The 10 TV stars you should have on your radar

BarcelonaThe first few months of 2025 have been unexpectedly intense when it comes to series. Some of the year's best titles have premiered in recent weeks, propelling the careers of many of their stars, some with well-established careers. Let's take a look back at ten actors and actresses who have stood out in recent months and who you should keep on your radar.

Adam Scott is not exactly a newcomer to the world of television or film – he has participated in numerous productions – but until now he has Severance The general public didn't remember his name. His television resume includes titles such as Parks and recreation, Big little lies or the cult comedy Party Down, which can now be seen on Filmin. His physique and the roles he has played have made him the embodiment of the American everyman, an idea supported by the co-creator of Parks and recreation, Mike Schur, when he says that "he is always memorable in unmemorable roles." Perhaps that is why Scott has been yearning for a more intense role for years, which has finally come to him, with Severance, for which he has already received his first Emmy nomination for Best Drama Actor (this year, he'll likely receive his second). Landing the role of Mark Scout, a man who agrees to undergo surgery to have his brain split between work and personal life, wasn't entirely easy. Ben Stiller, the series' producer, immediately offered him the role, but Apple had doubts about him. The company was only willing to consider him if he recorded a video audition. Stiller thought it was a somewhat humiliating condition for someone who had been working in the industry for years, but Scott, who had struggled for 15 years to find work as an actor, had no problem. Within minutes of receiving Stiller's request, he sent him the recorded audition.

Severance can also claim the victory of having introduced Britt Lower, who plays the adorable Helly R., trapped inside the Lumon company, and her version in the outside world, the disturbing Helena Eagan, to the general public. The series has accelerated the career of this 39-year-old actress who is truly fascinated by the circus world: in the three years of waiting between the first and second seasons of SeveranceLower joined the Flora Circus in St. Louis, where he sang and played the ukulele. When he finished filming the second installment, he repeated the experience: in this case, he joined the ranks of the Shoestring Circus in Washington state. As if his admiration for this universe weren't clear enough, in 2019 he directed and starred in the short film Circus person, about a woman who, after a painful breakup, reconnects with herself thanks to circus life.

This 2025 will be the year of the resurrection of the career of Noah Wyle, who became famous in the 90s for having played Dr. Carter in Emergencies and who later had a career further removed from the front line. His second burst of fame also owes to the doctor's white coat: he is the protagonist of The Pitt, a return to the most humanistic and realistic medical drama. The series has been gaining momentum as episodes have been released, and now that the first season is complete on Max, The Pitt It has been ranked as one of the dramas of the year. One of the curiosities of Wyle's career is that he was one of the first actors to portray Steve Jobs on screen, long before Michael Fassbender or Ashton Kutcher played him. The Apple founder liked his performance so much in Pirates of Silicon Valley who invited him to the Macworld fair to appear on stage dressed as him.

British singer Aimee Lou Wood began to attract public attention with Sex education, which had one of the best-written plots of the entire series. With the participation in The White Lotus, where she plays the tender Chelsea, the Manchester native has proven that she is a rising star. It is not the only successful project she has undertaken this year: she is also one of the stars of Toxic city, a Netflix miniseries about a group of mothers fighting to prove that toxic waste pollution is the cause of their children's birth defects and health problems. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Wood has no problem standing up to her when something bothers her: she's just landed the comedy show Saturday Night Live apologized for a gag in which he made fun of her prominent teeth. "I don't have thin skin. In fact, I love people begging for my hair when it's done wittily and with good humor. But the joke was about fluoride. My teeth are spaced apart, not in bad condition," she recalled after the show aired.

After years of being pigeonholed into the role of the smoky, immature friend, Rogen has just signed one of the best series of the year, The studio, along with his partner since adolescence, Evan Goldberg. It's not the only fiction he's made for Apple TV+: in 2023 premiered Platonic, a comedy about a dysfunctional friendship in which he stars alongside Rose Byrne. Beyond his work as an actor and screenwriter, Rogen has a strong record as a television producer: his company is behind series such as The boys, Jan V, Pam & Tommy and animated fictions such as InvincibleHe has another business that keeps him busy, Houseplant, the cannabis and cannabis supplements company he founded with Goldberg. Raised in a Jewish family in Vancouver, he is one of the few prominent Hollywood Jews who have spoken out against Zionism.

Like Seth Rogen, Kaitlyn Dever gained attention thanks to a comedy about crazy young women, Super nerds. But television has shown us that the genre in which this young actress from Arizona excels is drama. She left evidence in Believe me and in Dopesick, where she played a girl addicted to fentanyl, and this year she has released two projects that reaffirm this: Apple cider vinegar, the history of the influencer Belle Gibson, who invented that she suffered from cancer, and above all The last of us, where Abby, the protagonists' enemy, is. This latest role has the potential to explode her popularity worldwide. Dever began filming the action series a week after her mother died of cancer and says the experience was somewhat cathartic, considering her character has lost her father.

Stephen Graham is one of the veterans on the list and probably one of the most recognized English actors in his country. Adolescence, of which he is co-creator and star, has made his name known not only to experts but also to the general public. Surely thanks to this drama, many viewers have realized that Graham's face was familiar to them from yesteryear. It's only natural, given his extensive resume, filled with popular titles: This is England, Line of Duty, Boardwalk Empire either Gangs of New York, to name just a few. A prototype of the working-class Englishman, Graham has acknowledged his fondness for stories with a social dimension and characters often on the margins, perhaps because his mother was a social worker. Despite being of a lighter complexion, Graham explains his multiracial origins because one of his grandparents was Jamaican, and he recounted how he was insulted for it as a child.

The only rookie on this list has entered the world of series through the front door. Adolescence, which he stars in, is already the third most-watched English-language series in Netflix history. Owen Cooper, 15, had no experience when he stepped in front of the camera, although a year earlier he had begun taking acting classes at a drama school in Manchester. For Stephen Graham, Cooper's performance in the series, which is sometimes based on improvisation, is proof that he is "a generational talent" and that he could be "the next Robert De Niro." For the moment, the young actor's future is bright: while he was filming the series, he signed on for the adaptation of Wuthering Heights that Emerald Fennell is filming (Saltburn). Cooper co-stars with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, who has already admitted that the boy's presence on set has been "intimidating." "He's a rock star," he asserted.

That one nepobaby as Patrick Schwarzenegger, son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, was the protagonist of a series that makes fun of the rich as is The White Lotus It's quite ironic. His character, Saxon, is, in fact, one nepobaby and Schwarzenegger nails it. His physique and heritage make him perfect for playing the typical upper-class American boy accustomed to privilege, as he had done in a previous series, The staircaseSchwarzenegger was educated at private schools – he attended Brentwood School, an institution with a long list of famous alumni – and earned a degree in business administration and cinematography from the University of Southern California, where he also served in a fraternity. His time at The White Lotus has opened the door to more roles in quality television fiction.

Rashida Jones, daughter of music legend Quincy Jones and actress and model Peggy Lipton, is a regular face on television, but in 2025 she will be remembered for having starred in one of the most complete and sad episodes of the return of Black Mirror, Common people. As in the case of Schwarzenegger, Jones is an example that is sometimes nepobabies turn out well: despite having lived in a privileged environment – she went to the same school as Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian – she has always shunned superficiality and, for this reason, she graduated from Harvard with a degree in comparative religious studies. Jones coincided with Adam Scott in the comedy Parks and recreation and this week both actors were chosen by the magazine Time as two of the most influential people of 2025.