She's completely the mistress of the role's technique; you can't easily take your eyes off her; she has moments of marvelous linear amplitude.
She also cites the example of the German-Turkish actor Sibel Kekilli, who, among her other roles, plays a mistress of the character Tyrion Lannister in the hit US TV series Game of Thrones, the first time a German-Turkish actor has made it into the American big time.
She played the role of mistress of ceremonies and worked it to the max.
Gerwig is in town to discuss her role in Mistress America, a lovely, limber tale of female friendship in which two divergent lives briefly overlap.
But at the time of its composition it was essentially a private joke: the work was a satire on the freewheeling sexuality of King Charles's court, and its original cast included the king's former mistress, Mary Davies, in the role of Venus, and their daughter, the 10-year-old Lady Mary Tudor, as Cupid.
Correction: June 29 , 2003 Sunday An article on June 8 about letters written in the 1920's by the future Duke of Windsor to a mistress, Freda Dudley Ward, misstated the role played at The Financial Times by Brendan Bracken (who was suspected of having been another of her lovers).
Emotionally restrained and somewhat aloof, Beatrice has adjusted to her role as mistress of household with a reputation for being controlling.
In a typically inconsistent manner, the sweet Olive takes to the role of mistress with ease, which doesn't track with what we know about her (or even what we learn later about her past).
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As she lay dying, Murdoch took over Benedikt's role as mistress-novelist, just as Canetti replaced Steiner for her.
