Elba, whose career includes a lot of what might be called prestige genre, has such natural poise and gravity that one assumes he's done all the Shakespeares and Shaws and Ibsens, but "The Wire" and " Luther " were more his thing.

John Cena of Amazon Prime Video's "Heads of State" is the latest actor to play a president who is ready to defeat the enemy with his bare hands if necessary.