portray
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But while it explores the sad origins of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, Hamlet, it never portrays Agnes as just the playwright's wife - she is at the heart of the film.
From BBC
In the Apple TV series, Rhys, 52, portrays Tom Loftis, a mayor desperate to revive his struggling community, but whose residents view him as "soft and cowardly".
From BBC
For “The Tail,” Kent portrays a whale’s flukes above a mild sea.
The friar, writes Mr. Restall, portrayed Columbus as “a flawed but heroic agent of God.”
When he was 11, he began portraying Will Byers, the baby-faced boy who was abducted while biking home at night from a friend’s house and pulled into an alternate dimension known as the Upside Down.
From Los Angeles Times
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