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Taraji P. Henson was an Emmy nominee over the weekend, has been nominated for Oscars, won 11 Image Awards, won a SAG Award, Golden Globes — you name it. That is why it is a little surprising she was somewhat unsure if she was the right actor to take on Shug…

Paul Giamatti is back in the thick of awards season and Oscar buzz this year for his wonderfully rich, funny and human turn in Alexander Payne’s dramedy, The Holdovers. Already he has won the National Board of Review and Boston Film Critics Best Actor prize…

With a Best Actress Oscar, some Emmys, Golden Globes and more, awards are something Julianne Moore knows well. Therefore the buzz around her performance in May December should come as no surprise, and for a role she says is one of the hardest she has ever…

Colman Domingo is riding a career high — from his Oscar-buzzed performance as Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin in Rustin to his bold interpretation of Mister in the new movie musical version of The Color Purple to his extraordinary turn in the Toronto…

As 2023 winds down, Greta Lee already is having a hell of an end of the year with Lead Acting nominations from the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, Indie Spirits and Gothams for her widely praised and heavily Oscar-buzzed performance in A24’s tender…

In his highly acclaimed career, Peter Sarsgaard has delivered a variety of winning performances in movies like An Education, Jarhead, Kinsey, Shattered Glass, The Magnificent Seven, Blue Jasmine The Lost Daughter, Black Mass, Garden State, The Batman, not to…

Juliette Binoche is a true international star whose career has spanned decades of memorable performances on stage and screen. She won an Oscar, a BAFTA and many other honors for her role in 1996’s The English Patient, and holds the record as being the only…

Sandra Hüller was called the “Queen Of Cannes” earlier this year when two of her films not only rocked the festival in May, they finished one-two when the day came to hand out awards. Anatomy Of A Fall from director Justine Triet was winner of the Palme d’Or…

One of the most recognizable international stars in the business, Mads Mikkelsen joins me for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side to talk about a stellar career that now includes his acclaimed performance in The Promised Land…

The calendar has turned to November, and the Oscar awards season is now hitting its stride. So, it is time for the return of my weekly Deadline video series The Actor’s Side. And even though the SAG-AFTRA strike is still rolling along, now with “cautious…

After completing our recent taping of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side at PMC studios in New York City, Daniel Radcliffe walked out onto the street to groups of teenage girls who were cordoned off on both sides of the entrance. They went ballistic…

If you are an actor out there, the story of Evan Peters will be absolutely inspirational. He was a kid from Missouri who fell in love with movies and the characters he would see in them, and a chance meeting with a casting person gave him the impetus to beg…