Nominee Profiles 2022

Kate Winslet is enjoying her 12th Golden Globe nomination in the category Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series for Mare of Easttown, the acclaimed HBO series for which she has already won an Emmy. She plays police detective Mare Sheehan in a small Pennsylvania town, investigating a murder while trying to keep her family and her life from falling apart.

Aunjanue Ellis owes her unusual first name to the creativity of her mother, who lived in Bohemian San Francisco where Aunjanue was born in 1969: “It gets mispronounced all the time,” she laughs. Despite her birthplace, Ellis, 52, is deeply rooted in Mississippi, the place where her family is from, and where she still has a house.

Barely three years old, Elle Fanning was already acting in front of the camera in the film I Am Sam and the mini-series, Taken. Twenty years later, Fanning is a full-fledged actress, with numerous films and television shows to her credit.

Good comic timing and a sense of humor are highly personal traits. But in the grand debate of nature-versus-nurture, it surely doesn’t hurt to grow up in a whip-smart environment where rejoinders and impressions are part of one’s daily diet, every bit as much as food and water.

Ciarán Hinds grew up about half a mile from Kenneth Branagh’s childhood home in Belfast. Thus, when he read Branagh’s semi-autobiographical coming of age story based on memories from a childhood spent in those familiar streets, he connected to it instantly.

Michael Keaton has been a movie star for almost four decades. In fact, his turn as an obnoxious poltergeist in Beetlejuice (1988) was considered a comeback for the Pittsburgh actor who´d become a household name after starring in 1983s Mr.

He burst onto the scene with Good Will Hunting in 1998 and his career trajectory has been steep ever since. Ben Affleck, now 49, was born in Berkeley, California, but grew up in the university town of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was also the setting of his breakthrough film.

Some people who dismissed Lady Gaga before as simply a passing trend are eating their words now. The postmodern diva, Lady Gaga, not only proved to everyone that she can sing and compose but that she can also act.

With those big blue eyes that enchanted the world in hits such as La La Land, Birdman, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Golden Globe winner Emma Stone is now ready to show that she can also play mean, and do it well. Playing the title role in Cruella as the younger version of the fur-crazy vamp from Disney's classic cartoon 101 Dalmatians, this time around she is about to go head-to-head with the more sophisticated designer Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson).

From playing a gold-digging dog owner in Best in Show, an unlucky-in-love manicurist in Legally Blonde, and, of course, Stifler’s mom in the American Pie franchise. Jennifer Coolidge has made a career as one of the most versatile comediennes ever to grace the big and the small screen.