lead role

Sting took over the lead role to try to draw an audience, but his thumpingly inspirational score was already the hero of the show.

Everyone knows it works—putting a strong female in the lead role.

And the OSCE was given a lead role in implementing the accord.

Presumably to pursue a long career of regretting that he left a lead role on the best show on network television.

And then you cast the terrible, hideous looking Malin Akerman in the lead role.