Sentences with phrase «years as a character actor»

Melissa McCarthy may have the elements of an immediately recognizable comic persona, but her years as a character actor have left an impression; many of her movies address, explicitly or not, the mutability of identity.

Melissa McCarthy may have the elements of an immediately recognizable comic persona, but her years as a character actor...

Not exact matches

Rockwell's career has been a roller - coaster ride because of Hollywood's trouble placing him as either a movie star or a character actor over the years.

One year later, Apfel appeared again as an actor known for playing distinguished characters in films such as Romance of the Underworld (1928), and the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon.

A 33 - year - old actor and comic best known for his long - running role as Maurice in the Britcom «The IT Crowd,» Ayoade has an evident gift for the kind of slightly offbeat comedy that's about the differences between a character's self - perception and the way the world sees him.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

However, until that happens, I'm content to watch this multi-talented actor / performer in whatever screen roles he chooses — Wolverine, an Australian drover, a deceitful partner — or, as in Real Steel, a struggling boxing promoter whose many character flaws include a willingness to sell his 11 - year - old son.

The 50 - year - old actor was revealed to have joined the cast of the eighth movie in the franchise as the mysterious character DJ, and after fans suggested his character is Ezra Bridger from «Star Wars Rebels», director Rian Johnson has insisted that isn't true.

A number of other lead actor contenders this year have portrayed real - life characters as well, and there's quite a wide range.

Gary Oldman spent years as one of Hollywood's most quietly celebrated character actors.

That's not to say the performance wasn't great and that the film wasn't one of the best of the year — it just wasn't the type of film that garners awards for its actors as it was far more concerned with docudrama authenticity than it was with giving its actors full - bore characters to develop.

By going with an actress four years older than the character in the book, Lionsgate has locked itself into a cast packed with very late teens or actors in their early twenties as compared to if they'd gone with someone like 14 - year - old Chloe Moretz who would have called for a far younger Peeta and Gale.

It's good news for those of us who have been fans of the character actor for years and were a little wary that he'd maybe try to jump into his own Taken - style franchise or something as a result of his boost in popularity.

It's nevertheless impossible to deny that Split, though rarely engrossing, remains quite watchable throughout, with the movie kicking off with an absolutely enthralling opening sequence and benefiting substantially from McAvoy's frequently showstopping performance as the deranged central character (ie the actor does a superb job of creating a series of impressively distinct personalities, including a nine - year - old boy).

Three years ago, The Guardians of the Galaxy was considered the first big risk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, completely removed from the rest of the Avengers on other planets with characters even avid comic book readers weren't overly familiar with, all led by an actor who was primarily known as the chubby goofball on an NBC workplace sitcom.

We became friends during that year and we were friends on the first day of shooting, so all of the big narrative adjustments in the story, but also some of the choices that Daniel could have made and other characters, other actors, these choices were available for them to make as well.

Mike White — «Year of the Dog» Maybe one of the purest expressions of «screenwriter - turned - director» (though he's also an actor given to appearing in character roles in some of his films) Mike White had, in years leading to 2007, carved out quite a distinctive place for himself as an indie screenwriter dealing more in low - key human dramedy than some of the more bombastic Shane Black - types, or more mainstream Steve Zaillian - types on our list.

After more than 50 years as an actor — years that have included 80 - plus movies, dozens of TV shows, Oscar and Emmy nominations and a reputation as one of the classic character actors of his generation — Bruce Dern didn't exactly think that his career was over.

English character actor Timothy Spall plays the painter over the last 25 years of his life as his work began to grow more abstract.

It's been 36 years since Ed Asner took a guest role in the original Hawaii Five - 0 series in 1975, and now Deadline reports the veteran actor will return as that exact same character on CBS» series reboot.

The 34 - year - old actor stars as Thomas McGregor in the new live action / CGI comedy directed by Will Gluck, but Gleeson has admitted filming the adaptation of the beloved Beatrix Potter character was more painful than he anticipated.

Rutger Hauer is concerned that «Blade Runner 2049» won't be as «character - driven» as the original film.The 73 - year - old actor starred as the...

Yep, you read that right - the 70 - year - old actor who helped make the Star Wars franchise such a success in the first place will be returning as his character, Han Solo - after 30 years away from the job!

In what would prove to be the culmination of a long and celebrated career, the late and legendary character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars as Lucky, a 90 - year - old small - town iconoclast and avowed atheist who, although surprisingly healthy despite his cigarette habit, nevertheless finds himself pondering his own mortality with a certain amount of unease.

The longtime character actor starred in over 200 films over the years (notably Straight Time, Blade Runner, and as the sniper in The Jerk), but he was never better than in this role.

The Star Trek actor was nominated for his performance as a frail Professor Charles Xavier in the film, which Patrick confirmed would be his last time playing the character after 17 years.

Often hiding behind a mustache or beard, the actor has garnered critical acclaim for his starring roles in A Most Violent Year with Jessica Chastain and as the title character in Inside Llewyn Davis, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination.

Andy Serkis says his «Star Wars» character Supreme Leader Snoke is like the Wizard of Oz.The 53 - year - old actor first starred as the leader of the...

The niece of Australian actor Hugo Weaving, Samara debuted on Home And Away in 2009 as Indigo Walker, taking on the character for five years.

Back in the day, the Welsh actor appeared as Hannibal Lecter in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, reprising the character for 2001's Hannibal, and the following year in Red Dragon.

The young actor was on the cusp of launching her illustrious TV career; she was cast as the titular character on «Felicity» two years later.

USA Today Character actor Joseph Ruskin (Prizzi's Honor, The Magnificent Seven) has passed away The Wire as we move into the dumping ground of each film year (that'd be new January releases, not platformed holdovers) Joe Reid looks back at ten January releases that didn't suck Vanity Fair funny Proust questionnaire with T Bone Burnett whose latest movie music work I can't stop listening to.

• OSCAR WINNING ROLES: If by some miracle Bryan Cranston won he'd be the second actor to win for playing a previous Oscar winner (the first being Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator) • GENDER: If by some miracle Eddie Redmayne won it'd be the first leading actor win for a female character though not the first Oscar win for someone playing another gender — that was Linda Hunt as a male photographer in The Year of Living Dangerously (1983) • MULTI-HYPHENATES: Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio have also been nominated outside of acting categories.

Clifton Collins Jr., an undeniably talented character actor, turns in one of the year's worst performances as a laughably over-eager Jaeger technician.

So my new year's wish is that for X, actors substitute Greta Gerwig, who made sure, in Lady Bird, that even characters as peripheral to the action as Stephen McKinley Henderson's mournful high school drama teacher felt like full human beings who could have wandered in from, or off to, their own movies.

The 38 - year - old actor plays Cold War - era spy David Percival in the action thriller alongside Charlize as Lorraine Broughton and James admitted his character can not compete with Charlize's in physical combat.

Honestly, of all the people we can think of off the top of our heads as people I'd be excited to see step into Wonder Woman's boots, Christina Hendricks is right at the top, and it doesn't even have much to do with her truly epic curves; she's proven herself in the past few years as one of the strongest actors on television, bringing a quiet but supremely forceful power to the character of Joan Holloway.

Trends of the Year: Sex addiction (Don Jon, Thanks for Sharing), shipwrecks (Gravity, All Is Lost), the skin trade (Lovelace, The Look of Love), taking the White House hostage (Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down), the apocalypse as comedy (This Is the End, The World's End), slow cartoon protagonists who nonetheless win the big race (Turbo, Planes), likable character actors who are revealed to be villains in the final reel (Star Trek Into Darkness, White House Down, The Lone Ranger)

Bryan Singer has taken to Instagram to announce that Lucas Till is set to reprise his role as Alex Summers / Havok in next year's X-Men: Apocalypse, with the actor joining an ever growing list of characters in the mutant superhero sequel.

The movie is framed as a documentary, the actors playing their characters 25 years after the infamous Kerrigan incident, each spinning bitterly his or her own version of events.

The 38 - year - old actor is set to reprise his role as multiple - personality sufferer Kevin Wendell Crumb - which he first starred in M. Night Shyamalan's 2016 thriller «Split» - who kidnaps Anya Taylor - Joy's character Casey as he attempts to battle his darkest personality known as The Beast.

Its best episode was its season finale, and in particular the performance of character - actor Michael Cyril Creighton (who was so impressive in a small role in Spotlight last year) as a quasi-shut-in who accepts a delivery of weed just for the company.

Logan is Hugh Jackman's last go as Wolverine and the actor has taken to social media to thank fans for 17 years of playing the character.

The show features the same characters as last year's blockbuster film - Star - Lord, Rocket, Groot, Gamora, and Drax - though with a new voice cast including veteran voice actor Will Friedle as Peter Quill.

The supporting cast is mostly restricted to the background, but character actors such as Angus Sampson (also known for playing the ghost - hunting Tucker in the Insidious films) and Eamon Farren (who made a splash as the disturbing Richard Horne in last year's Twin Peaks: The Return) do get to make some fun appearances here.

McNairy is slowly but surely establishing himself as one of contemporary film's most watchable character actors (he'll soon be seen in Steve McQueen «s buzzed - about «12 Years a Slave»), and the surprise scene - stealer here is Pais, one of those journeyman That - Guy actors whose face you know and name you probably don't.

The versatile character actor had most recently appeared as the Southern judge in the popular comedy film, «My Cousin Vinny,» released last year.

The odious and untalented Johnny Knoxville is one of my least favorite «actors» of the last 20 years, but his unlikable persona is put to effective use as a pivotal character in Honey's past.

As you're probably aware, Mark Ruffalo will be playing the Hulk (or at least Bruce Banner) in Joss Whedon's The Avengers, which makes him the third actor to portray the character in a span of less than 10 years.

Opposite «Parent Trap» co-star Dennis Quaid as her character's father, the 10 - year - old Lohan recites her lines with such convincing naturalness, it's almost jarring when the two actors break character.