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Former Child Actor Was Pregnant When She Died at 24

Bella star Sophie Nyweide was found dead on riverbank in Vermont earlier this month; police are investigating

(Newser) - Authorities are still investigating the death of a former child actor whose body was found along a Vermont riverbank earlier this month, with a new detail emerging to add to the tragedy: According to the death certificate for Sophie Nyweide, who starred in such films as Bella and Mammoth, the...

Dick Van Dyke Talks Oscar Plans, Having Much Younger Wife

Mary Poppins actor, 99, says he'd still like to achieve EGOT status

(Newser) - Most people retire in their 60s, but 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke has other plans. The last few years have seen Van Dyke involved in a Malibu car crash and make Emmy history , and the Mary Poppins actor is now talking about his next possible move: vying for an Oscar. "...

Cate Blanchett Is 'Giving Up' (on Acting)
Cate Blanchett
Is 'Giving Up'
(on Acting)
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Apr 15, 2025 10:15 AM CDT

Cate Blanchett Is 'Giving Up' (on Acting)

So she says, though 55-year-old thespian says her family members 'roll their eyes' when she says that

(Newser) - Cate Blanchett has been making the rounds promoting her first major radio play, an adaptation of Wallace Shawn's The Fever airing on BBC Radio 4, though she surprised the UK's Radio Times during a recent interview in which she announced her future plans, reports the Guardian . "Cate...

Anjelica Huston Talks About Her Fight With Cancer

Actor reveals the 2019 diagnosis for the first time, says she's been in remission for 4 years

(Newser) - Anjelica Huston is healthy these days, she tells People , but that's nothing to be taken for granted after a bout of cancer that's now four years in the rearview mirror. "I'm at the four-year mark, and that means so much to me," the 73-year-old actor...

After Tumultuous Weekend, NYPD Blue Star Dodges a Felony

Kim Delaney, husband both arrested in domestic incident; charges dropped for lack of evidence

(Newser) - Kim Delaney had a chaotic weekend, complete with accusations of domestic violence against and by her own husband. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that the NYPD Blue and Army Wives actor, in her mid-60s, first called the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Friday night to file a domestic...

Jennifer Lawrence Is a Mom Once Again

No word yet on the sex, name of second baby for Oscar winner and husband Cooke Maroney

(Newser) - Jennifer Lawrence is a mom for the second time. TMZ reports that the Oscar-winning Silver Linings Playbook actor, 34, and her husband, 40-year-old art dealer Cooke Maroney, recently welcomed their new addition, though there aren't details yet on the new baby's name, sex, or actual date of birth....

Richard Chamberlain, Miniseries Star, Dies at 90
Richard
Chamberlain
Was 'King of
the Miniseries'
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Mar 30, 2025 10:00 AM CDT

Richard Chamberlain Was 'King of the Miniseries'

Dr. Kildare star moved on to Shogun, Thorn Birds

(Newser) - Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series Dr. Kildare who found a second career as an award-winning "king of the miniseries," has died. He was 90 and died Saturday night in Waimanalo, Hawaii, of complications following a stroke, his publicist said, per the AP . Tall...

Actor Pays Down $1.3M of His Hometown's Debt
Actor Pays Down $1.3M
of His Hometown's Debt
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Mar 15, 2025 11:02 AM CDT

Actor Pays Down $1.3M of His Hometown's Debt

Welsh thespian Michael Sheen ponied up $130K of his own money, as detailed in a new Channel 4 doc

(Newser) - A Welsh actor has forked over six figures of his own cash to pay down the debt for hundreds of people from his hometown. Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway, a documentary designed to educate the masses on credit debt, debuted on Monday on the UK's Channel 4,...

Halle Berry Is Throwing a Menopause Party

Actor says women should be celebrating the next stage of life

(Newser) - Halle Berry will turn 59 in August, but she's celebrating another milestone on March 21—menopause. As Page Six reports, the Oscar winner is throwing herself a party she terms a "shiesta" to celebrate 12 months without a period and the next stage in life. "When a...

Steve Carell Is Taking 800 LA Kids to the Prom

Actor combines with a charity to pony up tickets for students affected by California wildfires

(Newser) - A 62-year-old man taking any sort of interest in a high school prom might seem a little sketchy, but here we have Steve Carell offering to pony up for prom tickets for some 800 kids affected by the Los Angeles wildfires. As NBC News reports, the actor, working with a...

Karla Sofia Gascon Speaks Out After Oscars

No best actress award for Emilia Perez , but she offers congrats to co-star, praises host O'Brien

(Newser) - Karla Sofia Gascon's Oscars "nightmare" wasn't as bad as it could've been—Emilia Perez, the film she starred in alongside Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, took home two Academy Awards on Sunday, including best supporting actress for Saldana and best song for "El Mal."...

Bill Murray Calls Bob Woodward's Belushi Book 'Criminal'

Actor tells Joe Rogan that 1984 biography on the late SNL star was 'completely inaccurate'

(Newser) - Bob Woodward's biography of the late Saturday Night Live star John Belushi dropped more than 40 years ago, but one old Belushi friend is just now spilling how he feels about the job that the Watergate journalist did. It's not a complimentary take, reports Variety . "If he...

Michelle Trachtenberg's Cause of Death Will Remain a Mystery

With no autopsy, it is officially 'undetermined'

(Newser) - Michelle Trachtenberg's cause of death is "undetermined," and will remain so. The New York City Medical Examiner did not perform an autopsy at the request of the actor's family following law enforcement's conclusion that the death wasn't suspicious, CNN reports. Trachtenberg, 39, was found...

Hackman, Wife Found in Separate Rooms
Hackman's Daughter
Has a Theory
Feb 27, 2025 11:16 AM CST

Hackman's Daughter Has a Theory

Family reportedly suspects carbon monoxide in death of actor, wife, dog

(Newser) - A daughter of actor Gene Hackman, who was found dead in his Santa Fe home on Wednesday alongside his pianist wife, suspects they were exposed to toxic fumes such as carbon monoxide, reports TMZ . The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office said there were no signs of foul play or...

Gascon to Attend Oscars: 'I'm Grateful to Be Back'

Variety reports that Netflix has agreed to pay for Emilia Perez star's showing amid controversy

(Newser) - The distance between Netflix and Karla Sofia Gascon just got a bit smaller. Variety reports that best actress nominee Gascon, 52, will indeed attend the Academy Awards on Sunday at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre—and that the streaming service has agreed to pick up the tab, despite the "nightmare"...

Octavia Spencer Offers Special 'Bake Sale' for DOGE Workers

Actor puts up post about serving poop pie from The Help to staffers, fans of the cost-cutting group

(Newser) - Octavia Spencer wants to reward workers for the Trump administration's so-called Department of Government Efficiency organization with a bake sale—with her wares containing a very "special ingredient" that will be familiar to fans of her movie The Help. Per the Hollywood Reporter , the Oscar-winning actor posted her...

Tilda Swinton Stepping Away From a 'Merciless Mistress'

After scathing speech at Berlinale on world's issues, actor says she's taking a break from work

(Newser) - There are few actors who take on quirkier roles than Tilda Swinton, but apparently working that hard at being weird can take its toll. This week at the Berlinale international film fest in Berlin, the 64-year-old Oscar winner received the Golden Bear lifetime achievement honor, and she used her acceptance...

Gascon Faces Oscars 'Nightmare' in Wake of Tweets
Gascon Faces
Oscars 'Nightmare'
in Wake of
Tweets
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Feb 5, 2025 1:20 PM CST

Gascon Faces Oscars 'Nightmare' in Wake of Tweets

Netflix is distancing itself from trans Emilia Perez actress after eyebrow-raising posts

(Newser) - The controversy surrounding the past tweets of Karla Sofia Gascon—the first transgender individual nominated for an acting Oscar, for her starring role in Emilia Perez—isn't going away. And it's apparently affecting the Oscar campaign that Netflix, the movie's distributor in the US and UK, is...

Jesse Eisenberg Wants to Cut His Link to Zuckerberg

Social Network actor played Meta CEO but doesn't want to be 'associated with somebody like that'

(Newser) - Jesse Eisenberg may have played Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg on the big screen in 2010's The Social Network, but any link beyond that isn't something Eisenberg is keen on. "I haven't been following [Zuckerberg's] life trajectory, partly because I don't want to think of...

French Director Guilty of Sexual Assault on Child

Adele Haenel said Christophe Ruggia abused her for years under guise of training

(Newser) - French film director Christophe Ruggia was convicted Monday of sexually assaulting actor Adèle Haenel when she was as young as 12. "You took advantage of the influence you had on the young actress," a judge told the director, per the New York Times . Ruggia was 36 when...

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