Sentence examples for playing troubled from inspiring English sources

In A Beautiful Mind (2001), for instance, Russell Crowe, playing troubled maths star John Forbes Nash Jr, writes formulae on his dorm window.

Its Italian architect Renzo Piano meets Steve Rose on the eighth floor – and answers his critics Playing troubled Lol in This is England won Vicky McClure a Bafta and a raft of new roles.

The tall, handsome DiCaprio seems uniquely unsuited to play him - an actor such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Paul Giamatti springs to mind - though it should be remembered that the actor has done a fine job playing troubled outsiders before, notably in Martin Scorsese's The Departed (not so much in The Beach, where his golden boy good looks completely destroyed the book's dynamic).

Between then and his return to post-war France, he had a turbulent affair in America with Marlene Dietrich and made two Hollywood movies playing troubled French exiles in Moontide and The Impostor, neither distinguished, neither terrible, before volunteering to serve in the Free French navy.

He was rarely so relaxed in a role again and earned a reputation for playing troubled, neurotic, repressed characters, usually thoughtful, scholarly, intellectual and artistic, whose inner turmoil he was able to express vocally and visually with a wide range of nuance.

Sherri Stoner created Slappy the Squirrel when another writer and friend of Stoner, John McCann, made fun of Stoner's career in TV movies playing troubled teenagers.

"There's a reason I play troubled characters," he adds.

She plays troubled, 14-year-old, dope-smoking Jean - Bill and Barbara's daughter.

I'd suggest Evan Rachel Wood, who has the ideal combination of Aryan looks and the ability to play troubled characters.

That he had been forced to play troubled him as much as it troubled his team-mates.

*** Lee MacDonald, who played troubled tearaway Zammo in Grange Hill, heard about his friend's death on Facebook.