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November 1: Toni Collette, 50
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The Aussie-born Oscar nominee for her role in The Sixth Sense has been making a big splash on the small screen this year, first in the Netflix thriller Pieces of Her, in which she played a mother with a violent past, and then in HBO Max’s The Staircase, a true-crime drama based on a celebrated docuseries of the same name. Collette stars as Kathleen Peterson, a woman who was found dead at the bottom of her home’s staircase and whose husband (Colin Firth) was convicted of her murder. Later this month, she’ll dive into some lighter material with the comedy The Estate, in which she and Anna Faris play sisters trying to convince their terminally ill Aunt Hilda (Kathleen Turner) to add them to her will before she dies.
November 6: Thandiwe Newton, 50
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In the credits of her first film, 1991’s Flirting, the London-born actress’ Zimbabwean name was misspelled, with the “w” dropped from Thandiwe, and she decided to stick with the easier-to-pronounce “Thandie.” Last year, she reclaimed her real name, pronounced tan-DEE-way. Since 2016, she has starred as the android Maeve Millay in HBO’s Westworld, for which she won a best supporting actress Emmy, and this year, she appeared in the thrillers God’s Country, about a college professor who begins a battle of wills with two hunters trespassing on her property, and All the Old Knives, as an ex-CIA agent who may or may not have been a mole.
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November 8: Alfre Woodard, 70
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Recently named one of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century by the critics at The New York Times, Woodard has earned four Emmys, a Golden Globe and three SAG Awards, and been nominated for an Oscar and two Grammys. She received some of her most rapturous reviews for the 2019 drama Clemency, in which she starred as a death row warden. This year, she appeared in the Canadian period drama The Porter, about Black Pullman porters working after World War I, and Netflix’s big-budget action thriller The Gray Man, and she’ll play a gender-swapped doctor in Salem’s Lot, an adaptation of the Stephen King vampire novel.
November 11: Demi Moore, 60
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After releasing her best-selling 2019 memoir, Inside Out, the former soap star–turned–blockbuster actress has enjoyed a bit of a career renaissance. She costarred in the pandemic-inspired dystopian thriller Songbird, voiced the lead character in the erotic podcast Dirty Diana and made a cameo in the gonzo Nicolas Cage comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Next up, Moore joins the cast of the Ryan Murphy anthology series Feud: Capote’s Women as socialite and former showgirl Anne Woodward, who was accused of murdering her banking-heir husband.
November 17: Martin Scorsese, 80
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Perhaps no director alive today is more associated with New York City than the Queens-born auteur behind such classics as Goodfellas and Taxi Driver. Recently, he’s shown his devotion to the Big Apple with two nonfiction works: the 2021 Netflix docuseries Pretend It’s a City, about the iconic humorist Fran Lebowitz, and this year’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only, a concert film about New York Dolls member David Johansen. For his next film, Scorsese is heading about 1,500 miles west for Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Grann’s book of the same name about a series of murders on Oklahoma’s Osage Nation in the 1920s after oil was discovered on tribal land. It will be his 10th collaboration with Robert De Niro and his sixth time working with Leonardo DiCaprio.
November 18: Linda Evans, 80
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A regular on the 1960s Western series The Big Valley, opposite Barbara Stanwyck, Evans returned to TV in a big way in the ’80s as Krystle Carrington, the catfight-loving wife of an oil magnate. Last year, she appeared in her first film in 41 years with Swan Song, about a retired hairdresser (Udo Kier) who busts out of his nursing home to style the hair of a recently deceased former client for her funeral. Yes, Evans plays that dead woman, but she also gets some beyond-the-grave scenes with Kier.
