Sentences with phrase «success as an actress»

Before all her success as an actress, she suffered from some really severe panic attacks, she told the Wall Street Journal:

For all her success as an actress, Jodie Foster has had one of the more strangely cursed modern - day careers as a director.

Before and after her tenure as 1968's Playmate of the Year, Vetri enjoyed moderate success as an actress, with her best - known role in the 1968 Roman Polanski - directed «Rosemary's Baby.»

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There's a solution I like, and it comes courtesy of Hollywood — specifically, from actress - writer - producer Mindy Kaling, whose impressive success as a young woman of colour in a town run by old white men routinely spurs people to ask where she gets her confidence.

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

He went on to say that «Natalie, a Jewish actress who was born in Israel, now joins those who refer to the success and wonder of the rebirth of Israel as a «tale of darkness and darkness.

Starring Julia Louis - Dreyfus in her recent Emmy award - winning turn as Vice President Selina Meyer (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series), Veep is an up - close and politically (in) correct look at the daily successes and disappointments of being second in command.

But she's not alone: actress Essence Atkins and chef Carla Hall have both had success on Match.com as well!

As a tribute to the success of The Golden Girls, all four actresses were later named Disney Legends.

The actress is set to star as Judy Garland in a movie about her life 30 years after the success of

A prolific television actress who has also found success on the big screen, Debra Jo Rupp has endeared herself to audiences nationwide as the lovable mother on the retro television sitcom That»70s Show, a fact that may have never been had her parents been successful in dissuading her from a career in front of the cameras.

An actress who is known as much — if not more — for her offscreen life as for her onscreen performances, Anne Heche had the distinction of being one of Hollywood's most surprising success stories and also one half of its most famous lesbian couple.

The film was a success, but it failed to establish Midler as a dramatic actress; audiences, particularly gay fans, still preferred the Divine Miss M. Jinxed (1982), Midler's next film, lived up to its name with well - publicized production squabbles between Midler, the director, producers, and a few of her co-stars.

A top - notch actress who managed to remain a complete unknown as far as the general moviegoing public was concerned (spending over a decade starring in numerous art - house flicks for ex-husband Nicolas Roeg probably had a lot to do with that), Theresa Russell enjoyed a soupçon of mainstream success when she co-starred in Twentieth Century Fox's production of Black Widow, an ever - so - modest box office hit ($ 25 million) back at the start of» 87.

After enjoying minimal success as a stage actress, Brittany hired a manager and moved to California to pursue a full - time acting career.

Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz musician, scraps by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to frail the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

That work ethic is also the reason why the past two years have seen her fast - tracked to breakthrough actress status with the success of her role as Thomasin in The Witch, the supernatural horror that is both harrowing and beautifully bleak, directed by Robert Eggers.

The actress, who has had much success in TV comedies like Reno 911, Rules Of Engagement and others, really connects as the real - life Beverly Goldberg, who is based on series creator Adam Goldberg's actual mother.

Modest success in the awards races (such as a Golden Globe nomination for supporting actress Hong Chau) adds to the distribution challenge for backers Paramount, while reviews have been all over the map.

The actress, who has had much success in TV comedies like Reno 911, Rules Of Engagement and others, really connects as the real - life Beverly Goldberg, who is based on series creator Adam Goldberg's actual... Read

Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress, Juno is regarded as a critical and commercial success.

SANDRA BULLOCK is confident she has found the key to success as a romantic comedy star - she's advised actresses wanting to break into the film genre...

KW: You've met with tremendous success as both a singer and an actress.

Some of its success in terms of intensity is owed to the performances of her two leads actresses, notably Heigl who is delivers a deeply disturbing turn as Tessa.

Roadside Attractions has released a trailer for Lake Bell «s comedy, In a World... Bell stars as Carol, a voiceover actress who feels marginalized both by the sexism in her profession and the success of her father (Fred Melamed), who is...

Not many actresses could play with equal success a wide - eyed Disney princess (in «Enchanted») and, as she does here, a tough - cookie bar hostess.

's success is Hutton herself, as the actress delivers a painfully, obnoxiously over-the-top performance that remains a total distraction from start to finish - with the viewer's efforts at connecting to her character's plight, as a result, falling completely flat.

Latifah deserves a lot of credit for the film's success, as the actress delivers a performance that is far more compelling and intriguing than anything she's done before.

The subversive humor that occasionally brightened the first film the notion, for example, that an innocuous summer camp is actually a high - tech C.I.A. training base for child agents is absent from this sophomore effort, as is Hilary Duff, the popular teenage actress whose co-starring role in the first film probably had a lot to do with its success.