Glenn Close
They say there aren&rsqu🧜o;t enough♊ lead roles forwomen of a certain age in Hollywood.
Close found that TV is a different story, following up a staꦓnd-out turn in TheShield with an Emmy🦋-winning role as ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes in Damages.
Martin Sheen
When The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin expressed his desire for a “Martin Sheen♊-type” for his President, he was pleasantly surprise๊d when he realised he could get Martin Sheen.
It worked out for Sheen, too: winning aGolden Globe and bagging a role in The Departed .
Steve Carell
Carell was hardly on the scrap h💯eap after 2005’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin, but it’s telling that the same year saw him take on the Gervais role in the US version of The Office and make it his own.
Sadly his Hollywood quality🦹 h⛎as subsequently dipped.
Alec Baldwin
Fast becomingౠ a Hollywood bit-part p💟layer, Baldwin could have assumed his leading-man time was behind him.
Yet having met 30 Rock creator Tina Fey in one of h✨is Saturday Night Live stints, alarger-thaܫn-life role on the small screen put him back on track as network suit Jack Donaghy.
Anna Paquin
After winning an Oscar for The Piano aged just 11, Paquin has always chosen her roles carefully, only going mainstream as Rogue in X-Men .
Hollywood would have been happy to keep Paquin in her box, but her ༺role in HBO’s True Blood has given her critical respect again.
Keifer Sutherland
Think of Sutherland and you think of someone coming to waterboa🍌rd you while breaking your toes.
Sutherland is Jack Bauer – which is a far cry from the years before he starred in 24, where he was Joey in The Last Days Of Frankie The Fly and Ross Sylibus i🔯n Armitage 3: Poll♈y Matrix.
William Shatner
OK, we know began his career in TV. But Shatner was going nowhere fast following his big-screen Kirk roওles.
It took TV to free him from typecast, with a scene-stealing role as atto🍎rney Denny Crane in Boston Legal bagging him three Emmys and a Golden Globe.
Charlie Sheen
Here’s a tip Charlie: when all you do is parodies (two Hot Shots, two Scary Movies), it&rsq꧙uo;s gonna be hard to be considered for the next PT Anderson.
So a mo🐬ve to TV sitcom with Spin City and Two And A Half Men has been perfect, netting him a Golden Globe in the process.
Patricia Arquette
Proof again that actresses increasingly need to flee to TV for the meaty roles… Arquette had been quite the rising star in cinema after True Romance , but a period ofdoing no🌼t a lot saw the switch to TV and anaward-winning role in Medium.
Kenneth Branagh
Talented character actor? Yup, and for fil✨m, that means bit-parts.
Shakespearian leads aside, the Brit thesp has certainly had his share ( Wild Wild West, Valkyrie, Harry Potter …).
But it took recent detective series Wallander to let him do thelot a♈gain. It cleaned up 😼at the Baftas, too.
