Anonymity can be an actor's best friend, but this summer several talents are primed to make themselves known in major film roles, whether it's losing the alien makeup, the protective shield of character work or the comforts of niche small-screen fandoms.
Here are six actors bound to have audiences buzzing this summer at the movies.

Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a hole taller than the Washington Monument at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple years, accelerating the retreat of a crucial part of the glacier, a new study found.
And scientists worry that the phenomenon isn't limited to this one glacier, raising questions about previous projections of melting rates on the world's vulnerable ice sheets.

Two of the best attacking teams in Europe face off in the Champions League semifinals this week, with Manchester City's record-seeking Erling Haaland going against Real Madrid's red-hot trio of Vinícius Júnior, Rodrygo and Karim Benzema.
Tuesday's first leg at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium will be a rematch of last year's semifinal, when Madrid got the better of a City team that didn't have Haaland. City fell short of European success yet again, while Madrid went on to win a record-extending 14th title.

Lionel Messi has won a top accolade as world Sportsman of the Year and picked up another award as a member of the team of the year following Argentina's World Cup soccer victory in 2022.
Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce finally broke through to win the Sportswoman of the Year award on her sixth nomination.

Inter Milan's LuLa attack appears back to its best ahead of the Champions League semifinal showdown against city rival AC Milan.
The partnership of Romelu Lukaku and Lautaro Martínez earned the LuLa nickname during the former's first spell at the club, when their goals drove Inter to the Serie A title in 2021.

Global shares mostly fell Tuesday as investors took a wait-and-see view on the week ahead, including stubbornly high inflation across the economy.
Data showing lagging imports in China sent Chinese benchmarks lower. Oil prices fell.

Dubai International Airport had over 21.2 million passengers pass through its terminals in the first quarter of the year, potentially nearing numbers it saw before the coronavirus pandemic grounded air traffic around the world.
The Dubai airport, the home of the long-haul carrier Emirates, is the world's busiest for international travel and serves as a bellwether for the global aviation industry.

Oil giant Saudi Aramco reported a first-quarter profit on Tuesday of $31.88 billion, down nearly 20% from the same period last year as energy prices have sunk over global recession concerns.
The firm known formally as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. blamed the drop — compared to $39.47 billion in the same quarter last year — on the lower crude oil prices. Aramco made a $30.73 billion profit in the fourth quarter of last year.

For the first time, Ukraine and the European Union are marking Europe Day, that celebration of "peace and unity," together. Don't let anyone be fooled too much, though.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU's executive branch, made a special trip to Kyiv on Tuesday to deliver the warm words of common destiny face to face with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Before President Joe Biden and congressional leaders can even try to avert an unprecedented U.S. government default, their initial challenge on Tuesday will be to agree on what exactly they're talking about as they hold their first substantive meeting in months.
With the government at risk of being unable to meet its obligations as soon as June 1, raising the specter of potential economic calamity, Republicans are coming to the White House hoping to negotiate sweeping cuts to federal spending in exchange for allowing new borrowing to avoid default.
