MARGOT ROBBIE

In the winking new film On a Magical Night, the charming young actor continues his Cannes-approved collaboration with director Christophe Honoré as the younger version of a philandering professor’s husband, guiding her on a trip through her own past.

As he makes his feature début as a teenager dealing with existential ennui in the gritty new film Run, the dancer-turned-model-turned-actor expands his study of character in a new direction, finding himself in a range of new projects, whether on the page, the stage, or the screen.

After stints as a designer, an artist, a club kid, and a dominatrix, the breakout star of Josh and Benny Safdie’s visceral Uncut Gems is ready to take on the movie industry.

Whether onstage in the three-hander “Master Harold”…and the Boys or in Sam Mendes’s Golden Globe-winning, big-budget World War I epic 1917, the young English actor puts his natural curiosity to use in every project he tackles.

With his English-language début as an enigmatic photographer caught in a love triangle with Alicia Vikander’s Lucy and Riley Keough’s Lily in Earthquake Bird, the Japanese dancer-turned-actor brings his intense presence to new audiences.

As a murderous Rev-9 in the new Terminator: Dark Fate, the Texan pulls from his real-life experiences and natural charisma and steps into the shoes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick as a robot who is almost, but not quite, terrifyingly human.

In his first feature, The Sound of Silence, starring Peter Sarsgaard as a house tuner and sound theorist who suffers a crisis of faith caused by a client played by Rashida Jones, the director celebrates the quiet he uncovers in a “New York City love letter.”

With three major films this season—David Michôd’s The King; Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang; and Taika Waititi’s TIFF prizewinner Jojo Rabbit, about a young Nazi and his imaginary friend Hitler—the New Zealander proves herself with a string of powerful and fascinating projects.

Three years into playing “badass” older sister Nancy Wheeler, the Stranger Things star takes stock of where she’s been and considers where she’s going as the sci-fi series continues its global domination.

As Cody, a mid-level operator in a pyramid scheme in the dark new Showtime comedy On Becoming a God in Central Florida, the Québécois actor strikes a balance between desperation and vitality—all in his second language.

In Julius Onah’s bracing new film, the rising young actor investigates the burdens of identity and expectation as a former child soldier-turned-model student rejecting the system around him.

As an aspiring writer newly enamored of Bruce Springsteen in an English working-class town in the Eighties, the young actor pushes forward in his quest to reframe the way minorities are portrayed onscreen in the new film Blinded by the Light.

After roles in Beautiful Creatures and Top of the Lake, the Australian actor makes a star turn in the new film Them That Follow, as the daughter of a pastor of a snake-handling sect in Appalachia who loses her religion.

After her American visa was denied, the English actor found herself in Canada making her feature début as the lead of Pippa Bianco’s striking new HBO film Share, as a teenager coming to terms with the boundaries of consent after she awakes from a night of heavy drinking.

With roles in Showtime’s new Boston cop drama City on a Hill and the forthcoming film Brian Banks as the eponymous real-life NFL player who spent years fighting a wrongful conviction of rape, the actor looks to stretch his talents in projects that tackle institutional racism in the real world from both inside and out.

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.

The English actor continues his run of projects tackling essential real-world issues—from racism and authority in Detroit and colonialism in The Revenant to bullying in his teenage début Son of Rambow—in Hereditary director Ari Aster’s new film Midsommar as a young man surging with toxic masculinity on a boys’ trip gone very wrong.

As the quieter foil to Zendaya’s Rue on the striking new HBO teen drama Euphoria, the born-and-bred Angeleno continues to step out on her own as she pursues projects that increase representation and new voices onscreen.