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Bold Face: Character Actors
| November 30, 2012 11:00 AM |
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Bold Face explores the cult of celebrity and the styles, trends and brands that stars show off in movies, at events and living their daily lives. To be considered for inclusion please contact senior editor,
Deirdre Carroll.
A character actor is one who predominantly plays
unusual or eccentric characters. In this edition of Bold Face we feature
three such thespians that have made unusual characters their specialty…
Well known for his work in musical theater, Mandy Patinkin is
also a regular on screens big and small, earning him several awards
including a Tony, three Emmys, two Golden Globes and a S.A.G. Award. His
best-known film role was as Inigo Montoya in 1987’s The Princess Bride, but he also had high-profile roles in Alien Nation, Yentl and Dick Tracy. After appearing in the
first two seasons of TV’s Criminal Minds, Patinkin currently plays Saul
Berenson, the CIA’s Middle East Division Chief and mentor to Claire
Danes’ character, in the Showtime series Homeland. The beard is part of
his character’s look, but the sunglasses are a style all his own, the
Michael Kors M2047S from Marchon…
Tilda Swinton is a British actress known for both arthouse and
mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, The
Chronicles of Narnia and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her
performances in The Deep End and We Need to Talk About Kevin. She even
won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2007 for Michael Clayton,
just one of many prestigious acting awards she has earned over her more
than 25 year career. The 52-year-old has three, no doubt interesting,
movies coming out in 2013, so until we next see her on the big screen
here she is in the Yves Saint Laurent 6366/s sunglass from Safilo…
Fifty-five years is a long time to do anything, but that is exactly how
long Alan Arkin has been a working actor. He is known for starring in
such films as Wait Until Dark, The Russians Are Coming (for which he received his first Oscar nomination in 1966), The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catch-22, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen
Ross and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he finally won an Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actor in 2006. This year he appeared in the
critically-acclaimed, Ben Affleck-directed Argo as Lester Siegel, a
seasoned Hollywood producer who helps the CIA create a fake movie. In
the film, Arkin’s character wears the classic Persol 649 model in black
from Luxottica to add a little Hollywood authenticity.
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