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From storyteller to film star
04 Mar 2024 15:26 GMT
… and being a first-time actor in his mid 70s.
Rewind to February of 2022, when director Pat Collins visited Murray's Bar, Knockcroghery for a documentary he was making on Traveller singer Thomas McCarthy, who has Offaly roots and is a regular visitor to …
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Jeopardy’s Ken Jennings Accuses Richard Jenkins of Mistaking Him for His Actor, and Twitter Has Some A+ Jokes
31 Jul 2022 08:31 GMT
… Histories, doesn’t share much in common with Richard Jenkins, the Emmy winner and two-time Academy Award nominee, who’s known for his work in the theater, as well as movies and TV series including The Shape of Water, The Visitor, Olive Kitteridge, Six Feet …
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Jeopardy's Ken Jennings Says Fan Confused Him With Actor Richard Jenkins, And Twitter Had Some A+ Jokes
30 Jul 2022 23:05 GMT
… biggest winners in Jeopardy! history, doesn’t share much in common with Richard Jenkins, the Emmy winner and two-time Academy Award nominee, who’s known for his work in the theater, as well as movies and TV series including The Shape of Water, The Visitor …
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Tom McCarthy’s Slow Pony Strikes First-Look Film Deal With Concordia
10 Apr 2023 16:57 GMT
… his tenure as President of Narrative Film and Television at Participant, also producing his recent Cannes-premiering Matt Damon starrer Stillwater for Focus Features, as well as his 2007 drama The Visitor, which brought Richard Jenkins his first Oscar nom …
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Richard Jenkins finds freedom with films big and small
18 Jan 2022 17:47 GMT
… wants to see what you bring to this world that he’s created. If something isn’t working and you say, ‘Uh, I want to try something else,’ he’ll say, ‘Absolutely.’ For an actor, that’s a beautiful thing.”
Richard Jenkins as the patriarch in the film “Humans …
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Richard Jenkins: ‘If a serial killer is your son, do you stop loving him?’
25 Dec 2021 09:53 GMT
… Richard Jenkins, 74, has been a screen regular since the 70s, but his big breakthrough came in 2001 playing deceased funeral director Nathaniel Fisher in the TV series Six Feet Under. He went on to receive an Oscar nomination for best actor in The Visitor …
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In ‘The Humans,’ Richard Jenkins Unearths a Terrible Secret and Another Career-High Performance
03 Dec 2021 03:07 GMT
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Icebreakers don’t work with Richard Jenkins, at least not in the way one might expect. They don’t need to: He’s always present and ready. Still, they don’t hurt, and when the lauded character actor and two-time Oscar nominee popped into a recent Zoom with …
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The Human: Richard Jenkins' real, lived-in performances
24 Nov 2021 19:06 GMT
… down to New York for auditions. He didn't start landing film and TV parts until he was 35. He was 60 when his got his first lead role in a film, Tom McCarthy's “The Visitor” (one of two Oscar nominations for Jenkins; the other was for Guillermo del …
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Richard Jenkins fed up with filming in wet and cold weather
24 Nov 2021 13:46 GMT
Richard Jenkins dislikes Guillermo del Toro's fondness for shooting movies in wet and cold weather.The 74-year-old actor has teamed up with the director on 'Nightmare Alley' – after they previously collaborated on the Oscar-winning ';The …
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Holiday Gatherings Can Be Scary As Richard Jenkins Discovers In ‘The Humans’
23 Nov 2021 15:10 GMT
… You can only do that in a movie. You don’t need to see the phone or her hands. That’s a director who knows what the camera can do. He understands what limitations film have and what advantages it has. That’s really smart.
(Left to Right) Richard Jenkins as …