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Arab American Actor Sayed Badreya, realized a childhood dream by winning roles in major Hollywood films such as Iron Man, The Insider, Three Kings, and Independence Day. He's also a renowned advocate for human rights and enriching the American culture through films and television.

He currently stars as Puppy in Bury the Bride, a horror movie which he also produced, but Chaz Bono has been acting for over a decade in – among others – American Horror Story Roanoke, American Horror Story Cult and Curb Your Enthusiasm. The son of Cher and Sonny Bono sat down with the HFPA's Jenny Cooney for an in-depth interview about his life, that time his mom forced him to take an acting class and watching The Exorcist with his grandparents at the tender age of nine years old.

John Leguizamo's Violent Night is out on home entertainment, and the HFPA's Scott Orlin got a chance to talk with the actor/producer in depth about it. Don't miss this exclusive interview.

Times were different when Greek American George Chakiris was cast as the lead Puerto-Rican character in the original West Side Story. It was not his first Hollywood role.

Creator Ryan Murphy turns his lens on the golden years of post-World War II Hollywood for his lush new Netflix series, Hollywood. The series combines familiar names like Rock Hudson with Ryan's own vision of an alternate Hollywood history as he centers his story on a group aspiring actors and filmmakers who challenge the then studio system of exclusion and prejudice.

Renée Zellweger takes on the iconic role of singer/actress Judy Garland in Judy directed by Rupert Gold.  Set 30 years after starring in The Wizard of Oz, when the spotlight of her stardom has dimmed, she arrives in London as a last-ditch attempt to revive her career and finances to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub, where her troubled past (shown in flashbacks to her childhood spent in the MGM studio system) takes its toll emotionally and the fragile singer struggles to be back in front of an audience.

With the arrival of Captain Marvel on screen, the first solo female superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney is asserting her considerable power by creating a vibrant origin story and establishing the Captain's position as one of the most powerful Avengers - her return in the upcoming Avengers: Endgame is already certainGolden Globe winner Brie Larson, better known for her nuanced performances in independent cinema - like the Golden Globe-nominated Room - plays Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel). The movie introduces a feisty, sarcastic, and physical Danvers who is trying to not only unlock the secrets of her past but harness the superhero powers she has.

The overarching theme of Downton Abbey was in a sense always the inexorable passage of time, and the end of the gilded Edwardian era. So it is as fitting as it is inevitable that the hugely successful and multiple Golden Globe nominated series itself would come to an end.

Ryan Murphy’s new anthology series American Crime Story has become must see TV with its take on the best-known celebrity trial ever. As a singularly unifying moment, the “OJ trial” stands alongside 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination as one of the defining “I remember where I was” moments in American popular culture.

Wagner Moura is a bona fide star in his native Brazil having worked in film, television and theater. He has acted in numerous telenovelas, a wildly popular genre in his home country, and gained worldwide notoriety after playing Captain Roberto Nascimento in José Padilha’s police drama Elite Squad.