Sentence examples for English roles from inspiring English sources

'There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

I had bleached blonde hair and an Irish accent – I soon realised I wasn't going to get the lead English roles".

Last year, West – who has played the Ukrainian-Russian son of Pablo Picasso, a Spartan statesman and a French detective – revealed he had decided to accept the part of the Australian scientist Professor Howard Florey in a BBC TV drama about the discovery of penicillin, in protest against non-English actors playing famous English roles.

England itself does not have a formal government or constitution, and a specifically English role in contemporary government and politics is hard to identify in any formal sense, for these operate on a nationwide British basis.

Yet the irony remains that it is someone whose attitudes were fundamentally invidious to women's rights who provided the greatest English role model of the 20th century for what, when she came to power, was still called women's liberation.

Meares has the appearance of a nice-but-dim English character actor, a role he plays to the full.

In 1995 she began to break away from "English rose" roles with her portrayals of Margaret, a young woman suffering the hardships of life in a Canadian coal-mining town in Margaret's Museum, and of a high-strung wife in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite.

As the nefarious Lori, Kate Beckinsale, who I enjoy in her English rose roles, is actually much better at martial arts than the fabulous Sharon Stone, who was merely quite game though very fit.

Languages spoken English, Afrikaans Role models My mother is my role model as she is always good to people.

He became involved in the local civic society, but nothing compensated for the loss of his English Heritage role.

She recently added some English-language roles to her CV: she was Philip Seymour Hoffman's gently adoring colleague in one of his last films, A Most Wanted Man, and she turned up briefly in the fourth series of Homeland.