Sentence examples for fading actor from inspiring English sources

I think the city looks better in the rain; it's the equivalent of makeup on a fading actor.

Toast of London, Matt Berry's Channel 4 series about a fading actor which became a cult success, also features in the sit-com category.

Juliette Binoche stars as Maria Enders, a fading actor thrown into crisis when a younger model (Chole Grace Moretz) stars in a remake of her most famous role.

In Lost in Translation, Bill Murray plays the part of a fading actor who suddenly confronts his acute loneliness and alienation in a Tokyo hotel.

Dusseldorp, a "very brave and captivating and muscular actress", plays a fading actor aloft in a penthouse as a civil war breaks out in the street below.

Davis, in particular, seemed punished by being put in childish clothing and portrayed as being trapped in the past, when in fact her screen persona had always been non-standard and her choices often inventive – her fading actor Margo Channing in All About Eve, for instance, was by Hollywood standards a stingingly honest portrait of vanity made monstrous by despair.

The gore comes to an end with "Theater of Blood" (1973), in which some critics get theirs, at 4 15 a.m. 9 P.M. (CMT) TY MURRAY'S CELEBRITY BULL-RIDING CHAlikeGE Some — like the ersatz musician Vanilla Ice and the faded actor Leif Garrett — have endured their share of knocks.

Revolver (BBC1) used a tightly packed posy of fondly remembered, if slightly faded, actors in a succession of sketches.

"No, he was fading," the actor said.

Alejandro González Iñárritu's experimental satire about a fading movie actor (played by Michael Keaton) tied for top place going into the awards with Wes Anderson's whimsical comedy.

What next – fading bit actor Johnny Drama getting the nod as the new James Bond? Come on, Professor Du Sautoy, something isn't adding up.