Sentence examples for played mum from inspiring English sources

Most recently, Ashton Kutcher claimed to be a "private citizen" when approached by a reporter in Florida, the Gosselin twins played mum on live TV and Samuel L. Jackson wouldn't let a mixup slide.

Jennifer Garner, an adept and underrated actor, is only 44 years old but has been relegated to playing mum roles in films you'd barely deem passable on a long-haul flight.

"You get past the age of 35 and suddenly you're just going to play mums now and you're weeping over something – whether the child is dead, missing, or being naughty, or you're being really supportive and caring.

There is a nice chemistry between the three of them, and between Edmondson and her mum (played by actual mum Jennifer Saunders).

And Megalogenis did something underhand: he played the mum card.

Last night I dreamed that Eddie Izzard played my mum in a comedy-drama where we both played for the same netball team.

The former Men Behaving Badly and Life Begins actor, who played single mum and DCI Janine Lewis in the ITV1 drama, confirmed the series would not be returning.

Double Oscar-winner Hilary Swank played single mum and waitress Carly; a pre-Friends Matthew Perry played a suicidal teen athlete; a young Eva Longoria appeared on the show as did a not-yet-famous Jessica Alba and a pre-Buffy Seth Green.

The writer's superstition about pseudonyms was perhaps proved correct when a rare work credited to his birth-name, the stage play Mum, was savaged by critics.

At the age of 15, when I wanted to swap classical violin for traditional fiddle playing, Mum soon found an Irish club where I could learn, the lone English parent chatting with others whose heritage was Irish, happily developing a new interest in the music.

In 2006 Barker's stage play Mum was adapted and directed by Neil Cargill for BBC Radio 4, and broadcast as an Afternoon Play, starring Maxine Peake and Sam Kelly.