Carita Rizzo

Sofía Vergara stars as a notorious Colombian drug lord in Netflix limited series Griselda and she knows first-hand how the narcotics trade can ruin the lives of ordinary people. "I lived through that era," says the native Colombian, for whom Pablo Escobar and the Orejuela brothers were household names…

Moses Ingram first came to viewers' attention as Jolene, the best friend of Anya Taylor-Joy's character in The Queen's Gambit, a role that earned Ingram an Emmy nomination. After parts in Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Tragedy of Macbeth and Ambulance, the Baltimore native returned to home turf for a starring role…

Having started her career in action-heavy films like Domino, King Arthur and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Keira Knightley decided in her early 20s to step away from the stunts. "I wanted to do stuff that was about words," says Knightley. "Also, when you’re doing action films, generally…

In real life, O-T Fagbenle is quick to laugh, which is a departure from the characters that have put the actor on the map. Since 2017, the native Brit has played the perpetually worried husband of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) on The Handmaid's Tale. He next took on the challenge of portraying Barack…

Joshua Jackson's foray into dark drama was never by design. "It wasn’t like I sat down and was like, 'I’m going to be heavy in my thirties,'” says the star of shows like The Affair, Dr. Death and Fatal Attraction. "Murder, adultery, drug addiction—I had the whole basket of bad things." In Doctor Odyssey…

Since their early 20s, Emily Watson and Olivia Williams' careers have run on parallel tracks. Born one year apart, they first got to know each other by pondering their futures together on a patch of grass outside The Black Swan pub in Stratford-upon-Avon. "We met at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the…

The road Young Woman and the Sea has taken to the screen reads not unlike the hero's journey it seeks to portray.The film about American swimmer Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, took nearly ten years to complete with various talent attached…

When Aldis Hodge says Cross, the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of James Patterson's book series, came to him at the right time, the 38-year-old actor is not just talking about his on-screen portrayal of the famed detective. Alex Cross, the Washington D.C. law enforcer dealing with grief, loss and…

Last spring, when Alex Garland's Civil War premiered, the evocative images of a country irreparably divided felt like a cautionary, if still somewhat distant, tale. When Deadline spoke to Kirsten Dunst, who plays war photographer Lee Smith, two weeks before the 2024 election, the film appeared to have…

Saoirse Ronan is having a moment. Which is not necessarily a new experience, given she has four Oscar nominations to her credit. Now 30, the Irish-born actress first made the Academy cut at 14 for her supporting role in Atonement, which she followed with leading roles in Brooklyn, Ladybird and Little Women…

Playing Donald Trump's mentor Roy Cohn in Ali Abbasi's The Apprentice is not the first time Jeremy Strong has tackled recent American history. Before the actor became synonymous with Kendall Roy in Succession, he played parts in The Big Short, Selma and Parkland. While the actor feels a slight discomfort…

 Since the first time Carrie Preston stepped into the shoes of quirky attorney Elsbeth Tascioni in The Good Wife and its spin-off The Good Fight — a role she won an Emmy for in 2016 — she has brought a smile to viewers' faces with her character's unusual approach to problem-solving. With Preston finally…