Nominee Profiles 2022

She was only 18 months when she started humming a song, her mother said. She remembers the first time on stage when she was five, a shepherd in a nativity singing ‘Silent Night.

“What does it say? I beat Meryl Streep,” joked Jennifer Lawrence from the stage as she won her first Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for the 2012 Silver Linings Playbook directed by David O. Russell.

Most seniors in high school are fixated on two main concerns; getting into the college of their choice and making sure their senior year is astonishing. Rachel Zegler added a third.

Her art mirrors her life more than that of any other performer. Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, who first started her career under the short form of her first name, MJ Rodriguez, became a superstar in Ryan Murphy’s series Pose about the lives, loves and challenges of transgender people.

Deaf since birth, Golden Globe nominee Troy Kotsur gives one of the breakthrough performances of the year in CODA. Kotsur’s funny, irreverent father and fisherman, Frank Rossi, is often cited as one of the key reasons why audiences are embracing CODA since it premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where it won four honors – including the Grand Jury Prize, Best Ensemble and the Audience Award.

HBO’s Succession, a dysfunctional family drama-comedy set against a high-stakes backdrop of cyclical scheming and betrayal at a massive multimedia conglomerate, offers its ensemble cast no shortage of delicious dialogue and barbed one-liners. But Sarah Snook, honored this year with her first Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film, also serves up the show’s most expansive rolodex of highly GIF-worthy nonverbal reactions, from arched-brow bemusement and expressions of withering judgment to sublimated anger and swallowed denials of pain.

Actor Tahar Rahim, who grew up in an Algerian family in Belfort, in eastern France, says that from his teenage years, he was in "semi-hypnosis" whenever he was watching a movie. “It was a teenager’s dream,” he told the HFPA of his attraction to the world of acting.

For 39-year-old New York City native Kieran Culkin, this year’s Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor-Television marks a wonderful moment in his career but is not the first one in his young and brave trajectory. This is his fourth Golden Globe nomination, the third for the role of Roman Roy in the Golden Globe-winning drama series Succession.

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.