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EXCLUSIVE: Unbelievable star Kaitlyn Dever is set as a lead opposite Michael Keaton in Dopesick, Hulu’s eight-episode limited series based on Beth Macy's bestselling book. The project is from The Handmaid's Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and Touchstone Television. Written by Danny Strong and directed by…

“Welcome,” says Sarah Paulson’s Clarissa Montgomery, a YouTube personality filming Episode 28 of her Mindful Meditations show. “Take a deep, healing breath and imagine that you’re not even on Twitter or Facebook or Xanax,” she encourages her viewers in the official trailer for Coastal Elites, HBO’s quarantine comedy…

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by ProPublica and the Marshall project, and an episode of the podcast This American Life, limited series Unbelievable follows the true story of a group of sexual assault survivors and the two detectives (Merrit Wever and Toni Collette) who track down their attacker. Danielle Ma…

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project, and an episode of the podcast This American Life, Netflix's limited series Unbelievable follows the true story of teenager Marie Adler, played by Kaitlyn Dever, as she tries to report being raped…

Every now and then a role comes along for an actor that not only proves career-changing but also life changing, and that was the case for Kaitlyn Dever in the true story of rape victim  Marie Adler struggling to be believed in the Netflix limited series Unbelievable. The show, which also stars Toni Collette and…

A four-time nominee at this year's Golden Globes, Netflix's eight-part series Unbelievable gripped and enraged viewers in equal measure, mostly because its tale of injustice is very much rooted in fact. Based on the 2015 ProPublica article "An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot on the heels of starring in Booksmart and the series Unbelievable, Kaitlyn Dever is in talks for the female lead in the movie musical adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen. Ben Platt is expected to reprise his stage role as the title character in the film, with Stephen Chbosky (Wonder) directing. Music and…

Awkwafina, Kaitlyn Dever, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Micheal Ward and Jack Lowden have been nominated for the 2020 BAFTA Rising Star award. Awkwafina, a Golden Globe winner on Sunday night, was nominated for The Farewell; Dever for Booksmart (the U.S. actress was also Golden Globe-nominated for Netflix series Unbelievable);…

It is no secret that the Hollywood Foreign Press was put under fire for shutting out women in the Best Director category at this year’s Golden Globes. In fact, the amount of women, people of color and underrepresented voices were fairly thin across all categories. Deadline talked to female filmmakers, producers and…

When director Olivia Wilde found out that Delta Airlines had removed the LGBTQ elements from her movie Booksmart in October, she demanded they be reinstated. By November, Delta committed to showing both Booksmart and Rocketman with LGBTQ scenes intact. Wilde told the crowd recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New…

A Texas native, Kaitlyn Dever started acting at a young age, acting in commercials which eventually paved the way for her to have a blossoming career in Hollywood which started with An American Girl. From there, she began to appear in more and more projects in film (The Spectacular Now, Beautiful Boy) as well as TV (Ju…

EXCLUSIVE: FX Networks has given a pilot green light to Platform, a half-hour anthology pilot, written, directed and executive produced by B.J. Novak (The Office). Lucas Hedges, Jon Bernthal, Kaitlyn Dever, Boyd Holbrook, O'Shea Jackson Jr., George Wallace and Ed Asner are among the actors set to star in the pilot…