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Doing the Work is a series profiling key recipients of HFPA Philanthropy. As the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) grows and takes a more active role in its philanthropic activities as a promoter of educational and cultural initiatives, it is strengthening ties with local film and media institutions.

David Bowie passed away on January 10, 2016, an evening no one attending the 73rd Golden Globes will likely forget. That night, after the ceremony, revelers crowded the dance floors of the after-parties, when one DJ after the next started playing Bowie songs while fans shed tears for their fallen idol.

In the summer 1947 Edward Dmytryk, known as Mr. RKO, was riding high on the wave of the recent success of his latest picture Crossfire.

There is a fond joshing that one never needs to wonder what Leonardo DiCaprio will wear on a red carpet – the answer is usually a classic black tux, white shirt and black bow tie. He eschews fashion.

Mishel Prada gets to show her character Emma Hernandez's softer side on Vida’s third and final season. On the show, she is a strong and guarded bar owner from Boyle Heights.

JanLuis Castellanos is set to star as a series regular opposite Dylan Minnette in the upcoming fourth and final season of Netflix’s YA drama 13 Reasons Why. The young actor will play Diego Torres, a charismatic and fiercely loyal leader of a divided football team struggling to understand the loss of one of their own, while himself at the same time falling for one of Liberty High’s most complicated women – leaving him caught between his past and his present.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B.  deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

Harvey Guillén was born to play the role of Guillermo, the human protector of three undercover vampires, in the FX comedy series, What We Do in the Shadows. The second season of the show, which was created by New Zealanders Taika Waikiki and Jermaine Clement, began life first as a short film, then as a feature, before morphing into the popular TV show.

Roberta Colindrez is the charismatic actress who was introduced in season two of Vida, the Latinx series set in the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights. She plays Nico, the mixologist hired to create the drinks at Vida, the bar named in honor of Vidalia, mother of two sisters, Lyn (Melissa Barrera) and Emma (Mishel Prada), who have come home after her death.

At 35 Nathalie Kelley has reached maturity – as an actress and as a woman – which makes her the perfect choice to portray Noa Hamilton, the rich and famous supermodel that is at the center of Baker and the Beauty. In the remake of the Israeli show of the same name, the story is set in Miami first and then in Puerto Rico (where most of the show was filmed).