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Sharon Horgan is currently starring in the true-crime drama The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, also starring Grace Van Patten, which is now streaming on Hulu. A prolific actor, writer, director and producer, she created and starred in the award-winning Apple TV+ comedy thriller series Bad Sisters, created and showran the HBO comedy series Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and is best known for her multiple award-winning sitcom Catastrophe, which she co-wrote and starred in with Rob Delaney. She has also received two BAFTA Award nominations and two British Comedy Awards for her iconic BBC show Pulling, which she co-wrote and starred in. On the big screen, Horgan recently appeared alongside Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, was the female lead opposite James McAvoy in the Stephen Daldry-directed film Together, and starred alongside Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman and Kyle Chandler in the hit comedy Game Night. (Photo courtesy Apple TV+.)

Sharon Horgan

Film

Three Great Things: Sharon Horgan

Actor, musician and director Finn Wolfhard, best known for playing Mike Wheeler in Stranger Things, co-wrote, co-directed and co-stars in the new horror comedy <a href="https://www.neonrated.com/film/hell-of-a-summer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hell of a Summer</a>, which is in theaters from April 4. Wolfhard lent his voice to Guillermo del Toro’s Academy Award winning stop-motion animated musical movie Pinocchio, starred alongside Oscar winner Julianne Moore in the comedy-drama feature When You Finish Saving the World, written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, and starred in Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, alongside Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon and McKenna Grace. Wolfhard also played Ritchie Tozier in the film adaptation of Stephen Kings It and its sequel, It: Chapter Two. In 2020, Wolfhard made his directorial debut with his first short film Night Shifts. Wolfhard also has a passion for music and formed a garage-rock band called Calpurnia, which released a number of singles, and also the band The Aubreys, which put out the 2021 album Karaoke Alone. He resides in Vancouver, Canada.

Finn Wolfhard

Three Great Things: Finn Wolfhard

UK comedian Phil Wang’s latest comedy special, Wang in There, Baby!, is now streaming on Netflix, and he recently made his film debut alongside Timothée Chalamet in Wonka. He released his first Netflix special, Philly Philly Wang Wang, in 2021 and has also appeared on TV in Inside Amy Schumer, Life &amp; Beth, Taskmaster, and Have I Got News For You. Phil released his first book, the comedic memoir Sidesplitter, in 2021 to critical acclaim, featuring on The Times and Sunday Times’ Books of the Year list. Phil previously wrote and starred in his own BBC Radio 4 special, Wangsplaining which won Best Scripted Comedy (Longform) at the 2020 BBC Audio Awards, fronted the Audible original series Phil Wang Hates Horror, and co-hosts the hit podcast BudPod with Pierre Novellie. (Photo by Matt Crockett.)

Phil Wang

Three Great Things: Phil Wang

Pom Klementieff is currently starring in the action thriller The Killer’s Game, opposite Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella and Terry Crews. Klementieff delighted audiences in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise as Mantis and had a standout role in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, alongside as, the unhinged antagonist out to destroy Ethan Hunt and his team. Pom is currently in production on Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Two. While filming the Mission: Impossible movies, Klementieff cowrote and starred in “Au Revoir Chris Hemsworth,” a black-and-white, cheeky French new wave music video directed by Simon Pegg as part of the AGBO Superhero League Trash Talk videos. Klementieff’s other credits include Spike Lee’s Oldboy, Ingrid Goes West, Newness, Thunder Force, HBO’s Westworld and Netflix’s Black Mirror.

Pom Klementieff

Three Great Things: Pom Klementieff

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

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

Over the course of her acclaimed career, Grace Potter has carved out a flourishing yet unconventional place among the best songwriters and singers in rock &amp; roll. Her latest solo album, Mother Road, is out now on Fantasy Records.

Grace Potter

Music

Three Great Things: Grace Potter

Monica Bellucci is currently starring in the comedy thriller <a href="https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/mafia-mamma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mafia Mamma</a>, opposite Toni Colette, out now in theaters. She recently starred with Guy Pearce and Liam Neeson in Memory. Over the course of her illustrious international career, she has made movies in France, Italy and Iran, as well as in Hollywood. Her many notable movies include L’Appartement (for which she was Cesar nominated), Brotherhood of the Wolf, Irreversible, Malena, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix Resurrections, The Passion of the Christ, Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm and the James Bond movie Spectre. On TV, she appeared in Twin Peaks: The Return and Netflix’s French smash Call My Agent. (Photo by Fabrizio Di Giulio / Bleecker Street.)

Monica Bellucci

Three Great Things: Monica Bellucci

Tahar Rahim’s latest film is <a href="http://www.stxfilms.com/themauritanian/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Mauritanian</a>, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Bets Actor in a Motion Picture Drama; the real-life legal drama also starring Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley and Benedict Cumberbatch is out February 12 through STX Films. Rahim’s breakthrough came when he played the main role Jacques Audiard’s 2009 thriller A Prophet. Since then, he has worked all over the world, in films such as Kevin Macdonald’s The Eagle, alongside Channing Tatum, in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past, Fatih Akin’s The Cut, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype and opposite Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix in Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene. He starred with Jeff Daniels in the series The Looming Tower and plays in the main role in the BBC/Netflix co-production The Serpent.

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