Tag: Simone Knox
WHAT ACTORS DO: ALEC BALDWIN IN 30 ROCK (PART II) by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Having previously considered the ways in which Alec Baldwin has his character Jack Donaghy run...
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Apr 8, 2016 | Blogs, Comedy, Commercial TV, Performance, Sitcom, US TV | 0
For his portrayal of Jack Donaghy, GE Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven...
Read MoreWHAT ACTORS DO: ADAM DRIVER IN GIRLS by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Jan 7, 2016 | Blogs, Cable, Comedy, Performance, Quality TV, Sadcom, US TV | 0
Graduating from the Juilliard School as recently as 2009, Adam Driver is currently experiencing a...
Read MoreWHAT ACTORS DO: BENEDICT WONG IN MARCO POLO by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Oct 30, 2015 | Blogs, Performance | 0
Actors of East Asian descent have traditionally not received much screen time in Anglophone...
Read MoreWHAT ACTORS DO: MERRITT WEVER IN NURSE JACKIE by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Jun 13, 2015 | Blogs, Performance, Sitcom | 0
In our last blog post, we examined the acting by a female performer in a strong ensemble cast –...
Read MoreWHAT ACTORS DO: JENNIFER ANISTON IN FRIENDS by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
So far in our blog strand, we have been looking at moments of performance that are quite...
Read MoreWHAT ACTORS DO: CHARLES DANCE IN GAME OF THRONES by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
‘You Win or You Die’, the seventh episode from the first season of Game of Thrones (HBO,...
Read MoreWHAT ACTORS DO: ROBERT LINDSAY IN G.B.H. by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
As Robert Lindsay notes in his autobiography Letting Go, by the late 1980s, things weren’t looking...
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