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Being an artist runs in Zoë Kravitz blood. Over the last ten years, she has had film parts in everything from indie movies like Dope to blockbusters like X-Men: First Class and Mad Max: Fury Road as well as television roles on Californication and as one of the powerful women at the center of Big Little Lies.

“(The) only amazing thing about my career in Hollywood is that I ever had one at all. ”This is the bittersweet confession made by Preston Sturges, midway through his unfinished autobiography, published in 1990, 31 years after his death.

In Orange is the New Black, Diane Guerrero had the biggest opportunity in her career as an actress, and she has used it well. As the character Maritza Ramos, she created one of the most sensitive characters in a world of tough women; later, in Jane the Virgin, she transformed herself into Lina, Gina Rodriguez's best friend.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors, and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items - is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

Hulu’s hit show Ramy centers around the modern-day Arab-American Muslim experience in New Jersey. Alongside creator Ramy Youssef, the series stars Egyptian actor Amr Waked as Ramy’s conservative father Farouk who left Egypt in hopes of achieving a better life for his family in America.

Emmy nominated Costume designer Rita McGhee was a student at Howard University when she had a life-changing encounter with Spike Lee. “I reached out to him and his award-winning costume designer, Ruth E.

Legendary now seems a fitting term for Whoopi Goldberg, twice a Golden Globe winner for The Color Purple (in 1986) and Ghost (1991 – also an Oscar), the first woman to host the Academy Awards, in 1994, social and political activist since the Comic Relief era and now a TV personality and very vocal both in the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements. And she is truly irrepressible wielding the resolve that led her to send an Instagram message to Pope Francis: “Good morning Your Holiness,” she wrote.

This year’s Golden Globe awards saw Jodie Comer nominated for Best Performance by an Actress TV series Drama for her role as Villanelle in the groundbreaking series, Killing Eve. The same role brought her a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series as well as a BAFTA TV Award last year.

Some of TV’s top showrunners got together for a panel titled “Showrunner Superpanel: Where Do We Go From Here?” at the recent virtual edition of the BANFF World Media Festival. Five women – Tanya Saracho (Vida), Anna Winger (Unorthodox), Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Everywhere), Kerry Ehrin (The Morning Show), Liz Feldman (Dead To Me) – and one queer person of color, Steven Canals (Pose) – talked about the unique challenges for minorities in Hollywood, their hopes for the TV landscape post-pandemic and after the current cultural shifts, and even offered a little advice in case you want to run your own TV show.

Poetry drew the Irish actress to the performing arts. “At school where I always enjoyed doing things like Shakespeare but also poetry, poetry was the big thing.