Sentence examples for surprising actor from inspiring English sources

Though he has shown himself to be a wonderful and surprising actor onstage ("Shining City") and television ("Huff," "The West Wing"), Mr. Platt never finds a sustained pattern of idiosyncrasies that would let him connect with Nathan (and the audience).

The Madrid-based Bardem can be a surprising actor not just because he is the handsome, charismatic Spaniard he is known to be but for how villainous and conflicted he can become with the right character as the framework for his imagination.

A new generation to enjoy the Moomins The 1986 children's show Moomins may be returning to the UK, with two rather surprising actors on board to do the voices – Alexander Skarsgard, of True Blood fame, and Casino Royale baddie Mads Mikkelson – and there's a title song by Bjork.

In that birthday book, Dame Peggy Ashcroft wrote that "his charm and his charisma have never flagged, and who knows what he may have up his sleeve for us yet?" He was one of the most surprising actors, and someone who could not resist a challenge.

That is hardly surprising, the actor and writer Stephen Fry said in an interview by e-mail.

Oscar Isaac is as forceful a performer, and Jason Schwartzman as imaginative and surprising an actor, as Hollywood has seen in quite a while.

Joshua James, a most supple and surprising young actor, provides a beautifully contained and generous performance as Cromwell's clerk and surrogate son.

BROADWAY REVIVAL Although she disappears for one of the three acts of Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," Lady Bracknell is such a delicious role that it is hardly surprising that actors — male ones, that is — are willing to brave the constrictions of Victorian corsets to deliver the peerless series of elaborately phrased acid aphorisms that drop from her disapprovingly curled lips.

Meyer wrote the screenplay uncredited and for no pay before the deadline, surprising the actors and producers, and rapidly produced subsequent rewrites as necessary.

It would, in fact, be much more surprising for an actor to be successful if they didn't have that "focus" than if they did.

He is channelled by Colin Firth, whose southern accent is terrible but perhaps not that surprising from an actor best known for playing George VI.