Lee Pace, Just Out of Reach

The actor is so good at making you want more we decided to give him an award.

- KATHRYN VANARENDONK

IN THE OPENING scene of Lee Pace's first major screen credit, 2003's Soldier's Girl, his character, Calpernia Addams, introduces herself in voice-over: "You may think that I'm the center of this story-the main character, as they say-but I'm not." The film is based on real events: Calpernia is a trans woman who falls in love with an infantry private stationed at Fort Campbell. Her first lines are at least a touch disingenuous. You wouldn't need to say them unless there was some tension over who the center was. "I admit I've always craved the spotlight," Calpernia says. "I'm the rhinestones of this story."