In 2006, Hudson took a supporting role in the film adaptation of the Motown musical Dreamgirls.

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The overall effect is to undermine the resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems, affecting in turn their ability to support coastal livelihoods such as fishing and tourism and their potential role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.

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Increasingly, doing so means a snagging a role in a comic book adaptation, or playing second fiddle opposite a press-hogging superstar.

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He also played the role of a chef in the BBC's adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, in 2000 as the grotesque Swelter.

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Hathaway won for her role as a doomed single mother forced into prostitution in the adaptation of the stage musical based on Victor Hugo's epic novel.

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