Michele Shapiro

Was it perfect? No. Occasionally self-congratulatory? Of course. But there were some genuinely joyous and important moments during this year’s Academy Awards

In the movie version of “Hamnet,” Shakespeare’s wife Agnes, played with wild abandon by the actress Jessie Buckley, looms large with possibility.

About the closest Kim Cattrall's Sex and the City character, Samantha Jones, ever came to a religious awakening was the 2001 episode in which she lusted after a hot Franciscan priest.

Just days before Chris Pine arrived on the set of TNT’s noir crime drama I Am the Night in Los Angeles, he’d completed a shoot across the pond that left him physically and emotionally exhausted.

When he was shooting documentaries back in 2008, NYU film school grad Jonathan Furmanski got word about a new comedy called Delocated — its producers were looking to give it a nonfiction look. Furmanski landed the gig, where he met then-unknown

Five years ago, producer Michael Dinner discovered the short stories of science fiction author Philip K. Dick.

While fans of 90 Day Fiancé typically gather on social media to comment on which mixed-nationality couples they think have a future and which are likely to crash and burn, online conversations about the TLC reality series have been far more somber

When TV actors are on hiatus these days, many find themselves doing something novel.

When Dany Garcia heard more than a year ago that Universal Television and A. Smith & Co. Productions, the muscle behind American Ninja Warrior, were fielding ideas for an athletic competition series, she couldn't believe her luck.

Prior to landing the role of Dorothy Turner in Servant, the Apple TV+ series executive produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Lauren Ambrose had never played a mom.

It’s no wonder costume designer Michael Kaplan is known as the go-to guy for sci-fi.

After 23 years with the natural history unit at BBC studios, you'd think Jonny Keeling would have witnessed every imaginable animal behavior.

"I like challenges that seem way too big and ambitious."

Watching Beaumont Rosewood, Jr., a wealthy pathologist, tool around Miami in a vintage bright-yellow Pontiac GTO, it's easy to think he's carefree.

Jaimie Alexander’s first stab at acting didn’t go so well.

Before she was cast as Gretchen Cutler on FX’s unromantic comedy You’re the Worst, Aya Cash had never bared all on camera.

Growing up in Spain and South Africa, Lou Llobell excelled at sports.

Feature on singer Kelly Rowland's healthy lifestyle

The singer and musician’s autoimmune condition often made him feel like he had to cover up his distracting plaques. To help others in his shoes, he’s telling his story.

How serious talks about her daughter’s health inspired Soleil to share what she wants other parents of teens to ask.