Sentences with phrase «supporting roles in»

Besides Bowie portraying him in The Prestige, Nicholas Hoult recently portrayed him in The Current War, but these are both supporting roles in someone else's story.

Ejiofor is most recognizable to Black audiences for his supporting roles in director Ridley Scott's American Gangster and Spike Lee's Inside Man.

Starring Martin Sheen in his mid-life renaissance (he was going gangbusters in TV movies and short - lived series, and kept trying to break back into films, scoring, at best, supporting roles in a couple Stephen King adaptations (Firestarter and The Dead Zone) before securing the lead in 1987's The Believers.

Nominee Actors in Supporting Roles in Film are Domhnall Gleeson for «Frank», Allan Leech for «The Imitation Game»; Andrew Scott for «Pride» and Jimmy Nesbit who is nominated for «Gold».

Surprise inclusions stretch from Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough for their supporting roles in American Honey to two foreign - language turns (by Isabelle Huppert and Sandra Huller) in best actress.

Those who aren't familiar with Temple, she played supporting roles in a few notable movies, such as Atonement and Greenberg.

He rose the ranks with supporting roles in movies like Erin Brockovich, Nurse Betty, and The Pledge.

With filming well underway, director F. Gary Gray is slowly filling out the supporting roles in N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton.

As for comedies, Johnson had supporting roles in The Other Guys (# 8.19 m lifetime) and Get Smart (# 4.84 m lifetime), but Central Intelligence represents his biggest comedy opening.

Woody Harrelson also has a strong chance at claiming a «Best Supporting Actor» nod, perhaps even more so than Colin since supporting roles in comedies usually receive more accolades as previously mentioned.

Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow is an original member of the Avengers, and she had key supporting roles in Iron Man 2 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

He also delivered remarkable performances alongside Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers, in Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven and through supporting roles in the films Moneyball, The Lego Movie, Her and Zero Dark Thirty.

Baruchel's current rise resembles those experienced by his «Undeclared» and Knocked Up castmates Seth Rogen and Jason Segel, who grew from supporting roles in Apatow's films to leading men and screenwriters.

That's a great step up from supporting roles in films like Battle: Los Angeles, Tower Heist and The Lincoln Lawyer.

There are a lot of supporting roles in Tammy.

Notable film work includes supporting roles in YEAR ONE and ZODIAC, as well as her 2013 Sundance film ASS BACKWARDS, which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner Casey Wilson.

Though Ricky Gervais and Ty Burrell both have supporting roles in the film, it's unclear as to how large of a part they both play in the story.

Certainly it isn't because it's a fitting ending to the journey of Bilbo, as he's not even involved in the majority of this film, instead taking a back seat to a host of characters that are either greatly beefed up from their small supporting roles in the original Tolkien work, or, as in the case of lovelorn wood elf Tauriel (Lilly, The Long Weekend) and handsome dwarf Kili (Turner, The Mortal Instruments), complete fabrications injected to put in a love story for, presumably, the young female set.

The following year, he played supporting roles in Empire, The Salton Sea, and K - 19: The Widowmaker.

Since then he has played a mix of leading roles in small independent films and supporting roles in big budget films such as Peter Jackson's version of King Kong.

However, before we see him in IRON MAN 3, Dale has supporting roles in significant features, such as THE LONE RANGER, FLIGHT and the Brad Pitt - starring zombie epic, WORLD WAR Z.

The three all have supporting roles in Kenneth Branagh's upcoming adaptation of Murder On The Orient Express, but Gad does not give a shit about that movie.

She's got supporting roles in starry films «Jupiter Ascending» and «Concussion» coming up, but someone needs to step up and give her a studio lead ASAP.

After years of supporting roles in dumb Hollywood films, Franco's decision - making process as a creative changed.

Here the septuagenarians are the protagonists, with younger characters serving supporting roles in their stories.

Lombardi, who previously snagged supporting roles in American Honey and Patti Cake $, has a credible presence — a riffraff nonchalance singed with hints of desperation and resentment.

Although the Zucker / Zucker / Abrahams style of parody very quickly wore out its welcome moving into the»90s, it was always nice to see Nielsen continuing to find work, and he was able to return to form with supporting roles in fairly recent movies like Scary Movie 3 and 4 and Superhero Movie.

McConaughey followed up with supporting roles in more local productions, including «My Boyfriend's Back» (1993), «Angels in the Outfield» (1994), and «Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre» (lensed 1995), in which his maniacal performance was shelved for two years until he and the film's co-star, Renee Zellweger, had become famous and there was a dollar to be made.

It was in Berlin that she was spotted by casting director Simone Bär (Inglourious Basterds), who «put me up for supporting roles in Joe Wright's Hanna [2011] and, in the same year, Roland Emmerich's Anonymous».

However, his relationship with Jennifer Lopez caused a tabloid frenzy, leading to over-exposure in the media - leading Affleck to shun the limelight in favor of supporting roles in smaller pictures.

Having previously appeared in supporting roles in some entertaining (Death Proof, 2006) and positively sub-par (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in 2010; The Thing in 2011) mainstream efforts, Winstead gets to show that she's quite talented.

It's a showcase leading role for Parker Posey (who had supporting roles in «Mixed Nuts,» «Dazed and Confused,» «Amateur» and «Sleep With Me»), who obviously has the stuff, and generates wacky charm.

Phillips has supporting roles in Craig Johnson's True Adolescents (2009, starring Mark Duplass) and his buddy Todd Rohal «s Uncle Kent 2 (2015), and he appeared in the HBO shows Togetherness, working again with the Duplass brothers, and Eastbound and Down, with director David Gordon Green.

Next up are high - profile supporting roles in Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and Ridley Scott's Nottingham.

Get a Life was later recognized for its influence on other, more successful programs, including The Simpsons and South Park.Elliott also had key supporting roles in the smash hit Groundhog Day, opposite Bill Murray, and in the unsuccessful rap mockumentary CB4 with Chris Rock.

Clute was working more often in the 1960s, on Dick Powell Theatre, Wagon Train, Hogan's Heroes, Mannix, Ben Casey, Perry Mason, That Girl, and dozens of other series, though he was probably most visible in the revived series Dragnet, which used him in key supporting roles in seven episodes.

Linn was memorable as the rogue treasury agent who assists terrorist John Lithgow in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Cliffhanger (1993), which brought the actor the recognition he so persistently sought and led to a series of supporting roles in dozens of feature films.

Baumbach and Stiller have a comfort level with each other that helps a lot, though credit goes to the entire cast for getting so many laughs out of the material, particularly Adam Driver in one of his best supporting roles in cinema to date.

The design of the track immediately introduces some shortcomings: the three are recorded separately, erasing any opportunity for fluidity or camaraderie, and two of them have fairly small supporting roles in the film.

Chalamet, who also can be seen this season in supporting roles in Lady Bird and Hostiles, is an actor of great promise who doesn't strike a single false note in balancing the conflicting feelings running through him.

He played supporting roles in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) directed by James Foley from the 1984 play by David Mamet, The Usual Suspects (1995) by Bryan Singer, Seven (1995) by David Fincher, A Time to Kill (1996) by Joel Schumacher.

More recently, Downey has appeared as an actor in key supporting roles in such films as Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), and Brett Ratner's Tower Heist (2011), which he describes as just doing a favour for some friends: «I do it and I'm gone.»

Disappointingly, Breckin Meyer adds to his collection of supporting roles in flops, in spite of the charm he showed in earlier films like Road Trip and Clueless.

Early 2014 Keaton had average supporting roles in two of that year's bombs: the remake of «RoboCop» and the car racing film «Need for Speed», with «Breaking Bad» «s Aaron Paul.

Key films: «La haine» (1995), «Read My Lips» (2001), «Irreversible» (2002); supporting roles in the «Oceans» films and «Eastern Promises.»

While many of his talkie roles at Warners were bits, Blue was given choice supporting roles in such films as Across the Pacific (1942), Mask of Dimitrios (1944) and especially Key Largo (1948).

McKee also had supporting roles in Mike Figgis» THE LOSS OF SEXUAL INNOCENCE and Luc Besson's THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC.

In films from the early 1940s, American actor Phil Brown held down supporting roles in most of his Hollywood films.

Scott moved into features in the late»90s and scored supporting roles in A-list Hollywood features; thereafter, the roles arrived quickly and furiously.

In 1971, she was signed to a $ 162 - per - week contract at Universal Pictures, under whose auspices she played supporting roles in such TV series as The Bold Ones and Owen Marshall, M.D. and co-starred in the theatrical features Two People (1972) and The Paper Chase (1973).