Before actor Monica Barbaro had the chance to meet Joan Baez — the iconic folk singer she portrayed in “A Complete Unknown” — she received a special message from her. Barbaro, who was ...

As she was preparing to play Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown, Monica Barbaro obsessed over every detail of the folk singer’s life. “I had pored over her music and we were starting to film ...

Monica Barbaro made her breakthrough on the big screen (after a decade of movie roles) as Joan Baez in filmmaker James Mangold’s dramatisation of the rise of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown (2024).

Joan Baez, surrounded by friends ... ever young.” In A Complete Unknown, Monica Barbaro’s Oscar-nominated performance refutes the narrative of Baez as the woman forever reeling from Dylan’s scorn. The ...

National Theatre Artistic Director and Co-Chief Executive Indhu Rubasingham Same was true, Rubasingham said, of Barbaro, Oscar-nominated for her Joan Baez in James Mangold’s Bob Dylan movie.

(L-R) Paul Mescal, Letitia Wright, Monica Barbaro and Nicola ... Rubasingham said, of Barbaro, Oscar-nominated for her Joan Baez in James Mangold’s Bob Dylan movie. “We obviously knew she ...