Sentence examples for modern actor from inspiring English sources

And her edgy, claustrophobic intimacy with her audience makes her a very modern actor.

He was also, allowing for changes of style and taste, a quintessentially modern actor.

Brook was the first modern director and in Scofield, whose still presence on stage eschewed the flamboyance of an earlier generation, he found the first great modern actor.

The first modern actor, Garrick became in 1747 the patent holder and manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, one of only two theatres in London.

Fourteen years younger than her great rival, the flamboyantly romantic Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse was "the first modern actor," says Helen Sheehy in her new biography.

Perhaps Sheehy could have done more to bring specific performances to life, but she certainly succeeds in convincing one that Duse was indeed "the first modern actor".

Young modern actors are not raconteurs.

The modern actors are not very interesting figures.

Stallone is an old-school movie star; unlike modern actors, he is opaque.

Modern actors tend to work by plumbing their characters' psychology and motivation, then layering the lines on top of that.

Even a star as glamorous as Gloria Swanson recalled being pressured into feats that modern actors might wince at.