Portraits

Robert Redford, who died on September 16, 2025, at age 89, leaves a film legacy richer than the image of the golden Hollywood leading man. His beauty and ease made him a defining star of the late 1960s and...

Cooper Hoffman entered film with a surname that already carried enormous weight. The son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, he made his screen debut in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza in 2021, playing Gary Valentine opposite Alana Haim. The role...

Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt arrived in 2025 carrying the kind of premise that resists comfortable alignment. Julia Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, a Yale philosophy professor whose professional and private life is destabilized when her protégée, Maggie Resnick, played...

Kyle MacLachlan’s career has always made room for odd juxtapositions. He can be the clean-cut center of a David Lynch nightmare, a polished husband in Sex and the City, a Prada runway presence, a Washington winemaker, and an enthusiastic...

Monster: The Ed Gein Story, the third installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix anthology, returned to one of American true crime’s most mythologized figures. Charlie Hunnam plays Ed Gein, the Wisconsin murderer and grave robber whose crimes...

Twenty-five years after Gilmore Girls premiered in 2000, the cast’s careers reveal how unusual the show’s afterlife has become. Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel remain inseparable from Lorelai and Rory in popular memory, yet both built substantial work beyond...

Looking back at young photos of Tom Welling is less about early-2000s celebrity nostalgia than about remembering a different phase of superhero culture. Welling became a star as Clark Kent on Smallville, which premiered in 2001 and spent ten...

Casting a famous person’s relative in a biopic can look like an obvious shortcut to resemblance. In Michael, Jaafar Jackson faced a more complicated assignment. The singer and actor is Michael Jackson’s nephew, the son of Jermaine Jackson, and...

Meghan Markle’s reported cameo as herself in Close Personal Friends reopened a part of her public identity that had been largely dormant since she left acting in 2017. Long before royal life made every appearance a global news event,...

Michelle Yeoh’s Academy Award for Everything Everywhere All at Once was historic, but describing it as the moment she finally arrived misses the scale of the career that preceded it. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, Yeoh trained in dance before...