"actress" Articles & Blogs:
Will This Year’s Best Actress Oscar Be a Celebrity Death Match? (Yes.)
| The Academy Award for best actress perennially ranks as one of the most buzzed-about moments of any Oscar ceremony. (Beautiful women dressed to the nines like Gilded Age debutantes certainly doesn’t hurt ratings.) This year may prove to be a special stu...[Read on] |
Women and the Emmys
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Dearbhla Walsh
Here’s a list of the women (and shows about women) that won at the Emmys.
Comedy Series: “30 Rock,” NBC.
Actress, Drama Series: Glenn Close, “Damages,” FX Networks.
Actress, Comedy Series: Toni Collette, “United States of Ta...[Read on] |
An actress you should know: Kate del Castillo
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If you watch telenovelas you will probably know Kate del Castillo very well (she has appeared in nine), but now luckily, the English speaking world is getting to know her better.
I saw her last year in La Misma Luna and now she has an arc on Weeds as P...[Read on] |
An Actress on the Brink
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Photograph by Nino Muñoz
Jennifer Lawrence’s performance in Winter’s Bone which opens on Friday is staggeringly good. It is one of the most honest, realistic, heartbreaking performances I have seen in a long, long time. It feels to me that we ...[Read on] |
When Meryl met Tina
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When I saw this picture I tried to come up with my idea of what these two awesome women said to each other on the red carpet at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards this past Saturday. Every scenario I wrote was so lame that I can’t post them. Any of y...[Read on] |
Anna Gunn of 'Breaking Bad' Defines 'Wise Woman'
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‘Breaking Bad’ actress Anna Gunn discusses her hit show, stepping behind the camera and how adults still have a lot to learnQ & A | Today 9:40 am
Actress Anna Gunn can currently be seen on AMC’s "Breaking Bad," on which s...[Read on] |
Fired for Being Too Skinny
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The Megan Fox saga continues. The Wrap is reporting that the reason why Megan Fox was let go from Transformers 3 was because she showed up looking “pale,” “underweight” and “unhealthy” and the director, Michael Bay didn’t like how she look...[Read on] |
Actress Profile: Blair Brown
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If you’re a big fan of Fringe like I am you were psyched to see Blair Brown as Nina Sharp the mysterious woman who runs the day to day operations at the multi-national corporation Massive Dynamics. Nina also has intense bionic type arm that without sk...[Read on] |
Oscar Fashion: Classic Hollywood
| Tina Fey and Diane Kruger. Some leading ladies (and best-supporting-actress nominees) opted to channel old Tinsel Town glamour for the walk down the red carpet tonight.
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The Hailee Steinfeld Nomination Debate
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As the debate about Oscar nominations concludes this week, one interesting conversation that has been going on is the debate about whether True Grit actress Hailee Steinfeld should be placed in the best actress or best supporting actress category.
The ...[Read on] |
Scarlett Johansson to Be Black Widow in 'Iron Man 2'
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Actress will play spy in next installment of Marvel Comics franchisePost | Today 9:35 am
Actress Scarlett Johansson will don a skintight black outfit when she plays Black Widow in the forthcoming "Iron Man" sequel.
Rumor had it that Johans...[Read on] |
What's on Chloë Sevigny's Vanity Table?
| Left: Kiehl's Limited Edition Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Masque with labels designed by Dexter's Michael C. Hall and Big Love's Chloë Sevigny. Right: The actress at the April 7 launch event for the collection in Santa Monica, California. By Joe S...[Read on] |
The Tonys and Hollywood
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photo by Brian Bedder/Getty Images
Last night one of the things that was so interesting about the Tony Awards was that three of the four acting trophies were taken by current Hollywood actors. Catherine Zeta-Jones won best actress in a musical for A ...[Read on] |
Sexism and ageism in the soap opera world
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I used to be a big fan of Days of our Lives. Big fan. Watched it on and off (mostly on) for about 15 years. A couple of years ago I went cold turkey. But soaps are in distress, Guiding Light was canceled and cost cutting is the mantra. Days of Our...[Read on] |
Golden Globe Nominees – The Women
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I like the Golden Globes because it is one of the only opportunities to see some great women on TV nominated with film stars. I know it’s a joke because only 100 people do the voting, but it brings a certain lightness to the awards season.
Some ...[Read on] |
Jury Finds Phil Spector Guilty in Lana Clarkson Murder
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Music producer guilty of second-degree murder in actress’s deathPost | Today 5:30 pm
Phil Spector has been found guilty of second-degree murder for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
A Los Angeles jury of six men and six women spent only...[Read on] |
Animal Kingdom’s Jacki Weaver on Her National Board of Review Victory
| Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdon. Photo by Narelle Sheean, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. When the Australian indie film Animal Kingdom made a splash at Sundance in January, everyone couldn’t stop talking about veteran actress Jacki Weaver’s spine-...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Amber Tamblyn
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I’ve only seen one episode of The Unusuals and I’m hooked. I love that The Unusuals while it is an ensemble, is fronted by a female actress- Amber Tamblyn. To me it’s perfect casting because she’s not your “usual” type of TV actress. Tamb...[Read on] |
Best actress contenders – Thinking outside the box
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Steven Zeitchik has a recent piece about how small the pool is this year for Best Actress.
He talks about how the top three potential nominees are Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Pr...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: National Board of Review
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Carey Mulligan
The National Board of Review (NBR) handed out its awards for 2009 and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air (which is opening in limited release today) took top honors. NBR is a mysterious group. Some film people, some folks not in the bus...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
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Enron by Lucy Prebble
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the most prestigious international prize awarded to a female playwright (for writing in English) has named the ten finalists for the 2010 award. The award is basically the Pulitzer for women. It ...[Read on] |
Oscar Party Recap: Hollywood Finds Its License to Chill
| Sandra Bullock and Jesse James at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Photograph by Getty/VF. Perhaps for the first time since 2007, when the financial crisis was still a glimmer in the banking industry’s eye, Hollywood gave itself permission to have a little ...[Read on] |
Female Creative Partnerships
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Julie White (l) and Theresa Rebeck
I am so sick and tired of all the stories about how women compete against each other (lots of them bullshit designed, I believe, to keep women from working together) that it’s important to acknowledge and celebrate wh...[Read on] |
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is Rooney Mara
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Here she is folks, here she is world, here’s Lisbeth (borrowing from Sondheim’s Rose’s Turn)
Don’t know anything about her except that she’s the sister of Kate Mara (who’s an actress too), grew up in a family that owned the Pittsburgh Ste...[Read on] |
Gillian Zinser is 90210′s surf goddess
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You might know actress Gillian Amalia Zinser (@msgillianzinser) as 90210’s surf goddess Ivy Sullivan. She attended NYU and played a recurring role in the CW drama before being signed as a regular cast member for the third season of the show.
Ever ...[Read on] |
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