Eleven performers making big moves in their work.
Tyriq Withers When Tyriq Withers first read the script for March’s Reminders of Him, based on Colleen Hoover’s bestselling romance novel, it scared him. For one thing, his character, Ledger Ward, is older than Withers is, and has a fair amount of facial hair .
But more than that, the character is grieving in a way that hits close to home for the actor, who lost his brother in a car accident in 2021. “Having to confront that grief was scary,” he says. Ultimately, though, it was the fear that drew him to the role: “I think anything that scares me, it has my attention.” Since his breakout role in Donald Glover’s Emmy-winning series Atlanta in 2022, Withers—who played football at Florida State University before auditioning for a play put on by the Black Students Union—has done three back-to-back studio movies and sat front row at Fashion Week in Paris and New York. He dreams of one day working with Barry Jenkins. In the meantime, he’s taking it all in: “Every day I wake up is a pinch me moment, honestly.” True Whitaker From the outset, HBO’s I Love LA had a lot going for it—a wryly funny creator-writer in Rachel Sennott; turns from the likes of Josh Hutcherson, Leighton Meester, and Ayo Edebiri—but its revelation was 27-year-old True Whitaker. An LA native now based in New York, she channeled the most amusing absurdities of her upbringing into the character of Alani, a nepo baby with a heart of gold. Down the pike: Spring Breakers: Salvation Mountain and I Love LA’s sophomore season. Connor Storrie Connor Storrie is, in a word, busy. Since the premiere of Heated Rivalry last November, the 26-year-old has had late-night appearances, Fashion Week invitations, and even a spot in the Olympic torch relay. On the work front, Storrie will soon appear in Molly Gordon’s film Peaked, and he’s written and directed a feature titled Transaction Planet. In his free time, he has three things on his mind: “try to make music, stay creative, and stay grounded.” María Zardoya María Zardoya’s haunting, singular voice has defined the indie-pop outfit the Marías for a decade. That the group only made the list of best-new-artist nominees at this year’s Grammys was both an irony and a little bit poignant: Zardoya, 31, had just launched a solo project, Not for Radio, with a darkly beautiful album, Melt. The mood she hoped to conjure: “I wanted this to feel like music you’d listen to in nature while sitting under a tree or on the train looking out a window.” Audrey Hobert Audrey Hobert never told fans to dress up for her concerts, but they did anyway. “I would look out and see like eight clowns, six girls in nightgowns,” says Hobert, 27, describing the crowds at the largely sold-out tour for her debut album, Who’s the Clown?, which kicked off late last year in the US and continues in Europe and at festivals this year. “And I was like, this does make sense for, I guess, who I am.” The singer’s performances have a dancing-in-your-room, singing-into-a-hairbrush quality, a kind of theatrical freedom that gets the whole room trilling along to her funny, observational songs. Hobert first started writing songs with her best friend, Gracie Abrams. It wasn’t long after striking out on her own, however, that she got herself a record deal. “I think writing my album was me busting down a padlocked door, screaming, I’m here, I’m here, notice me,” she says. Suffice it to say that people are doing just that. Myha’la Though Myha’la, 29, is best known for playing the coldly calculating Harper Stern on HBO’s Industry since 2020, it’s her past performances—as driven, true-crime-obsessed filmmaker Pia on Black Mirror and outspoken 20-something Ruth in Sam Esmail’s 2023 adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s novel Leave the World Behind—that prove she has the range and staying power to make whatever she wants. The latest project on her slate: Kirill Sokolov’s spring comedy-horror film, They Will Kill You. Dominic Sessa Dominic Sessa was in high school when he landed his debut role in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, opposite Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. In his new film, Tow, the 23-year-old actor portrays a lawyer in the true story of a Seattle woman, played by Rose Byrne, fighting to reclaim her car from a towing company. “She got me Vegemite for my wrap present,” Sessa says of Byrne. More recently, Sessa spent a lot of time shucking oysters as he prepared to play a young Anthony Bourdain in the upcoming film Tony. He was drawn to the creative possibilities and relatability of playing Bourdain at an age before he was famous, when he was still a young man just figuring things out. “Nobody’s ever seen 20-year-old Anthony Bourdain on camera,” Sessa says. “From the acting side of it, you have so much more freedom.” Miles Caton “Watching Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, I learned it’s important to create your own process,” says Miles Caton, the 21-year-old actor and musician who made his film debut in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. “You can go beyond a script and create entire life stories. It has given me a lot more confidence in my abilities for what comes next.” Caton, who played a musical prodigy on screen, interpolates those lessons into his own music-making—he’ll release an EP this summer and plans to tour. “I was so inspired by the storytelling of blues and R&B, and I’m applying that to new music.” Chase Infiniti On the set of Paul Thomas Anderson’s awards-sweeping One Battle After Another, 24-year-old breakout star Chase Infiniti observed what she calls “gentle leadership,” referring to the example set by the likes of Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, and Regina Hall. It was about “their work ethic, spontaneity, passion—but also how they never lost their sense of play and curiosity,” she says. That balance of lightness and purpose is what she’s carrying into forthcoming roles, including in The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, and the coming-of-age competitive-math drama The Julia Set. She feels privileged by the scripts and stories coming her way. “I want to keep reading for things that give me butterflies.” Whitney Peak In the unlikely event that you missed Whitney Peak in the 2021 Gossip Girl reboot, chances are you’ve seen her cavorting in Sabrina Carpenter’s video for “Nonsense.” Next, you’ll see the Ugandan Canadian actor, 23—also an ambassador for Chanel—in the heist comedy 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank and as Lenore Dove Baird in the eagerly awaited The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. “It’s been really nice to see my friends and get back to my life a little bit,” she says of recent downtime. “But there’s a lot that I’m excited about this year.” PinkPantheress “It feels like I’ve been catapulted into a new space,” says PinkPantheress. The 24-year-old British artist dropped her second mixtape, Fancy That, late last year, a freewheeling bricolage of dance-pop, UK garage, and electronica, lacquered with her sharp humor. For her efforts, she picked up producer of the year at the Brit Awards—the first woman ever to do so—joining a lineage that includes Brian Eno and George Martin of The Beatles. Now touring North America and onwards to Coachella, Pink—who was once quasi-anonymous—wears her British Y2K-ified tartans with pride. “I’m feeling experimental,” she says. “I like diving into a bunch of different genres and pulling from different things. I can feel returning back to my roots, with whatever may come next.” In this story: For Withers, Storrie, Zardoya, Hobert, and PinkPantheress: hair, Tsuki; makeup, Raoul Alejandre. For Infiniti, Whitaker, Myha’la, Sessa, Caton, and Peak: hair, Sonny Molina; makeup, Michaela Bosch. Los Angeles: Manicurist, Dawn Sterling; tailor, Hasmik Kourinian for Susie’s Custom Designs. New York: Manicurist, Jin Soon Choi; tailor, Thao Huynh for 7th Bone Tailoring. Produced by Rosco Production. Set Design: Heath Mattioli.
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