"But when I started acting I really admired the actors who captivated me, the actors who transformed.
Even for the author, there is the sense of not knowing what will come next, and being drawn along by the actor's captivating voice.
"When I was in Europe I would see shows and not understand the language, but amazing actors would captivate me based on their relationship to their bodies and other actors," he says.
The Hollywood actor was so captivated by the performance he felt obliged to give them a personal thank you.
The Montana beauty had captivated the actor completely back in the mid-'70s when they met while he was filming a movie on location.
I, like so many others, am utterly captivated by actors.
With a heart-melting psychological transparency, a gift for exposing raw pain, and an octaves-dancing vocal range, this young actor is the captivating lead vessel for a marvelous score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and an equally accomplished book by Steven Levenson.
"Shipwrecked!" director Bart De Lorenzo said Itzin was his first choice for De Rougemont: "You need a great actor who can captivate an audience.
Growing up in Westfield in the 1960's, Mr. Kaplow was drawn to radio drama and captivated by audio actors' ability to exploit the boundaries of sound.
Secondly, Lee Pace and Mackenzie Davis are some of the most captivating actors, the former playing an ex-IBM visionary gone rogue and the latter a budding coder raising a video game company from the ground up.
A script has to meet the demands of an industry, overcome a long line of executives, play to the strengths and weaknesses of the actors, and then captivate not just a thin piece of the NPR audience, not just the HBO set, but millions of Americans who have hundreds of other entertainment options.
