I always feel like just when you get used to having a solid actress around—you know, the kind who's equally delightful on-screen and off, the kind you love seeing pop up in a million movies at once—the calendar turns and they suddenly disappear. I'm told this usually means they're working, which I suppose is a necessary phase. It's not like an in-demand talent can stay that way unless she occasionally goes off and makes another movie, which means the stream of screen time isn't always constant. Unless we're talking about Jennifer Lawrence, that is. Even after her huge 2012 and 2013, the girl's got three major films (Serena, the next X-Men, and Mockingjay: Part 1) out in 2014. Clearly, she doesn't sleep. As for everybody else: Here's who's returning to us this year after taking a little time away.
Emma Stone
It seems like Gangster Squad came out about a century ago, and I'm not counting Movie 43 when it comes to Emma sightings—so 2013 was practically Stoneless. Next year, not so much: Not only will Emma reprise herSpider-Man 2 role, she's also got a trio of major-director projects on the way. Birdman is Alejandro Inarritu's ensemble comedy about a washed-up actor; Cameron Crowe's still-untitled military drama puts Emma opposite Bradley Cooper; and she's also in the next Woody Allen movie, Magic in the Moonlight, set in 1920s France.
Shailene Woodley
Kinda crazy when you can be completely cut out of the aforementioned Spider-Man 2 movie and still be on track to have the biggest year of your career. Controversial poster or no controversial poster, I cannot wait to see Shailene play Hazel in The Fault in Our Stars come June. But her biggest film of the year is, obviously,Divergent, which comes out in April (and if you haven't watched this clip of Shai and Theo James, remove one woolly layer before viewing).
Jessica Chastain
For a minute there we were pretty spoiled when it came to Chastain—we had everything from her fragile TheHelp ditz to her dogged Zero Dark Thirty heroine at our fingertips. Then came a year of nada—but in 2014, we get to watch the magnetic actress in both Miss Julie, a period piece that costars Colin Farrell, and Interstellar, the top-secret Christopher Nolan space drama that's bound to be one of the biggest releases this year.
Rose Byrne
Rose didn't exactly disappear in 2013 (I think I saw the Insidious 2 trailer about 80,000 times over the course of the summer). But I've been missing big Rosey Byrney roles, and I feel that 2014 will more than soothe that craving: She's got Neighbors, in which she and husband Seth Rogen take on the wild frat boys next door, the amazingly casted This Is Where I Leave You, and, of course, Annie.
Tina Fey
Besides teaming up with Amy on Golden Globes night, Tina has Muppets Most Wanted out this spring and costars in This Is Where I Leave You with Rose. But the really exciting thing is: the fall of 2014 will bring the next wave of Fey-produced TV. Her sitcom starring Ellie Kemper as a cult escapee living in Manhattan already has a full-season order from NBC, and Fox just ordered the pilot for another show she co-created, about a women's college that's just opened their doors to men.
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ONTD, which of these ladies are you excited to see back in action this year?