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You know that we love to bring you the latest in entertainment news and celebrity gossip, so here’s another piece from our end. The year 2011 has just entered its last quarter, and its perhaps the right time to take a look at the actors who left a mark on 2011.

Entertainment News: Alex Pettyfer

This British youngster is fast becoming a favorite for the fantasy genre of movies, especially the ones adapted from literary sources. His film I am Number Four fared well at the B.O. even though it wasn’t very highly regarded by critics. His later release Beastly, a modern retelling of the classic fairytale Beauty and the Beast is another commercial success that was critically panned. In both of these, however, Pettyfer’s performance has been appreciated. With his third movie for the year, In Time (aka Now) lined up for a late October release, this is turning out to be quite a year for Alex Pettyfer. Not to mention that his looks have made him quite the darling of various entertainment news periodicals.

Entertainment News: Chris Hemsworth

Hemsworth was noted and widely appreciated when he played Captain Kirk’s father in the 2009 film Star Trek. His breakout role, and one which has really made him famous, didn’t come till he starred in and as Thor in 2011. A critical and commercial success, Hemsworth in Thor has also set high standards for his reprisal of the role in the highly-anticipated 2012 release The Avengers. Outside of his armor and cape superhero escapades, two of his long delayed releases, Red Dawn (remake of the 1984 film) and The Cabin in the Woods are also lined up for 2012.

Entertainment News: Anton Yelchin

Anton Yelchin has been around for quite a while, but his has been a case of slowly gradually into a finer actor as the spotlight steadily grows. Starting off as a child actor, he has finally begun to come of age as a performer. His first release of 2011, Like Crazy went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; from then on, the year only got busier for young Yelchin. He starred in Jodie Foster’s Beaver, horror-comedy remake Fright Night, had a voice-role in the highly anticipated animated comedy Smurfs. Seeing as he’s also set to reprise his role as Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek sequel, as reported by several entertainment news publications, things can only get better from here for Anton Yelchin.

Entertainment News: Henry Cavill

Henry Cavill being cast as Superman in Zach Snyder’s Man of Steel has received a decidedly mixed reaction, from movie industry insiders and neutral observers alike. While some admired his work in The Tudors and considered him as having the right physique, there were quite a few who doubted if he could measure up to the actors who’ve donned the red cape in the past. For that matter, there were also those who’d prefer any of the other probables over Cavill to fill in the red boots. That movie, however, is not set for release till 2013. After being suitably impressed by his range of histrionic talent as seen in 2009′s Blood Creek and Whatever Works, we shall be watching out for the man in the year-end release Immortals co-starring Mickey Rourke and Freida Pinto.

So this was about the impressive actors we noted in 2011. For more entertainment news, stay tuned to this blog.