79th Golden Globe Awards

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.

Funnyman Martin Short reteamed with his longtime friend and collaborator Steve Martin in the Golden Globes-nominated Only Murders in the Building (for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy), and received his first Golden Globe nomination as Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, putting Short and Martin up against each other in the same category. The show follows three New York apartment residents, played by Martin, Short and Selena Gomez, who share a passion for the same true-crime podcast.

Paul Thomas Anderson, Alana Haim, and her sisters Este and Danielle have one very important thing in common: the San Fernando Valley. Or, as locals would say, ‘the Valley.

Playing one of the most intriguing figures in the smashing TV series Squid Game, South Korean actor Oh Young-soo received his very first Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role on Television. His character, Player 001, is an elderly man with a brain tumor who seems to prefer the mortal dangers of a brutal game to the routine of the outside world.

Hannah Waddingham, a London native, whose work encompasses television, film, and musical theater, received her first Golden Globe nomination this year for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role on Television. She plays Rebecca Welton, the new owner of AFC Richmond, in the Apple TV+ comedy series and Golden Globe winner Ted Lasso.

The 79th Golden Globe awards will mark Elizabeth Olsen’s first nomination for her role as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision in the category of Best Performance as an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.   Olsen, 32, was born and raised in Los Angeles.

If a world of increased specialization has led to a decline in renaissance-type professional exploration, word of that thankfully somehow hasn’t reached Mark Duplass. His varied career has served as an outward manifestation of his boundless intellectual curiosity.

The year 2021 might well be called Oscar Isaac’s year: this year, the Golden Globe winner has been seen in three critically acclaimed projects, all of which premiered globally at the Venice Film Festival: The Card Counter by Paul Schrader, Dune by Denis Villeneuve and HBOs Scenes from a Marriage – it was the last that brought him his third Golden Globe nomination. This year he was nominated for Best Actor – Limited, Series, Anthology or a Motion Picture made for Television – for the role of Jonathan Levy in an English-language remake of Ingmar Bergman’s iconic television series of the same name created by Hagai Levi.