The phrase "role on which" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a specific function or position that someone holds in a particular context.
Example: "She excelled in the role on which she was appointed, demonstrating exceptional leadership skills."
Alternatives: "position in which" or "function that"
And, in the figure of an unlovely woman transfixed by romantic passion, it creates a thrilling, melodramatic role on which everything else depends.
It's a ripe role on which Foxx riffs with panache, as does Colin Farrell as a coke-snorting comb-over who inherits his dad's company to the dismay of the long-suffering workforce.
Streep's performance is probably the most fully realised of the three: a return to the kind of mature and demanding role on which she had a freehold in yesterday's Hollywood.
Born in Berlin, the daughter of a military family, she broke on to the international scene with the coming of sound as the nightclub performer Lola Lola, humiliating and destroying schoolteacher Emil Jannings in The Blue Angel (1930), a role on which she was to play variations for the rest of her life.
Emaa Hussen was cast as Naz Mehmet, her first professional acting role, on which she commented: "it's a really exciting place to start my career.
Amanda Fairbank-Hynes was cast in the role, on which she stated, "It all happened so quickly but I'm really excited to be working on EastEnders.
He has redefined the powers of each role, depending on which one he holds.
Personal roles on which artists once had to be firm -- ethnicity, gender -- they can now play with, layering them, customizing them, taking them off, putting them back on.
His Hamlet, Richard II, Leontes, Angelo, Lear and Prospero were acclaimed as thrilling recoveries and discoveries of roles on which the dreariness of convention had long since settled in handfuls of star-dust.
Mr. Harrelson has an active solo career in the United States and in Europe, but he has little chance, at regional houses in this country, to do the bel canto roles on which he has worked under Ms. Queler.
Bogle is forthright about the tensions between Waters and some other African-American artists and writers who saw demeaning stereotypes in the kinds of roles on which Waters built her career: beleaguered women and acquiescent domestic workers bestowed with folk wisdom.
