Rock of Ages

film by Shankman [2012]

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Blige

  • Queen of Hip-Hop Soul
    In Mary J. Blige: Acting career

    …roles in such films as Rock of Ages (2012), Betty and Coretta (2013), Black Nativity (2013), and Mudbound (2017). For her work in the latter movie, a drama about racism in 1940s Mississippi, Blige earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. In addition, “Mighty River,” which she cowrote…

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Cruise

  • Tom Cruise
    In Tom Cruise

    …rock idol in the musical Rock of Ages (2012), he was cast as an apocalypse survivor in the sci-fi adventure Oblivion (2013). He then portrayed a glib military public relations officer who is repeatedly killed and resurrected in the comic alien-invasion romp Edge of Tomorrow (2014). In 2017 Cruise starred…

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Giamatti

  • Sideways
    In Paul Giamatti

    …in the 1980s-set rock musical Rock of Ages (2012), a would-be assassin in David Cronenberg’s intellectual thriller Cosmopolis (2012), and a reporter in the horror comedy John Dies at the End (2012). His credits from 2013 include the animated film Turbo, in which he provided the voice of a snail;…

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Theroux

Zeta-Jones

  • Catherine Zeta-Jones
    In Catherine Zeta-Jones

    …as the 1980s-set rock musical Rock of Ages (2012) and the romantic comedy Playing for Keeps (2012). In 2013 Zeta-Jones appeared in the crime thrillers Broken City, as the glamorous wife of a corrupt politician, and Side Effects, as a secretive psychotherapist. Also that year she played a Russian spy…

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