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There’s a pivotal scene in the upcoming thriller Defending Jacob, in which Michelle Dockery and Chris Evans, who play the parents of a young boy accused of murdering his classmate, are ambushed by a barrage of news cameras and paparazzi. Dockery, 38, is all too familiar with this kind of jarring attention since landing her breakout role as Lady Mary Crawley in the hit series Downton Abbey.

In 2009, Iranian American actress Shohreh Aghdashloo became the first Iranian woman to win an Emmy for her performance as Saddam Hussein’s wife in the HBO miniseries House of Saddam. She is also the first woman from the Middle East to be nominated for an Oscar for her role in House of Sand and Fog.

Janelle Monáe headlines Season Two of the Amazon series Homecoming, directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez and featuring a different storyline from that of season one, which was directed by Sam Esmail and starred Julia Roberts, who continues to serve as executive producer.   Steven James and Hong Chau return, while Chris Cooper and Joan Cusack are added to the cast.

Luckily, most people only have to navigate the treacherous waters of High School once; but for Beanie Feldstein, that experience has now been endured three times, cinematically at least. “I am very fond of this trio of works,” the 26-year-old Golden Globe nominee declares about her appearance in the films Lady Bird, Booksmart, and the just-released How To Build A Girl, each of which transports the actress back to those formative teenage years.

In the third installment of our quest to find out which are the stars' favorite movies, we learn how other people's work - actors, directors, writers - shape our interviewees' own performances.

In part II of our exploration of fandom by stars (with fans of their own.

Do stars watch their own movies? Some do, but others steer clear of them. Claudia Cardinale recently told the Hollywood Foreign Press that she isn’t nostalgic but might watch a film of hers if it is shown on television.

Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. When a boyfriend dumps you, all you do is refuse a partnership at a top law firm, throw away the Xanax, and stalk him to LA.

Joan Blondell, two times Golden Globe nominee, will be celebrated in a five-week series of screenings, with 14 of her movies being shown at the Billy Wilder Theater of the Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles, starting om Friday, November 4.   The movies were restored by the University of California Los Angeles Film Archives, one of the leading film restoration institutions in the world, and a frequent recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's restoration grants.