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Curtiss Cook was a single father of three, who had to go on welfare at one point before his acting career took off. Now he stars in Showtime’s hit series The Chi, where he plays Chicago South Side businessman and hustler, Otis “Douda” Perry.

Sarah Wayne Callies had already appeared on shows like The Walking Dead, Prison Break, and Colony but was considering quitting acting. Then the new NBC show Council of Dads came along and changed Callies’ mind.

Zoë Chao plays Dakota Johnson’s best friend in The High Note (Focus) with Tracee Ellis Ross, directed by Nisha Ganatra, who had directed Late Night with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling. Chao is also Anna Kendrick’s roommate in the anthology series Love Life (HBO Max).

When the COVID-19 health crisis hit California hard, Sean Penn was not going to stay at home and do nothing. He knew there was a need for help from his non-profit organization, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), which he founded with Ann Lee in 2010.

No premieres. No red carpets.

Olivia Munn has starred in several movies and TV shows, including Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, X-Men: Apocalypse, and The Lego Ninjago Movie.  With plenty more work on the horizon, she’s currently starring in the Netflix comedy Love Wedding Repeat, in which she plays an American war journalist who reconnects with her former roommate’s brother at a lavish wedding.

In October 2018, when she was only 19, Amandla Stenberg was featured on the cover of TIME magazine as a Next Generation Leader. At the time she had just starred in The Hate U Give, directed by George Tillman Jr.

Remember the word or phrase of the year that is revealed at the end of every twelve months? It has never been easier to bet on what it will be this time at the end of 2020. “Social Distancing” is a term born out of a pandemic that most of us could have never anticipated.

Annie Hägg has played a Swede on Law & Order: SVU, a Ukrainian on FBI: Most Wanted and a German on The Blacklist. She also used her gift for languages alongside Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in the Amazon original series Hunters where she spoke exclusively in Polish, Yiddish, and German.

The breakout star can be seen alongside Cate Blanchett and Rose Byrne in FX’s new drama miniseries Mrs. America.