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His breakout role was in the 1993 film Only the Strong, in which he played Louis, a Capoeira master who takes a high school's potential failures and turns their lives around by teaching them the Brazilian martial art based on the West African martial art brought by slaves.
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Operation Petticoat proved to be a breakout role for MacLeod, and he was soon cast in another Edwards comedy, High Time, with Bing Crosby.
The film turned out to be Falk's breakout role.
His breakout film role came in 1974 playing Jean-Claude in Bertrand Blier's comedy Going Places.
Turning toward motion pictures, she found her breakout role in Sixteen Candles ( 1984 ).
In 1984, Candy played Tom Hanks's womanizing brother in the hit romantic comedy Splash, generally considered his breakout role.
2001 marked her career's turning point with the breakout role as Elle Woods in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial film success to date.
Cruise was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the movie marked Renée Zellweger's breakout role.
That became 1985's Silverado and a breakout role for Costner.
McQueen's first breakout role did not come in film but on television.
A small role in the film Lost & Found ( 1999 ) led to his breakout role as the title character on Malcolm in the Middle.
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Basinger's breakout role was as Bond girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ), opposite Sean Connery.
Her breakout role was in Louisa, with Ronald Reagan ( whom she dated a few times before his marriage to Nancy Davis ).
Haim's breakout role came in 1986, when he starred alongside Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, and Winona Ryder as the titular character in Lucas, a coming-of-age story about first love and teen angst, which centers on an intelligent misfit who struggles for acceptance after falling for a cheerleader.
The reasoning behind the idea was to genuinely surprise fans, and to allow an opportunity to provide a major role for Butters Stotch, a breakout character whose popularity was growing with the viewers and creators of the show.
Sylvester Stallone appears in Woody Allen's Bananas credited only as " Subway Thug # 1 ," five years before his breakout role in 1976's Rocky.
Her breakout role was that of an Amish mother in the 1985 film Witness with Harrison Ford, for which she received a Golden Globe award nomination.
TV Guide dubbed her role in the series as a " true breakout ; a female Homer Simpson ", and critics hailed her for her comic talents.
Following her breakout role in Girlfight ( 2000 ), she has played tough girls and starred in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Fast and the Furious ( 2001 ), Resident Evil ( 2002 ), S. W. A. T.
In 1999, Cook starred her breakout role in the sleeper hit film She's All That, a romantic comedy that adapted George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and so far the most financially successful film in her career.
After honing his skills as a stand-up comic in New York City, he had a breakout film role in 1982 when he appeared in Diner, a coming-of-age film by Barry Levinson.
Most of the garrison's members were killed or captured by the Germans during the fighting or the subsequent attempted breakout towards Dunkirk, but the defence they had put up played an important role in holding up the Germans while the Dunkirk evacuation was taking place.
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The company's breakout product was 1992's Wolfenstein 3D, a first person shooter ( FPS ) with smooth 3D graphics that were unprecedented in computer games, and with violent game play that many gamers found engaging.
By December 10, Kearny believed all hope was gone, and planned to attempt a breakout the next morning.
Despite its excellent performance, the garrison's food supply had been requisitioned for earlier offensives, a relief expedition was stalled by the weather, ethnic rivalries flared up between the defending soldiers and a breakout attempt failed.
His breakout performance was as the Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.
It was deployed to defend against the expected attempt to breakout of the Colleville-St. Laurent beachhead established on the 16th RCT front.
They finished with a 50 – 32 record: their second ever 50 win season that was highlighted by another All-Star appearance by Garnett and a breakout season by Wally Szczerbiak, who earned his first All-Star appearance.
Martin St. Louis was having a breakout season when he broke his leg in game number 47 and was lost for the remainder of the season.
Scrappy initially became a breakout character for the series, but later was credited for the show's decline.
Seeing that the battle was lost, Zhang Shijie picked out his finest soldiers and cut about a dozen ships from the formation in an attempted breakout to save the emperor.
It is arguable that this " breakout " work was hampered by Landy's influence, since Landy insisted on controlling involvement in every aspect of Wilson's writing and recording and his lyrical influence is significant.
One police officer was reportedly killed and another was injured in an exchange of fire at a checkpoint following the breakout.
Whilst being monitored, the Alpha Lanterns did not anticipate a breakout attempt by the rest of the Green Lantern Corps where Stewart was taken.
An important part of the show's revival was Carvey's breakout character, The Church Lady, the uptight, smug, and pious host of Church Chat.
The team's breakout picture, however, was Buck Privates, released early in 1941.
Bart quickly became the show's breakout personality and one of the most celebrated characters on television — his popularity in 1990 and 1991 was known as " Bartmania ".
That year would prove to be his breakout year ; he was named to his first All-Pro team, his first Pro Bowl, and ( on his 25th birthday ) was named co-MVP of Super Bowl XII with teammate Harvey Martin, making him one of only seven defensive players to win that honor.
However, the town was later renamed Ludlow and incorporated as a separate entity in 1774, just before the breakout of the American Revolution.
By the end of October, the Kingsmen's version was listed in Billboard as a regional breakout and a " bubbling under " entry for the national chart.
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