Sentence examples for serious actor in from inspiring English sources

Previously not a serious actor in the state, the BJP has run a lavish campaign.

The military has been a serious actor in Iraqi politics since the 1930s.

It happened again when I was 22: I wanted to be a serious actor in serious plays, but every time I walked on stage, the audience would burst out laughing.

He seemed to occupy the same smart countercultural territory as "Doonesbury" or rock and roll — your cool young parents could like him and you could like him, too — and he was somehow able to be, all at once, Mork from Ork, a totally unhinged standup, the growly weirdo lead in "Popeye," and a serious actor in movies like "The World According to Garp" and "Moscow on the Hudson".

Starting with his 2013 performance in Dallas Buyers Club, where he portrayed a real life AIDS patient in the 1980's, McConaughey turned into a serious actor in a film that needed him to be incredible in order to succeed.

Best of all, Guy Pearce decided to stop trying to be a serious actor in 2012 and embrace his inner B-movie clown, delivering a wonderful action anti-hero turn here and a cartoonish super-villain out of a Dick Tracy comic strip in the otherwise lousy Lawless.

After critical troughs in their screen careers, they made major forward leaps as serious actors in 1953 playing uncompromising roles (in respectively The Wages of Fear and From Here to Eternity) that drew on their experience of life on the wrong side of the tracks.

While recent affairs like "The Incredible Hulk" have mixed "serious" actors in comic roles, they never captured the nuance and colours that Bale, the new DA in town Harvey Dent (a brilliant Aaron Eckhart) and the perfectly cast late Heath Ledger as the Joker do in this latest incarnation.

Audiences at the From Here To Eternity previews shouted out, "There's Superman!" and Reeves knew his career as a serious actor was in trouble.

And I don't want anybody to know who I am.' 'Billy Crudup is a serious actor trapped in a heart-throb's body,' quipped The New York Times.

But to do so, the candidate, who says she has a serious platform, sometimes acts like many of the less-than-serious actors in the recall comedy-drama.