“I have always felt very comfortable behind a camera,” says Max Minghella, the 33-year-old British-born actor. “I’ve always felt very uncomfortable in front of one.” Not that it shows: The son of famed director Anthony Minghella, Max broke out in 2005’s Syriana and later, to bigger acclaim playing Mark Zuckerberg’s college enemy Divya Narendra in David Fincher’s The Social Network. He’s been nominated for an ensemble Screen Actors Guild award twice with the cast of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, on which he plays the smoldering but morally ambiguous Nick Blaine.

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