I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my life,” says actress Maria Bello. “I’m so fortunate. I’ve got this job that I love.” Bello smiles radiantly as she leisurely smokes a cigarette under a shady tarp outside the set of the NBC series, “Prime Suspect,” a remake of the British series starring Helen Mirren. “This is the greatest show I’ve ever been on, and the best crew I’ve ever had.” And to think, initially she turned it down.

Just a few days shy of his 35th birthday, Grenier remains boyishly handsome and has a contemplative, philosophical nature.

Diane Lane’s rise to household name has been decades in the making.

Knowing Melissa Leo as the fiercely devoted matriarch of The Fighter, a champion of human rights on HBO’s “Treme,” a sacrificial mother in Frozen River, and a dirty cop in last year’s Conviction, it leaves one wide-eyed when meeting her in person.

Among the ranks of Hollywood’s leading men, Paul Giamatti stands alone.

“I think it’s a strong relationship between highlights and shadows,” responds Greg Gorman when asked to describe his style. “And it’s not about what you reveal in the highlights, but it’s what you keep from people in the shadows that tends to make pictures, for me, more interesting. I think a picture is most successful if it leaves you wanting to know more about a person rather than less.” Gorman’s mastery of both technique and communication has earned him a portfolio that includes Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Bette Davis, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Di Caprio, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand,

Jessica Lange, David Bowie, Sophia Loren, Andy Warhol, Billy Idol, and scores of others. He’s offered his signature balance of intimacy and mystery to album covers, movie posters, advertising campaigns, and magazines like Interview, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, GQ, Newsweek, Time, Life, and Vogue. As a fineart photographer, Gorman’s highly acclaimed nudes celebrate the sculpture and emotion of the body, and his recent travels to Thailand and India exhibits his ability to capture the rare

Anna Paquin is a true natural. At the age of nine she went to an open casting call near her home in New Zealand for an independent film called The Piano, and at 11 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for a performance that no one saw coming. She was, quite simply, astonishing as Flora McGrath, who traveled with her mother (Holly Hunter) to the home of her new stepfather (Sam Neill) in the forests of New Zealand’s South Island. The depth and command she brought to her character in Jane Campion’s 1993 masterwork were rare for an actor of any age, much less a child, so it should come as no surprise that, 16 years later, Paquin is still

There’s something familiar about Hope Davis, like you’ve seen her before or she’s someone you knew a while back. Her everywoman quality coupled with a gift for subtlety and nuance allows her to inhabit a character in a way that always invites empathy. She makes every role accessible and welcomes you in. So when HBO ramped up for “The Special Relationship,” an inside look at the American-British alliance during the 1990s, Davis was the top pick for the part of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The job required an actor to embody a political and social figure who is loved and hated in equal measure, and has long affected the global political landscape — and to present her as flesh and blood, rather than concept or