Sentence examples for playing mum from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

"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.

Desperate jester: Joss Ackland and Ashley McGuire on playing Falstaff Mum's the word: Helen McCrory and Diana Rigg on playing Medea.

David Hayman returns as Bill's dad; Sinead Cusack replaces Sarah Miles playing his mum.

"Kill me now!" Yet, in her modest but charming new comedy, Learning to Drive, Clarkson is not just playing the mum.

For Mensch, playing the mum card is just an emotionally unimpeachable way to shrug off the constituency duties that have always seemed somewhat secondary to her other interests.

After dark you'll be taken to a hut overlooking the family hide - keep quiet and you'll be able to watch the cubs playing while mum and dad forage for supper.

@ben_machell.

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.