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Adrienne Warren is the reigning queen of the Tony Awards, at least until this year’s winners are announced Sunday night. Of course, Warren won the Lead Actress in a Musical Tony last year for her stunning turn as Tina Turner in Tina – The Tina Turner Musical a role she originated in London and that also got her…

Martin Short has been busy this TV season, but when hasn’t he been in demand? With recurring roles on Apple TV+’s The Morning Show as Dick Lundy (for which he got one of his 15 Emmy nominations), and in Schmigadoon! as the Leprechaun, Short has also won acclaim, Critics Choice and Golden Globe and SAG nominations, and…

Tom Hiddleston became virtually a household name when in 2011 director Kenneth Branagh (with whom he co-starred in Wallander) thought he’d be the perfect Loki in Thor. He was right. Loki became a sensation, and over a decade later Hiddleston is still playing him, only this time his character’s name is in the title of…

With five personal Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe and countless Image Awards over the course of eight seasons on ABC’s Black-ish, Tracee Ellis Ross has much to be grateful for over the successful run of the sitcom in which she starred with Anthony Anderson — one that was also important for network television…

She has won two Oscars, Critics Choice and SAG awards, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and so many other show business honors. Now Renee Zellweger could add an Emmy or two to her shelf as star and executive producer of NBC’s limited series The Thing About Pam (from Blumhouse Television), a real-life domestic crime tale mixed…

Sandra Oh has a whopping 13 Emmy nominations covering her performance as Eve Polaski in Killing Eve as well as her producing credits on the acclaimed series, as well as for guest stints on SNL and another five nominations for playing Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC’s long-running Grey’s Anatomy, which she left in 2014 after…

Sebastian Stan certainly picks interesting and challenging projects these days. He joins me for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side where we discuss his decision to play Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee as he falls hard for Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and gets immersed in a marriage and…

Will Smith has nothing on Elle Fanning when it comes to slaps. She has been doing it to Nicholas Hoult and even herself pretty consistently for her role as Empress Catherine II in her hit Hulu comedy series The Great for two seasons (with a third about to go into production). Fanning could well find herself in Emmy…

Troy Kotsur is poised to make history at the Oscars should he win the Best Supporting Actor award for his poignant and funny role as the father, Frank Rossi, in CODA opposite Marlee Matlin, who became the first, and only deaf actor to date, to win an Academy Award, and that was way back in 1987. Kotsur could become…

Winning her fourth Oscar nomination this year, Penélope Cruz continues to break her own records. The Spanish star was previously nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Nine, and won the Oscar in that category for Vicky Christina Barcelona. Her previous Best Actress nomination came for Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, and…

Kristen Stewart became a major star in blockbuster like films like the series of Twilight films that put here career into orbit as Bella Swan. There were other big major studio movies such as Snow White and the Huntsman, but Stewart, who started in movies at a very young age — notably opposite Jodie Foster in Panic Roo…

Aunjanue Ellis was so nervous about Oscar nomination morning, so afraid she would disappoint those closest to her if she didn’t get nominated for her role in King Richard, that she turned off her phone. And that wasn’t just for the morning, but all day and most of the night. She in fact cleaned the house, read books…