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leading role

noun as in leading lady

noun as in leading man

noun as in star

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It not only had a kick-ass part, it was the first Israeli movie featuring a transgender character in a leading role.

You were really the first person to give him a juicy leading role, in Chasing Amy.

But with his first big leading role in Guardians of the Galaxy, Pratt is poised to become an outright star.

And so we have the current Costner comeback—the casting about for a new kind of middle-aged leading role.

When you hit 40, you had your first leading role in a studio film with I Love You, Man, which did gangbusters.

Now in the making of these infinitely precious things, France played the leading role.

Among the Frankons, slaves and freed slaves of the king played a leading role first at the court, then in the state.

In the fiction of Garrett Serviss the sweeping magnitude of events described gives them the leading role.

He appeared in time to play a leading role in a drama Schumann was preparing.

It will be impossible today to write the history of civilization without giving to the classical world the leading role.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to leading role, such as: heroine, fat part, leading woman, lead role, and starring role.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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