Roughly one month ahead of the release of her film Unbroken, Angelina Jolie has announced that she might retire from the acting world in the coming year. The award winning performer, who has starred in well over two dozen movies, will instead focus her artistic energy behind the camera. Speaking
Many Broadway and showtune performers have a signature song that their star is forever hitched to. Some are lucky enough to have two. But Broadway sensation Idina Menzel can count at least three: “Defying Gravity” from Wicked, “Let It Go” from the animated Disney blockbuster Frozen, and from her new
With the television landscape the way it has been for the last several years, actors and actresses have been cast in shows with all sorts of different standards depending on what channel the project they are in will air on. Traditional network TV has gotten a bit darker in recent
If you happen to meet celebrated English actress Dame Judi Dench, you might have dozens of questions for her. Just be sure none of those questions have to do with her age, especially since she’ll be turning 80 on December 9. At a publicity event for the BBC Christmas drama
Over twenty years ago, Jeff Daniels was on the phone with two agents who were telling him he was about to ruin his career as a dramatic actor by starring in the Farrelly brothers comedy Dumb & Dumber. Today, Daniels is more popular than he ever has been after starring
Earlier this month NBC put in an order for five additional episodes of its freshman romantic comedy series, Marry Me. While that isn’t exactly the shot of confidence that a full-season renewal provides, it’s enough to keep fans of the comedy — which is about an engaged couple who are
What’s it like to be at the top of your game in Hollywood, but still feel like middle age is creeping in? That’s exactly what Hugh Jackman is feeling at this moment even though he has another installment of X-Men on his production list. He told The New York Times, “In
According to the performance schedule of the recent Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, which starred James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, the last performance of the play was Sunday, July 27. So why were the cast and crew back at the Longacre Theatre on Tuesday, July 29 performing the
Last Oscar season, Idris Elba was almost a shoo-in for the Best Actor race for playing Nelson Mandela in a Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Unfortunately, the British actor was snubbed, but the role resonated with his long after the cameras finished shooting. Elba dug deep to portray Mandela and
Allison Tolman is on a roll as an actress. She earned an Emmy nomination for her role on Fargo and Mindy Kaling recently wrote a role specifically for her on The Mindy Project. However, an Emmy nod and a regular gig doesn’t always make the path in the entertainment industry
It’s easy to forget that Benedict Cumberbatch juggles his film career — including starring as Marvel’s Doctor Strange (if reports are to be believed) — with the popular BBC television series Sherlock, in which he stars as a present-day version of master detective Sherlock Holmes. While dozens of actors have
Those that go see Foxcatcher thinking it is a typical Steve Carell movie will be in for a major surprise. In the film Carell stars as E. I. du Pont, the real-life perplexing multimillionaire who used his millions to sponsor the Olympic wrestling team, including Olympic gold medal winning brothers
Jake Gyllenhaal has an interesting perspective about life in front of and behind the camera. As the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Doner, he has a respect for what goes on behind the camera. He utilized that understanding while acting and producing on his latest film, Nightcrawler.
Reese Witherspoon made her mark in Hollywood as America’s sweetheart, but she’s now trying hard to break that image. In her latest film, Wild, she’s attempting bring an edgier side to the big screen. She explained how film studio executives were the biggest hurdles to making this transition, “I’ve sat
Though Matthew McConaughey has increased his earned plenty of respect since he started taking on more substantive movie roles in the last few years (with Dallas Buyers Club even earning him an Oscar for Best Actor), one director that always has been a fan of McConaughey is Richard Linklater. Linklater
Naomi Grossman is enjoying the success of American Horror Story: Freak Show in her role as the gremlin-like Pepper. However, getting to that point of career satisfaction certainly wasn’t easy. She talked to Salon about her journey to series regular on the Ryan Murphy show. “It was an audition like
Cabaret is bringing in another Hollywood heavy-hitter from the big screen who is going to test her mettle on Broadway. Emma Stone is replacing Michelle Williams in the revival of Cabaret beginning Nov. 11. Stone was fortunate enough to see the 1998 show starring Natasha Richardson. She explained to The
Actor Josh Radnor is starring in the play as a Jewish art dealer who doesn’t keep his opinions to himself.
The actresses also speak candidly about how they feel about their characters in the series and why its important for TV to feature series with strong female leads.Check out the conversation above!
Few actresses have the kind of rise as Cristin Milioti has had in the last few years. A virtual unknown in 2011, she became a bona fide Broadway star in the 2012 hit Once, appeared in a supporting role in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, and was
