acting

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The Matlock star talks candidly about longevity, mental health, and the decades she spent feeling like she didn’t belong.

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In describing how they remember their lines, actors are telling us an important truth about memory.

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The actor plays dual roles in 'Fallout'—a monster and the man he used to be—prompting a look back at his own unlikely past.

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From 2008: What was real about the realest actor of them all? Claudia Roth Pierpont on Brando’s dilemmas and his depths.

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Paul Giamatti’s performance in "The Holdovers" is just another high point in a long, memorable career.

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A star since childhood, she spent decades guarding her privacy. On-screen, she’s always played the solitary woman under pressure. But in a pair of new roles, she’s revealed a different side of herself.

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The world is finally singing her long-overdue praise.

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We asked critics and Hollywood creators: Which supporting players make everything better?

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After leaving L.A. and making only one public appearance since — on a widely condemned mental illness episode of 'Dr. Phil' — the complicated star of 'The Shining' discusses her legacy and the trauma of the Stanley Kubrick film.

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From ‘Urban Cowboy’ to ‘Northern Exposure’ to ‘No Country for Old Men,’ Texas’s finest character actor isn’t hanging up his spurs just yet.

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Although ‘Cheers’ made the actor a star, he always swore he had a tough time getting comfortable playing the womanizing character. But the humanity he brought to Sam has informed his career and his life ever since.