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Two new landmark characters for Star Trek, played by Blu del Barrio (Pic: Phil Sharp) and Ian Alexander (Pic: Jake Akita)

The “Star Trek” umbrella is becoming even more inclusive with its new addition of the universe’s first transgender and nonbinary characters. The characters will be played by series newcomer and nonbinary actor Blu del Barrio and “The OA” Netflix star Ian Alexander.

In a first for the “Star Trek” franchise, characters who are gender non-binary and transgender will appear on the third season of “Star Trek: Discovery,” CBS All Access announced on Wednesday.Ian Alexander (“The OA”) will play Gray, a trans man who has spent his life planning to be a Trill host for a symbiotic alien species that lives in different hosts over its lifetime.And newcomer Blu del Barrio will play Adira, a non-binary character who bonds with Lt.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe final frontier is continuing to bring audiences inclusive characters played by members of underrepresented communities in Hollywood.

Despite having to postpone their April wedding due to the coronavirus pandemic, Lala Kent and fiancé Randall Emmett still have amazing news to share with fans: they’re pregnant!

She Dies Tomorrow has already been called “the first COVID-era thriller” and “2020: The Movie” by critics. It’s a fair comparison.Stuffed with anxiety and existential threat, the new horror follows Amy – played by American actor Kate Lyn Sheil (House Of Cards), a loose stand-in for Seimetz – who is so confident of her impending death that she starts looking at urns online.

He was reportedly relaxing at the famous Saint Hill Manor in West Sussex during the coronavirus lockdown.And Tom Cruise looked cool and in control as he landed his helicopter at Battersea Heliport on Monday.The actor, 58, put safety first as he donned a black face mask as he made his landing and exited the chopper.The single-engine black matte helicopter, an Airbus H125, flew over the London skyline. Tom, who has a helicopter license, cut a casual figure for the day, donning a navy turtle neck

Emmerdale star Laura Norton is expecting her first baby with former co-star Mark Jordon, the couple have revealed.The pair met when Jordon joined the cast of the ITV soap as character Daz Spencer, and announced their engagement last year.The couple will now welcome a baby after sharing the news in an interview with OK! magazine.Norton said: “I had tears in my eyes, we're over the moon. It's something I've always hoped would happen.”Jordon added: "In my heart I knew before looking at the test.

So often it’s only after an extraordinary moment or experience that we realize how extraordinary it actually was. You wish you could go back in time and tell your brain, “Remember this.

Matthew Carey Chef and restaurateur David Chang, founder of the Momofuku group of restaurants, has earned numerous awards during his career, including Michelin stars and a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Chef. But he’s up for a different kind of award right now that has him feeling perhaps a little flummoxed: an Emmy.

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorTracee Ellis Ross certainly welcomes the Television Academy nominating a record number of Black actors for 2020 Emmys, but she also recognizes that it’s long overdue. “It’s about time,” Ross, who goes into the big night as a four-time nominee for her work as Dr.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDylan McDermott has been busy during quarantine. When he’s not hanging out with his kids — like watching “The Umbrella Academy” with his 14-year-old daughter Charlotte — he has been working on a memoir.“It changed me actually,” McDermott, 58, says on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “So I’m really happy I did it.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAs the Black Lives Matter movement took hold of the U.S., Kerry Washington could not help but remember filming “Scandal” while she was pregnant. “It’s impossible to not worry about the Black men in my life out in the world.

LOS ANGELES — Comedian Sarah Cooper, who became a TikTok sensation with satirical videos of President Donald Trump, will appear in her own variety special on Netflix , the streaming service announced on Wednesday.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineOn Most Dangerous Game, Christoph Waltz embarked on his first American project made for the small screen, earning his first Emmy nomination for the series, which had initially sparked some skepticism on his part.Created by Scott Elder, Josh Harmon and Nick Santora, based on a classic short story by Richard Connell, the action-thriller centers on Dodge (Liam Hemsworth), a Detroit everyman up to his eyeballs in debt, who is looking to secure the financial