This year's crop has blessed female characters with the ability to be seen as more than passive love interests.
He's that oddity: a character player blessed with star quality.
A complex character blessed with sufficient "personality" to make even José Mourinho seem a little boring.
Serious bits (like the finale, in which Juno descends to bless the characters, once their conflicts are resolved) are sliced away, and wisecracks are interpolated.
Campbell has come up with an ingenious structure in which three actors play different characters, blessed with identical names, across the temporal divide.
Whether or not they succeed critically or artistically, let alone at the box office, movies in which sex is placed in the context of a developed story and acted out by characters blessed with the facility for language and emotions is a more threatening and intimate proposition.
"I've just been blessed to play characters on incredible shows with incredible actors and writers, and going from project to project without being boxed and having the ability to learn and grow".
Just as Bill Clinton was blessed by cartoon-character enemies like Ken Starr and Henry Hyde, the face of GOP opposition to Obamacare tonight was not the heroic and patriotic John McCain, but rather some Congressclown named Joe Wilson from South Carolina.
A New York mafioso turned snitch is a perfect role for Van Zandt, a character actor blessed with hangdog features that do most of the work for him: he can do disgusted, disappointed and more without really appearing to do anything.
My parents and grandparents came, pretty much, from nothing, but were blessed with intelligence and character, and favored, on an unknowably vast number of occasions, by chance.
