Sentences with phrase «versatile actor gives»

Not exact matches

Natalie Portman has hinted at being a versatile actress, willing to go deep to access the emotional soil for a part, but never has she committed this fully and completely, giving herself over as actors sometimes do — Robert DeNiro is Raging Bull, Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Names Desire, Charlize Theron in Monster, Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose, Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (Tootsie, Rain Man, etc.) These are those rare occasions when the actor is eclipsed by the character, the performance that then reaches something more than likable, believable; it becomes moving art.

Perennially underrated by most critics (the late Roger Ebert was one of the exceptions) and boxed into a «king of the romcom» niche by audiences, Grant has always been a far more versatile, complex and adventurous actor than he's usually given credit for.

Birdman star Michael Keaton was presented with the Hollywood Career Achievement Award by Beetlejuice co-star Geena Davis, who praised, «He's one of those versatile actors who can make us laugh out loud and then utterly change direction... and this year has given us one of his finest performances yet.»