Sentence examples for breakthrough part from inspiring English sources

Although the script was good, on paper the role of Ripley didn't look like a breakthrough part, nor Weaver a breakthrough player.

Small roles on "Law & Order" led to movies and his breakthrough part as a quick-talking street-wise heroin addict in HBO's "The Wire".

Breakthrough, Part 2: Klain was noodling around on the Web site Internet Archive and found that someone (who had likely taped it directly off a TV set in 1966) had uploaded a bootleg audio of the entire show.

That started to happen back in New York, when he played a gangster in the independent feature "Midnight" — not much of a role in not much of a movie, but one that pointed the way toward his breakthrough part, that of the gangster Duke Mantee in Robert E. Sherwood's play "The Petrified Forest".

But Asante, whose previous films A Way of Life and Belle garnered her high praise and multiple awards, including a Bafta, is clearly a star in the making – and possibly also a star-maker; Gugu Mbatha-Raw, whom she cast in her breakthrough part as the title character in Belle, has just appeared opposite Matthew McConaughey in the American civil war drama Free State of Jones.

His breakthrough part was that of Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichols Mike Nichols ' 1967 film, The Graduate.

Every actor dreams of a breakthrough role, the part that stamps him in the public memory, and Mr. Heston's life changed forever when he caught the eye of the director Cecil B. DeMille.

Ehle won a Bafta for the part, after her breakthrough role in 1992's The Camomile Lawn, and seemed destined for superstardom.

Black Voices Breakthrough Theater, part of our Screening Room experience, is a ten part series where our panel of curators present new, short films and web series created by emerging talent --both on screen and behind the camera.

The story of Redding's breakthrough is part of soul music mythology.

But the house, which she treasured in memory, was where she came into her own as a writer; it's where she finished "The House of Mirth," her breakthrough novel (part of whose profits paid for the Mount's elaborate gardens) and got the inspiration for "Ethan Frome".