Cynthia Erivo, star of Widows and Tony award-winner for her role in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, is also up for the award, along with Lakeith Stanfield, who stars in Sorry to Bother You (and previously Get Out and Atlanta), Irish actors Jessie Buckley (star of BBC dramas War and Peace and The Woman in White and the films Beast and Wild Rose), and Barry Keoghan (for his roles in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk and American Animals).