Sometimes the roles aren’t even that good, but a great actor will make it their own anyway.

This came out most noticeably in two legendary actresses of the big screen:Laura DernandNicole Kidman.

And that wasn’t all.

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Hawley went for two in the creation of V.M.

Varga, the bulimic, insufferable, and strangely eloquent liquidator inFargo, played menacingly by the greatDavid Thewlis.

TV on the Radio singerTunde Adebimpemade for potently conflicted U.S.

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