Viggo Mortensen has played plenty of roles—from a king in The Lord of the Rings to Sigmund Freud in A Dangerous Method—but none have required quite the same specialized skills as his most recent part. To play Daru, the protagonist of director David Oelhoffen’s Far From Men, Mortensen not only had to log time ... More

Many thrillers strive for a ripped-from-the-headlines tone, but Burned, which opens with a bombing by a secret extremist group, takes authenticity to a new level. The reason is its co-author, Valerie Plame, who worked as a CIA officer before she was herself "burned." In 2003, a newspaper column about Iraq’s development ... More

Rosemarie DeWitt was too happy to play sad. As a new mother, the actress found it difficult to conjure the demons required to become Rachel Coulson, the depressed New England mother she portrays in Olive Kitteridge, the recent HBO miniseries.  “The tricky thing about my character was that she ... More

“A film is nothing but the reflection of the soul of its creator,” Isabelle Huppert said during the opening night festivities of the 14th annual Marrakech International Film Festival this week. And considering her role as the president of the festival’s jury—which includes, among others, Mèlanie Laurent, Alan Rickman, Bertrand Bonello ... More

Hilary Swank, her dog Kai at her feet, is having lunch at an outside table at Barbuto, a carefully casual Italian restaurant on Washington Street in New York City’s West Village. It’s a risky seating choice for an actress who generally keeps a low profile, but Swank has a pair ... More

He might be the toast of New York’s ballet scene, but there’s something distinctly Californian about Justin Peck. Sometimes it manifests itself in his work—like Paz de La Jolla, a playful and sweet yet sophisticated ode to his San Diego roots—but mostly it comes across in his surfer-like nonchalance and ... More

At the center of Jean-Marc Vallée’s newest film, Wild, is a love story between a mother and a daughter. Played by Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon, respectively, it’s based on the autobiographical book by Cheryl Strayed who, after the devastating loss of her mother, Bobbi, went on a journey ... More

In the new Starz series The Missing, Frances O’Connor plays one character in two ways. In the 2006 version of Emily Hughes, O’Connor portrays a woman on vacation with her husband and young son; in the 2014 version, O’Connor’s character is attempting to get on with her life eight ... More

When Naomi Grossman showed up to her initial audition for a role in American Horror Story, she had no idea that it would change her life. “For all I knew, it was a glorified extra role,” said Grossman. Now, the talented actress, who plays Pepper in the cult-favorite show, has ... More