scene stealer

Olsen: You kind of had this niche of these really captivating, intriguing supporting roles and I’ve heard you say that you don’t like the phrase scene-stealer.

Braugher, who died on Monday at age 61, became a breakout scene-stealer in this series as Frank Pembleton, a Baltimore detective who acted as the squad’s frustrated moral center.

The scene-stealer wasn’t initially conceived as an adorably round, pantomime character.

It was not even who might wrest voter attention back from the canniest scene-stealer in American political life.

The scene-stealer, though, is Patrick McGoohan as an acerbic secret agent.