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Desi Lydic, currently nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series, joined The Daily Show with Trevor Noah as a Correspondent in September 2015 when Noah started his tenure as host. She is a professionally trained improvisational and comedic actress who studied and performed at The Groundlings and Improv Olympic. In 2020’s half-hour special, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Remembering RBG – A Nation Ugly Cries with Desi Lydic, Desi explored the remarkable life and legacy of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her first one-hour Comedy Central special, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents Desi Lydic: Abroad, premiered in May 2019 and received a Writers Guild Award Nomination. Desi also had a starring role on MTV’s hit comedy series Awkward and her other credits include FXX’s The League and Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo.

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Three Great Things: Desi Lydic

Jay Chandrasekhar’s new movie as director, <a href="https://www.universalpictures.com/movies/easter-sunday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Easter Sunday</a>, in which he also plays a supporting role, is now in theaters. Chandrasekhar is an American comedian, film director, screenwriter and actor best known for his work with the sketch comedy troupe Broken Lizard, directing and starring in the group’s films, including Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest and Super Troopers 2. He is also a prolific director for television, helming episodes of shows such as Community, Chuck, Psych, Arrested Development, Fresh Off the Boat, New Girl, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Superstore and The Goldbergs.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Three Great Things: Jay Chandrasekhar

Patton Oswalt, who is currently starring in the comedy drama<a href="http://www.magpictures.com/ilovemydad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> I Love My Dad</a>, out now in theaters and on digital, is a multi-hyphenate talent (actor, writer, comedian) and award-winning performer known for his comedy specials and more than 200 film and television roles, including Parks and Recreation, for which he received a TV Critics Choice Award, and The King of Queens. He recently co-created M.O.D.O.K., the Marvel stop-motion animated adult comedy series in which he voices the title character, and currently co-stars as Principal Durbin in the NBC comedy A.P. Bio. Oswalt was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for his performance in Jason Reitman’s film Young Adult, starring opposite Charlize Theron, and was nominated for a Gotham Award for his role in the 2009 drama Big Fan. He provided the voices for Remy the rat in Brad Bird’s Oscar-winning Ratatouille and Max in The Secret Life of Pets, and played one of the “white voices” in the acclaimed indie hit Sorry To Bother You, the directorial debut of Boots Riley. He is also the narrator on ABC’s hit comedy The Goldbergs and has also voiced characters on TV shows such as The Boys, Family Guy, Rick and Morty, Archer, BoJack Horseman, The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Patton Oswalt

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Wes Studi, who is currently starring opposite Dale Dickey in the light romantic drama <a href="https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/a-love-song" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Love Song</a>, has seen his career journey take him from small-town Oklahoma native to internationally acclaimed actor and musician. Studi credits his passion and multifaceted background for powerful character portrayals that forever changed a Hollywood stereotype. Drawing from his rich life experience, Studi moved audiences with unforgettable performances in Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans, Geronimo: An American Legend, Heat, Avatar, Being Flynn and Hostiles. Breaking new ground, he brought fully developed Native American characters to the screen, and then took his craft a step further by highlighting the success of Native Americans in nontraditional roles. In 2019, Studi received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Award, an Oscar® statuette given to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement.

Wes Studi

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Clio Barnard’s latest feature, Ali &amp; Ava, starring Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook, is out now in theaters through Greenwich Entertainment. Her first feature-length documentary film, The Arbor, about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar, received huge critical success on its release in 2010 and won many awards numerous awards. Her second feature, The Selfish Giant, premiered in 2013 as part of Cannes Director’s Fortnight, where it won the Europa Cinema Label Award for Best European Film, and her follow-up, Dark River, starring Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean, premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. She recently directed the television adaptation of The Essex Serpent, starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston.

Clio Barnard

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Award-winning actor, writer, and comedian-presenter Sally Phillips is currently starring in the comedy <a href="http://www.brainmedia.com/films/how-to-please-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Please a Woman</a>, which opens in theaters on July 29. She is known for her roles in I’m Alan Partridge, Smack the Pony, Green Wing and Miranda. She is also Clare in Radio 4’s Sony Award-winning Clare in the Community, Shazzer in the Bridget Jones trilogy and Minna Hakkinen, former Finnish PM in Veep. In 2016, she fronted the BBC2 documentary A World Without Down’s Syndrome?, exploring the UK screening policy’s ethical implications. It won the Radio Times Readers Awards and Sandord St Martin Awards for Best Single Documentary and was shown worldwide. In 2019 Sally and Ronni Ancona founded the production company Captain Dolly, a subsidiary of Film Soho, and they have scripts in development for both film and TV. Sally is currently writing The Wedding with Nisti Sterk and Nick Hornby for the Swedish Production company, Jarowski. Most recently Sally became the host of Sunday Morning Live, co-presenting with Sean Fletcher. (Photo by David Dare Parker.)

Sally Phillips

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Alex Horne is an award-winning comedian, author and podcaster, and the creator and host of the award-winning comedy game show Taskmaster, whose tenth season is now streaming on <a href="https://taskmastersupermaxplus.vhx.tv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taskmaster Supermax+</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/Taskmaster/playlists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a>. Alex is also the creator and frontman of The Horne Section, a six-piece band of multitalented musicians, which will have its own sitcom later in 2022. This follows the band’s establishment as a staple at the Edinburgh Fringe, appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and the release of the iTunes chart-topping The Horne Section Podcast.

Alex Horne

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Jon Daly is an actor, comedian, and musician you may recognize from Kroll Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Parks and Rec, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Bob’s Burger’s or Comedy Bang Bang. His debut album, Ding Dong Delicious (Northern Spy Records), now available for download and on baby blue vinyl, features an incredible lineup of players and picks up where his Lil Xan diss track “I’m Your Dad” and his internet breaking Red Hot Chili Peppers spoof “Abracadabralifornia” left off, landing somewhere between pure silliness and pop sublimity. On the album, Daly provides vocals and saxophone and is joined by multi-instrumentalist Cyrus Gharemani (Man Man) and a cast of musicians including Mary Timony (Helium, Ex Hex), Nick Thornburn (Islands), Colleen Green, Devendra Banhart, Joe Wong (The Midnight Gospel).

Jon Daly

Three Great Things: Jon Daly

Zawe Ashton is a British actress, playwright, author and director who is currently starring in the period romantic dramedy <a href="https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/mr-malcolms-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Malcolm’s List</a>, opposite Freida Pinto and Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù. Ashton’s portrayal of Vod in Channel 4’s Fresh Meat won her a cult following, and her other credits include the BBC/Netflix series Wanderlust and the feature Velvet Buzzsaw, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Toni Collette and Rene Russo. She recently wrapped production on Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, opposite Brie Larson and Teyonah Parris. Ashton recently starred in both the West End and on Broadway in the critically acclaimed revival of Betrayal, with Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Cox. In addition to being an accomplished actress, Ashton has also established herself as an award-winning writer, producer and director. She was the youngest winner of the London Poetry Slam Championship in 2000. Her debut play, Harm’s Way, was nominated for a Verity Bargate Award in 2007 and her directorial debut, Happy Toys, was nominated for Best British Short at the Raindance Film Festival in 2014. Ashton’s play For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad was produced in London at the Hackney Showroom and at Soho Rep in New York. Her novel Character Breakdown was published by Penguin Books in 2019.

Zawe Ashton

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Nico Muhly is a New York-based composer and songwriter. He has collaborated with Björk, the National, Philip Glass, Usher, Antony and the Johnsons and Bonnie &#8220;Prince&#8221; Billy, among others. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/nicomuhly">here</a> and visit his website <a href="http://nicomuhly.com/">here</a>.

Nico Muhly

Three Great Things: Nico Muhly

Cecilia Suárez can currently be seen in the indie horror-thriller <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSbEpwQIdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Passenger</a>, directed by Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez which is out now through Dark Star Pictures, and the ABC drama Promised Land, opposite John Ortiz. For three seasons, she starred in the hit Netflix series set in Mexico, La Casa de las Flores, and became the first Mexican actress to be nominated for an international Emmy® Award for her role in the HBO series Capadocia. Her other recent TV credits include Amazon Prime&#8217;s 3 Caminos and Lifetime&#8217;s For the People and her past film work includes Overboard, James L. Brooks Spanglish, and Tommy Lee Jones’ Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Based on her long track record of public advocacy for gender equality in her home country of Mexico, Suárez was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to be a U.N. Global Advocate for the Spotlight Initiative, the world&#8217;s largest targeted effort to end all forms of violence against women and girls.

Cecilia Suárez

Three Great Things: Cecilia Suárez

Jim Broadbent is an Academy Award®, BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning theatre, film and television actor who is currently starring with Helen Mirren in <a href="https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/theduke/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Duke</a>, which is in theaters from April 22 through Sony Pictures Classics. He is best known for roles in Iris (for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes), Moulin Rouge (for which he was awarded the BAFTA for performance in a Supporting Role) and the Harry Potter franchise. He was BAFTA nominated most recently for his role alongside Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady. He has appeared in the romantic comedy drama Le Week-End (for which he was nominated for a British Independent Film Award as Best Actor), Paul King’s critically acclaimed Paddington films, Nicholas Hytner’s Lady in the Van, Sharon Maguire’s Bridget Jones’s Baby and Ritesh Batra’s A Sense of an Ending. Since his film debut in 1978, Broadbent has appeared in countless successful and acclaimed films, establishing a long-running collaboration with Mike Leigh (Life is Sweet, Topsy-Turvy, Vera Drake and Another Year) and demonstrating his talents as a character actor in films as diverse as The Crying Game, Bullets Over Broadway, Little Voice, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Hot Fuzz, The Damned United and Cloud Atlas. Also honored for his extensive work on television, Broadbent won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for his performance in Tom Hooper’s Lomgford and an Emmy for his performance in The Street for which he won an Emmy, while his earlier role in The Gathering Storm earned him Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.

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