His bold portrayal of his subject's attitude and style elevates the common person to celebrity status.
But now a forthcoming picture, the highly-praised 12 Years a Slave from British filmmaker Steve McQueen, is about to bring Americans what many view as the most realistic and bold portrayal of slavery ever seen on the big screen.
In particular Cathleen Riddley gives a courageous and bold portrayal of Jessalyn as she unravels with dementia.
Travolta, who surprised many with his bold portrayal of Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiro, said all he can remember about the final day of filming was "'Wow, it's over.
The works now number in the hundreds and span the globe, offering bold portrayals of individuals as well as a sense of a collective archive.
The mezzo-soprano Re'ut Ben-Ze'ev, accompanied by Mr. Del Tredici at the piano, offered a bold, committed account — "portrayal" might be a better word, so deeply physical was her performance — in songs that dealt with nascent romance and motherhood, as well as dwindling passion, loss and renewed independence.
When the series was cancelled in 1996, the British gallerist James Hyman kept hold of the biting mockups that characterized the show, bold and dopey portrayals of a Who's Who of England, from Margaret Thatcher to cabinet minister Norman Tebbit.
The judges praised Mantel's sympathetic portrayal of Thomas Cromwell – a bold re-imagining of one of British history's most sinister characters, which has become a bestseller in the US – as "original in voice and ambitious in style".
Richard Corliss of Time magazine considered McConaughey's portrayal to be a "bold, drastic and utterly persuasive inhabiting of a doomed fighter", remarking that "if the camera occasionally suffers a fashionable case of the jitters, the movie transcends its agitated verismo to impart dramatic and behavioral truth".
Invisibility for lesbians continued in the 1970s when homosexuality became the subject of dramatic portrayals, first with medical dramas (The Bold Ones, Marcus Welby, M.D., Medical Center) featuring primarily male patients coming out to doctors, or staff members coming out to other staff members.
In this portrayal Mr. Assange, the WikiLeaks frontman, goes from bold, unnerving liberator of secrets — like the skin-crawling, classified footage of an American helicopter attack on a crowd in Baghdad that killed 12 people, including two Reuters journalists — to a paranoid creep, criticized by those who once worked with him and on the run from accusations of rape.
