Octavia Spencer

Stars are showing their support for a young boy who saved his sister’s life.

Actress Octavia Spencer is stepping in to help patients who are affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Jimmy Fallon quizzes real-life besties and “Thunder Force” co-stars Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer to see which of them knows the most about the other.

Christian Bale is nominated for an award at the 2020 Golden Globes but he won’t be able to collect the honor in person if he wins at Sunday’s ceremony....

E! News has learned that the actor won’t be able to attend the show because he got ill and was not able to travel to Los Angeles....

His ailment was not disclosed. Major...

The cast and creators of “Riverdale” will receive an award from a gay rights education group for the show’s portrayal of LGBTQ relationships in a high school setting.

When Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox recorded “Sisters Are Doin’ it For Themselves” in 1985, the Queen of Soul tried out a pointed ad lib for the empowerment anthem. “‘Equal pay, that’s what we say!'” she exclaimed in one take, as recounted by Lennox at a gathering of female filmmakers last fall. “And I said, ‘She gets the message. She...

Anne Hathaway is signing up for more diaper duty. The 36-year-old actress announced Wednesday on her Instagram account that she and her husband, actor and jewelry designer Adam Shulman, are expecting their second child. She posted a photo of her growing belly with the caption “It’s not for a movie…” Hathaway also went on to say that she was sending...

With USA’s long-time legal drama “Suits” entering its final season, fans of the show will have to start looking for a new show to fill their entertainment gap. But the good news is, they may not have to look very far. Returning to the screen after leaving “Suits” in 2016, Gina Torres (Jessica Pearson) takes her character to the political...

Oscar winners Mahershala Ali and Spike Lee, along with the late comedian Andy Kaufman, rocker Billy Idol and iconic comic-book superhero Batman are among those newly chosen to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday.

Octavia Spencer is a movie star. She has been for almost a decade since audiences and Oscar voters fell in love with her as Minnie in “The Help.” Since then she’s gotten two more supporting actress Oscar nominations, one of which was for a film that became another “surprise” blockbuster (“Hidden Figures”), ramped up her production company, acted consistently in...

Collapsing social structures haven’t been great for, well, the world. But they have been a boon to the horror film.

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland) and Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) met only briefly before they suddenly vanished — along with half the universe’s population — in “Avengers: Infinity War.” Luckily, they will get to work together again in Disney-Pixar’s “Onward.” Set in a “suburban fantasy world,” the animated adventure introduces teenage elf brothers “who embark on an extraordinary...

Octavia Spencer is bringing the story of black haircare mogul Madam C.J. Walker to television.
Netflix said Sunday that Spencer will produce and star in a limited series about the outsized life of Sarah Breedlove, who was known professionally as Walker.

Allison Janney even gave credit to the bird. After winning the best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday for her turn as the hard-as-nails, chain-smoking mother of Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya,” Janney began her speech by joking that she “did it all by myself.”

On the surface, Hollywood’s after-Oscar parties are held to celebrate the winners and almost-winners at the Academy Awards. But their real purpose, for many anyway, is to recognize that the entire exhausting epic of the awards season is finally over.

A Harvard University theater group with an all-male cast is under fire from those who say it should allow women onstage – and Mila Kunis is being asked to take up the cause.

Pinkett Smith stressed the importance of women in Hollywood working together to stop wage disparity.

The red carpet will be a sea of black as the movement against sexual misconduct takes center stage at the British Academy Film Awards. Many female stars and other guests are expected to dress in monochrome for Sunday’s ceremony as a statement of solidarity with victims of sexual harassment and abuse. Will royalty join them? The Duchess of Cambridge is...

Guillermo del Toro’s lavish monster romance “The Shape of Water” fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director and “Mudbound” cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman to earn a nod in that category in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy Awards.

Just days after the Oscar nominee tied the knot with longtime boyfriend, fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo in Italy, the first photos of her wedding dress have emerged.