portrayer
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portrayers
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AMC stablemate and fellow antihero-for-the-ages portrayer Bryan Cranston beat Hamm in four of those years for his performance as Walter White on “Breaking Bad.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
“There wasn't this common vocabulary about color until Ridgway created it,” says Brian Ellis, president of the Illinois Audubon Society and portrayer of Ridgway in living history skits.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023
The character was probably based on acting colleague - and fellow portrayer of cads - Terry-Thomas.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2022
The thing is that Tucker is one of those invented personages who partakes of the cultural mojo of his portrayer.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2018
B. P. SHILLABER: "He is a vivid portrayer of scenes visited, and in his descriptions, so admirably given, there is a self-evident authenticity that renders them charming."
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
But the movie’s two hours offer plenty of room for their portrayers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2025
Or maybe we, too, should forget the characters and think about their flesh-and-blood portrayers.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022
For their portrayers, John Magaro and Orion Lee, respectively, that meant living like frontiersmen and trusting the vision of their acclaimed director.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2021
This third time’s the charm in Marvel’s pantheon of Spider-Man portrayers.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2017
While you are examining yourself, do not forget to study statuary and paintings to see how the great portrayers of nature have made their subjects express ideas through action.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
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