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Easily one of the most versatile character actors working today, J.K. Simmons  has over an impressive 200 acting credits – and counting – when you search him out on iMDB. But as he tells me in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side, “about 40% of them are voiceovers”.  We laugh about that…

Marlee Matlin’s career is full of historical milestones. She won a Best Actress Oscar in 1987 at age 21 for Children of a Lesser God, and to this day she remains the youngest ever to win in that category. She is also the only deaf person in any category to win an Oscar. In addition to that, she has four Emmy…

Jamie Dornan joins me for a special Monday edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, where we discuss why playing Pa in Belfast has meant so much to him, and the Belfast connection in so many aspects of his life. We also talk about why actors are not always as secure as they may seem on screen, how his…

It wasn’t long between American Idol and the Academy Awards for Jennifer Hudson, actually just a couple of years. After inexplicably being eliminated from the ABC singing competition — the most shocking in the show’s history, according to none other than The New York Times — before even hitting the top five, Hudson…

Did you know Lady Gaga set out to be an actor before she ever made it as a singer? That is just one of the revelations that came out my conversation with the superstar for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side in a wide-ranging interview on the occasion of her much acclaimed performance as…

Nicolas Cage joins me today for a wide-ranging conversation for my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side. We talk about the critical praise and awards buzz he has been receiving for the summer release Pig, in which he gives one of his best-ever performances and for which he is nominated for the Best Actor Critics…

An actor’s actor if ever there was one, Ann Dowd is a multi-award winning star who took an Emmy and several nominations for her memorable role as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale, plus another nomination for her role in The Leftovers. She also received the National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress honor and…

Nicole Kidman, who is starring as Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, feels Lucy and her husband Desi Arnaz were not only predestined to be together romantically and as a couple, but also to work together in perhaps the most famous sitcom of all time. In a conversation with her co-star Javier Bardem…

Kenneth Branagh simply exploded on the movie map in 1989, scoring Oscar nominations not only as Best Actor but also Best Director for his version of Henry V. He had been in a movie or two (an uncredited role in the 1981 Oscar winner Chariots of Fire is his first IMDb credit), some TV and of course auspicious…

With a filmography that runs the gamut from romantic comedy and hard-hitting drama to even outer space, Sandra Bullock has become one of the most versatile and beloved actors working today. Her roles include an Oscar-nominated turn as a lone astronaut in Gravity, a great addition to the heist franchise with Ocean’s 8,…

Welcome back to a new Oscar season full of interviews for my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side. After nearly two years of producing this series virtually, which enabled us to go to all corners of the globe for scintillating chats with actors, it is nice — variants be damned — to be back doing these one on one…

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…