Trade magazine, Variety, has announced its annual 10 Actors to Watch. This is a list of hot up-and-comers, most of whom have had break-out roles in the past year and who Variety thinks you’ll be seeing a lot more of in the future.

10. Laz Alonzo (Credits: Fast & Furious): Vin Diesel’s on screen nemesis from ‘Fast & Furious’ will next be seen in ‘Avatar’ and a remake of ‘Straw Dogs.’

9. Maggie Grace (Credits: Taken, Lost ): She was Liam Neeson’s kidnapped daughter in ‘Taken.’ Next she’s Cameron Diaz’s younger sister in ‘Knight and Day,’ (which also features Tom Cruise) and Adrien Brody’s love interest in ‘The Experiment.’

8. Tom Hardy (Credits: Bronson): From playing a notoriously violent prisoner in ‘Bronson’ to becoming Mel Gibson’s replacement in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ alongside female lead Charlize Theron.

7. Rachelle Lefevre (Credits: Twilight, New Moon). The Canadian was recently canned (due to “scheduling conflicts”) from the ‘Twilight’ Vampire series and replaced with Bryce Dallas Howard but work keeps flowing in. She’ll soon be seen in the adaptation of the Mordecai Richler novel ‘Barney’s Version’ as well as in ‘Casino Jack,’ with Kevin Spacey.

6. Jeremy Renner (Credits: The Hurt Locker, The Unusuals): He played Jeffery Dahmer in ‘Dahmer’ and a specialist who defuses bombs in Iraq in ‘The Hurt Locker,’ and will next appear in Ben Affleck’s bank robber flick, ‘The Town.’

5. Nicholas Hoult (Credits: About a Boy, A Single Man) The boy from ‘About a Boy’ is a grown man now, soon to be featured in Tom Ford’s ‘A Single Man’ and the upcoming remake of ‘Clash of the Titans.’

4. Alia Shawkat (Credits: Whip It, Arrested Development): ‘Arrested Development’s’ Maeby appeared in Drew Barrymore’s ‘Whip It’ and will next will be seen in the indie comedy ‘Cedar Rapids.’

3.Michael Stuhlbarg (Credits: A Serious Man): He’s acted on Broadway as well as in Joel and Ethan Coen’s ‘A Serious Man,’ among other films. Next up is a turn as infamous mobster Arnold Rothstein in Martin Scorsese’s new HBO series ‘Boardwalk Empire.’

2. Emma Stone (Credits: Superbad, Zombieland): Stone moved from the Judd Apatow hit comedy ‘Superbad’ to the next comedy/horror hit ‘Zombieland’ to another comedy, ‘Easy A,’ in which she plays an “imaginary prostitute.”

1. Christoph Waltz (Credits: Inglourious Basterds): He was the horrid Hans Landa in Tarantino’s ‘Basterds,’ for which he got the top actor award at Cannes, and there’s Oscar buzz. Next Waltz will be the villain in the upcoming ‘Green Hornet.’

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