Sentences with phrase «whose breakout role»

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The film, which cast her as a small - town girl whose best friend makes the big time by becoming a celebrated opera singer, provided McAdams with her breakout role, and she soon set her sights on Hollywood.

March, in particular, is a breakout role for Gosling, whose turn as an emotionally unstable, broken dingus gives is something new from him.

He directed Mark Ruffalo in the latter's breakout role in «You Can Count on Me,» a movie over which death hangs like a fog, but it was young Rory Culkin whose presence amplifies both Ruffalo's and co-star Laura Linney's work in that film.

Ryan Gosling has made a name for himself playing characters who live on the fringes of society: his breakout role as a Nazi - sympathizing Jew in The Believer, a half - baked teacher in Half Nelson, a man in love with a blow - up doll in Lars And The Real Girl, and most recently, a fledgling musician whose temper and lack of ambition prove destructive to his family in Blue Valentine.