Sentences with phrase «supporting character actors»

She has cast a great ensemble of supporting character actors that you will recognize, but probably aren't on a first name basis with.

Now You See Me plays a little like Ocean's Eleven without Steven Soderbergh and a great cast of supporting character actors instead of lead actors doing an ensemble.

Of the vast supporting cast, only Jared Harris manages to assert himself with any dignity — indeed, he's fast becoming one of the most reliable supporting character actors in the biz.

Watch this for the funny moments and entertaining supporting character actors and you'll find lots to enjoy despite it's shallowness.

He's a great supporting character actor that adds just enough in any given role to be memorable but not steal the complete movie.

It's the kind of performance we rarely get to see from him as he tends to play the supporting character actor in more Oscar - caliber films or he's lending his lovable voice to the Monsters Inc. movies.

Not exact matches

The same goes for supporting cast members like Foster, as well as character actors Jesse Plemons and Rory Cochrane, who play two of Joe's longtime fellow officers.

Regardless of its shortcomings, fans of any of the primary actors won't be disappointed to see them revel in a diverse mix of verbal, physical, and situational comedy complemented by the refreshing role - reversals of many of the supporting characters.

He remained busy as a prominent character actor and supporting player — part of that category of performers that includes the likes of Richard Herd and James Cromwell — into the 1980s.

Before it gets to that point, however, Ed tv comes off as a fairly affable comedy that benefits substantially from McConaughey's charismatic turn as the central character - with the actor's strong work heightened by an impressive roster of supporting players (including Woody Harrelson, Martin Landau, and Dennis Hopper).

By taking a supporting character that might have otherwise been two - dimensional and turning him into an ever - evolving character that the audience could actually feel for, the rising star rightfully earned the Best New Actor Goya that was subsequently bestowed upon him.

Now, unable to break out in anything outside the series - and thus, one of the few peripheral actors still affordable in a merely supporting role - and on top of that, the character has been written into a horribly useless nice guy corner - he virtually has nothing to say.

«In the Company of Character» (10:23) celebrates the cast, starting with Day - Lewis» complete immersion and moving to the supporting actors, including Field (who acknowledges her age and explains how she got this job seemingly out of nowhere) and others, who describe their research and involvement.

Giving a beautifully understated performance that made the character seem sympathetic and tragic as much as dangerous and reprehensible, he won his third Best Supporting Actor award.

And there's a hidden triumph in the supporting cast from the always - reliable character actor Bill Camp (Black Mass, Midnight Special), whose spectacular, hideously convincing wipe - out as a guy called Harlan Eustice, in the course of a single night, sets much of the plot in motion.

His truthful, menacing character cut through the main characters» self - deception, and Shannon's off - kilter delivery won him glowing notices from critics, as well as a nomination for Best Supporting Actor from the Academy.

A character actor even in his early twenties, Paymer displayed his versatility in a wealth of TV supporting roles on such weeklies as Cagney and Lacey, Diff'rent Strokes, The Commish and Downtown.

But much of the supporting cast is problematic — either the actors just aren't up to the work or the characters are underwritten.

«Pillars of Support» (8:27) explores Philippe's team, considering the supporting characters and the actors playing them.

Penn has assembled an amazing array of character actors in supporting roles — including Sam Shepard, Vanessa Redgrave, Helen Mirren, Lois Smith, Mickey Rourke and Harry Dean Stanton, and that's just for starters.

Like in the first one, the producers have been able to cherry - pick their supporting players from some of the finest character - actors in Hollywood, not that any of them are given much to do.

In «Three Billboards» those characters take the form of Mildred facing off against the police — which also includes supporting actor contender Sam Rockwell as a racist, absusive, and alcoholic officer who still lives at home with his mother.

Nolte is OK in a part that affords him very little to build a character from, Robert Shaw does a dialled - down version of his salty dog Quint from Jaws, and the great character actor Eli Wallach appears in a supporting role as an old drunk who plays both sides.

Despite able support from a range of background characters (all local actors), Trampoline belongs to Spratt.

With Chris Columbus «unsubtle hand at the helm, centering on a trio of juveniles who, whatever your opinion of the actors they'd become, are often awkwardly wet - behind - the - ears and self - conscious here, as often in the series it really falls to the supporting cast, packed with British character - actor ringers, to bring the texture.

Surprise: Michael Kelly, «House of Cards» Supporting Actor - Drama The character actor scored his first Emmy nomination for playing political fixer Doug Stamper in Netflix's Washington, D.C. - set dActor - Drama The character actor scored his first Emmy nomination for playing political fixer Doug Stamper in Netflix's Washington, D.C. - set dactor scored his first Emmy nomination for playing political fixer Doug Stamper in Netflix's Washington, D.C. - set drama.

As good as the script and action can be, it's the actors who make it come alive, and there's a strong lineup of supporting talent although Rosamund Pike, who plays Oliver's sister, never gets in on the laughs and her character mainly exists to define Gary and Steven.

The supporting players are terrific actors; it is disappointing that their characters were not developed beyond the archetypical «friend» role.

Christian Bale delivered a knockout performance as the drug - addict - fallen - star brother to Wahlberg's character, which earned him a well - deserved Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The rest of the cast are uniformly great, from Campbell Scott as the lead to a rich supporting cast of character actors - including a well written woman's role (shock!)

Christoph Waltz is still stuck playing the same iconic character that won him a Best Supporting Actor for Inglourious Basterds.

Diesel's Xander Cage is the least - interesting element here, but that's okay, because the film surrounds him with super-cool supporting characters played by super-cool actors, including Tony Jaa, who gets to bob his head to music at a funeral, and Ruby Rose, who doesn't have a whole lot to do but still looks incredibly badass anyway.

As with other Bruckheimer endeavors, a bunch of lame - ass 20 - something male actors fill up the supporting cast in an effort for the female audience members to argue over who's the cutest to keep their minds occupied from the ridiculous plot and poor character development.

Supporting roles are filled with solid character actors Sam Rockwell (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Kevin Bacon (Death Sentence) and Oliver Platt (Casanova).

As Howard, the great John Goodman creates one of the most chilling screen personalities in recent memory; having spent the last decade energising support parts in Argo, The Artist, Flight and Inside Llewellyn Davis, the actor gets to dominate a film with subtle, multi-tiered character work.

Carrey is surrounded with a solid lineup of supporting actors, but some of them play characters that are quite familiar.

The rest of the actors, just like the characters in the film, are mostly there to support Cruise.

The supporting cast is equally impressive including actress Lauren Bacall and Anne Heche as a scheming woman whose connection to Anna and Sean remains a well - guarded mystery for most of the film, but favorite character actors like Peter Stormare and Ted Levine are underused.

The film's cast took home the Best Ensemble Cast prize, with Mahershala Ali winning Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Juan, a father - figure of sorts to the film's lead character Chiron, a young African - American male coming to terms with his sexual orientation.

Bolstering things are strong supporting actors like Sean Be (ee) an (Game of Thrones), Nikki Amuka - Bird (Luther), Maria Doyle Kennedy (Orphan Black), James D'Arcy (Agent Carter), Kick Gurry (Edge of Tomorrow) and Gugu Mbatha - Raw (Belle)- plus a host of other performers hidden behind makeup and / or CGI to create the strange alien characters.

These performers work well together and are supported by fantastic actors like Rob Riggle, who recites his lines with enough energy to make his stock character, a clueless gym teacher, feel fresh.

Whitaker is a fine actor, reduced to playing a stock supporting character, and Southpaw is so absolutely shameless and familiar that its final derivative moment rips off, of all things, The Karate Kid.

Adrien Brody was infamously cut down from a lead to a supporting actor in «The Thin Red Line,» but Jack had his moment along with a few other herbivores at the 2013 D23 panel discussion on «The Good Dinosaur» and his character builders can be consoled that he made it to action figure status.

«We believe these character actors are not being given the recognition they deserve as the Supporting Acting Award is now mostly going to leading men and women,» Carney Award producers said, in a statement.

A Legendary Pictures production acquired by Netflix after the film parted ways with Universal earlier this year, Spectral is a big action movie with a tinge of sci - fi to it, anchored by an appealing collection of character actor or perennial supporting players at its centre (James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Root and Bruce Greenwood among them).

SUPPORTING ACTOR DANIEL MAYS Line of Duty — World Productions / BBC Two JARED HARRIS The Crown — Left Bank Pictures / Netflix JOHN LITHGOW The Crown — Left Bank Pictures / Netflix TOM HOLLANDER The Night Manager — The Ink Factory / Demarest / Character Seven / BBC One

It has that shaggy dog crime story aesthetic of Leonard, and it's filled with memorable supporting players, all portrayed by interesting character actors.

The collection of amazing character actors playing supporting roles.

You get what you expect from Wahlberg, who delivers the troubled anithero persona well enough, and the supporting cast is full of competent character actors, with the exception of a miscast Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Over It) as some sort of tough chick who is supposed to be intimidating.

2015 Emma Stone receives an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in «Birdman,» playing the daughter of Michael Keaton's struggling actor character.