What is the difference between featuring and starring

If someone is being featured is their character a secondary or supporting character? Are secondary and supporting characters the same thing? How is being featured in something different than co-starring in something? Or does this apply to "featuring"? Response to What's the difference between "starring", "co-starring" and "featuring"? Starring and co-starring refers to the leads. As far as I remember featuring generally refers to a guest appearance.

It's better to die together than to live alone. Member since: Feb. Member Level 03 Blank Slate. Please help. Thank you. Member since: Dec. Supporter Level 15 Reader. Character", MacMurray and Fonda are listed as "Actor In a parallel with The Swarm , they are also the only cast members listed as "Actor The sequel replaces Sheen with Paul Giamatti.

Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle. The promotional material for Armored has "and Columbus Short" despite Columbus Short playing the main protagonist in the film.

Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, and Laurence Fishburne were probably listed first because they are the more famous actors. Asterix at the Olympic Games : The credits which begin the film appear in flashes of golden light. When "with the extraordinary participation of Alain Delon as Julius Caesar" appears surrounded by a frame, it ends up blinding the whole screen.

Which makes sense since she's the Love Interest for Doc Brown, who gets a little more focus in this movie than Marty. Being John Malkovich credits the titular actor as "and John Malkovich. Mike Myers in Bohemian Rhapsody. Butterfly : "Introducing Pia Zadora as 'Kady'.

All film versions of Carrie do this mostly to the actress portraying Margaret White. The version had the "And Piper Laurie as Margaret White", while the trailer had "And introducing John Travolta , in his first motion picture role. John Mulchaey. Citizen Kane is an aversion: the final image of the credits, after all the secondary characters have had clips shown of them with their actors' names, has, at the bottom, " Orson Welles as Kane".

Rather than using "And" or anything else to draw attention to his credit, Welles deliberately hid it, throwing it in with a list of minor actors. Divergent : The first two movies have "and Kate Winslet ". Bluveridge introducing Kevin Bishop as Jim Hawkins. Ned Alleyn: A quarrel about the bill. Philip Henslowe: The bill! Ah, vanity, vanity! Ned Alleyn: Not the billing — the bill! Live-Action TV. And Alan Scarfe as Bradley Talmadge.

In 24 , the "And" credit was given to: Dennis Haysbert for Seasons William Devane for Season 4. Jean Smart for Season 5. Regina King for Season 6. In Season 8, Cherry Jones , formerly second or third in the credits, moved to the very back of the list, with Freddie Prinze Jr.

Sarah Clarke gets the "And" credit in Seasons 2 and 3. Although only for one episode, Season 5 gave it to Tzi Ma. Season 6 had quite a few. It goes to Will Patton for Season 7. Karina Lombard Alana has a "with" credit in Season Three. The Addams Family : In the second season, the billing of "featuring Jackie Coogan" was added to the opening credits over the shot of Coogan's face.

Alias was notorious for its revolving door-style notion of what makes a "main character" , yet no matter how often the names changed in the opening sequence the first and last spots always remained the same starting with Jennifer Garner and ending with "and Victor Garber ".

When Lena Olin joined the cast it became "with Lena Olin Additionally, the trope also applied In-Universe to Lange's character. American Odyssey had Anna Friel appear first The Americans had "And Noah Emmerich. Angel initially didn't have an "And" credit, likely due to it only starting out with three cast members.

However, starting in Season 4 by which point several more cast members had been added , Alexis Denisof was moved from third-billed to the end of the line and given an "And" credit. This would last through the end of the series.

John Barrowman replaces Thompson's name in the OBB during Seasons 3 and 4 due to the death of Thompson's character near the end of the second. Season 5 had Josh Segarra replacing Barrowman in the "With" citation. Season 6 then had returning cast member Katie Cassidy replace Segara in the "With" citation. Cassidy eventually gets the citation all to herself in the last two seasons following the death of Blackthorne's character in the Season 6 finale, though she's instead credited as "Special Appearance By".

Harewood has the citation all to himself from Season 4 onwards. Black Lightning has "And James Remar ". Batwoman has "And Dougray Scott ". Lampshaded by JMS in one of the commentary tracks.

The two rotated every season for the first four years, then switched every episode in season 5. Batman : "And Yvonne Craig as Batgirl. There's also "Crossroads, Part II" in which, instead of being billed with the rest of the main cast, Katee Sackhoff appears in a special credit, " Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck", right before the episode's end credits.

In both cases, it was done to preserve a surprise. And now Caprica has "And Polly Walker" concluding its main cast list each episode. Weirdly, in the middle two seasons, Mark Ritts was not last credited, that one went to the assistant, Eliza Schneider.

Better Call Saul : " Season 4 has "and Giancarlo Esposito" since McKean is no longer on the show. Bewitched : " Bloodline does this to Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. Boston Legal never had the same full cast for two consecutive seasons Davis as Alice" ended the credits of The Brady Bunch. In the last 2 seasons, he was dropped from the main cast but would still get a "Special Guest Star Alyson Hannigan , whose career had recently taken off thanks to the American Pie movies, would be moved to the end with "and In the sixth and final episode, "Claudius", Jones, who played the title character, was promoted to top billing; the cast list instead ended with "And Ralph Bates" who played Claudius' nephew, Caligula.

After Doherty left the show and was replaced by Rose McGowan , Milano's name is moved to the beginning and Holly Marie Combs who was previously credited between the two was upgraded to "And He had still been last in the credits prior to this though, First season episodes of Chico and the Man had "Introducing Freddie Prinze as 'Chico'; starting in the second season, it was "And Starring Freddie Prinze as 'Chico.

Phillip Watters". The final season saw a major overhaul of both the cast and the opening credits. Harmon and Adam Arkin alternated the top billing, and the 'with' honors went to one of the newcomers to the series Code Black has an interesting example.

The show's original star was Maggie Grace as Dr. Christa Lorenson. Contract: The series regulars of the soap opera for a particular season or seasons. Day-Player: The equivalent of a television guest-star. Perhaps has a larger role in an episode. Image Credit. Recurring: An actor who appears in multiples episodes. Film Lead: The main character in a film. Soap Opera Contract: The series regulars of the soap opera for a particular season or seasons.

Under 5: Under five lines.