Career Q&A with Michael K. Williams. Moderated by Jim Halterman, TV Guide Magazine. Michael Kenneth Williams is one of this generation’s most respected and acclaimed actors. By bringing complicated and charismatic characters to life - often with surprising tenderness - Williams has established himself as a gifted and versatile performer with a unique ability to mesmerize audiences. Williams is best known for his remarkable work on The Wire, which ran for five seasons on HBO. The wit and humo...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 20 min
A career retrospective with Carey Mulligan. Moderated by Joe Utichi, AwardsLine Magazine. Subscribe to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/sagaftrafoundation Watch Past Q&A's: https://www.youtube.com/c/SAGAFTRAFoundation/videos SAG-AFTRA Foundation on social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sagaftraFOUND/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sagaftraFOUNDATION Twitter: https://twitter.com/sagaftraFOUND SAG-AFTRA Foundation COVID-19 Fund: The SAG-AFTRA Foundation is currently...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 30 min
A career retrospective with Ed Asner. Watch Past Q&A's: https://www.youtube.com/c/SAGAFTRAFoundation/videos Follow the SAG-AFTRA Foundation on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sagaftraFOUND/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sagaftraFOUNDATION Twitter: https://twitter.com/sagaftraFOUND The SAG-AFTRA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, educational and state-of-the-art resources to SAG-AFTRA members. The Foundation ...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Career Q&A with Eddie Redmayne. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Eddie Redmayne was nominated for BAFTA’s Rising Star Award in 2012 for his continuing body of work. Subsequently, he shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination with his fellow actors from Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The Working Title movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, winning three; and won three Golden Globe Awards including Bes...
Aug 31, 2021•58 min
Career Q&A with Tom Brokaw on October 7, 2016. Moderated by Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker Staff Writer and CNN Senior Analyst. Tom Brokaw has spent his entire distinguished journalism career with NBC News beginning in 1966 in the Los Angeles bureau where he covered Ronald Reagan’s first run for public office, the rise of the Sixties counter culture, the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and the 1968 presidential campaign. From Los Angeles, Brokaw went to Washington as the White House correspondent...
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 1 min
A conversation with Giancarlo Esposito on August 9, 2021. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Follow the SAG-AFTRA Foundation on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sagaftraFOUND/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sagaftraFOUNDATION Twitter: https://twitter.com/sagaftraFOUND YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SAGAFTRAFoundation/videos The SAG-AFTRA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, educational and state-of-the-art res...
Aug 17, 2021•56 min
A career retrospective with Rosie Perez on July 27, 2021. Moderated by Arianna Davis, Oprah Daily. Follow the SAG-AFTRA Foundation on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sagaftraFOUND/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sagaftraFOUNDATION Twitter: https://twitter.com/sagaftraFOUND The SAG-AFTRA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, educational and state-of-the-art resources to SAG-AFTRA members. The Foundation believes that...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Career Q&A with Michael Shannon on January 8, 2016. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Academy® Award nominee Michael Shannon is making his mark working with many of the industry's most honored talents and treading the boards in the world's most respected theatres. With over forty roles in film, Shannon's credits include Siofra Campbell's thriller THE PRICE, Werner Herzog's SALT AND FIRE, Matthew M. Ross' FRANK & LOLA, Liza Johnson's ELVIS & NIXON, Peter Sollett's FREEHELD, Jeff Ni...
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Career Q&A with Greta Gerwig, Writer/Director of LADY BIRD, on January 10, 2018. Moderated by Sara Vilkomerson, Entertainment Weekly. GRETA GERWIG has rapidly emerged as one of Hollywood’s most engaging actresses, screenwriters, and directors, most recently writing and directing LADY BIRD. The film has appeared on over 200 “Top Ten” lists for 2017, and has won Best Picture from the New York Film Critics Circle and Gerwig has won Best Director from the National Board of Review. The film is no...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Career Q&A with Patrick Stewart. Moderated by Joe Neumaier, WQR Patrick Stewart is one of the most acclaimed performers working today. His career includes numerous and varied roles on both stage and screen. Perhaps best known as ‘Captain Jean-Luc Picard’ on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stewart has enjoyed a successful film and television career, earning Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG Award nominations. Screen appearances include King of Texas, Jeffrey, Dune, Excalibur, L.A. Story, Robin Hood:...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Career Conversations with Sam Elliott. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Sam Elliott stars alongside Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in Warner Bros. Pictures "A Star is Born." He has an iconic career that began with a bit part in the classic film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” He rose to stardom playing the lead in the cult classic “Lifeguard,” and has since built a career with many memorable and iconic film and television roles. Elliott’s other film work includes “The Man Who Killed Hitl...
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Career Q&A with Chita Rivera on September 11, 2015. Moderated by Richard Ridge, BroadwayWorld.com. An accomplished and versatile actress/singer/dancer, Chita Rivera has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and received eight additional Tony nominations for an exceptional 10 Tony nominations. On Friday, November 6, 2015, WNET/THIRTEEN will air the Great Performances special Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin’ To Do, a retrospective on her extraordinary life and career nationally...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 42 min
Career Q&A with Ewan McGregor on November 28, 2012. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Back Stage. EWAN MCGREGOR (Henry) has proven himself as a true actor time and again, from his breakthrough role as the heroin-addicted Mark Renton in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, to the legendary Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode 1, to starring as "Christian" opposite Nicole Kidman in the Academy Award® and BAFTA award winning musical Moulin Rouge directed by Baz Luhrmann. He was seen starring in Focus Feature...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 58 min
Career Q&A with Ray Liotta on June 5, 2017. Moderated by Stacey Wilson Hunt, New York Magazine. Ray Liotta stars on the NBC drama “Shades of Blue” as Lt. Matt Wozniak. Liotta started his career with a Golden Globe-nominated performance in Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild” and followed that by co-starring opposite Tom Hulce in “Dominic and Eugene.” He’s also well-known for the iconic role of Shoeless Joe Jackson in the Oscar-nominated film “Field of Dreams.” But perhaps the film that brought ...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Q&A with Laverne Cox on July 30, 2014. Moderated by Mark Peikert, Executive Editor, Backstage. Laverne Cox is an Emmy-winning actress who can be seen in the Netflix original series “Orange is The New Black” where she plays the ground breaking role of Sophia Burset, an incarcerated African American, transgender woman. The shows critically acclaimed second season is currently available on Netflix. Laverne is the first trans woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream scripted televis...
Jun 15, 2021•54 min
Conversations with David Hyde Pierce on April 12, 2013. Moderated by Richard Ridge, Broadway World. Emmy and Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce can be seen on Broadway starring opposite Sigourney Weaver and Kristine Nielsen in Christopher Durang's new comedy, "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike." The show opened in March following sold out runs at Princeton's McCarter Theatre and at Lincoln Center. Pierce made his professional and Broadway debut in 1982 in Durang's "Beyond Therapy" and went on...
Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 53 min
Career Retrospective with Rachel Weisz, starring in THE FAVOURITE, on January 31, 2019. Moderated by Mara Webster. Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz, who is known for portraying women of incredible spirit and intelligence, continues to seek out challenging projects and roles both on screen and on stage and as a producer. Follow the SAG-AFTRA Foundation on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sagaftraFOUND/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sagaftraFOUNDATION Twitter: http...
Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 17 min
A career retrospective with F. Murray Abraham on May 6, 2021. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Follow the SAG-AFTRA Foundation on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sagaftraFOUND/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sagaftraFOUNDATION Twitter: https://twitter.com/sagaftraFOUND The SAG-AFTRA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, educational and state-of-the-art resources to SAG-AFTRA members. The Foundation believes that...
May 25, 2021•59 min
Career Q&A with Beau Bridges on August 12, 2015. Moderated by Oliver Jones.
May 18, 2021•1 hr 39 min
A career retrospective with Olympia Dukakis on May 10, 2007. Moderated by Catherine Mary Stewart.
May 11, 2021•1 hr 38 min
Career Q&A with Carl Weathers on May 18, 2017. Moderated by Caroline O'Connor. Carl Weathers has worked for more than 40 years in both film and television and his feature films have grossed more than $1 billion in box office revenue. He is most recognized for roles in "Rocky," "Predator" and "Happy Gilmore," and those performances have solidified Weathers as a sought-after and recognizable talent. He currently stars as Cook County State's Attorney Mark Jefferies on the NBC drama "Chicago Jus...
May 04, 2021•2 hr 12 min
Conversations with John Goodman on November 19, 2013. Moderated by Stacey Wilson, The Hollywood Reporter.
Apr 27, 2021•38 min
A Career Retrospective with Kathryn Hahn on April 21, 2017. Moderated by Stacey Wilson Hunt, New York Magazine. Kathryn Hahn’s versatility in both comedy and drama has made her one of Hollywood’s most sought after actresses and has shaped a career full of memorable roles. Hahn was seen in Jill Soloway’s new comedy pilot “I Love Dick” set to premiere on May 12. She plays the role of a wife (Chris) who’s relationship is put to the test when they both fall for the same professor. Hahn also recently...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Conversations Career Q&A with Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit Trilogy, Angels in America) on April 27, 2018. Moderated by Broadway World's Richard Ridge of "Backstage with Richard Ridge!" Lee Pace was last seen on Broadway in Larry Kramer’s seminal, Tony Award-winning play, The Normal Heart. He starred in the Off-Broadway production Small Tragedy, which garnered him an Outstanding Actor Lucille Lortel Award nomination, as well as in the two-character play Guardians for which he...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Career Q&A with Malcolm McDowell, starring on Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle, on May 10, 2017. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Malcolm McDowell has created a gallery of iconic characters since catapulting to the screen as Mick Travis, the rebellious upperclassman in Lindsay Anderson’s prize-winning sensation, If... His place in movie history was subsequently secured when Stanley Kubrick found the actor he was searching for to play the gleefully amoral Alex in A Clockwork Orange; when McD...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 24 min
A career retrospective with Carey Mulligan on March 23, 2021. Moderated by Joe Utichi, AwardsLine Magazine.
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 30 min
Career Retrospective with Hayley Atwell on May 22, 2018. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Hayley’s impressive body of work has established her as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Hayley can be seen starring in HOWARD'S END. Written by Manchester By the Sea’s Oscar nominated director, Kenneth Lonergan, Hayley plays the lead role, alongside Matthew Macfadyen in the adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic novel. Through the prism of three families: the intellectual and idealistic Sch...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 25 min
Career Q&A with Kenneth Branagh on February 6, 2012. Moderated by Jenelle Riley.
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 52 min
Career Q&A with Kathleen Chalfant on March 19, 2014. Moderated by Richard Ridge, Broadway World. BROADWAY: Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. OFF-BROADWAY: Wit ( Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, and Obie Awards), Miss Ovington & Dr. Dubois, Somewhere Fun, Red Dog Howls, Painting Churches, Family Week, Vita & Virginia, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Spalding Grey: Stories Left to Tell, Bl...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 51 min
A career retrospective with Glynn Turman on February 23, 2021. Moderated by Gil Robertson.
Mar 02, 2021•50 min
