeBlanc in the starring role, but Matt takes the lead in deviously twisting their beloved series into a terrible cliché, while testing the couple's marriage with diversions and temptations.

In the late 2000s, the actress would take on more feature film roles, notably starring in the Michael Caine feature Is Anybody There?

In the season three episode Apocrypha, Krycek was left to die in an abandoned silo with an alien ship.This allowed Lea to take a starring role in the series Once a Thief - which followed on from the 1996 John Woo film - alongside Ivan Sergei.

A Fox Searchlight Pictures release by visionary director Darren Aronofsky (THE WRESTLER), BLACK SWAN takes a thrilling and at times terrifying journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, before Rothman officially took over, Sony already had agreed to pay Lawrence $ 20 million to star, though her role actually is somewhat secondary to Pratt's.