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.

The Japanese-American actor has built a career out of playing dark characters—including The Female, part of a band of vigilantes exposing hypocrisy in the new Amazon series The Boys—but says the best thing about her work is getting close with her audience.

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.

With influences ranging from jazz and indie rock to classical music, the London-born-and-bred guitarist and songwriter is creating a new sound through a synthesis of raw emotions and sparse melodies.

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.

With the release of her début album Keepsake, the Australian dream pop prodigy establishes herself as a major player in the new wave of female-fronted, guitar-focused bands with her ethereal, haunting shoegaze classics.

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.

From post-World War I Peaky Blinders to contemporary-era Bodyguard and now as the lover of history’s “first modern lesbian” on Gentleman Jack, the English actor has a habit of taking risks and finding strength in the lives of the women she portrays.

Named after a root vegetable common to Asian cuisine, photographer Peter Ash Lee’s new magazine and digital platform celebrates Asian-American culture in an attempt to welcome a more diverse group both in front of and behind the camera.