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Kiersey Clemons is a multi-faceted actress who is currently starring opposite Leon Bridges in the drama The Young Wife. She recently played Iris West the DC film The Flash and costarred opposite Janelle Monáe in the dramatic thriller Antebellum. Her film credits also include the Disney+ CGI / live action feature Lady and the Tramp, the music-themed dramedy Hearts Beat Loud, Marc Webb’s Only Living Boy in New York and An L.A Minute, which she also co-produced. On TV, she has voiced roles in the animated TV series Fairfax and Bojack Horseman. Clemons made her mark on the industry in 2015 with her role as “Diggy” innRick Famuyiwa’s hit comedy Dope, which received the Grand Jury prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win an AAFCA as well as nominations for BET Award, GLAAD Media Award and an NAACP Image Award. In addition to acting, Clemons is a classically trained musician who has collaborated with Grammy Award-winning producer/artist Pharrell Williams on multiple tracks and whose vocals can be heard in a handful of projects including Dope, Transparent and Hearts Beat Loud. (Photo courtesy Republic Pictures, a Paramount Pictures label.)

Kiersey Clemons

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Three Great Things: Kiersey Clemons

Susan Kelechi Watson starred as Beth Pearson on This is Us, winning awards and widespread acclaim for her performance. In addition to starring in the series, Watson penned an episode of the upcoming final season. Her other TV credits include Netflix’s animated series Ada Twist, Scientist, a major recurring role on Louie, and appearances on numerous other TV shows including The Blacklist, Divorce, Private Practice and Law &amp; Order. In film she starred in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Peter and John and Small Moving Parts. On stage she most recently starred in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in The Park production of Merry Wives. As a producer, Watson executive produced and starred in the acclaimed HBO special of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. Watson’s first foray into producing was the film Premature, which debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by IFC Films. Watson is also a proud Epic NEXT youth development mentor with the Epic Theatre Ensemble, a professional theater company with a mission to promote vital civic discourse and social change through drama.

Susan Kelechi Watson

Three Great Things: Susan Kelechi Watson

John Early is an actor, comedian, writer and producer. His new comedy drama, <a href="https://neonrated.com/films/stress-positions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stress Positions</a>, which he stars in and produced, is out April 19 through Neon. His HBO stand-up special, Now More Than Ever, was released to critical acclaim in June 2023. John is currently nominated for an Emmy award for his A24 sketch special Would it Kill You To Laugh, co-created with his partner Kate Berlant. He starred in five seasons of the critically acclaimed dark comedy series Search Party and co-starred in the comedy series The Afterparty with Tiffany Haddish. He wrote, starred and executive produced his own episode of The Characters and the critically-acclaimed web series 555, also with Berlant. In the New York theater world, he produced a revival of Wallace Shawn&#8217;s Marie and Bruce and directed Jacqueline Novak&#8217;s hit off-Broadway show Get on Your Knees. Early’s film feature credits include Neighbors 2, Beatriz at Dinner, The Disaster Artist, and Other People. He can also be seen in Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, Broad City, High Maintenance, 30 Rock, I Think You Should Leave, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Portlandia and HBO’s Los Espookys. (Photo by Michael Tyrone Delaney.)

John Early

Three Great Things: John Early

Stephen Moyer&#8216;s new film as a director, A Bit of Light, starring Anna Paquin and Ray Winstone, is now in theaters, on demand and on digital. His passion for acting began in local theatre in Brentwood and Chelmsford, Essex where he also made a name for himself with his own theatre company, The Reject Society. He then trained at LAMDA and began his professional acting career on stage, including two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the world premiere of Pete Townshend&#8217;s rock opera The Iron Man at the Young Vic. He is best known for co-starring with Anna Paquin in Alan Ball&#8217;s Golden Globe-nominated show for HBO, True Blood (2008) as the 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton. Moyer, who can currently be seen in Paramount +’s Sexy Beast, the final two episodes of which he directed, also helmed several episodes of True Blood as well as Amazon Prime Video’s Flack, starring Paquin and executive produced by the pair. He made his feature directing debut with The Parting Glass, also produced by Moyer and Paquin.

Stephen Moyer

Three Great Things: Stephen Moyer

Tye Sheridan is currently starring in the lead role in the new drama <a href="https://www.asphaltcityfilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asphalt City</a>, opposite Sean Penn, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Kali Reis, Michael Carmen Pitt, Katherine Waterston and Mike Tyson. He made his on-screen film debut at 11 in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film festival. He has since worked with some of the most creative filmmakers of our time, including Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader, George Clooney, Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, and Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire. For his performance in Joe he received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best upcoming young actor at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013. In 2017, alongside Nikola Todorovic, he co-founded Wonder Dynamics, whose mission is to democratize the use of high-end CGI and VFX for filmmakers by leveraging state-of-the-art AI. Wonder Dynamics is backed by Epic Games, Horizons Ventures, Founders Fund, Samsung Next and has an advisory board that includes Steven Spielberg, Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo and Antonio Torralba, Head of AI at MIT. (Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/36057815481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gage Skidmore / Flickr</a>.)

Tye Sheridan

Three Great Things: Tye Sheridan

David Krumholtz is currently starring as the title character in writer-director Bob Byington’s new comedy <a href="https://www.magpictures.com/lousycarter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lousy Carter</a>, opposite Martin Starr, Olivia Thirlby and Stephen Root. He played Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numb3rs and has beloved roles in the Harold &amp; Kumar and The Santa Clause film franchises. He played the grumpy group therapy leader in Byington’s Frances Ferguson, and also stars in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

David Krumholtz

Three Great Things: David Krumholtz

Isabella Rossellini is currently starring opposite Josh O’Connor and Carol Duarte in Alice Rohrwacher’s new film,<a href="https://neonrated.com/films/la-chimera" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> La Chimera</a>. She is the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini, she graced the cover of over 500 magazines as a model, and as an actress worked with a wide range of directors including Robert Zemeckis, David O. Russell, Robert Wilson, Taylo rHackford, Peter Weir, David Lynch and Guy Maddin. Her most notable films include Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, White Nights, Rodger Dodger, Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, The Saddest Music in the World, Big Night and Joy. She has a recurring role in the HBO-MAX series Julia, and recently toured her theatrical monologue, Darwin’s Smile. She lent her voice to several animations including the Academy Award nominee Marcel the Shell, Disney-Pixar’s The Incredibles and Julio Torres’ film Problemista. Isabella has a master’s degree in Animal Behavior and Conservation. Her comedic short film series that she wrote and directed about animal behavior, Green Porno, Seduce Me, and Mammas, are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. Isabella is the founder of <a href="https://www.mamafarm.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mama Farm</a>, an organic farm in Brookhaven, New York, where she resides. She is a mother of two and a grandmother. (Photo by Tabercil, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabella_Rossellini_%289711294445%29.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikimedia Commons</a>.)

Isabella Rossellini

Three Great Things: Isabella Rossellini

Brooklynn Prince is currently starring in the coming-of-age drama Little Wing, opposite Kelly Reilly and Brian Cox, which is now streaming on Paramount Plus. She had her breakout role aged six in Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, for which she won the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Young Performer. Her recent projects Neil Burger’s film The Marsh King’s Daughter for Lionsgate Films, alongside Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn, Elizabeth Banks’ crowd-pleasing hit Cocaine Bear, and the AppleTV+ series Home Before Dark. Brooklynn’s previous credits include starring in Settlers with Sofia Boutella and Jonny Lee Miller and The Turning, opposite Mackenzie Davis and Finn Wolfhard. and voicing roles in in Lord and Miller’s The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Disney’s The One and Only Ivan, alongside Angelina Jolie, and The Angry Birds Movie 2.

Brooklynn Prince

Three Great Things: Brooklynn Prince

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo&#8216;s new film as director, <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80991090" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Damsel</a>, the neo-feminist fairytale fantasy starring Millie Bobbie Brown, is out now on Netflix. His previous features include directed Intacto and 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Danny Boyle&#8217;s 28 Days Later. His film Esposados was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1996. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images, courtesy of Netflix.)

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Three Great Things: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Thomas Haden Church is currently starring in the feelgood movie <a href="https://roadsideattractions.com/filmography/accidentaltexan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Accidental Texan</a>, opposite Rudy Pankow, Carrie-Ann Moss and Bruce Dern, which will be in theaters from March 8. He was recently seen in Peacock’s series Twisted Metal, also starring Anthony Mackie, and in the independent break-out hit Peanut Butter Falcon, with Shia LeBeouf, Dakota Johnson and Bruce Dern. He starred opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in all three seasons of HBO’s Divorce, and had standout movie roles in William Friedkin’s critically acclaimed crime thriller Killer Joe, opposite Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsh, Juno Temple and Gina Gershon; the hit teen comedy Easy A, co-starring opposite Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Lisa Kudrow, Stanley Tucci, Penn Badgley and Patrica Clarkson; and Spider-Man 3, in which he played the villain Sandman, aka Flint Marko. In 2004, Church gave a career-defining performance opposite Paul Giamatti in Alexander Payne’s critically acclaimed Sideways, earning an Academy Award nomination, plus an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. Church co-wrote and directed the film Rolling Kansas, which premiered as an official selection to the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Church resides on his ranch in Texas. (Photo by Jalisco Wayne, courtesy Roadside Attractions.)

Thomas Haden Church

Three Great Things: Thomas Haden Church

Susan Seidelman, a graduate of NYU Grad Film School, began her career in the 1980s when Smithereens became the first American independent film to be accepted into the Cannes Film Festival. Her next movie, Desperately Seeking Susan, starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, was a critical and commercial success. She has directed dozens of other films starring actors such as Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields, and Sally Field, as well as the first four episodes of Sex and the City. She lives in New Jersey.

Susan Seidelman

Three Great Things: Susan Seidelman

Jaime King is currently starring in the thriller Lights Out, opposite Frank Grillo, Mekhi Fifer, Dermot Mulroney and Scott Adkins. She made her debut in Daniel Waters&#8217; Happy Campers, then starred opposite Johnny Depp in Ted Demme&#8217;s Blow, opposite Ben Affleck in Michael Bay&#8217;s Pearl Harbor and was part of an all-star cast featuring Benicio Del Toro, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and more in Robert Rodriguez&#8217;s Sin City. Her other major films include DJ Caruso&#8217;s Two for the Money, starring opposite Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey, Frank Millers&#8217; The Spirit with Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson, and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, appearing opposite Joseph Gordon Levitt and Josh Brolin. On TV, she was a series regular on the CW show Hart of Dixie and recently starred in the critically acclaimed hit Netflix series series Black Summer.

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