"But not as a tray-toting, background figure.
To begin with, Nora stuck to her pre-ordained role as a background figure.
She is both an industry veteran and a newcomer to stardom, a background figure and a ubiquitous force.
A man emerges from the darkness to speak with disarming honesty about his liberal political positions, but he's not Governor Morris, who is in fact a background figure.
"Batfleck" was in the movie more than we expected, but always as a shadowy background figure until the mid-credits scene (more on that later).
(It is also unique among the "Screams" for its background figure turning to look out onto the cityscape).
"Born to be a background figure," he's the oddball hanger-on who craves acceptance and can never quite grasp why nobody likes him.
At one point Mr. Nascimento had the audience moaning a spooky background figure as he soared above with his falsetto and his guitar: one special voice among the many, even now.
Oddly enough, without ever managing a national team Guardiola has managed to become a hugely potent background figure, not just at this World Cup final, but at the last one too.
In 2011, Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris made a short film focusing on the "Umbrella Man" – a background figure, caught in the Zapruder film incongruously holding an open black umbrella that sunny day.
