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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…

Paul Walter Hauser has already won both a Critics Choice Award and Golden Globe for his chilling turn as serial killer Larry Hall in Apple TV+’s limited series, Black Bird. There is a lot of Emmy buzz on this one as well, and that shouldn’t be surprising for…

Sure, she is Elvis Presley’s granddaugher and Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter, but Riley Keough has in the past few years established herself with a solid acting career in her own right and her own name, one that continues to shine right up to her current…

Rob Lowe joins me for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side and he has a lot to talk about including not one, but two hit tv series including going into his fifth season on Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star as well as the first of Netflix’s…

It is hard to believe but in the entirety of Emmy history only one Latino actor has ever been nominated in the Lead Actor In A Drama Series category, and that was actually Brooklyn-born Jimmy Smits who had four consecutive nominations for NYPD Blue from 1996…

There is nothing like this Dame, as in Helen Mirren, of course. She is the Oscar/Emmy/Tony-and everything else-winning acting icon who never seems to slow down. Now, with the Yellowstone prequel, 1923, she has also done her first western, and signed up for a…

In her relatively young career, Bel Powley has accomplished a lot. Starting with her breakthrough film role in 2015’s Diary of a Teenage Girl, for which she won several awards, and continuing with significant roles in such films as White Boy Rick, Royal Night…

Betty Gilpin has played a lot of different roles in her career but maybe not one quite like in Mrs. Davis, which debuted this week on Peacock. The new series finds her starring as Simone, a nun who is brought on to fight the title character, actually an…

Cate Blanchett has now been nominated for Oscars eight times, the eighth being her latest film Tár. But now, half a year since its debut in early September at the Venice Film Festival where she won Best Actress, she tells me she is still trying to come to…

Hong Chau’s time has come. She was just in London over the weekend celebrating her supporting actress nomination for The Whale at the BAFTA Film Awards. And in about two and a half weeks she will be sitting in a prime seat at the 95th Academy Awards where…

Ke Huy Quan just may have the most inspirational story of any 2022 Oscar nominee. After starting out with significant roles in two ’80s classics — as Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Data in The Goonies — his acting career came to a…