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.

The breakout star of Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spike Lee’s Oscar-nominated BlacKkKlansman finds her place in the new wave of diversity pushing through Hollywood as she works to bring a feeling of visibility to young black girls like herself.

Previously on the verge of quitting acting, the breakout star of Dan Gilroy’s art world thriller Velvet Buzzsaw seeks out projects that scare her and looks to be a “whole person” rather than just a “whole actor.”

As the organization man Peter Quayle in Starz’s sci-fi spy drama Counterpart, the British actor relishes the challenge of multiple roles in a series that poses serious questions about identity and self-knowledge.

After making her name as the companion to Matt Smith’s Doctor Who and as Queen Victoria on the celebrated PBS series, the British actor offers up a powerfully raw and moving performance as a grieving mother in the new miniseries The Cry.