Variety’s Actors to Watch returns Oct. 15. Hosted by the Newport Beach Film Festival, the annual impact list, which identifies notable up-and-coming actors, is seeking submissions for 2025. Past ...

After a record-breaking “Actors on Actors” season, Variety and CNN are joining forces again, this time for a one-of-a-kind town hall conversation featuring Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey.

One of Kal Penn’s breakout roles was playing the character Taj Mahal Badalandabad in the 2002 comedy hit “National Lampoon’s ...

Since 1998, Variety has been selecting standout performers for their 10 Actors to Watch franchise. Past honorees include more than 35 Oscar winners and nominees, including Mahershala Ali, Timothée ...

Variety has announced its 10 Actors to Watch for 2025, a franchise launched in 1998. The list has included more than 35 Academy Award winners and nominees, including Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet ...

Variety and CNN’s “Actors on Actors” Season 23 was the franchise’s most successful social campaign ever for an Oscars season. The video series, which pairs actors in conversation with one another to ...

Milly Alcock found out she’d booked the coveted role of Supergirl in one of this year’s biggest hits when “Superman” director (and co-CEO of DC Studios) texted her a link to an article announcing her ...

Who said playing support was easy? In an awards season overflowing with frontrunners and over-analyzed narratives, it's not ...

Joseph Purcell dropped out of community college three months after watching Heath Ledger’s interrogation scene from “The Dark Knight” in his apartment. Now he’s one of the breakout faces in ...