Sentence examples for performances opposite from inspiring English sources

Pierce Brosnan gives one of his best performances, opposite Danish star Tryne Dyrholm, in this bittersweet romantic comedy from the gifted filmmaker Susanne Bier, whose work (Brothers, After the Wedding, and the Oscar-winning In a Better World) is usually much more serious.

Pat Nixon, in later years, gave three memorably painful on-camera performances opposite Richard Nixon.

She achieved a cult following through her performances opposite Dutt in both Pyassa and Kaagaz ke phool.

She gave authentic, rasping performances opposite some of the decade's most prominent leading men, including Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford, and worked with acclaimed actor-driven directors like George Roy Hill, (Slaughterhouse Five) Sydney Pollack, (The Electric Horseman) and Tony Richardson (The Border).

In the evening performance, opposite Acosta, Leanne Benjamin's Mary was praised by Craine.

Tom Gold cared less about pointing his feet as Oberon in an energetic performance opposite Darci Kistler, seen also earlier in the week as Titania.

Taylor won a second Academy Award for her performance opposite Burton as the vituperative but vulnerable Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Davis, who was at her best in movies in which she parodied her extraordinary theatrical style ("All About Eve," "Baby Jane"), got an Oscar nomination for her showier performance opposite Crawford.

His recent West End performance opposite Carey Mulligan in a revival of David Hare's Skylight won him much acclaim, and he enjoyed doing it so much he is about to head off to Broadway to do it again, for a four-month run.

There's Abel's, as a spy whose identities remain hidden; Donovan's, as the negotiator who maintains the face of his mission but knows how to dissimulate his own personal purpose behind it as well; and that of his counterparts in East Berlin, who also maintain a perfect face of performance opposite Donovan.

Her performance opposite Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro in director Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2003 drama 21 Grams earned Watts an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress later that year.