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    Nationality: British.Born: London, 14 January 1967.Family: Married Jack Waters (an actor), 1995.Education: Studied literature at Bristol University; studied acting at Drama Studio London.Career: Member, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1992-93. Awards: New York Film Critics Circle Award, National Society of Film Critics Award, President Award, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Felix ...
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    Awards, Honors: Named a breakout performer of 2001 by Entertainment Weekly magazine; Young Artist Award, best performance in a feature film by a leading young actress, Young Artist Foundation, American Moviegoer Award, outstanding supporting actress, Saturn Award nomination, best performance by a younger actor, Academy of Science Fiction ...
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    4. Acting. Berma great actress, whom the narrator sees in her prime and in her decline. [Fr. Lit.: Proust Remembrance of Things Past, in Ben é t, 99]; Meeber, Carrie small-town girl finds work on chorus line and matures into a successful actress. [Am. Lit.: Sister Carrie in Magill I, 895]; Players, the acting troupe employed by Hamlet. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Hamlet]
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    Literature and the Arts; Performing Arts; Theater; The Actors Studio. Actors' Studio. ... Actors' Studio an acting workshop in New York City, founded in 1947 by Elia Kazan and others, and a leading centre of method acting. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ELIZABETH KNOWLES.
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    The Mill on the Floss ★★½ 1997. Maggie Tulliver (Watson) is a smart, emotional young woman painfully at odds with her conventional times. She adores her intolerant older brother Tom (Mere dith) but when Maggie becomes involved with Philip Wakeum (Frain), the son of their father Edward's (Hill) greatest ene my, she reluctantly acquieses when Tom forbids the romance.
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    Similarly, Samuel L. Jackson's supporting roles as a strung-out crack addict in Jungle Fever (1991) and a self-assured, cool-as-ice hit man in Pulp Fiction (1994) allowed him to showcase his versatility as an actor and paved the way for lead actor roles in subsequent films. Some supporting actors, especially those who specialize in character ...
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    Child Actors EARLY CHILD STARS THE WORLD WAR II ERA CHILD STARS AFTER THE 1950s INTERNATIONAL CHILD ACTORS RECENT YEARS FURTHER READING. Child performers have had important roles in cinema history, from the baby daughter of Auguste Lumière being fed by her pioneering father in an 1895 actuality film to eleven-year-old Haley Joel Osment earning an Oscar ® nomination for his dynamic acting in ...
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    The public also embraced actors who looked like people they might know in life, especially after the coming of sound brought scores of stage actors before the cameras and a more realistic aesthetic to the cinema. The top box-office star for two years in the early 1930s was Marie Dressler (1868-1934), an earthy and homely actress in her sixties.
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    Actors and Sin ★★½ 1952Two-part film casting a critical eye toward actors and Hollywood. "Actor's Blood" is the melodramatic story of Shakespearean actor Robinson and his unhappy actress daughter. She commits suicide and he sets out to prove it was murder. Heavy going. Lighter and more entertaining is "Woman of Sin," which relates a Hollywood satire involving a theatrical agent ...
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    Roman Theaters, Playwrights, and ActorsStructure of the Roman Theater.The Romans did not construct a permanent theater until Pompey sponsored one in 55 b.c.e. Instead, as the Roman architect, engineer, and writer Vitruvius (last half of first century b.c.e.) described, the Romans built temporary wooden structures as performance spaces, and continued to do so even after the advent of permanent ...

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