Since her breakout in the 1990s, Linda Cardellini has never stopped. Her filmography includes such iconic shows as ER, Bloodline, Mad Men, Dead to Me and feature films like the Oscar-winning Green Book and Brokeback Mountain, along with joining the…

Janelle James didn’t set out to be an actor on purpose. Her passion was stand-up comedy, which remains a key part of her life and career to this day, but the opportunity to play Principal Ava Coleman on ABC’s hit comedy series Abbott Elementary was…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoliers for the series finale of Hacks. Paul W. Downs joins me for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side to talk about saying goodbye to Hacks. For the HBO Max show’s fifth and fina…

When I introduced Katherine LaNasa as a journeyman actor who has turned in the time and been on so many shows and movies that we know, and that we don’t know, she laughed and said she has been called a wilderness actor — someone who has been on so many…

Since her film debut in Milos Forman’s 1971 comedy Taking Off, credited for a cameo as Bobo Bates, Kathy Bates has turned in a number of memorable performances in movies, TV and stage — winning an Oscar (and four nominations), two Emmys (and 14…

Kurt Russell joins me for the latest episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side to talk about his roles in The Madison, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and an overall career he says was once described by someone as being handled by a drunken…

Although it had 15 long years since they last got into their scrubs for their popular ABC sitcom Scrubs, Zach Braff, who plays Dr. John “J.D.” Dorian, and Donald Faison, who plays Dr. Chris Turk, were never really apart. They became best friends, never…

Sally Field does not mind playing an “old woman” as she puts it to me about her role in the new Netflix movi, Remarkably Bright Creatures. If fact she embraces it, and isn’t afraid to reveal that she is about to turn 80 later this year. She joins me for…

May was quite the month for Hannah Einbinder. After five seasons, her Emmy-winning HBO Max series Hacks came to end with an emotional episode that ought to put Einbinder right back into the Emmy race, where she has been nominated for Best Supporting…

Zach Braff is back, and so is Scrubs. It could be called a 10th season, or maybe a first, but for Braff maybe it is really the ninth because all at Scrubs are pretending that season –storywise — of the original run doesn’t exist. It also is not a reboot…

Sam Elliott got his first break, such as it was, as Card Player #2 in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It might not have been a big role (understatement), but it is in a forever movie classic, so that is something. He has done pretty well…

You might know Domhnall Gleeson from a number of very big-name movies in which he has appeared. They include his General Hux in a couple of Star Wars pics, his Bill Weasley in a couple of Harry Potters, Oscar winner The Revenant, Ex-Machina and any…