supporting role

Fruitcake quickly acclimated to its American home, and even plays a supporting role in American literature.

He had faltered in the lead, but Clooney has already played an invaluable supporting role in this campaign.

As a ticking time bomb with a dark past, Gandolfini elevated a supporting role into something great.

Jordan can play an important supporting role, but Turkey is the key.

He also recently appeared in a supporting role on the Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva.

In only one of these does astronomy fail to play at least a supporting role.