David Farnor | On 03, Jan 2019

The 2019 EE Rising Star Award nominees have been unveiled today by BAFTA, and it’s an impressive bunch of diverse and distinct talent.

The only award at the British Academy Film Awards for by the public, it honours an up-and-coming peformer who has shown truly outstanding talent on the big screen in the past year and captured the attention of both the public and film industry. Previous winners range from John Boyega to Daniel Kaluuya and a young James McAvoy.

Before you cast your vote here, we’ve put together a guide to where you can catch up with each nominee’s screen history on your favourite subscription VOD services.

Jessie Buckley

Jessie Buckley has established herself as a true talent of stage and screen since playing Anne Egermann in the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Playing the role of Moll in Beast saw Jessie give a critically acclaimed performance, with critics praising her for bringing a fresh, frank feminine perspective to her leading performance. The film was launched to wide acclaim at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. At this year’s film festival, Jessie’s most recent project, Wild Rose, was premiered, in which Jessie plays a Glaswegian musician who dreams of becoming a Nashville star. The film concluded to a standing ovation and is due to be released in April 2019.

See them in…

Beast
Watch on Amazon Prime

Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia Erivo is a Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning actress, best known for her stunning performance as Celie in the 2015 Broadway revival of The Color Purple. This year, Erivo has starred in both Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale alongside Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, and Jon Hamm as well as in Steve McQueen’s Widows alongside Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, and Elizabeth Debicki. In 2019, Erivo will be seen starring alongside Daisy Ridley and David Oyelowo in in the highly anticipated sci-fi thriller, Chaos Walking, from director Doug Liman

See them in…

Bad Times at the El Royale
Available to buy/rent from 4th February

Barry Keoghan

Barry Keoghan first received widespread critical acclaim as one of the breakout stars of Sundance 2016 for his performance in Rebecca Daly’s Mammal and was named as one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow in 2015. Since then, Barry has received praise for his work as Boy opposite Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman in Yorgas Lanthimos’ The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, as part of Christopher Nolan’s stellar ensemble in Dunkirk and, most recently, in Bart Layton’s American Animals – for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor BIFA in 2018.

See them in…

The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Watch on Amazon Prime

Stay (2014)
Watch on Amazon Prime

Dunkirk
Watch on Sky Cinema / NOW

Lakeith Stanfield

Lakeith Stanfield is currently starring in Boots Riley’s hit debut, Sorry To Bother You where he was praised for his role as Cassius Green. He also received widespread acclaim for the lead role in Crown Heights, about the wrongful conviction of prisoner Colin Warner. The film then went on to win the Audience Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Stanfield has also starred in Jordan Peele’s cult hit Get Out, alongside 2018 EE Rising Star Award winner Daniel Kaluuya and, in the Netflix original film War Machine, alongside Brad Pitt. On the small screen, he has also received critical acclaim for his role as Darius in Donald Glover’s series Atlanta on FX.

See them in…

Crown Heights
Watch on Amazon Prime

Come Sunday
Watch on Netflix UK

The Incredible Jessica James
Watch on Netflix UK

Letitia Wright

Letitia Wright was first named as one of the ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ by Screen International back in 2012, with a consistently strong list of roles from the Emmy-nominated actress in the lead up to her role this year as Shuri in Marvel’s Black Panther, which received worldwide attention. Wright recently reprised this role in Avengers: Infinity War and will also feature in the upcoming Avengers film in 2019. Next up, she is set to join 2016 EE Rising Star Award winner John Boyega in the Mike Cahill-directed adaptation of Hold Back The Stars. Letitia was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2015.

See them in…

Message from the King
Watch on Netflix UK

Avengers: Infinity War
Watch on Sky Cinema / NOW

Black Panther
Watch on Sky Cinema / NOW

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