THE NEW HOLLYWOOD

Tessa Thompson

You may know her from:

The teen noir “Veronica Mars”; the 2014 film “Dear White People”; playing Michael B. Jordan’s musician girlfriend in “Creed”; and the warrior Valkyrie in last year’s “Thor: Ragnarok” Where you’ll see her this year: Reprising roles in “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Creed II,” as well as alongside Natalie Portman in the Alex Garland thriller “Annihilation” Why she’s a standout:

The 34-year-old actress has an incredible on-screen magnetism — and she makes sure the roles she chooses don’t fall into stereotypes. Playing an athlete’s girlfriend in “Creed” became more than just a generic supporting role for Thompson: “With Bianca, people could see a woman that they know,” she told Vanity Fair. “And, in a broader sense, you got to really see a love story between two millennials where, unlike when the first Rocky was made, our ideas about love and gender roles, even in the context of a relationship, are different.”

She’ll be at the forefront of transforming race and gender on-screen in the years to come.

Lucas Hedges

You may know him from:

His role as Casey Affleck’s brooding nephew in “Manchester by the Sea,” which bagged him an Oscar nomination; as Frances McDormand’s son in 2017’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; and as a high-school dish in “Lady Bird” Where you’ll see him this year: Hedges will play a Baptist teen forced to undergo gay-conversion therapy in “Boy Erased,” also starring Nicole Kidman. Why he’s a standout: Want your movie to be nominated for an Oscar? Cast Lucas Hedges. The 21-year-old actor has, in just two years, carved out an impressive résumé almost entirely of acclaimed hits. This year alone, two of his movies are nominated for top prizes at the Golden Globes. What is it about Lucas? Although he’s from Brooklyn Heights, he exudes small-town charm and vulnerability — perfect for both deep dramas and indie darlings. Attending the Oscars for the first time last year, he says, was freaky. “I took my whole family, and I can’t say that I was very calm at all,” Hedges tells The Post. “I was nervous, anxious and uncomfortable. But I was also very excited. I felt like I had entered into the world of a fairy tale I had grown up reading, where all of the characters knew my name.”

Daniel Kaluuya

You may know him from: Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” in which he plays the boyfriend who gets more than he bargained for, as well as “Black Mirror” and “Sicario” Where you’ll see him this year: As W’Kabi in Marvel’s “Black Panther” and in “Widows,” co-starring Liam Neeson

Why he’s a standout: Like his smash-hit horror-satire “Get Out,” Kaluuya is an actor with mondo complexity. He can simultaneously be tense, lovable and terrifying. In “Get Out,” Kaluuya mingles at a garden party in one scene and violently offs bad guys minutes later.

The 28-year-old British actor has been working for about a decade, but with “Get Out” he’s finally getting widespread recognition and fan love. It’s a brilliant success story for a man whose mother came to the UK from Uganda and worked hard while raising her infant son in hostels.

“I was working-class, I had to fight for this, and I had to outwork everyone in order to get anywhere and anything,” Kaluuya told Vice. “That’s why hip-hop and grime resonates with me and my friends. We don’t fit in with the establishment.”

Sasha Lane

You may know her from:

Her acting debut in the 2016 drama “American Honey,” opposite Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough Where you’ll see her this year:

Alongside Chloë Grace Moretz in the buzzed-about Sundance feature film “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” and in four other releases, including the “Hellboy” reboot Why she’s a standout: Discovered on a Florida springbreak trip by indie director Andrea Arnold, the 22-yearold Houston native has a natural charisma that drew the film industry to her, not the other way around. “Life post‘American Honey’ has been pretty fast and kind of surreal,” she tells The Post. “I’ve never had so many good things happen at once. I still get a lot of love from the movie, and that feels nice.”

She also thinks the subject of “Cameron Post” is one people need to know more about: “I think it’s something that should be brought to people’s attention: gay-conversion camps, and how horrible they can be, teaching kids to hate themselves because of something they can’t control,” Lane says. “Working with a bunch of women and a crew that felt the project in their hearts, was very humbling.”

Timothée Chalamet

You may know him from:

His performances as the young romantic lead in the coming-of-age film “Call Me by Your Name” and the jerk boyfriend in “Lady Bird” Where you’ll see him this year:

In “Beautiful Boy,” he’ll play Steve Carell’s son, who is suffering from meth addiction. Why he’s a standout: We only meet an actor like Chalamet once in a generation. Cut from the same cloth as James Dean, Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, Chalamet has the face of a Greek statue paired with a poet’s smarts and a coyness that keeps us intrigued.

The 22-year-old is a fourth-generation New Yorker whose grandmother was a performer, too — in the Broadway cast of “Wonderful Town.” But his father is French, which is why Chalamet tackles the romance language so effortlessly in “Call Me by Your Name.” His star has risen wildly since that film premiered and he’s a favorite to win Best Actor at the Oscars.

Ezra Miller

You may know him from: A breakout role in the chilling 2011 film “We Need To Talk About Kevin”; his DC role as the Flash; and playing Credence Barebone in “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” Where you’ll see him this year: Reprising his role as Credence in “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” Why he’s a standout: The 25-year-old New Jersey native came out in 2012: “I’m queer. I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders,” he told Out magazine. He was one of the first of a flood of younger stars who’ve since opened up about their own bisexuality, and although Miller has said he had been “told by a lot of people that I’d made a mistake,” his busy schedule in the years since then says otherwise. A musician who trained in opera as a child and currently plays in a threepiece punk band called Sons of an Illustrious Father, he’s one of the most distinctive and charismatic younger actors in Hollywood today — and he’s helping dismantle the industry’s outdated views on sexual orientation.

Letitia Wright

You may know her from: The AMC show “Humans” and December’s “Black Mirror” finale on Netflix, “Black Museum” Where you’ll see her this

year: Playing Princess Shuri, the half-sister of Chadwick Boseman’s title character in the highly anticipated Marvel movie “Black Panther,” as well as in Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One”; the Liam Neeson thriller “The Commuter”; and as Shuri (again) in “Avengers: Infinity War”

Why she’s a standout: A Londoner who was born in Guyana, the 24-year-old actress is a rare overtly religious Christian in Hollywood. Wright has said she’s prioritized God over roles in the past: “I gave my life to Christ, and I thought that would be it for me, and he was like, ‘No, you’re not finished with acting, acting is not finished with you,’ ” she told Women’s Wear Daily.

She has also been an ardent advocate for more positive black roles in the film industry. “Shuri is one of the most exciting characters I’ve been blessed to portray,” Wright tells The Post. “I’m looking forward to the positive impact her love for technology and science will have on the younger generation. Being a part of the film feels kind of like history in the making!”

Tom Holland

You may know him

from: His turns as the titular web-slinger in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and in “Captain America: Civil War” Where you’ll see him

this year: He snagged another huge role as the lead in “Uncharted,” Sony’s major new action franchise based on the PlayStation treasurehunting game. Why he’s a standout: Not every superhero is also an accomplished dancer. But Holland got his big break onstage in the title role of “Billy Elliot the Musical” in London, which required street dance, tap and ballet. The 21-year-old Brit grew up in Kingston upon Thames, and his own boyhood had shades of Billy Elliot’s controversial hoofing hobby. “I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby,” he told Interview magazine. “So ballet wasn’t the coolest thing to do.” But his dance talent gives him a leg up in “Spider-Man” — he’s a gifted physical comedian, who, unlike some previous Spideys, was able to do his own backflips and leaps.

Beanie Feldstein

You may know her from: Her roles as the introverted (and hilarious) best friend with a crush on her math teacher in “Lady Bird” and as an energetic sorority girl in “Neighbors 2” Where you’ll see her this

year: As a silly scientist in Whitney Cummings’ new rom-com, “The Female Brain” Why she’s a

standout: Feldstein, the sister of the equally funny actor Jonah Hill, has legit Broadway chops. Eight times a week, you can see her onstage in “Hello, Dolly!” in which she plays Minnie Fay alongside Bette Midler's Dolly. In fact, “Lady Bird” is how the scene-stealing 24-year-old landed her part in “Dolly.”

“[Producers Scott Rudin and Eli Bush] hadn’t found a Minnie Fay yet. And I sing a little bit as Julie in ‘ Lady Bird,’ and they were like, ‘ Oh, maybe we should bring Beanie in,’ ” Feldstein tells The Post.

But she’s not abandoning the stage for movies just yet. “I really look up to [‘Lady Bird’ co-star] Laurie Metcalf in many ways,” Feldstein says. “If I could be an ounce like her, that would be the greatest thing ever. And [co-star] Tracy Letts as well. They really bounce back and forth between film, theater and also television in such a beautiful, seamless and organic way.” Feldstein’s definitely got the skills to tackle all three.

Tye Sheridan

You may know him

from: His breakout performance in the 2012 Matthew McConaughey indie “Mud” and his role as Cyclops in 2016’s “XMen: Apocalypse” Where you’ll see him

this year: Starring in Steven Spielberg’s retro-tastic sci-fi thriller “Ready Player One” and the next X-Men movie, “Dark Phoenix” Why he’s a standout: Sheridan got his start working with auteur Terrence Malick on “The Tree of Life” at the early age of 10, but he didn’t go into the business a film-obsessed kid: “I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural area, so we were always outside fishing or playing a sport — we were never in front of a TV watching films,” he told the Independent.

The square-jawed, 21-year-old actor brings an ease and authenticity to his roles that should make him the perfect centerpiece to Spielberg’s otherwise highly CGI’d film about virtual-reality gaming.