Addison Timlin played Amy Schine, Clive Owen’s diabetic daughter, in Mikael Håfström’s 2005 thriller Derailed. Here is the role, the reception and what came next.

Kate Winslet’s Iris Simpkins in Nancy Meyers’s The Holiday (2006): her friendship with Eli Wallach’s Arthur Abbott, the cottage, and what the role led to.

How Lambert Wilson’s silken, scene-stealing Merovingian became the most quoted new face of The Matrix Reloaded (2003), and what the role did for his career.

How Sandra Bullock built Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), the performance that won her the Best Actress Oscar, and how the role sits in her career today.

Bradley Cooper’s first feature role: Ben, the theater-minded counselor of Camp Firewood in David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer, and what the part led to.

7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald (2004), directed by Sven Unterwaldt Jr. with Otto Waalkes: its story, its comedy-star cast, its reception and where to watch it.

How Sharon Stone won the role of novelist and murder suspect Catherine Tramell in Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992), and what the part meant for her career.