actors

Some life stories are just too good to resist. From Hollywood’s earliest days, actors have been playing their peers.

An Egyptian business major student finishes his second year of college. As he enjoys a break in New York, he gets the news that he failed his exams.

We nominated him four times and gave him a Golden Globe in 1987 as Best Television Actor – Musical/Comedy Series, for the ‘80s hit TV series Moonlighting. We had lengthy conversations with him 10 times, from September 1989 to February 2013.

Danish actor Thomas Levin's life changed when he saw Al Pacino’s semi-documentary Looking for Richard. He realized acting was the most interesting job in the world.

If historians look back on noteworthy cultural stepping stones from the year 2003, some might point to the Challenger disaster, the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California, the premiere league debut of Ronaldo for Manchester United or even the completion of the Human Genome Project. But for any teenager during that time, the weight of the world belonged to The O.

The hunched old man in an ill-fitting suit shuffles through what seems to be a receiving line of uniformed people. There are few words spoken as he shakes hands with some, pins a swastika medal on another, gently touches the shoulder of a woman, all with trembling hands, before disappearing into a bunker with the wife he has just married.

Let’s talk about sex: Asa Butterfield stars in the Netflix series Sex Education. He plays Otis Milburn, an insecure teenager who starts to give sex advice to his fellow students.

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.

In 2018, when Iceland’s most expensive television show Trapped was playing on British television, the Guardian described its star, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, this way: “He’s huge, he’s hairy – and he’s the hottest man in Iceland,” rhapsodizing that the show was ‘raging like a blizzard in BBC4’s primetime Saturday night slot. ’The show was a worldwide success.

Before an actor goes on stage in the theater, in a nod to superstition, it is accepted to tell them to ‘break a leg' to wish them good luck. Somehow Scott Eastwood took the term a bit too literally and showed up in Bulgaria to begin shooting The Outpost with a broken ankle.