Meanings of character role in English

He can also be seen in The Grand Budapest Hotel in a character role, portraying a writer.

Career finished?'. Turner was Spall's first real leading character role and it's what he's been pursuing in the years since.

Comedian Al Murray will stand in his comedy character role as The Pub Landlord against UKIP leader Nigel Farage at the general election.

Mbatha-Raw has a character role in the Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts romantic comedy "Larry Crowne", which opened in the United States on Friday.

In what ways are your characters role models to young kids today?

Character roles, she said, were generally better written than starring roles.

After that, Borgnine did indeed settle into the habit of playing character roles.

Mimi gets mad when Holly sends me out on character roles.

For the rest of her busy career she alternated musicals with character roles on film and on TV.

As he grows into character roles, Johnson might have something bigger to show us before he taps out.

Like Rudolf Bing, he is dead set against opera singers who are not physicallybeautiful, except for character roles.

Had death not taken him tragically early, he would almost certainly have found decent character roles for many decades.

But reading the 70 books he has brought reaffirms him in his ideas and allows him to adopt different character roles.

By which I think he means he was too handsome to play character roles and not pretty enough to be a romantic lead.

The lovely Anglo-American star Stewart Grainger once laconically remarked that, rather than aging into character roles, he had aged into elderly romantic leads.

I'd like to see actors recognised for character roles and rewarded for performances that are singular without necessarily being showy for showmanship's sake.