Welcome to Back Stage's exclusive guide to this year's Screen Actors Guild Award nominees in film and television. Here, you will find a write-up of every nominee for SAG Awards in 2011. Be sure to look for continued coverage of the awards race at our awards blog, "Behind the Scenes," at BackStage.com/bts.The 17th annual SAG Awards will be broadcast live Sunday, January 30, on TNT and TBS.Outstanding Performance By A Female In A Supporting Roleamy Adams"The Fighter"During the past few years, Amy Adams has established herself as a formidable thespian whose varied roles have been suffused with romantic-comedy effervescence ("Enchanted"), quirky briskness ("Sunshine Cleaning"), and pious virtue ("Doubt"). Playing thick-skinned and street-smart barmaid Charlene in "The Fighter," Adams shines in an image-shattering role that establishes her versatility beyond any doubt. Combining the tough exterior of a woman fully capable of standing up for herself in a...
- 1/12/2011
- backstage.com
December is a big month for Hailee Steinfeld. On Dec. 11, the California native will celebrate her 14th birthday. On Dec. 22, she will appear on screens across America opposite Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon in the Coen brothers' Western "True Grit." In the film, based more on the 1968 novel by Charles Portis than on the 1969 film starring John Wayne, Steinfeld portrays 14-year-old Mattie Ross, a bright and headstrong young woman who hires drunken bounty hunter Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) to hunt down the man who killed her father. It has become a cliché to talk about young actors as wise beyond their years, but consider this: Kim Darby, who played Mattie in the original, was in her 20s when the film was shot. Steinfeld was younger than her character, only 13, when she played Mattie. And yet she delivers a performance free of affectation, more than holding her own opposite such veterans as Bridges—indeed,...
- 12/8/2010
- backstage.com
"I'm pretty blessed on our show," says Tiffany Thornton, and the same could be said of the rest of her life as well. Currently starring as Tawni Hart on the Disney Channel's "Sonny With A Chance," Tiffany is one sunny person indeed. In fact, it's almost impossible to imagine her saying a mean or negative thing about anyone. From a close-knit family in Texas, Tiffany has relied on a strong foundation of friends, family and faith to help ground her in the often treacherous waters of Hollywood. Tiffany loves her fans and sharing her life with them, but she's quick to point out that she's not super-human, and isn't immune to the unkindness of strangers. Chosen as this week's Girl2Watch, Tiffany will be featured in a series or articles, fun facts and social media tweets through this week for subscribers of Girl2Watch.com.ACTOR2WATCH: How did you get your SAG card?...
- 11/6/2009
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