Sentence examples for reliable character from inspiring English sources

He became known as a reliable character actor and started getting movie roles, too.

In the Hollywood blockbuster universe, Mikkelsen has become a reliable character actor with an intriguing mug.

Mr. Lom gained more attention as a reliable character actor than as a suave leading man, although he was both.

Nicol had played a savage Hamlet in England and New York, and he'd become a reliable character presence in such films as "Robin and Marian" and "Excalibur"; in the latter, he'd been a memorably baroque Merlin.

Though the title suggests a male focus, the book's most relatable (and reliable) character is a girl, 16-year-old Blue Sargent, the youngest member of a colorful matriarchy of small-town Virginia psychics.

Or one thinks of Adrian Scarborough, a National Theatre stalwart whose audience-grabbing turn in the current Terence Rattigan revival of "After the Dance" brings one of this country's most reliable character actors one step closer toward national treasure status.

As his career progressed, Hurt became a reliable character-actor and the move was duly noted by the Academy with a best supporting actor nomination for his role in David Cronenberg's intense drama.

It arrived in November with a roster of mostly familiar titles – a mixture of existing games and reliable characters – but has yet to prove it'll make market sense when new competitors arrive.

These are horror stories told through a comforting veil of predictability: no matter how depraved and haunting, each crime is wrapped up by appealing, reliable characters who mete out justice while also acting out charged office dynamics.

One of the French Riviera's most reliable characters is Charles Finch, a month-of-May migrant worker who jets in for the Cannes Film Festival, bunking up at the stately Hôtel du Cap with the show folk and other noteworthies who come primed to toast their outrageous fortune here with $40 Bellinis.

All the same, some of those reliable characters are still rather conspicuous by their absence on the machine.