Riz Ahmed
Ahmed was the necessary nebbish foil to Jake Gyllenhaal’s calculated sociopathy in Nightcrawler, and he plays a more regular dude in HBO’s The Night Of. Witnessing his gradual transformation from Nightcrawler to the end of Night Of, turning into a jaded tough guy after spending months in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, is stunning. See him next in December’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.