Selma Blair | |
---|---|
Born | Selma Blair Beitner [1] June 23, 1972 Southfield, Michigan, U.S. |
Education | University of Michigan (BA) |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1990–present |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Selma Blair (born Selma Blair Beitner on June 23, 1972) [2] is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Cruel Intentions , Legally Blonde , The Sweetest Thing , and the Hellboy franchise.
Blair, born in Southfield, Michigan, emerged from a background in legal and political involvement: both her parents were lawyers and her father active in the U.S. Democratic Party. Blair's upbringing was predominantly Jewish. She initially pursued photography at Kalamazoo College before moving to New York to become involved in the arts, graduating from the University of Michigan. Blair's early career was marked by numerous auditions to land her first roles in television and film, with her breakthrough in Cruel Intentions and subsequent mainstream success in projects like Legally Blonde and Hellboy.
Blair's personal life include her marriage to Ahmet Zappa and subsequent relationships and motherhood. After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2018, she has shared her experience with the condition, contributing to her advocacy work. In 2021, Blair starred in Introducing, Selma Blair , a documentary about her life since being diagnosed with MS. Her autobiography, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up, was published by Knopf in 2022.
Selma Blair Beitner [3] was born on June 23, 1972, [4] in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan, the youngest of four daughters of Molly Ann ( née Cooke) and Elliot I. Beitner. Her maternal grandfather was the founder of Penn Fruit and she spent a great deal of her childhood in Philadelphia. [5] Both of her parents were lawyers; her father was a labor arbitrator and was active in the U.S. Democratic Party until his death in 2012; her mother died in 2020. Her parents divorced when Blair was 23. Selma and her sister Elizabeth officially changed their surname to 'Blair'; in her memoir, Blair wrote that, following a concerted effort on the part of her father's girlfriend to derail her career, she did not speak to her father for 12 years. [6] [7]
Blair's father and maternal grandfather were Jewish; her Scottish maternal grandmother, and her mother, were Anglican but Selma and her sisters had a Jewish upbringing and Selma formally converted to Judaism in the second grade; her Hebrew name is 'Bat-Sheva'. [8] [9] [10] Blair attended Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills, and Cranbrook Kingswood in Bloomfield Hills. She then spent two years (1990–1992) studying photography at Kalamazoo College. [11]
At age 21, Blair moved to New York City, where she lived at The Salvation Army. [12] Intending to become a photographer, she attended New York University (NYU), and took acting classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory, the Column Theater, and Stonestreet Studios. She returned to Michigan, transferred from NYU to the University of Michigan and, in 1994, graduated magna cum laude with a triple major in photography, psychology, and English. She then returned to New York City to pursue a career in the arts. [13] [14]
In 1990, during her time at Cranbrook Kingswood, Blair was involved in a production of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral . She considered it a failure, but her English teacher told her not to give up; that was the first time she thought she could be an actress. In 1993 in New York, an agent discovered her in an acting class and Blair signed with her. After 75 auditions, Blair got her first advertising job, a TV ad for the Theater of Virginia. [15]
Blair won her first professional role in a 1995 episode of the children's sitcom The Adventures of Pete & Pete . In 1996, she landed her first feature film role in the comedy The Broccoli Theory. [16] In 1997, she made her first appearance in a mainstream feature film, the comedy In & Out . She auditioned six times for the role and remained on-set for several weeks, but most of her scenes were cut from the film's final version. [17]
Her first lead role was in the film Strong Island Boys. [18] She then won the lead in the 1997 fantasy film Amazon High. The film, which was proposed as a third show set in the Hercules and Xena mythological genre, did not air, but portions of it were used in the 2000 Xena: Warrior Princess episode "Lifeblood". [19] [20] She was considered for the role of Joey Potter in Dawson's Creek , a role which ultimately went to Katie Holmes. [21] She subsequently appeared in several independent and short productions, including the award-winning Debutante. [22] [23]
Blair achieved her breakthrough in the 1999 coming-of-age drama Cruel Intentions . [24] It received mixed reviews, with Variety finding "newcomer" Blair "too broad" and "overdoing [her role]'s clumsiness". [25] The film made US$75.9 million internationally and brought Blair a nomination for the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and a win for "Best Kiss", shared with co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar. [26] Cruel Intentions has since developed a cult following. [27] [28]
In 1999, Blair starred as Zoe Bean on Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane , and was nominated for the Teen Choice Awards for "TV – Breakout Performance".[ citation needed ] In 2000, following her performance in the teen comedy Down to You , Blair won the Young Hollywood Award for "Exciting New Face". [29] In 2000 and 2002, Blair was included in Vanity Fair 's "Hollywood's Next Wave of Stars" issues. [30]
Blair co-starred in the 2001 hit comedy Legally Blonde , portraying a preppy, snobby law student; The Hollywood Reporter found her to be a "strong presence" in her role. [31] The film topped the US box office in its opening weekend; it grossed US$96.5 million in North America and US$141.7 million worldwide. [32] She next starred as a college student having an affair with her professor in the 2001 independent drama Storytelling . It premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival; SPLICEDwire cited Blair and co-star Leo Fitzpatrick for "painfully authentic performances as an emotionally insecure coed and her cerebral palsy-stricken dorm neighbor and lover". [33] In its review, View Auckland noted: "The acting, throughout, is excellent, with Selma Blair giving a mature performance that suggests better roles await her than those she's had so far." [34] Blair next appeared in the 2002 comedy The Sweetest Thing . While the film was generally panned, [35] [36] it grossed US$68.6 million worldwide. Blair appeared with her co-starts from the film on the cover of Rolling Stone and was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress – Comedy for her work in the film. [37] [38]
In 2004, Blair took on the role of Liz Sherman, a depressed pyrokinetic superhero, [39] in Guillermo del Toro's blockbuster fantasy film Hellboy , co-starring Ron Perlman. Based on Mike Mignola's popular comic book series, the film was favorably received by critics; The New York Times remarked: "Blair's heavy-lidded eyes seem to be at half mast from some lovely lewd fantasy. With her sleepy carnality and dry, hesitant timing, she is a superb foil for Mr. Perlman's plain-spoken bravado." [40] Hellboy topped the box office in the U.S. and Canada in its opening weekend, and ultimately grossed US$99.3 million. [41] [42]
Also in 2004, Blair played the role of an exhibitionist dancer in John Waters' satirical sex comedy A Dirty Shame , alongside Tracey Ullman. The film received a mixed response; A.V. Club described the production as a "proud retreat back into the sandbox of sexual juvenilia" and a "potty-mouthed manifesto from an elder statesman of shock", while pointing out that Blair and Ullman "throw themselves headfirst into the insanity, reveling in the forfeiture of dignity, self-respect, and self-consciousness their roles demand". [43] Blair also took part on the social project The 1 Second Film as a producer, and was included on the FHM list of "The 100 Sexiest Women of 2004". [44] [45]
From 2005 to 2007, Blair appeared in a string of independent films. In 2008, she reprised her role of Liz Sherman in Hellboy II: The Golden Army , where her character had a larger role than its predecessor. [46] The film garnered largely positive reviews from critics and became a worldwide commercial success, grossing US$160 million. [47] Blair was nominated for the Scream Awards for Best Actress in a Fantasy Movie or TV Show. [48]
In 2008, Blair starred as a drug-addicted and alcoholic mother in Lori Petty's independent drama The Poker House . It received generally favorable reviews from critics, [49] [50] with The Hollywood Reporter considering Blair's performance one her best. [51] [52]
Also in 2008, Blair accepted the titular role on the NBC sitcom Kath & Kim . [53] The sitcom, which was based on the Australian television series of the same name, was canceled after one season. [54] [55]
In 2009, Blair returned to the stage, when she took on the lead role of Kayleen in Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries. In 2010, Blair she lent her voice to narrate the audiobook of The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition , originally written by Holocaust victim Anne Frank. Her performance received a 2011 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children nomination.
In 2012, Blair returned to television as the female lead with the premiere of FX's Anger Management , co-starring Charlie Sheen. She starred in 53 episodes as Dr. Kate Wales, Sheen's neurotic therapist and love interest. [56] The series premiered to mixed critical reviews, [57] but broke ratings records with 5.74 million viewers in its debut and ranks as the most-watched sitcom premiere in cable history. [58] [59] Blair left the show in June 2013, during the shooting of the second season, due to disagreements with Sheen, who fired her via text message. [60] [61] [62] [63] [64]
In 2012, Blair narrated Xfinity TV commercials, including the London 2012 Olympics ads. [65] In 2014, she obtained her first television role since Anger Management when she was cast as Joanna in the Amazon's comedy pilot Really. [66] The pilot was not picked up but, in February 2016, Blair co-starred in the FX miniseries American Crime Story: The People vs. O. J. Simpson . [67] [68] [69]
In October 2012, Blair starred in the political satire sketch The Woman for Romney, about the campaign proposals of Mitt Romney, former Republican Party nominee for the 2012 United States presidential election. [70]
In 2018, Blair was cast in a recurring role on the Netflix science-fiction drama series Another Life ; it ran from 2019 to 2021 before being canceled. [71] [72]
In September 2022, Blair became a contestant on season 31 of Dancing with the Stars but left in the fifth week of the competition because of her deteriorating health. [73] [74]
Blair is known for her fashion-forward style, and for her frequent radical hairstyle changes. [75] [76] She lent her image to the Marc Jacobs-Brian Bowen Smith clothing line, [77] [78] and has worked with several other fashion designers, including Karen Zambos, Martin Margiela, Isaac Mizrahi, Reinaldo Herrera, and Stella McCartney. [79] [80] [81] [82] [83]
She was featured in the 2002 Pirelli Calendar, [84] and, in 2005, appeared in The New York Times Magazine award-winning photography gallery, "The Selma Blair Witch Project: Fall's Dark Silhouettes Have a Way of Creeping Up on You" by the art photographer Roger Ballen, at the Palau Robert in Barcelona in 2012. [85] [86]
Blair also appeared with Rainn Wilson singing "Baby, It's Cold Outside" for the 2008 Gap winter ad campaign, and was included in Glamour's list of the 50 Most Glamorous Women of 2008. [87] [88]
In 2010, Blair posed with Demi Moore and Amanda De Cadenet for a spread in Harper's Bazaar magazine. [89] In 2012, she became the spokesperson for, and first actress to appear on, the "Get Real For Kids" campaign. [90] In the spring of that year, she released SB, a line of handbags and wallets which she designed. [91]
She has appeared on covers and photo spreads of other magazines, including CR Fashion Book magazine in February 2016. [92] In 1999, she appeared in Seventeen , and in subsequent years, in Vanity Fair , Marie Claire , Vogue , Glamour , Rolling Stone , The Lab Magazine, Interview , Dazed & Confused , Hunger, and Elle . [93] [94] She has been the face of fashion houses Chanel, Miu Miu and GAP. [95] She presented parts of the collection of Christian Siriano at a celebration of his 10th stage anniversary at Masonic Hall during New York Fashion Week 2018. In 2020, she appeared as a judge on a Project Runway special. [96]
On January 24, 2004, Blair married writer and producer Ahmet Zappa at Carrie Fisher's mansion in Beverly Hills, California. They lived in Los Angeles in a 1920s-era home they bought for $1.35 million. [97] She filed for divorce from Zappa on June 21, 2006, citing "irreconcilable differences." The divorce became final in December 2006. [98] [99] [100]
Blair has dated actors Jason Schwartzman and David Lyons and, from 2008 to 2010, dated her Kath and Kim co-star Mikey Day. [101] [102]
In 2010, Blair began dating fashion designer Jason Bleick; they have a son, Arthur Saint Bleick. [103] [104] [105] In September 2012, they announced that they had separated. [101] [106]
In 2022, Blair and her ex-boyfriend, filmmaker Ron Carlson, whom she had been seeing since 2017, requested temporary restraining orders against each other, with both claiming physical abuse. [107] The order requests were mutually dismissed. [108]
In October 2018, Blair revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in August of that year. [109] In a 2023 interview with British Vogue , Blair said that her symptoms had begun to manifest themselves when she was a child, and that her un-diagnosed MS had caused brain damage. As the condition worsened, she was heavily medicated, developed a dependency on alcohol and attempted suicide. [110] She was inspired to reveal the news as a way to thank Allisa Swanson, her costume designer, who had become her unofficial "dresser" for her role in the Netflix series Another Life , saying that Swanson "gets my legs in my pants, pulls my tops over my head, (and) buttons my coats." [109] [111] Blair wrote about her experiences with multiple sclerosis in her memoir, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up, which was published in May 2022. [112]
On May 27, 2012, Blair was a special guest at the National Memorial Day Concert at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. She presented the story of Brigette Cain, a war widow who lost her husband (Pfc. Norman L. Cain III) in Afghanistan. [113] [114]
Blair supported Marianne Williamson for the 2014 congressional elections. [115]
Blair's charity work and philanthropic causes include Marc Jacobs' Skin Cancer Awareness Campaign, H&M's Fashion Against AIDS 2011 Campaign, [116] Children's Action Network, [117] AmFAR AIDS Research 2011, [118] Lange Foundation (dedicated to saving homeless and abandoned animals), Bulgari-Save the Children 2012 Ad Campaign, [119] No Kid Hungry, [120] Staying Alive Foundation and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. [121] On October 2, 2015, she received the Universal Smile Award during THE SMILE GALA LA 2015 to benefit children with cleft lip and palate. [122] She was included as one of the Silence Breakers selected as the 2017 Time Person of the Year. [123] In December 2021, Michelle Pfeiffer presented Blair with the Equity in Entertainment Award at the Power 100 Women ceremony.
In June 2022, Blair became chief creative officer of Guide Beauty, a company which creates cosmetic products for those with mobility challenges. [124] In December 2022 she was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 women. [125]
In February 2024, Blair made a comment, later deleted, on an Instagram video [126] related to the Israel-Hamas war commenting "Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate." [127] [128] [129] The comment was criticized as Islamophobic, prompting Blair to delete it and issue a statement apologizing for her remarks. [130] [131] [132]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1996 | The Broccoli Theory | Pretzel cart lesbian | |
Brain Candy | Girl at rock concert | ||
1997 | Strong Island Boys | Tara | |
Gone Again [133] | Ayla | Short film | |
Arresting Gena | Drugged woman | ||
In & Out | Cousin Linda | ||
1998 | Brown's Requiem | Jane | |
Girl | Darcy | ||
Can't Hardly Wait | Girl Mike hits on No. 1 | ||
1999 | Cruel Intentions | Cecile Caldwell | |
2000 | Down to You | Cyrus | |
2001 | Storytelling | Vi | Segment "Fiction" |
Legally Blonde | Vivian Thelma Kensington | ||
Kill Me Later | Shawn Holloway | ||
2002 | Highway | Cassie | |
The Sweetest Thing | Jane Burns | ||
2003 | A Guy Thing | Karen Cooper | |
Dallas 362 | Peg | ||
2004 | Hellboy | Liz Sherman | |
A Dirty Shame | Caprice Stickles / Ursula Udders | ||
In Good Company | Kimberly | ||
2005 | Pretty Persuasion | Grace Anderson | |
The Deal | Abbey Gallagher | ||
The Fog | Stevie Wayne | ||
The Big Empty | Alice | Short film | |
2006 | The Alibi | Adelle | |
The Night of the White Pants | Beth Hagan | ||
Hellboy: Sword of Storms | Liz Sherman (voice) | Direct-to-video | |
2007 | Hellboy: Blood and Iron | Liz Sherman (voice) | Direct-to-video |
Purple Violets | Patti Petalson | ||
WΔZ | Jean Lerner | ||
Feast of Love | Kathryn Smith | ||
2008 | My Mom's New Boyfriend | Emily Lott | |
The Poker House | Sarah | ||
Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Liz Sherman | ||
2011 | The Family Tree | Ms. Delbo | |
Animal Love [134] | Sorrel | Short film | |
The Break-In [135] | Beverly | Short film | |
Dark Horse [136] [137] | Miranda | ||
Kingdom Come [138] | Herself | Documentary | |
2012 | Columbus Circle [139] | Abigail Clayton | |
In Their Skin [140] [141] | Mary Hughes | ||
2015 | Sex, Death and Bowling [142] [143] | Glenn McAllister | |
2016 | Eva Hesse [144] | Eva Hesse (voice) | Documentary |
Ordinary World | Karen Miller | ||
Mothers and Daughters [145] [146] | Rigby | ||
2017 | Mom and Dad [147] [148] | Kendall Ryan | |
2019 | After | Carol Young | |
2020 | After We Collided | Carol Young | |
A Dark Foe | Doris Baxter | ||
2021 | Introducing, Selma Blair | Herself | Documentary |
Far More [149] | Glenn McAllister |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1995 | The Adventures of Pete & Pete | Penelope Ghiruto | Episode: "Das Bus" |
1996 | The Dana Carvey Show [150] | Uncredited | Episode: "The Szechuan Dynasty" |
1997 | Amazon High | Cyane | Pilot |
Soldier of Fortune, Inc. | Tish August | Episode: "La Mano Negra" | |
1998 | Getting Personal | Receptionist | Pilot |
Promised Land | Carla Braver | Episode: "Designated Driver" | |
No Laughing Matter [151] | Lauren Winslow | Television film | |
1999–2000 | Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane | Zoe Bean | |
2000 | Xena: Warrior Princess | Cyane | Episode: "Lifeblood" |
2002 | Friends | Wendy | Episode: "The One with Christmas in Tulsa" |
2003 | Coast to Coast | Stacey Pierce | Television film |
2004 | DeMarco Affairs | Kate DeMarco | Pilot |
2008–2009 | Kath & Kim | Kim | |
2010 | Tommy's Little Girl [152] | Lawyer / Assassin | Pilot |
Web Therapy [153] | Tammy Hines | 3 episodes | |
2011 | Portlandia | Frannie Walker | Episode: "Blunderbuss" [154] |
2012–2013 | Anger Management | Kate Wales | |
2012 | Web Therapy | Tammy Hines | 2 episodes |
Slideshow of Wieners: A Love Story [155] | Becca | Short | |
2013 | Out There [156] | Destiny / Larry (voices) | 2 episodes |
Comedy Bang! Bang! [157] [158] | Herself / Cyber girl | Episode: "Andy Samberg Wears a Plaid Shirt & Glasses" | |
2014 | Really | Joanna | Pilot |
2016 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Kris Jenner | 3 episodes |
Bookaboo | Herself | Post-production | |
2018–2019 | Lost in Space | Jessica Harris | 3 episodes |
2018 | Heathers | Jade Duke | 4 episodes |
2019 | Another Life | Harper Glass | Main role (season 1) |
2020 | DuckTales | Witch Hazel (voice) | Episode: "The Trickening!" |
2022 | Dancing with the Stars [159] | Herself | Contestant (season 31) |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1990 | The Little Theatre of The Green Goose | Various roles | |
2009 | Gruesome Playground Injuries [160] [161] | Kayleen | Alley Theatre |
Year | Title | Role | Artist(s) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1998 | Charmed | My Friend Steve | ||
1999 | Every You Every Me | Cecile Caldwell | Placebo | Film version |
2010 | Full of Regret | Katt | Danko Jones |
Year | Title | Voice role |
---|---|---|
2008 | Hellboy: The Science of Evil | Liz Sherman |
Year | Title |
---|---|
2010 | The Diary of Anne Frank |
Year | Award | Result | Category | Title | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1999 | Teen Choice Awards | Nominated | Choice TV: Breakout Star | Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane | ||
2000 | MTV Movie Awards | Nominated | Breakthrough Female Performance | Cruel Intentions | ||
Won | Best Kiss | Cruel Intentions(Shared with Sarah Michelle Gellar) | ||||
Young Hollywood Awards | Won | Exciting New Face – Female | ||||
2002 | Teen Choice Awards | Nominated | Choice Movie: Actress Comedy | The Sweetest Thing | ||
Young Hollywood Awards | Won | Next Generation | ||||
2003 | DVD Exclusive Awards | Nominated | Best Actress | Highway | ||
2005 | Fangoria Chainsaw Awards | Nominated | Best Supporting Actress | Hellboy | ||
2008 | Scream Awards | Nominated | Best Actress – Fantasy Movie | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | ||
2011 | Grammy Award | Nominated | Best Spoken Word Album for Children | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition | ||
2015 | Operation Smile | Won | Universal Smile Award | |||
2021 | Media Access Awards | Won | Visionary Award | Life's Work | Presented by Keah Brown | [162] |
2022 | People's Choice Award | Won | The Competition Contestant of 2022 | Dancing with the Stars | [163] | |
2022 | 100 Women (BBC) | Nominated | Actress |
Sarah Michelle Prinze is an American actress. After being spotted by a talent agent as a young child, she made her film debut at age six in the television film An Invasion of Privacy (1983). A leading role in the short-lived teen drama series Swans Crossing (1992) was followed by her breakthrough as Kendall Hart on the ABC soap opera All My Children (1993–1995), for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award.
Denise Lee Richards is an American actress, television personality, and model. She rose to prominence with roles in the science fiction film Starship Troopers (1997), the thriller film Wild Things (1998), and the spy film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Her performance as Bond girl Christmas Jones in the latter, while criticized, granted Richards her mainstream breakthrough.
Gina L. Gershon is an American actress and singer. She has starred in such films as Cocktail (1988), Red Heat (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound (1996), Face/Off (1997), The Insider (1999), Demonlover (2002), P.S. I Love You (2007), Five Minarets in New York (2010), Killer Joe (2011) and House of Versace (2013). She has also had supporting roles in FX's Rescue Me and HBO's How to Make It in America. She also portrayed Jughead's mom Gladys Jones on The CW teen drama series Riverdale and Lauren Bloom's mom Jeanie Bloom on the NBC medical series New Amsterdam.
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale is an English actress. The recipient of various accolades, including a Saturn Award, two MTV Movie Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, and two National Film Awards UK, she is known for her roles in period, romance and action films. The only child of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, Kate Beckinsale made her acting debut when she was only a year old, as an extra on the British daytime drama Couples (1975), on which her parents also appeared. In 1991, she had a small voice role in an episode of the miniseries adaptation of P. D. James' Devices and Desires and a supporting role in the television film One Against the Wind starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. In 1992, she starred in the Blade Runner-inspired short film "Rachel's Dream" with Christopher Eccleston and debuted onstage in a production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever.
Michael Christopher Sheen is a Welsh actor. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s with stage roles in Romeo and Juliet (1992), Don't Fool with Love (1993), Peer Gynt (1994), The Seagull (1995), The Homecoming (1997), and Henry V (1997). He received Olivier Awards nominations for his performances in Amadeus (1998) at the Old Vic, Look Back in Anger (1999) at the National Theatre and Caligula (2003) at the Donmar Warehouse.
Carlos Irwin Estévez, known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He is known as a leading man in film and television. Over his fifty-year career he has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 1994 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Franka Potente is a German actress. She first appeared in the comedy film After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995), for which she won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress. Her breakthrough came in 1998, when she starred in the acclaimed action thriller Run Lola Run, for which she won a BAMBI Award for Best Actress. She received further critical acclaim and a Bavarian Television Award nomination for her performance in the television film Opernball.
Zoë Yadira Saldaña-Perego is an American actress. Known primarily for her work in science fiction film franchises, she has starred in four of the highest-grossing films of all time. Films she has appeared in have grossed more than $15 billion worldwide and, as of 2024, she is the second highest-grossing lead actress and the highest-grossing actress overall. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.
Carol Denise Betts, known professionally as Niecy Nash, is an American actress, comedian, and television host. Her acting career began in the late 1990s, with appearances in the films Boys on the Side (1995) and Cookie's Fortune (1999). She garnered recognition for her portrayal of Deputy Raineesha Williams in the comedy series Reno 911!, along with hosting the Style Network show Clean House (2003—2010), for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award.
Shawnee Smith is an American actress and singer. She began her acting career at a young age, making her feature film debut at age 11 in Annie (1982). A few years later, she made her stage debut in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1984) and won a Drama-League Critics Award. In the late 1980s, she was cast in smaller roles before getting roles in The Blob (1988) and Who's Harry Crumb? (1989).
Carey Hannah Mulligan is an English actress. She has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse Comics character of the same name, created by Mike Mignola. Produced by Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin in association with Dark Horse Entertainment, and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is a sequel to Hellboy (2004) and is the second live-action film in the franchise. Directed and written by Guillermo del Toro from a story he co-wrote with Mignola, the film stars Ron Perlman as Hellboy, alongside Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, and John Hurt. In the film, Hellboy and the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense must battle a mythical prince who plans to reclaim the world for his magical kindred.
Hellboy is a 2004 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse Comics character of the same name, created by Mike Mignola. Produced by Revolution Studios, Lawrence Gordon/Lloyd Levin Productions, and Dark Horse Entertainment, and distributed by Revolution and Sony Pictures Releasing's Columbia Pictures, it is the first live-action film in the Hellboy franchise. Directed and written by Guillermo del Toro, the film stars Ron Perlman in the title role, alongside Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Rupert Evans, and John Hurt. The film draws inspiration from the debut comic Hellboy: Seed of Destruction. In the film, a charismatic demon-turned-investigator named "Hellboy" works with the secretive Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense to suppress paranormal threats, when a resurrected sorcerer seeks to make Hellboy fulfill his destiny by triggering the apocalypse.
Nicole Blonsky is an American actress, singer, dancer, and internet personality. She is known for playing Tracy Turnblad in the film Hairspray (2007), for which she won two Critics' Choice Awards and received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Lindsay Dee Lohan is an American actress, singer-songwriter, producer, and businesswoman. Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, Lohan was signed to Ford Models at age three. She appeared as a regular on the soap opera Another World at the age of 10, and her breakthrough came in the 1998 Walt Disney Pictures film The Parent Trap. The film's success led to appearances in subsequent Disney projects; the television films Life-Size (2000) and Get a Clue (2002) and the big-screen productions Freaky Friday (2003) and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004). Lohan's early work won her childhood stardom, while the teen comedy Mean Girls (2004) affirmed her status as a teen idol and established her as a leading Hollywood actress.
Brian Taylor is an American filmmaker. He is best known for collaborating with Mark Neveldine in the writing and directing team Neveldine/Taylor.
Anger Management is an American television multi-camera sitcom created by Bruce Helford that premiered on FX on June 28, 2012. The series is loosely based on the 2003 film of the same title and stars Charlie Sheen in a variation of the Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson film. The series received 5.74 million viewers in its debut, breaking the record as the most-watched sitcom premiere in US cable television history. On November 7, 2014, FX announced that the series would end after its 100th episode, which aired on December 22, 2014.
Chloé Wang, known professionally as Chloe Bennet, is an American actress, model and singer. She starred as Daisy Johnson / Quake in the ABC superhero drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020) and voiced Yi in the animated film Abominable (2019) and the television series Abominable and the Invisible City (2022–2023).
After is a 2019 American romantic drama film directed by Jenny Gage, who co-wrote the screenplay with Susan McMartin, Tamara Chestna, and Tom Betterton, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Anna Todd. It is the first installment in the After film series. The film stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Josephine Langford and follows a young woman who begins to romance a mysterious student during her first months of college. The cast includes Selma Blair, Inanna Sarkis, Shane Paul McGhie, Pia Mia, Khadijha Red Thunder, Dylan Arnold, Samuel Larsen, Jennifer Beals and Peter Gallagher in supporting roles.
Vivien Lyra Blair is an American child actress. She made her debut in Band Aid (2017) and rose to prominence for her role as Girl in Bird Box (2018). Blair garnered further recognition for her appearances in video game Telling Lies (2019) and superhero film We Can Be Heroes (2020). In 2022, she received critical praise for her portrayal of Leia Organa in the streaming series Obi-Wan Kenobi. She later had a supporting role in the horror film The Boogeyman (2023).