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Patrick Warburton can currently be seen in the new comedy <a href="https://www.lionsgate.com/movies/the-duel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Duel</a>, starring Dylan Sprouse and Callan McAuliffe. Known for his deep, booming voice, Patrick has had memorable roles in Seinfeld, Family Guy, Rules of Engagement and The Emperor&#8217;s New Groove. In addition to his iconic roles, Patrick charity efforts have raised over $4.7 million this year through his star-studded 13th Annual Patrick Warburton Celebrity Golf Tournament, benefiting St. Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital. This incredible achievement marks the tournament as the biggest celebrity golf event in the world, with a cumulative total of over $26 million raised over 12 years. (Photo by Bobby Quillard.)

Patrick Warburton

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Three Great Things: Patrick Warburton

Dakota Johnson is a BAFTA-nominated and award-winning actress and producer who is currently starring with Sean Penn in the two-handed drama <a href="https://tickets.daddiofilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daddio</a>. Johnson burst onto the scene with her performance in David Fincher’s critically acclaimed The Social Network and went on to appear in the feature comedies The Five-Year Engagement and 21 Jump Street. She then starred as Anastasia Steele in Universal’s billion-dollar franchise Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she starred opposite Johnny Depp in Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, and starred in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, with Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes, the same director’s critically acclaimed 2018 remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. Johnson starred alongside Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen in the indie hit The Peanut Butter Falcon, which won the Audience Award at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival and grossed over $20 million in the U.S., making it the top platform release that year. In 2019, the accomplished actress also launched TeaTime Pictures with producing partner, Ro Donnelly. TeaTime’s first two feature films, Cha Cha Real Smooth and Am I OK? sold straight out of their respective premieres at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival to Apple TV+ and HBO Max.

Dakota Johnson

Three Great Things: Dakota Johnson

Alicia Vikander is an Academy Award-winning actress and producer who is currently starring as Katherine Parr in the historical drama <a href="https://firebrandmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Firebrand</a>, also starring Jude Law, Eddie Marsan and Sam Riley. She has collaborated with some of the industry’s most respected filmmakers on a diverse range of roles from projects such as Testament of Youth, Jason Bourne, Ex Machina, Anna Karenina, The Light Between Oceans, A Royal Affair, The Green Knight and The Danish Girl, which resulted in her winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a host of other awards including a SAG Award and Critics Choice Award. She also garnered multiple nominations including Golden Globe and BAFTA, both of which she was nominated in two categories, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for The Danish Girl and Ex Machina, respectively. In 2022, she starred in the A24/HBO co-production, Irma Vep, written and directed by filmmaker Olivier Assayas and based on his own cult film of the same title. (Photo by Dick Thomas Johnson, via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/31029865@N06/49013506278/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flickr</a>.)

Alicia Vikander

Three Great Things: Alicia Vikander

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

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.)

Three Great Things