thesp , auch: tesp

I know he is not a tart or a thesp but he has to play his trump card.

"One minute you're a struggling thesp," she says.

Not to mention a young thesp named Winona Ryder.

But then the starving thesp always had more street cred than the vouchered.

Todd McCarthy at Variety praised the "spectacular performance by teenage thesp Ellen Page."

As a former thesp himself, and the partner of Antony Sher, he understands what makes actors tick and is hugely popular within the company.

The lovely Downey and Elizondo don't have all that much to do, and young thesp Fruitman is fine.

Often they take casual jobs, and William Gaminara has turned his experience as an out-of-work thesp into a sparky new play at the Hampstead Theatre.

Chen's Ding Bo is less detailed, but scenes with the character's father (producer/co-writer Fang Li) give the thesp opportunity to explore greater emotional depths.

Film critic Leslie Felperin from Variety named Pääkkönen a "rising thesp, showing impressive range" at his starring role in Matti.

The formula is unvarying: British thesp roams at random around sunny foreign clime, dispensing cursory historical nuggets, offering pitying looks to the local poor and declaring everything to be "extraordinary".

Can a dyed in the wool thesp ever really divorce himself from a performer's perspective for long enough to be truly objective, take the tough decisions and say the very things actors least want to hear?

But don't be fooled - this ain't no open-and-shut thesp ensemble number; it's directed by Tomas Alfredson, the man behind the original Swedish Let the Right One In.

Articles defending actors from the luvvie stereotype, which all the evidence points to being indefensible, are astute, not to say cynical, earning the playwright/director/fellow thesp who thus steps up, the undying gratitude of the 'profession'.

Thus Dorothy Tutin as Desiree, the touring thesp eventually reunited with her quondam lover, is not the melting romantic of previous productions but a working mother with the sharpness of a hat-pin."

They wrote, "Thesp inserts plenty of menace into a psycho character, never too heavily done, and gets good backing from his costar, Sterling Hayden, as sheriff, in a less showy role but just as authoritatively handled.

Still, with its heart in the right place and the majestic presence of Malian thesp Sotigui Kouyate, the pic will get a decent international run before heading to its originally skedded home on the smallscreen".

Called "the hardest-working thesp in showbiz" in a recent issue of Variety, Mr. Hackman doesn't disappear into these hugely dissimilar roles, effecting dazzling transformations in the manner of Gary Oldman or Meryl Streep.

The first trailer for the movie, just live online, suggests a sweeping epic of the great war, replete with a veritable who's who of established and up-and-coming Brit thesp talent and backed with a stirring, grandiose score from the unmistakable John Williams.

Variety described it as "the first industry admission of what has for some time been an open secret-that the threat of being labeled a political nonconformist, or worse, has been used against show business personalities and that a screening system is at work determining thesp [actors'] availabilities for roles."

In Variety, David Rooney felt the film "doesn't measure up to its predecessor and seems unlikely to echo the attention it received . . . In the central role, British thesp Toby Jones is a good physical match for Capote, getting his flamboyant mannerisms and creepy, nasal voice down.

In Crete, where they have gone on a late-season holiday, Anna mentally clocks her mother's transgressions: flirting with a waiter, a driver and "everything in trousers"; drinking too much raki; jawing on about her friends back in Yarmouth, especially her affected "old thesp" boyfriend, Vernon, a retired ventriloquist.