Sentence examples for career-defining performance from inspiring English sources

The writers followed up with "Legally Blonde," in which Reese Witherspoon gave a career-defining performance.

In a career-defining performance, Roy Scheider starred as the driven, womanizing, self-destructive director-choreographer.

And among the many scenery-gobblers here, Daniel Stewart, as Malvolio, Olivia's censorious, self-righteous steward, gives a career-defining performance.

Liza Minnelli gives her career-defining performance as the nightclub singer Sally Bowles: entrancingly sexy, a free spirit, unlocatably and indefinably melancholy and damaged.

The film has already scooped Miller the best director award at the Cannes film festival and there is considerable Oscars buzz around Steve Carell's career-defining performance.

The studio only needs another $4m to cross the $1bn £722mm) worldwide box-office mark – imagine how many people don't yet have the DVD and want to remind themselves of Ledger's career-defining performance.

Serkis may have to accept that his career-defining performances will only truly be recognised as the technology becomes more commonplace, and awards bodies have a context within which to place his acting.

More than any interpretation I've seen of the 1944 drama that made Williams's name, this "Menagerie" — which stars Cherry Jones and Zachary Quinto in career-defining performances — finds the brute force in a play often described, a bit condescendingly, as lyrical, wispy, elegiac.

And while that doesn't sound like a terribly creative atmosphere for an actor, many of them gave career-defining performances under this sometimes oppressive "guidance".

He adds that Quinto and Jones give "career-defining performances," and the cast has honed an "emotional sharpness" beyond their "fine" performances in Cambridge.

The film featured Edward G. Robinson in a career defining performance as gangster Rico Bandello.