portrayer
Americannoun
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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
But this island’s overseer, called Mr. Roarke as he was on television, is played by Michael Peña in a mild misterioso vibe, in contrast with the kitsch suavity of his original portrayer, Ricardo Montalbán.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2020
Throughout her life of romance she was fortunate in her literary friendships, through whom a knowledge of her abilities has grown to tradition, but most fortunate in the portrayer of her beauty.
From Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment by Willing, Thomson
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