Nominee Profiles 2022

It takes a flamboyant, talented Billy Porter to inhabit a character like Pray Tell, the colorful and matriarchal emcee of the drag balls in New York, and mentor to members of the community, especially the members of the House of Evangelista in the Ryan Murphy TV series, Pose. The 52-year-old actor-singer-author from Pittsburgh, who was included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020, got two Golden Globe nominations in the past for his portrayal of Pray Tell in Pose – in 2019 and 2020 for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama.

The HFPA immediately embraced The Morning Show when it premiered on the then brand new Apple+ streaming service back in 2019: with its take on the role of women in talk TV and the #MeToo anti-harassment angle on the work-place, the show, produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston (and Reese Witherspoon), was a case of love at first sight for almost all. Aniston was nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Actress in a TV series, as she is now for Season 2 of The Morning Show.

The camera pans slowly following Jessica Chastain's every move, from the restroom to the bedroom, down the stairs into the living room where she finally sits on the sofa next to her husband (played by Oscar Isaac) in front of a couples’ counselor. It's the opening tracking shot of HBO's Scenes from a Marriage where Chastain's talent and versatility are subtly displayed.

When British stage, film and TV actress Olivia Colman won her first Golden Globe in 2017 for the mini-series The Night Manager, she was conspicuously absent from the Beverly Hilton. In fact, she could be found on another stage more than five and a half thousand miles away.

Whether he’s playing a sociopathic hitman, pirate, underwear model/bullfighter, detective or painter, Javier Angel Encinas Bardem seems to have no boundaries to the unique creative stamp he puts on every role he inhabits on screen. Now the 52-year-old Spanish native enters the fray as bandleader, singer, and television pioneer, portraying Desi Arnaz in Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, which earned the actor his fifth Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama (he previously won for No Country for Old Men).

While multitudes of young aspiring actors dream of seeing their names on the big screen, there’s the rare case of the unexpected star. Cooper Hoffman is the most recent example.

British actor Nicholas Hoult is having a time of his life…on the small screen. The movie star, who is globally famous for his mutant superhero character Hank McCoy, aka Beast in the X-Men franchise, has turned to TV to play Peter III in Hulu’s original series The Great.

Born in a family of actors, Benedict Cumberbatch has been many people, on stage or in front of a camera – and sometimes not even in his own body. From the supporting parts that, in the 00s, launched him in the Hollywood universe – in The Ends of the Earth, Atonement, The Other Boleyn Girl, Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy – to his unforgettable Sherlock in the BBC/PBS series, Cumberbatch has been heroes, villains, soldiers, scientists, artists, nobles, kings, the occasional dragon, the Grinch and, of course, a superhero doctor.

“I grew up six miles outside of Belfast,” Jamie Dornan reminisced to the HPFA last year. “Although it’s fairly connected to the city, it still would be considered rural.

While Ariana DeBose just scored her first Golden Globe nomination for her electrifying performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s cinematic rebirth of the classic musical West Side Story, it was a role the North Carolina native initially wanted to pass on. “I remember thinking this was definitely not a role for me,” she revealed during the press for the film.