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.

With his new short film, the director revisits the South Africa of his youth in the story of a young fisherman’s son who dreams of becoming a painter and envisions his grandfather as a humpback whale in a meditation on aging and family.

After being discovered on YouTube and starring in his first film opposite Aaron Paul at fourteen, the young Texan continues to tackle roles that are refreshing in their uncertainty, including in the new coming-of-age film Giant Little Ones.

As the gregarious and self-serving aspiring actor—and love interest to Bill Hader’s titular Marine-turned-hitman—Sally Reed in HBO’s Barry, the London-trained Canadian finds herself in an unflinching portrayal of a well-known Hollywood type.

Stepping into Saoirse Ronan’s shoes in the Amazon Prime adaptation of the 2011 action film Hanna, the young English actor breathes new life into the genre by embodying a powerful female lead whose vulnerability and longing only enhance her strength.

As Joel Maisel in the hit series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the American actor has evolved from philanderer to his ex-wife’s biggest supporter, flipping the audience consensus in his favor.

After breaking out in last year’s raunchy high school sex comedy Blockers, the Australian actor is now playing an angel opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi as God in the existential TBS series Miracle Workers and stretching her dramatic muscles as a Muslim teenager rebelling against her conservative parents in the Sundance hit Hala.

With his roles in the Amazon Prime thriller Homecoming and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight follow-up If Beale Street Could Talk, the Canadian Golden Globe nominee is having his breakout moment on screens both big and small.