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Her art mirrors her life more than that of any other performer. Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, who first started her career under the short form of her first name, MJ Rodriguez, became a superstar in Ryan Murphy’s series Pose about the lives, loves and challenges of transgender people.

23 years ago, before he was the lean, mean, muscled killing machine that is Jason Bourne - and a star and key power player in the industry - Matt Damon had caught our eye as a razor-thin, drug-addicted Army medic in director Edward Zwick’s Courage Under Fire. The Boston native already had entries in his filmography – a bit part in the indie hit (and Julia Roberts’ feature film debut) Mystic Pizza, some TV work and more substantial roles in School Ties and Geronimo: An American Legend.

Deaf since birth, Golden Globe nominee Troy Kotsur gives one of the breakthrough performances of the year in CODA. Kotsur’s funny, irreverent father and fisherman, Frank Rossi, is often cited as one of the key reasons why audiences are embracing CODA since it premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where it won four honors – including the Grand Jury Prize, Best Ensemble and the Audience Award.

On January 22, 1954, at the Club del Mar in Santa Monica, three symbols of Hollywood glamour attended, all of them on the brink of super-stardom. Audrey Hepburn won for her first major role, in Roman Holiday, Grace Kelly was named best supporting actress for her part in Mogambo.

HBO’s Succession, a dysfunctional family drama-comedy set against a high-stakes backdrop of cyclical scheming and betrayal at a massive multimedia conglomerate, offers its ensemble cast no shortage of delicious dialogue and barbed one-liners. But Sarah Snook, honored this year with her first Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film, also serves up the show’s most expansive rolodex of highly GIF-worthy nonverbal reactions, from arched-brow bemusement and expressions of withering judgment to sublimated anger and swallowed denials of pain.

Actor Tahar Rahim, who grew up in an Algerian family in Belfort, in eastern France, says that from his teenage years, he was in "semi-hypnosis" whenever he was watching a movie. “It was a teenager’s dream,” he told the HFPA of his attraction to the world of acting.

For 39-year-old New York City native Kieran Culkin, this year’s Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor-Television marks a wonderful moment in his career but is not the first one in his young and brave trajectory. This is his fourth Golden Globe nomination, the third for the role of Roman Roy in the Golden Globe-winning drama series Succession.

2021 was the breakthrough year for the former dancer, model, and actress Margaret Qualley. At 27, she's finally and fully showing all her acting talents with her first leading role, that of a struggling single mother in the acclaimed Netflix miniseries Maid, which has led to her first Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Limited series.

Peter Dinklage likes playing smart people. His entire career is a testament to that.

After being nominated previously for Best Television Actress in a Drama Series for four consecutive years, from 2016 to 2019, for her work in the time-travel historical drama adventure series Outlander, Caitriona Balfe is now a nominee on the film side as well, with a nod for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her turn opposite Jamie Dornan in Kenneth Branagh’s tender coming-of-age tale Belfast. Born in 1979 in Dublin, Ireland, Balfe grew up in the small town of Tydavnet, in a large family with four biological siblings and two foster siblings, where her parents instilled a love of reading at an early age.