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The phrase 'filled the role' is correct and usable in written English.
You may use it when referring to someone who has been chosen to take on or to play a particular role (in a performance, organization, etc.). For example: "The young actor filled the role of the villain in the movie perfectly."
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The Winklers have filled the role with aplomb.
His understudy, Brandon Wardell, has filled the role.
Manley filled the role vacant since Daly's departure.
For two seasons, Robinson filled the role of the big, powerful lefty off the Nationals' bench.
In the eighties and nineties, video stores partly filled the role.
Many ambitious women have filled the role of presidential spouse, and found it limiting.
Yet she gladly filled the role and the gallery jumped for joy.
In the interim, an acting representative, James B. Cunningham, has filled the role.
Eidur Gudjohnsen filled the role against Arsenal in the Community Shield, and again away to Wigan.
At the L.A. Phil performance, Hurricane Mama, the Disney Hall organ, filled the role persuasively.
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In past centuries, silhouettes filled the role of modern photography as popular greetings at holiday times, or as sentimental gifts to loved ones.
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