Zach Braff has gone from a fan favorite actor on the cult TV series Scrubs to indie filmmaker and Broadway star in only a few short years. While Braff has gained thousands of fans in the meantime, he also remains a target of ridicule for using Kickstarter to partially fund […]
Julia Stiles has bounced between mediums throughout her acting career. From big blockbusters like the Bourne franchise to her own scripted show, Blue, on YouTube, the actress likes to keep mixing it up. She told the Associated Press why it’s important for her to constantly change up her career. The
Liev Schrieber is enjoying life as an actor playing the lead on the Showtime series Ray Donovan. However, he’s taking on more challenges in Season 2 — he’s directing. It’s his first time directing, outside of commercials, in nine years. He shared with the Associated Press about the differences with
Actors often have trouble committing to projects that might take several months of their time. However, Patricia Arquette and the cast of Boyhood has that beat — the movie was filmed in pieces over the course of twelve years as it follows the youth of a young boy, Mason, and
Cameron Diaz has a new movie coming out this month and it’s bringing a new first for the actress. Sex Tape, co-starring Jason Segel, brings her first nude scene to the table. However, the 41-year-old actress is downplaying the big onscreen moment. She told Access Hollywood, “It’s not really like
Christopher Eccleston is no stranger to TV — after all, he is the actor who brought Doctor Who back to life after a sixteen year absence and was also on another cult favorite TV series, Heroes — and he recently returned to the small screen in the HBO series The
Angela Bassett struck up a friendship with Whitney Houtson back in 1995 when they shot Waiting to Exhale. Looking to make her directorial debut, the 55-year-old actress chose to make a project very close to her heart. She will be directing the biopic Whitney Houston for Lifetime. She talked to Entertainment
One of the highlights of the latest summer film, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, is the moving performance by Andy Serkis. His motion-capture performance has had fans captivated since he played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings franchise. For the British actor, he talks about the challenges
If you haven’t seen the Season 7, Episode 3 of True Blood yet, this is your warning…spoilers ahead. Joe Manganiello said goodbye to True Blood last Sunday as his character Alcide was killed by a lynch mob in Bon Temps. The death was foreshadowed in Episode 2, but viewers had
Don Cheadle is an actor’s actor. He comes in quietly, does consistently excellent work and then retreats back to his private life. His next project is one that he’s wanted to do for years, Miles Ahead, about the life of musician Miles Davis. Cheadle is writing, starring and directing the
If you head to the theatre to see the Melissa McCarthy film, Tammy, this week, it might be hard to suspend disbelief that Susan Sarandon is her grandmother. At 67 years old, the Oscar winner isn’t a grandmother in real life, even though her daughter Eva Amurri Martino is weeks
Mark Ruffalo might be on everyone’s radar for his role as the Hulk in Marvel’s Avengers franchise, but he’s in theaters right now with a smaller film. Begin Again is an indie film with the 46-year-old actor playing a recently-fired record executive who comes across a broken-hearted musician played by
Karen Olivo had the career many aspiring New York actors dream of: Broadway shows listed on her résumé, a Tony Award and even a series regular job on the show Harry’s Law. Yet she packed up and moved to Wisconsin in late 2012 after she decided she needed a change
If you haven’t seen Season 2 of Orange Is the New Black yet, there are spoilers ahead…you’ve been warned. The newest character on this season of Orange Is the New Black, Brook Soso, made quite an impact on the inmate population. From her lack of showering to her hunger strike,
As a young actor, Chris Sheffield is having quite a year. He’s been cast in the Michael Bay-directed pilot, The Last Ship, and he’s starring in FOX’s new show, The Maze Runner, which will debut in September. While both projects had big budgets, The Last Ship is on TNT. Sheffield compared
[Warning: Season finale spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned!] The Season 4 finale of Game of Thrones left many fans speechless about the end result. Just before the final show of the season aired, The Wall Street Journal spoke with 17-year-old Maisie Williams who plays Arya Stark about her character’s development
22 Jump Street hit theaters last weekend and audiences were treated to a breakout performance by Jillian Bell. She plays Mercedes, Maya’s [Amber Stevens] roommate, who’s always throwing insults at Jonah Hill‘s character, Schmidt, with such deadpan comedy. HuffPost Entertainment talked to the actress via email about her role in
It’s tough always being the good guy. It can get an actor typecast into certain roles. That’s exactly what Colin Hanks has been dealing with for most of his career. He said, “That’s the stereotype of me. That’s the pigeonhole I’m in, and I’m constantly trying to break out of
One year ago Jane Lynch was in the middle of her eight week run of playing Miss Hannigan in Broadway’s Annie. It was Lynch’s long-awaited Broadway debut in a career that stretches back to the early 1980s. However, audiences didn’t have to wait that long to see Lynch back on
Indie It girl Greta Gerwig has made a return to the stage in New York in The Village Bike for the first time since she was a college student. In the play she stars as a pregnant woman with a husband uninterested in having sex with her who fulfills her
