Hollywood Careers I Follow with New Interest

Emily Blunt

What she's done: The Young Victoria, Sunshine Cleaning, The Devil Wears Prada

What she's about to do: Wild Target, The Adjustment Bureau (with Matt Damon), Gulliver's Travels

Other than her kick-ass name, Emily is a fantastic character actress but beautiful enough to be the lead in anything. I've loved a lot of her movies, including 'The Young Victoria.'

Carey Mulligan

What she's done: Pride and Prejudice, An Education

What she's about to do: Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go (with Keira Knightly), rumored to be the next Eliza Dolittle and the lead in the English-speaking version of 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.'

Have you seen 'An Education' yet? If not, go rent it. If you have, than you understand where I'm coming from when you see how wonderful of an actress she is. Watching her on talk shows isn't painful either because she's so effortless and real.

Jeremy Renner

What he's done: S.W.A.T., The Hurt Locker

What he's about to do: The Town (with Affleck bros and Blake Lively), The Raven

Okay, anyone who is about to be in a movie dealing with Edgar Allen Poe is a badass. Also, he was super intense in 'The Hurt Locker' and he just looks like a nice guy.

Garrett Hedlund

What he's done: Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers

What he's about to do: Love Don't Let Me Down (with Gwenyth Paltrow), TRON Legacy, rumored to be in movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'

I may be the only one willing to admit this, but the shower scene in 'Four Brothers; where he's all wet and tattooed was the best part of the movie. Other than being something nice to stare at, he's getting a lot of internet buzz for more thespian like chops. We shall see.

Mindy Kaling

What she's done: The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Office

What she's about to do: Lending her voice to 'Despicable Me,' developing her own NBC sitcom, writing 'The Low Self-Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie'

I put Mindy on this list because of all of her comparisons to Tina Fey, who I adore. Though I can see the similarities (Fey and Kaling are both women in their 30s who are funny and work on their own sitcoms), I see Mindy as being the next Nora Ephron or Nany Meyers. She seems to focus on romance more than Fey (she wrote the episode of Jim and Pam's wedding on 'The Office').