Actors and Actresses

January 2, 2020

You Will Soon Know These Names: Taylor Russell and Jodie Turner-Smith

Two young black women face futures made precarious by sudden violence wrought by men in their lives. One is a shy Florida high schooler struggling to […]
December 11, 2019

Reeve Carney’s Week: Pedal Boards and Peloton Ads

Reeve Carney, the actor and musician, has been in and out of hell for nearly three years. In 2017, he joined a workshop of the Tony-winning […]
November 22, 2019

Manny Jacinto of ‘The Good Place’ Plummets to Earth

Manny Jacinto, a star of the metaphysical sitcom “The Good Place,” would like to be the kind of actor who does his own stunts. He isn’t. […]
November 8, 2019

Emma Thompson Can’t Live Without Hannah Gadsby and Potato Scones

Emma Thompson, double Oscar winner (“Howards End” for acting, “Sense and Sensibility” for writing), environmental activist and dame (anointed in vegan sneakers), is frank: She admits […]
November 1, 2019

Beth Ditto is ‘Feeling Self-Defensive’ and Fights Back

Beth Ditto sprawled on her back and kicked her legs like a turtle in distress. “No! No! No! No! No!” she screamed. Ms. Ditto, 38, who […]
October 25, 2019

Jenny Slate Wrote a Book-Shaped Thing. What Is It?

SOUTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. — The only piece of fiction in Jenny Slate’s new book, “Little Weirds,” describes a love that grew old in an un-air-conditioned house […]
October 25, 2019

Justin Hartley of ‘This Is Us’ Meditates on His Rolexes

“See that hand?” said Justin Hartley, pointing to the second hand on his Rolex Daytona as it skimmed the black-and-champagne face. “That hand is going so […]
October 16, 2019

Alex Wolff Acts, Writes and Directs. And He’s Only 21.

Name: Alex Wolff Age: 21 Hometown: born in Los Angeles and raised in New York City. Now lives: in a duplex in the East Village and, […]
September 29, 2019

Finn Wittrock of ‘Judy’ Visits His Old Juilliard Haunts

Finn Wittrock stood outside Francesco’s, a hole-in-the-wall pizza joint on the corner of Columbus Avenue and West 69th Street, and peered forlornly through the window. A […]
January 12, 2018

Darren Criss Plays the Happy-Go-Lucky Killer in the Versace TV Drama

MIAMI — At 6:30 in the morning, Darren Criss was bright-eyed and perky as he bounded out of his South Beach hotel and into a black […]