The phrase "a brief role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a short or minor part played by an actor in a performance or a small function in a particular context.
Example: "In the film, she had a brief role as the protagonist's best friend."
Alternatives: "a minor role" or "a small part".
"It's a brief role," she explains.
Wilder got his start in film with a brief role in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde before his breakout part in The Producers the next year.
Random Brit of the week A special shout-out this week for Robert Aramayo who has been excellent in a brief role as the young Ned Stark.
He had a brief role in The Bill in 2008, and earlier this year he appeared in EastEnders, playing Tommy Clifford, a character harbouring a guilty secret.
But Katherine Waterston does wonders with a brief role as Sylvia, a woman who went to high school with Jimmy and wound up as a medic.
Ray's backstory seems too finely knitted in this season's plot and I don't think Colin Farrell would sign on for such a brief role.
Stone, who had a cameo in the first film, plays a different brief role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Chester also served the purpose of killing off Maggie (seriously, how jaw-droppingly disgusting was it when he pulled the box apart and all the guts were there?), taking Bette and Dot's virginity, and giving Jamie Brewer an awesome, brief role as the demented puppet, Marjorie.
Stiller joined his parents in the family film Heavyweights (1995), in which he played two roles, and then had a brief uncredited role in Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore (1996).
But maybe it took Geraldine A. Ferraro, the accidental icon, to turn that brief role of a lifetime into a marathon run of show.
Later that year, Ranaut played the brief role of a medical intern who moonlights as a member of a vigilante group in the Karan Johar-produced political drama Ungli.
