But Rattigan, the doyen of subtle studies of deep-seated emotional reticence, unequal passion and lonely stoicism, had never before portrayed love between two men.
She starred in a series of romantic comedies including The Object of My Affection (1998)—before portraying a waitress in the cult hit Office Space (1999), which centred on disgruntled office workers.
"Without neglecting his other business he also did many paintings," in addition to the portrait of Innocent X. Palomino relates that before portraying the pope, as an exercise in painting a head from life, Velázquez made the portrait of his mulatto slave, Juan de Pareja (freed by Velázquez in 1650).
Carter has made several brief cameo roles as an actor first appearing in The X-Files "Anasazi" as a FBI agent; before portraying a member of a film audience in "Hollywood A.D ., a later episode of the same series.
Lupton calls these segments "short stories or vignettes", a technique that Angelou had used before, to portray dynamic characters such as Malcolm X. Angelou's stories are told within the context of her entire life story, but each vignette can be read or analyzed individually, without harming the text's consistency.
Mark Harelik has proved himself outstanding before at portraying annoying, powerful, often misguided men.
In fact, it could be argued that no artist before Goya portrayed women in as many different roles and circumstances, and with as much psychological complexity.
The appeals court found that the remarks did amount to defamation of Szpilman, who died in Warsaw in 2000, two years before being portrayed by Adrien Brody in Polanski's popular and critically acclaimed film.
Rough footage from Saturday's show, which was still being edited a few days before broadcast, portrayed the scene in Zuccotti Park as summer camp with protest signs, a rolling festival of exasperation and naïveté, stone-faced cops and Hacky Sack — Fuming Man.
For their part, federal prosecutors displayed elaborate charts and timelines on a giant screen before jurors, portraying what the prosecutors described as a series of "illegal shakedowns" — of a hospital for children, road construction companies, racetrack owners — that began, they said, almost as soon as Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat, took office in 2003.
