Ashley Park

What sets Park apart is not a shelf of trophies but the range of rooms she has been invited into. She is one of the few performers of her generation to earn a Tony nomination for originating a Broadway role and then build a parallel career as a streaming-series regular, all within about five years. The Tony nod for Mean Girls in 2019 put her in the same conversation as the season's most decorated stage actresses, and the Grammy nomination for the cast album the following year extended that recognition into music. Her Critics' Choice, NAACP Image and SAG nominations for Emily in Paris show that the television industry took her seriously from the show's first season. Few actors can claim a Broadway origin story and a Netflix lead role in the same decade, and fewer still do it while becoming a public voice for cancer awareness.