Examples of character actor in a Sentence
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Veteran character actor Martin Donovan is Donald’s father, Fred Trump.
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
Inside the album’s minute-long songs, Whack introduced a fun-loving and audacious persona capable of tongue-twisting lyricism, bubbly displays of melody, and bite-size storytelling, all with the theatricality and presence of a character actor.
—The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
The ever-busy Japanese character actor Tadanobu Asano — currently having a moment as one of the stars of Disney’s hit samurai series Shōgun — has joined the cast of Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang‘s upcoming culinary thriller Morte Cucina.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2024
Walsh, a character actor known for his wry delivery and gruff yet slippery persona, had over 200 acting credits to his name.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024
After Vandergeld's arrest, Heard was a go-to character actor who appeared on numerous TV shows like Prison Break and NCIS: Los Angeles.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
Faison had a long career as a character actor before the Wayans brothers comedy and received a Tony nomination for his work in the original Broadway cast of August Wilson's Fences.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
But most audiences would recognize his face from something, and over the past 30 years he’s built up an apex career for a character actor: the middle-aged crank who can headline a film but just as easily fill in as one of Dwayne Johnson’s action-movie sidekicks (in fact, he’s done that twice).
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
Sachs, who lives in Los Angeles, and Cohn, who lives in New York, got on the phone with me recently, and were joined on the call by Richard Kind, the beloved comic character actor, who plays Robert.
—The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
Inside the album’s minute-long songs, Whack introduced a fun-loving and audacious persona capable of tongue-twisting lyricism, bubbly displays of melody, and bite-size storytelling, all with the theatricality and presence of a character actor.
—The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
The ever-busy Japanese character actor Tadanobu Asano — currently having a moment as one of the stars of Disney’s hit samurai series Shōgun — has joined the cast of Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang‘s upcoming culinary thriller Morte Cucina.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2024
Walsh, a character actor known for his wry delivery and gruff yet slippery persona, had over 200 acting credits to his name.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024
After Vandergeld's arrest, Heard was a go-to character actor who appeared on numerous TV shows like Prison Break and NCIS: Los Angeles.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
Faison had a long career as a character actor before the Wayans brothers comedy and received a Tony nomination for his work in the original Broadway cast of August Wilson's Fences.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
But most audiences would recognize his face from something, and over the past 30 years he’s built up an apex career for a character actor: the middle-aged crank who can headline a film but just as easily fill in as one of Dwayne Johnson’s action-movie sidekicks (in fact, he’s done that twice).
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
Sachs, who lives in Los Angeles, and Cohn, who lives in New York, got on the phone with me recently, and were joined on the call by Richard Kind, the beloved comic character actor, who plays Robert.
—The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
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“Character actor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/character%20actor. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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