"compelling person" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is unusually attractive or persuasive. For example, "James is a truly compelling person; his charisma captivates everyone he meets."
The most compelling person in the film ends up being Mrs. Pak, who seems kindhearted and well intentioned.
The Sanchez I knew was a compelling person, but he was young — and he seemed young; from the first, Brady and Manning were old football souls.
"Personally, I think Gary gave the absolute definition of a cinematic performance: he does almost nothing, yet is the most compelling person on the screen.
"Bikram is a much more compelling person than I am," he said, and attributed his falling out with Choudhury to the realization that strong personalities and yoga are to some extent spiritually incompatible.
But, he allowed, "There were some people who felt that, while Edie is a wonderful and compelling person, the story of an estate-tax bill might not be as compelling as a more relatable injury".
I was thrilled, then, to see how thoroughly Ms. Kidman knew that, and how apparently effortlessly she managed to create a Woolf who was difficult, thorny and frighteningly fragile but was, at the same time, always the most compelling person in the room, funny and incisive, a woman so fiercely engaged by life that she's all but bursting from her contact with it.
The same goals could be achieved by violating the 5th Amendment and compelling persons to incriminate themselves.
This may explain why some of the most compelling first person accounts in James's work of divided selves and sick souls who were later transformed come from people who were drunkards.
Unlike Garbo, whose sphinxlike silence concealed a stolid bore, Ms. Moss is as compelling in person as in front of a lens, quick to mock herself, to offer a bite of her lunch, to throw her head back in easy girlish laughter.
I think one of the marvels of Nicole's performance is that you understand that though she is enormously troubled on this day in her life, in which she is onscreen for exactly thirty-one minutesheshe is also the most compelling, luminous person in the room.
His Willy Wonkaness, which is evident on stage, is even more compelling in person.
