The English actor soldiers through a bleak future in the new HBO series Years and Years, illuminating the refugee crisis as the moral center of a Manchester family buffeted by a distressing world that is just like our own—only more so.

After making his name in musicals, the openly gay actor has earned his third Tony nomination in five years for his first Broadway play in Burn This, playing a gay character for the first time in a historic season for queer representation in theater.

As the war profiteer extraordinaire Milo Minderbinder in Hulu’s new adaptation of Catch-22, the theater veteran finds his largest audience yet exploring the perils of American capitalism run rampant.

As Scout in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, the Broadway veteran has earned her fourth Tony nomination for a tender-yet-fierce performance in a work that speaks movingly about where we’ve come from as a country and where we’re going.

Known for his powerfully visceral performances in the iconic series Skins and films from Unbroken to Starred Up and Money Monster, the English actor is quickly establishing himself as one of the most compelling talents of his generation by working hard to inhabit every character, including the wrongfully executed Todd Willingham in the new Trial by Fire.

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.

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.

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.

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.