Rewind the clock 365 days and it’s unlikely anyone anticipated that 2012’s biggest movie star would be the guy from Step Up, or that he would capture the zeitgeist with a critically lauded, audience-cheered film about … male strippers. But hello, Channing Tatum. Similarly, few could have predicted that by year’s end we’d all know how to pronounce the name of young Beasts of the Southern Wild star Quevezhané Wallis, or know that the “We Are Young” band spells its name, fun., with a lowercase “f” and a period at the end. But every year has its surprise rising stars. Who can we expect to break out in 2013? Here’s a look at a few of the likely suspects.

