Sentence examples for mute role from inspiring English sources

In 1999 Samantha Morton was nominated for her mute role in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown", and two years ago Jean Dujardin won the "best actor" Oscar for his performance in "The Artist", a near-silent film.

The one person who can rest easy without having to get her tongue around the music is Linda Kitchen, a soprano who is paradoxically performing the mute role of Marlene ("I'm glad I'm not having to sing!").

Fox's Tom Rothman points out that Tom Hanks received an Oscar nomination for a mostly mute role in 2000's Castaway, while John Hurt picked up a nod in 1980 following his turn in David Lynch's The Elephant Man despite (and perhaps largely because of) the fact that you never see his real face.

The extent of it was a mute role as a revolving door in "Prometheus Bound" -- I didn't even get the play, I was just a door.

Despite the obvious difference between her mute role as Laurie and her past spoken roles, Brenneman said that her process for rehearsing is "fairly similar".

Sébastien Dutrieux performs the almost-mute role of the Mouse in Colin's apartment, who, depressed by events, becomes the willing victim of a cat (Ansi Verwey).

Samantha Morton is miraculous in a completely silent role as the pure-hearted, mute laundress that Emmet lives with, mistreats and pretends not to love.

The same year, she filmed the role of Karen Hughes, the sister of a mute character who believes she sees a murder, in the low-budget film Mute Witness (Anthony Waller, 1995).

Brian Turk's role as Gabriel was originally intended to be a mute character described as "a mildly retarded strongman with the face of an angel", but the writers later gave Turk a speaking part to not have another mute character like Management and Apollonia.

The main misconception is the notion that women had a universally mute and passive role in Athenian society.

Global attention to development challenges in urban areas is not new; yet, with the exception of a target to improve the lives of some 100 million slum dwellers (under Goal 7 on environmental sustainability), the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were mute on the role of cities in our sustainable future.