Career: After a few sporadic TV roles, del Toro landed the role of Dario, the vicious henchman in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. He followed it with several notable movie roles but really came to critics' attentions as the mumbling, mysterious gangster in The Usual Suspects in 1995. Staying true to his independent roots, he next gave a charismatic turn as cold-blooded gangster Gaspare in The Funeral. A couple of years later, he took a leading role with Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Gaining 40 pounds for the role of Dr. Gonzo, the drug-addicted lawyer to sports writer Raoul Duke, Benicio immersed himself totally in the role. He won an Oscar for his role in Traffic and also gave a notable performance in Snatch, The Pledge and 21 Grams. His recent films include Sin City, Che, The Wolfman and Somewhere. He is now one of Hollywood's most sought after leading men.

Career: Caan began appearing in off-Broadway plays before making his Broadway debut in Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole in 1961. He appeared in TV series such as The Untouchables, Wide Country, Dr Kildare, and Ben Casey, before landing his first film role in 1964 thriller Lady in a Cage. A year later, he landed his first starring role in Red Line 7000. More films followed in the 1960s, including El Dorado (1966), Countdown (1968), and The Rain People (1969). During the 1970s, he won acclaim in TV movie Brian's Song, and on the big screen in The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Rollerball (1975), Funny Lady (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Violent Streets (1981). After a break from acting, he returned in 1987 in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone. He went on to star in Alien Nation (1988), Dick Tracy (1990), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Eraser (1996), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), and Elf (2003). In 2003, he returned to TV in Las Vegas, a role he played for five seasons.

Career: Phillippe's acting career began with an appearance in ABC daytime drama One Life To Live. The character of Billy Douglas, a role he played from 1992 to 1993, was the first gay teenager to be portrayed on a daytime soap opera, causing quite a stir. He was cast in the 1995 big-screen thriller Crimson Tide and the 1996 film White Squall. He then landed a role in horror flick I Know What You Did Last Summer. In 1999 he starred in Cruel Intentions, a modern retelling of Choderlos de Laclos' novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. In the following years, Phillippe appeared in the crime-drama The Way of the Gun, starred as a software engineer in the thriller Antitrust, and took a role in Robert Altman's critically acclaimed Gosford Park, before turning in terrific performances in Crash, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2005, and Clint Eastwood-directed war movie Flags of Our Fathers. His recent work includes Stop-Loss, Franklyn and MacGruber.

Career: Lewis's TV debut came in TV movie Home Fires in 1987, and later the same year she had a recurring role in the series I Married Dora. Her first film was 1988's My Stepmother is an Alien. Projects such as National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Too Young to Die? and A Family for Joe followed. She had a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination in 1991 for Cape Fear. She's since appeared in Husbands and Wives, Kalifornia, Romeo is Bleeding, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Natural Born Killers, Strange Days, From Dusk Till Dawn and Starsky & Hutch.