Entertainment Feature: Top 20 Celebrity Portraits of 2016, By Photographer Joe Arce

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12. David Duchovny

Actor David Duchovny
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

“I want to believe”… this was 

More than just a Close Encounter

With some Moody California novelist
Sorry Charlie, but come “Hell or High Water” 

I was getting my Duchovny portrait

The publicist said it probably wouldn’t happen,

But I “Trust(ed) no one” 

Now “The truth is out there” 

They can “Deny everything”

LOCATION/DATE: Wizard World Comic Con, Chicago, August 20, 2016

11. Michael J. Fox

Actor/Activist Michael J. Fox
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Michael J. Fox doesn’t spend a whole lot of time standing around taking pictures. Like Marty McFly, one of his most famous film characters, he is racing against time as a man on a mission…to secure a better future. Today, he is a tireless patient advocate for his namesake “Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.” And somehow, this 53 year-old actor still can miraculously juggle more plates than those of us who are blessed with perfect health. I have a close family member who also suffers from Parkinson’s disease, so this portrait was personal for me. The iconic actor and best selling author, upon spying my lens, hit the mark perfectly and delivered that familiarly famous boyish grin. Like the title of his memoir, the assist of Mr. Fox helped turn this photographer into a very “Lucky Man.”

LOCATION/DATE: Wizard World Comic Con, Chicago, August 20, 2016

10. Kevin Bacon

Actor/Activist Kevin Bacon
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Attention…your attention please! Anyone who has personally worked with me, congratulations! Your “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” number is now a two…you’re welcome. And yes, as a person he is beyond awesome.

LOCATION/DATE: Young Chicago Authors Workshop, appearing on behalf of Kevin Bacon’s SixDegrees.org, August 18, 2016

9. Taraji P. Henson of “Hidden Figures”

Actress Taraji P. Henson
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Taraji P. Henson is one bad-ass Cookie (TV’s “Empire”) that ain’t about to crumble. In fact, everyone’s favorite Queenie (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) is now sitting pretty on an “Empire” and hardly resting on her laurels – in 2016, she was on Time Magazine’s 100 most Influential People list. She also had a best selling memoir, ”Around The Way Girl” – which stirred up headlines with it’s revelations of Hollywood racial inequality – and MAC Cosmetics released her own signature makeup line. Currently starring in the film “Hidden Figures,” I shot her portrait during an October appearance at the Chicago International Film Festival, where she spoke about the film and hosted a highlights preview. To quote Ms. Henson regarding her meteoric ascension, “I’m not some fantasy, I’m tangible.” In looking at this portrait, we might have to politely disagree.

LOCATION/DATE: Chicago International Film Festival, October 23, 2016