After breaking out in his Olivier-winning role as Scorpius Malfoy, son of Draco, in the blockbuster play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the Belfast-born actor continues to approach every project with exceptional consideration, from the new biopic Tolkien to the upcoming HBO adaptation of Philip Roth’s prescient novel The Plot Against America.

After intense standout roles on buzzy shows The Handmaid’s Tale and Sharp Objects, the Washington State native hopes to serve as an advocate for change and an example for younger artists in projects like HBO’s forthcoming teen drama Euphoria.

With the biopic Tolkien, the Pulitzer-winning play Sweat, and the return of the uncategorizable Netflix cult hit The OA, the Irish actor is taking over screen and stage, relishing every challenge that comes his way.

In Sebastian Schipper’s Roads, a highlight of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the Dunkirk star plays a teenage troublemaker who befriends a Congolese refugee along a journey from Morocco to Calais, finding an intimate angle to Europe’s continuing refugee crisis.

The actor’s directorial début is a darkly comedic tale about a “woman who discovers she exists” and stars Leigh alongside Tony nominee Santino Fontana and Jon Orsini.

In roles as diverse as Prince Albert and Leo, a Russian spy charged with stealing atomic secrets, in the new film Red Joan, the English actor mines the essential truths of the human condition whether he finds himself in the Victorian era or World War II.

In his latest film, based on a real-life prisoner rehabilitation program, the Belgian actor makes a case for compassion and understanding as a convict who redeems himself through taming a wild horse.

The English star of The Diary of a Teenage Girl and last year’s Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero speaks with her White Boy Rick director Yann Demange about Detroit accents, playing a high school spy, and punching Matthew McConaughey in the face.

After a breakout role in 2016’s Lady Macbeth, the English actor proves she’s not afraid to go all in with roles as diverse as the professional wrestler Paige in Fighting With My Family and the youngest March sister in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of Little Women.