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Sam Song Li is currently starring opposite Maggie Cheung and Justin Chien in the hit Netflix series The Brothers Sun. Born in China, he was raised in Southern California, periodically spending time abroad in various regions of China and Hong Kong. Li attended the University of California, Berkeley and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Shortly after graduating, Li found massive success on social media and became a globally popular comedy creator garnering millions of subscribers and billions of views online. Li then caught the industry&#8217;s attention after being cast opposite Simu Liu in Women is Losers, which went on to premiere at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival. Also in 2021, Li was cast opposite Patrick Fabian in AMC&#8217;s Better Call Saul, earning him his first television credit. (Photo by Ziyang Wang.)

Sam Song Li

Film

Best of 2023: Sam Song Li on Past Lives

Award-winning actor Daniel Brühl, who currently stars in the new sports thriller <a href="https://www.lionsgate.com/movies/race-for-glory-audi-vs-lancia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia</a>, broke through as a performer with his role in the German film Good Bye, Lenin! Quentin Tarantino brought him to Hollywood for Inglourious Basterds and he played Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda in Ron Howard&#8217;s Rush, which earned him a nomination at the Golden Globe Awards 2014. He has also starred in films such as The Fifth Estate and Captain America: Civil War, and in 2019 he produced and starred in Julie Delpy’s My Zoe. In 2018, he starred in the title role of the series The Alienist, based on the international best-selling novel by Caleb Carr, for which he was nominated as Best Actor at the Golden Globe Awards 2019, and resumed his role as Zemo in Marvel&#8217;s 2021 series The Falcon &amp; the Winter Soldier. With his production company, Amusement Park, he produced All Quiet on the Western Front, inspired by the best-selling novel by Erich Maria Remarque. In 2022, he made his directorial debut with Next Door from a script by best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann based on an idea of Brühl; he also starred in the movie and produced it through Amusement Park.

Daniel Brühl

Best of 2023: Daniel Brühl on Past Lives

Addie Warncke is a New York City-based musician who performs as Computerwife. Her self-titled debut LP is out now on Danger Collective. 
(Photo Credit: Lizzie Klein)

Computerwife

Music

Best of 2023: Computerwife Got to Live the “Chop Suey” Video

Tom Gilroy has written and directed three award-winning films, the critically-acclaimed features Spring Forward and The Cold Lands, and the short Touch Base, as well as the shorts <a href="https://vimeo.com/424310345" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#WaynesvilleStrong</a>, Mr Sycamore, and his collaboration with R.E.M., It Happened Today. With his theatre company, Machine Full, Gilroy mounted over a dozen critically acclaimed productions of his own plays as well as the multimedia production of Hamlet. His new project is Our Lady of the Snow, with Isabella Rosselini, Grace Zabriskie, Jared Harris, Ian Hart, and Lili Taylor.

Tom Gilroy

Best of 2023: Tom Gilroy on The Holdovers

Johanna Samuels is a singer-songwriter based in LA. Her latest record, Excelsior!, is out now on Mama Bird Recording Co.

Johanna Samuels

Best of 2023: Johanna Samuels Thinks It Was an Awesome Year for Records

10 years ago this April, Chicago’s Ratboys put out their first collection of songs. The RATBOY EP, consisting of five indie-folk dorm room recordings, was free to download on Bandcamp and humbly passed around to friends on social media. 
Cut to 2021, and Ratboys would normally be celebrating their 10-year anniversary on the road, playing a mix of songs from their very first release to their most recent, last year’s critically-acclaimed Printer’s Devil. Instead, just two weeks after the album’s February 2020 release and mere days before heading out on their first headline tour, the COVID-19 pandemic forced all touring to a halt. Despite not being able to play in-person shows for the past year, Ratboys has managed to stay busy by performing their music online via their own Virtual Tour series and by finding a different way to celebrate their first decade of being a band.

Ratboys

Best of 2023: Sufjan Stevens’s Javelin Blew Ratboys Away

Foyer Red is a Brooklyn-based rock band. Their latest album Yarn the Hours Away is out now via Carpark Records.

Foyer Red

Best of 2023: Foyer Red Got Really Into Trumpets This Year

Ellen Kempner is the vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for the Boston and New York-based indie rock trio Palehound. Their latest record, Eye on the Bat, is out now Polyvinyl.

El Kempner

Best of 2023: Palehound Was Late to the Game with Wednesday

Jennifer Morrison&lt; is renowned for her exceptional talent as an actor, director, and producer, as she is gearing up to unleash her creative prowess as a director in the highly anticipated second installment of Peacock&#8217;s gripping limited series &lt;Dr. Death&lt;. You’ll remember Jennifer from her lead roles as Dr. Allison Cameron on the Emmy Award winning medical drama &lt;House,&lt; Emma Swan in &lt;Once Upon a Time&lt;, &lt;How I Met Your Mother&lt; and most recently a guest-starring role on &lt;This Is Us&lt;. She has previously directed for various projects, including the pilot of Peacock’s &lt;One of Us Is Lying&lt;, &lt;Euphoria&lt; and the 2017 comedy-drama film &lt;Sun Dogs&lt;, which was also produced through her production company, Apartment 3C Productions, which was launched in 2016. In addition to her directorial work, last year, Jennifer launched the book club, &lt;, via her production company, ,&lt; to spotlight previously unheard voices, authors with diverse backgrounds and generally writers who would not otherwise have the opportunity to be highlighted this way.

Jennifer Morrison

Best of 2023: Jennifer Morrison on Welcome to Wrexham

Joseph Shabason is a Toronto-based saxophonist. His new record, Welcome To Hell, is out now via Western Vinyl.

Joseph Shabason

Best of 2023: Joseph Shabason Says Allegra Krieger’s Record is an “All-Timer”

Jason Isaacs, who is currently playing Cary Grant in the BritBox series Archie, has won or been nominated for many awards including a Golden Globe, BAFTA, International Emmy, Critics&#8217; Circle, Satellite, SAG and Critics&#8217; Choice Awards amongst others. His extensive film credits include the Harry Potter film series, playing Lucius Malfoy; Armando lanucci&#8217;s The Death Of Stalin, The Patriot, Black Hawk Down, Fury, Green Zone, Event Horizon, Armageddon, The End of the Affair and Friends with Money. He also starred in Fran Kranz&#8217;s Mass opposite Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton and Reed Birney, with the film and Jason receiving multiple awards and nominations, including winning the Robert Altman Award at the 2022 Spirit Awards. On television, Jason was most recently seen in The Crowded Room for Apple TV+, in the cult hits The OA and Sex Education for Netflix, and as Captain Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery. Previously he has starred in Case Histories, The State Within, The Curse of Steptoe, Civvies, Brotherhood, Awake and Dig, and has made guest appearances in The West Wing and Entourage, amongst others. (Photo by David Reiss.)

Jason Isaacs

Best of 2023: Jason Isaacs on Everything Now

Greg Mendez is a singer-songwriter based in Philly. His latest record, Greg Mendez, is out now.
(Photo Credit: Veronica Mendez)

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