The film section over at Trespass has already looked at directors this week, now it is time to turn our attention to actors. There are plenty of impressive and talented actors under 30- Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman etc… but the purpose of this lists, Trespass' film reviewers focued on rising stars, who have had some interesting parts, but aren’t household names yet. Here are some of my picks in a list of 20 young actors/actresses under 30 for Trespass' Bright Young Thing week...Chloe Moretz
Chloe Moretz has had a steady stream of TV and film work since she was seven years old, it is two recent parts playing characters that seem old beyond their years that has made everyone stand up and take notice of this thirteen year old. In Marc Webb’s 2009 (500) Days of Summer Moretz played Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s characters wise younger sister Rachel. But it was as Hit-Girl in Matthew Vaughn’s 2010 Kick-Ass that Moretz really stole the limelight, out-acting her older cast-mates. This talented actress is in high demand and looks to have about 8 projects in the pipe line. The one everyone is looking out for though, is the American remake of the much lauded Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In. Renamed Let Me In, Moretz will be taking on one of the central roles as the child vampire who befriends her bullied neighbour. Can it live up the the original?- with Moretz onboard there is hope.
Jennifer Lawrence
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I had never heard of Jennifer Lawrence until a couple of weeks ago, when I saw her star turn in Debra Granik’s award-winning film Winter’s Bone. Playing the central character Ree Dolly, in this hillbilly mystery, Lawrence is a revelation. Lawrence’s performance as the resilient and clever Ree certainly made Winter’s Bone one of the standout films at the Sydney Film Festival this year. Lawrence’s next role on the big screen is in Jodie Foster’s film The Beaver, reported to be about a man and his beaver puppet, where she will co-star with Mel Gibson, Foster and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek). While the synopsis for this film sounds a little strange, Lawrence is most certainly a talented actress I’ll be looking out for in the future
Shareeka Epps
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Twenty year old American actress Shareeka Epps, starred in Ryan Fleck’s 2006 debut film Half-Nelson, alongside Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie. Her performance as Drey, a student who forms a friendship with her History teacher after discovering he is a drug addict, garnered Epps awards for best supporting actress from the Boston Society of Film Critics and Independent Spirit Awards. Epps can currently be seen in Rodrigo García’s Mother and Child, which is at cinemas now. Changing it up, Epps’ next film is Wes Craven’s horror film, My Soul To Take due out in late 2010.
Magaly Solier
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This beautiful Peruvian actress has a powerful screen presence which means her film roles linger with you long after the films end. Solier was discovered by director Claudia Llosa, for whom she has starred in two films, her film debut in 2006, Madeinusa and the Golden Bear winning Milk of Sorrow (2009). I first came across Solier in Peter Brosens and Jessica Hope Woodworth’s film Altiplano at last year’s Sydney Film Festival, where Solier stood out as the tragic Saturnina in the exquisitely beautiful film about loss. Her next role is in Spanish director, Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s film Amador, which is currently in post-production.
Martin Compston
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Scottish actor Martin Compston made his unbelievably good acting debut in Ken Loach’s devastating film Sweet Sixteen (2002). A promising young footballer, Compston won the main role in Loach’s film having never acted before. Since then Compston has appeared in film’s such as A Guide to Recognizing your Saints, Red Road and The Damned United.With the ability to combine vulnerability with anger and cheek with charm, Compston has taken on roles playing a range of character parts. His next film to be shown in Australia is the tense kidnapping drama, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, coming to cinemas in September. But the actor seems to have a busy line-up ahead with 6 films touted to be released, filming and in post production this year.
Andrew Garfield
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Picking his film roles carefully, 26 year old British/American actor, Andrew Garfield was last seen in Australia cinema’s in Terry Gilliam’s 2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Having started in theatre, Garfield won awards for his stage performances in Kes and Romeo and Juliet, Garfield moved on to focusing on film work after roles on British TV shows like Doctor Who and Trial and Retribution. In 2008 he won a BAFTA for Best Actor for his role in British film, Boy A for his portrayal of a Jack Burridge, a man given a new identity after serving time for a murder he committed as a child. Garfield followed that up with an amazing performance in the Red Riding Trilogy as the young reporter Eddie Dunford. Next up for Garfield is Never Let Me Go, co-starring in this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel with Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightly, and David Fincher’s The Social Network, both due out later this year.
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