Sentence examples for he portrays on from inspiring English sources

That is, Matt LeBlanc, the real-life actor who stars in the Hollywood satire "Episodes" on Showtime, is not Matt LeBlanc, the exaggerated fictional character he portrays on that show, the one who stars in a struggling, by all accounts mediocre sitcom called "Pucks".

Mr. Danson steals every scene in the role, which he plays as a loonier, more endearing version of Arthur Frobisher, the amoral business tycoon he portrays on "Damages".

Known for the unearthly menace he brings to the characters he portrays on television's "Boardwalk Empire" and off Broadway's "Mistakes Were Made," it's only natural that Michael Shannon would end up as an alien villain in Zack Snyder's new "Superman" movie.

Behind the celebration of Mr. Rohmer's perfection lies an implied accusation of complacency: even approving critics have at times grumbled that the world he portrays on the screen is too narrow, its emotions too circumscribed, its ironies too schematic, to sustain our curiosity or feed our hunger for vicarious experience.

"There should be unlimited campaign money," Colbert said, staying in character as the right-wing blowhard he portrays on his show.

In 2015 the same year the character he portrays on Empire, Jamal Lyon, came out as gay Smollett himself spoke publicly for the first time about his sexuality, in a one-on-one backstage conversation with Ellen DeGeneres.

Deals with Harrigan, his plays, characters and situations he portrayed on the stage.

Voters once fantasised that he would be the kind of hard-hitting Robin Hood whom he portrayed on the screen.

Norman Wisden was born in London on Feb. 4, 1915, into a life more threadbare than any he portrayed on screen.

Mr. Vereen gets the chance to illustrate the stark divide between the savvy, dignified private Fetchit, whose original name was the imposing Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, and the racist caricature he portrayed on film.

He got to be one of the ordinary blokes he routinely portrays on the big screen.