Sentences with phrase «unlikely role»

His bid to find balance got a major boost from filmmaker and friend Lee Daniels, who cast Kravitz in the seemingly unlikely role of a nurse in his 2009 drama Precious, which soaked up the critical plaudits with six Oscar nominations and two wins.

Lately, Penélope Cruz has been flexing her comedy muscles, taking unlikely roles in «Zoolander 2» and «The Brothers Grimsby.»

Hutchins, 22, played a pivotal and unlikely role in stopping the spread of malware known as WannaCry when he discovered a functional domain kill switch for WannaCry.

On a recent afternoon, she reminisced about the unlikely role she played in breaking the color barrier of the Trump real estate empire.

Given longstanding tensions between Mormons and evangelicals - Mormons consider themselves Christians, but many evangelicals do not - it seemed an unlikely role for Beck.

Ginger plays the unlikely role of peacekeeper in this deliciously complex dish of fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, Thai chiles, and herbs, ensuring that no one flavor overpowers the rest.

As the war progresses and the Nazi madness intensifies, Schindler becomes a very different man, and, aware of the Reich's «final solution,» he assumes the unlikely role of savior.

Landing on People magazine's list of the 50 Most Beautiful People in 1990, Daniel continued projecting the unlikely role of sex symbol with his role of Hawkeye in the Michael Mann romance - adventure epic «The Last of the Mohicans» in 1992.

Here's how they see their unlikely role in the industry.

Overlooked: Considering the unlikely role Anthony Weiner played in the slow - motion car crash that was the 2016 presidential election, it's doubly surprising that the queasily fascinating Weiner didn't make the cut.

It is an unlikely role: He plays the mannered society creature Truman Capote, a favorite of talk shows and Manhattan social circles, and shows him venturing into the alien land of Kansas to write a book about the brutal murder of a farm family.

But Franken was sunk as soon as that photograph of him «humorously» pretending to grope a sleeping woman's breasts hit the news, and there have been additional allegations that a figure of SNL royalty — while serving with distinction in his unlikely role as senator — engaged in at least the sort of demeaning sexist behavior rightly being called out with ever greater volume and frequency.

In a curious twist, the NFL team played an unlikely role in how she came to adopt a dog through our national companion pet adoption program for military veterans.