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NEW YORK (AP) — Onstage, Finneas and Billie Eilish come across like a seasoned, veteran musical duo...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer Finneas finds his lane in music
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The video couldn’t have been simpler: A woman in her apartment, lip-syncing audio of President Donald Trump as he expounded on possible coronavirus treatments...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer Sarah Cooper on her meteoric rise
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a span of seven months this year alone, Anya Taylor-Joy played a meddling British brat in “Emma,” a Russian mutant with teleportation powers in the latest “X-Men” film, and an American orphan who turns out to be a chess phenom who can checkmate grown men by the time she’s 8 in “The Queen’s Gambit...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer Anya Taylor-Joy on ‘growing pains’ of breakneck year
NEW YORK (AP) — If Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was told nearly a decade ago that he’d trade in reading blueprints for movie scripts while he worked as a city planner in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community, he’d start checking his watch...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is a ‘dreamer’
LONDON (AP) — When 22-year-old Daisy Edgar-Jones ditched her British accent for the dulcet Irish tones of Marianne in “Normal People,” the actor’s stardom hit a new trajectory...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer Daisy Edgar-Jones’ ‘pinch yourself’ moment
NEW YORK (AP) — Any actor can find it difficult to find a meaty role in Hollywood, whether it be in TV or film, comedy or drama...
PHOTOS: Kaitlyn Dever
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Kaitlyn Dever
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For Zack Gottsagen, being named as one of The Associated Press' Breakthrough Entertainers of 2019 is a confirmation of his success...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Zack Gottsagen
PHOTOS: Zack Gottsagen
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barbie Ferreira has been hearing countless variations on the word “breakthrough” applied to her role in HBO’s groundbreaking teen drama “Euphoria” ever since the series debuted over the summer...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Barbie Ferreira
PHOTOS: Barbie Ferreira
NEW YORK (AP) — How is a great actor made? For Jonathan Majors, the 30-year-old breakout star of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” it started in drama school...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Jonathan Majors
PHOTOS: Jonathan Majors
NEW YORK (AP) — Megan Thee Stallion's schedule has become so frenetic that she can spend days, or even longer, away from home, in a different city every night...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Megan Thee Stallion
PHOTOS: Megan the Stallion
LOS ANGELES (AP) — By the end of 2019 on big screens across the globe, actress Florence Pugh will have body-slammed a famous wrestler in “Fighting with My Family,” screamed her lungs out after getting caught up in a violent Swedish cult in “Midsommar,” and tromped around New England in a Victorian hoop skirt with the three other March sisters in “Little Women...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Florence Pugh
NEW YORK (AP) — Yes, SZA is easily in the running for best new act of 2017. But her uber-successful year really puts her in the running for female artist of the year: She's had multiple songs chart in the Top 40 in a year when male acts overwhelming dominated, and she's the most nominated woman at the upcoming Grammy Awards with five...
NEW YORK (AP) — Some people have breakout years. Director Patty Jenkins had one with "Monster" in 2003, a movie that earned Charlize Theron a best actress Academy Award...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Big Sick" star Kumail Nanjiani is heading into awards season with a mix of fear and excitement...
PHOTOS: Florence Pugh
LOS ANGELES (AP) — John David Washington comes from a strong acting lineage, but he has carved out his own identity as a powerful actor, earning a Golden Globe nomination and generating Oscar buzz for his standout role in Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman...
AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018: John David Washington
NEW YORK (AP) — When Daniel Kaluuya read Jordan Peele's script for "Get Out," he had one question: "Are you allowed to make films like this...
AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018: Hannah Gadsby
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hannah Gadsby says she knows it's meant as a compliment to be chosen as one of the year's AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2017
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Awkwafina became a household name this summer, stealing scenes from the likes of Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock in the heist movie "Ocean's 8" and then as a standout in the cultural phenomenon that was "Crazy Rich Asians...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even though Henry Golding garnered instant fame from starring in the smash hit "Crazy Rich Asians," the British-Malaysian actor isn't sure if he'll ever eclipse his meteoric success in the box-office hit...
PHOTO GALLERY: Hannah Gadsby - AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018
PHOTO GALLERY: Awkwafina - AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018
AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018: Awkwafina
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elsie Fisher was about to give up on acting right before Bo Burnham's coming-of-age project "Eighth Grade" came on her radar, and it's a good thing she decided to take one last chance...
NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Ella Mai appreciates how much "Boo'd Up" has changed her life and jumpstarted her music career, but she wants to make one thing clear: "I know how to make songs...
AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018: Ella Mai
AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018: Henry Golding
NEW YORK (AP) — Kane Brown wasn't sure he was going to make it. But there was one thing he was certain about: He was never going to give up...
PHOTO GALLERY: Ella Mai - AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018
PHOTO GALLERY: Henry Golding - AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018
PHOTO GALLERY - John David Washington
AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018: Kane Brown
PHOTO GALLERY: Elsie Fisher - AP Breakthrough Entertainers 2018
PHOTO GALLERY: Kane Brown - AP Breakthrough Entertainers