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She might be a petite woman (just 5'2"), but she's a giant as an actress. Octavia Spencer has earned her second Golden Globe nomination with Hidden Figures (she won in 2011 for The Help and doubled with an Academy Award for that same supporting role).

If there is one thing that British born Naomie Harris remembers being sure about from the beginning was her desire to become an actor. Her mother Liselle Kayla, a television writer might have had something to with that, enrolling her in the prestigious Anna Sher Theatre School when she was just a child.

"I'm from a relatively small town and a rural place, and I think you see that in my hands and my face," says Australian actor Joel Edgerton, a Golden Globe nominee as Best Actor for his part in the interracial drama Loving. It's this earthbound quality that appealed to Loving's director Jeff Nichols, who also cast Edgerton in another 2016 movie, Midnight Special.

Hailee Steinfeld bids goodbye to her teenage years with a fittingly memorable performance in writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig’s The Edge of Seventeen. The California native, who turned 20 last December 11, has blossomed into a stunning young woman, no longer the kid we first met when she made her major screen debut in the Coen brothers’ western, True Grit.

Caitriona Balfe, Outlander. "This was the biggest thing I’ve ever done so it was quite daunting in the beginning.

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It’s the mid-eighties and the war between Iran and Iraq rages on with bombs and now missiles targeting Tehran. Residents of an apartment complex in the Iranian capital try to conduct ordinary lives, even though intermittent anti aircraft sirens and the ensuing scramble for the shelter of the basement belie the normalcy.

Billy Bob Thornton has played lawyers before but not the one that he plays in the new Amazon series Goliath.

After four seasons as the title character on the Showtime series Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber wants us to know “I am not Ray.   And it’s fine if people think I am because that is great.

Matthew Rhys is one half of a KGB spy couple, along with Keri Russell (also nominated this year), in the Cold War era show The Americans airing on FX.   Rhys explains the appeal of the show to the HFPA.