André Holland

Actor Andre Holland has been all business this year. His new film, "Exhibiting Forgiveness" with Andra Day is about a Black artist and his path to success while struggling with forgiveness. Earlier this year, he starred in "The Big Cigar" as Black Panther Party leader Huey P. Newton and in Netflix’s “Shirley” about politician Shirley Chisolm. But one of the things he’s most proud of is the restoration of an old movie theater in his hometown in Bessemer Alabama, which he’s doing with his mother through his non-profit organization The Holland Project. “It was a heavy lift” ferrying him to theater companies in pursuit of acting, he told PEOPLE. “So one of the passions that [his mother] has, and that I have, is to bring arts programming to my immediate community that I grew up in…” Holland hit his stride with his performance in the Academy Award-winning “Moonlight.” He’s since starred in featured in “Selma,” “42,” and “A Wrinkle in Time.”