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In 2003, Kenan Thompson, at age 25, became the youngest cast member of Saturday Night Live — in fact he wasn’t even born when the show went on the air in 1975. Now celebrating his 18th season as a regular cast member, he is the longest-running star of SNL ever. Thus it seems appropriate that among his two Emmy…

Anya Taylor-Joy has been having quite a season. She virtually swept the early television awards season for her role as Beth Harmon in the widely acclaimed The Queen’s Gambit, grabbing Lead Actress awards from the Golden Globes, SAG, and Critics Choice among others. Now she course nominated, and a leading contender…

I don’t think you will get much argument that Uzo Aduba is an Emmy magnet — and deserves to be. She already has three of the winged statuettes at home and is vying for a fourth this year, and what is really impressive is that they are all in different categories. Very few people in the history of the Emmys have done th…

It was a little surprising to me to learn that after 12 seasons on TV’s No. 1 comedy The Big Bang Theory, Kaley Cuoco had never received an Emmy nomination for it, or for any other show in her career that includes her breakthrough sitcom 8 Simple Rules opposite John Ritter. Well now the Television Academy has finally…

The Emmys have been very good to Paul Bettany so far this year. Not only is he nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor In a Limited Series or Television Movie for WandaVision, the Marvel limited series on Disney+ scored a whopping 23 nominations. Meanwhile, his film Uncle Frank was picked up by Amazon out of Sundance and…

Gillian Anderson won SAG, Golden Globe and Critics Choice awards for her role as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown, and now she has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Emmy as well. And in a large field of eight contenders including two co-stars from The Crown (Helena…

Anthony Mackie really knows how to pick 'em. He’s had an enviable run — from his very first movie role as Papa Doc in the Eminem film 8 Mile to significant roles in Best Picture winners Million Dollar Baby and The Hurt Locker to career highlights such as playing Martin Luther King Jr. in HBO’s All the Way, Tupac…

Lily Collins got her first taste of acting on the BBC series Growing Pains at age 2. Then she took a break. It wasn’t long before the daughter of singer Phil Collins found herself back in the limelight, not only as a model but opposite Sandra Bullock in 2009 Best Picture nominee The Blind Side. Not bad, and she has…

Watch this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side with Bryan Cranston and get a master class in acting as well as a view into a career of tremendous versatility and purpose. Unquestionably one of the greats of our time, Cranston has six Emmys, two Tonys, a Best Actor Oscar nomination and countless…

John Boyega made headlines last week after he abruptly left the production of the Netflix movie Rebel’s Ridge that was shooting in New Orleans. “Family reasons” was cited as to why. But I actually caught up with him earlier last month as he was on location in Louisiana about to start that film, slated to be the latest…

To say Ethan Hawke does it all really is an understatement. Best known as an actor who began as a child star in 1985’s Explorers and grew into a multiple showbiz threat, Hawke has directed and written several films, appeared on Broadway and Off Broadway, been nominated for a Tony and directed three Off Broadway shows…

The Kominsky Method begins streaming its third and final season — six new episodes — on Friday. If ever there was a reason to tune in and binge the whole thing, it is the presence of none other than Kathleen Turner, once again working opposite Michael Douglas. With Alan Arkin leaving after Season 2 (and the subject of…