Gordon's Broadway acting appearances in the 1940s included Iris in Paul Vincent Carroll's The Strings, My Lord, Are False and Natasha in Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic's revival of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, as well as leading roles in her own plays, Over Twenty-One and The Leading Lady.

Leading political figures were given satirical roles within a typical Anglican community, for example, Gordon Brown was the PCC Treasurer, John Prescott was in charge of the working men's club and the Home Secretary was Chairman of Neighbourhood Watch.

Leading kings appear in public roles at church-state proclamations ... and at royal conferences with their peers.

Leading roles in Luz Clarita, Gente bien and especially El Privilegio de Amar soon established Évora as one of the most popular leading men in the industry.

In 1996 and 1997, he appeared in the two highest-profile roles of his career to date: as the psychopathic Francis Begbie in Trainspotting and Gaz, the leader of a group of amateur male strippers, in The Full Monty, the latter earning Carlyle a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

He was more successful with his featured role as Richard Deane in Dr. Fischer of Geneva ( 1985 ); this was followed by Howling III ( 1987 ), a cameo as Rupert Murdoch in the miniseries Selling Hitler ( 1991 ) with Alexei Sayle, a three-role cameo in Philippe Mora's horror satire Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills ( 1994 ), the role of Count Metternich in Immortal Beloved ( 1994 ), as well as roles in The Leading Man ( 1996 ), the Spice Girls ' film Spice World, the Australian feature Welcome to Woop Woop ( 1997 ), and Nicholas Nickleby ( 2002 ), in which he donned female garb to play Nathan Lane's wife.

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In Canada, Feore ’ s most famous roles were as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the critically acclaimed television mini-series Trudeau, a role for which he won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, as classical pianist Glenn Gould in the 1993 film Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, and as by-the-book anglophone detective Martin Ward in the box-office hit Bon Cop, Bad Cop.

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These first five films of his career established him, as evidenced in his winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in three consecutive years, 1951 to 1953.

Furthering the confusion, the singer del Mar has occasionally taken acting roles in Canadian independent films, most notably the 1991 film The Events Leading Up to My Death.

He subsequently starred in another direct-to-video film, Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework, and appeared in three 1998 films: Krippendorf's Tribe, playing one of the children of the title character, The Climb, a drama also starring John Hurt, and the film Small Soldiers, in which Smith had a lead role opposite Kirsten Dunst and won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film Leading Young Actor in 1999.

Leading a group of Megarian colonists, Byzas found a location where the Golden Horn, a great natural harbour, meets the Bosphorus and flows into the Sea of Marmara, opposite Chalcedon ( modern day Kadıköy ).

He was nominated for his first Oscar award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the movie Murphy's Romance, opposite Sally Field.

Irene Adler later appeared in the 1992 TV movie Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady, where she was played by Morgan Fairchild opposite Christopher Lee as Holmes.

In 2007, Caulfield performed in the Charles Busch play, Our Leading Lady, opposite Kate Mulgrew.

She played a leading role opposite Sophia Loren and Mira Sorvino in the 2002 independent movie Between Strangers, about three women confront their pasts which changes their futures, for which she was nominated on Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.

Anchors Aweigh was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gene Kelly ), Best Cinematography, Color ( Robert Planck, Charles P. Boyle ), Best Music, Song ( for Jule Styne ( music ) and Sammy Cahn ( lyrics ) for " I Fall in Love Too Easily ") and Best Picture.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Melvyn Douglas ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Gene Hackman ) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

* Best Actress in a Leading Role, Gene Tierney.

In 1967, he played the supporting role of C. W. Moss in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde alongside Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons, for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles.

Tierney received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress in a Leading Role for this film.

Webb also received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1949 for Sitting Pretty, the first in a three-film series of comedic " Mr. Belvedere " features with Webb portraying a snide and omniscient babysitter.

* Howie Shannon – Leading NBA rookie in 1949

In 1949, she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Susan Cooper in the Kurt Weill / Alan Jay Lerner musical Love Life.

None but the Lonely Heart won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ( Ethel Barrymore ) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Cary Grant ), Best Film Editing and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ( Hanns Eisler and Constantin Bakaleinikoff ).