Get to Know Louisa Jacobson, Meryl Streep's Daughter and Breakout Star of 'The Gilded Age'

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticFor a couple of decades now, Steven Soderbergh’s “little” movies — the lo-fi dramas, often quirky thrillers, that he makes as palette cleansers in between his higher profile projects — have been a pleasurably idiosyncratic, off-on-his-own-cloud thing. Some of them are good (like “Bubble” and “Side Effects”), some are meh (like “Haywire”), and one is great (“The Girlfriend Experience”); none of them make much of an impact in the marketplace.

The drama on “The Bachelor” was award-worthy this week.

The drama on “The Bachelor” was award-worthy this week.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticChristine Baranski’s career is so vast and varied — from starring roles in “The Good Wife” and its spinoff “The Good Fight,” to spending decades in New York City theater, to stealing scenes as the “Mamma Mia” franchise’s resident siren — that it’s genuinely shocking when she points out that she’s never been in an onscreen period piece “with wigs, corsets, language, the whole thing.”HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” a glamorous new post-Civil War era drama from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes, embodies that “whole thing” and then some. So when Fellowes reached out to offer Baranski a part that occupies what many “Downton” fans will recognize as the Dowager Countess role (i.e.

Sarah Jessica Parker is celebrating a successful season of . The 56-year-old star of HBO Max's reboot took to Instagram on Thursday after the show's season 1 finale was released.In the post, Parker shared pics from a pivotal moment in the season finale, where her character, Carrie Bradshaw, (spoiler alert!) scatters her late husband's (Chris Noth) ashes on the Paris bridge where they rekindled their love on .«From Manhattan, the Bronx and all the boroughs in between,» Parker wrote. «To all those on the bridge that beautiful, long last night in Paris There were hundreds of hands involved in creating our first season of @justlikethatmax.

Sarah Jessica Parker, was the only cast member of And Just Like That…who knew costar Willie Garson was gravely ill. The late actor, who portrayed Stanford Blatch, passed away at the age of 57 after suffering from pancreatic cancer in September. In a new documentary for the Sex and the City revival called And Just Like That… The Documentary premiering Feb. 3, Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda Hobbes, revealed Willie’s diagnosis was held secret from everyone except Sarah.

And just like that, the Sex and the City cast is spilling all! After ten highly anticipated episodes of HBO Max’s And Just Like That, Carrie Bradshaw and her SATC cohorts have ushered in a new era of their New York-based lives as postmenopausal women — and are reflecting on season 1.

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HBO’s The Gilded Age continues to grow from its impressive start, delivering a 15% increase in total viewers from its series premiere.

Becoming a household name. Euphoria fans hoped season 2 would bring a larger part for Maude Apatow’s character, Lexi Howard, and the show’s creator, Sam Levinson, delivered.

Penélope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”) and Benedict Cumberbatch (“Power of the Dog”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.Benedict Cumberbatch is so over Zoom. But a new spike in COVID-19 cases with the omicron variant has meant that his planned sit-down with Penélope Cruz will instead unfold over a screen.

Monday, Jan. 24 marked the premiere date of “The Gilded Age”, the new period drama starring Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon as well-heeled sisters who take in their niece (played by Louisa Jacobson) when her father — their brother — dies and leaves her penniless.

So fetch! Lacey Chabert’s fans will always remember her role as Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls — but her daughter, Julia, only recently learned of her iconic character.

After almost two years of COVID restrictions, cancelled holidays and dreary winter evenings in front of the TV, I jumped at the chance of a weekend away in the sun-drenched city of Ras Al Khaimah – Dubai’s neighbouring Emirate. Pitched as a trip for thrill-seekers, I was keen to see what it had to offer – particularly as it's only a 45 minute drive from glitzy Dubai, famous for its bottomless brunches, fancy restaurants, sky-scrapers and reality star clientele. Just how different could it be? Well, very, actually.

If you love a period drama with a touch of class, you won’t want to miss The Gilded Age, the latest offering from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. But forget English stately piles inhabited by toffs like the Granthams – Julian has crossed the pond to America to tell this tale, set at the end of the 19th Century. It was a time when industry and the economy were on the up, creating a wealthy elite to join the old money families of the establishment.The story begins in 1882, when young Marian Brook, the orphaned daughter of a general, moves into the New York home of her “old money aunts”, Ada and Agnes.

The Gilded Age,” premiering Monday at 9 p.m. EST, chronicles the lifestyles of the rich and famous in Manhattan during the late 1800s — with ostentatious displays of wealth, ridiculous parties and heaps of tabloid-worthy gossip and scandal.Created by Julian Fellowes, the man behind “Downton Abbey,” the series also highlights the deep-rooted rivalries and prejudices among NYC high society (and the social climbers desperate to get a leg up).Here, The Post looks at some of the wildest stories of the real Gilded Age.To this day, the creations of Gilded Age architect Stanford White define New York City: the Washington Square Arch, Judson Memorial Church and the Players Club, among many other wonders.But it was his 1906 murder, and the shocking reason behind it, that really rocked the city.White, 52, had attended the premiere of the musical “Mam’Zelle Champagne” at the original Madison Square Garden, which he also designed.

The Gilded Age is in many ways the spiritual successor to Downton Abbey – but do the shows exist in the same universe?

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