Actresses

A new biography revisits the pathbreaking Golden Age Hollywood actress’s life and legacy.

The actress often plays women defined by their mastery. In “Prima Facie,” she takes on her toughest role yet: a lawyer who defends men accused of sexual assault.

The writer and historian talks with David Remnick about the stakes of a Trump reëlection. Plus, Brooke Shields on the sexualization of girls in Hollywood.

The actor discusses Hollywood survival skills, winning the lottery, and her interest in telling “messy” Asian American stories.

The star of “Tár” reunites with her opening-scene partner for a conversation about listening to music, going before audiences, and the art of acting in life and in the movies.

Andrea Riseborough came out of nowhere to earn a nomination, whereas Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett appear to be the front-runners.

It’s everyone’s favorite pick-me-up. Wow!

Caitlin Reilly revived her acting career by doing dead-on impressions of nervous publicists, actresses on Instagram, wellness influencers, overbearing mothers, and other fellow Los Angelenos.

Taraneh Alidoosti is the latest prominent figure to be arrested, as the regime faces the most serious challenge to its rule since it took power in 1979.

The actress spent much of her career trying to shake off reputational baggage. Now the question is how the culture will choose to remember her.

In the luminous tale of an actress’s homecoming, the South Korean director takes on the overwhelming mysteries of life and art.

The actor—who is also a director, a rom-com fan, and a Scientologist—likes to swim in the weird.

How the actress turned showrunner took on inherited trauma through time travel.

The writer, director, and star of “Aline,” about a familiar-seeming Quebecois power balladeer, discusses criticism from some of Dion’s relatives (“We come off as a bunch of bums”) and playing Aline at every point in her life, starting as a five-year-old.

Amanda Seyfried describes why she almost passed on a dream role, playing the Theranos fraudster in Hulu’s “The Dropout,” in favor of staying on her farm upstate, where she collects her sheepdog’s fur to spin into yarn for crocheting.

The forty-one-year-old actress on “Yellowjackets,” child stardom, and what happened in between.

How the British actress Kathryn Hunter used her contortionist skills and cigarette voice to steal Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”

Something about her always made it seem as if she was in on the joke.

The comedian survived waitressing, karaoke, and the alternative-cabaret circuit before creating and starring in “Somebody Somewhere,” her autobiographical coming-of-middle-age series, on HBO.

The U.S. promised protection to the locals it relied on during the war. When it withdrew, it abandoned thousands to the Taliban.