Career: Athletic roles in Wildcats gave way to tough guy parts in New Jack City (1991), and to the action hero in Passenger 57 (1992). He went on to star alongside some of Hollywood's most famous leading men, all of whom hand-picked him for the roles. He further came to audiences' attentions in White Men Can't Jump (1992), Demolition Man (1993), Rising Sun (1993) and One Night Stand (1997), before landing the lead role in Blade (1998). Two more Blade films were made. He made a number of straight-to-DVD movies before returning to form in Brooklyn's Finest (2010). In 2008, Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for failing to file federal income tax returns. After his conviction was upheld after an appeal, Snipes reported to federal prison in December 2010. He was released in April 2013. He returned to the big screen in 2014 in The Expendables 3.

Career: A string of other projects followed, including TV series China Beach, and the movies Blue Steel, Flight of the Intruder, Guilty By Suspicion, Point Break and Passenger 57. By the early 1990s, Sizemore was inundated with film roles, including True Romance, Striking Distance, Wyatt Earp and Natural Born Killers. He was typecast as either macho cops in Strange Days and The Relic or gruff soldiers in Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down. In recent years he's rarely been out of work, featuring in TV shows such as Robbery, Homicide Division, Dr Vegas, CSI: Miami, Southland, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Hawaii Five-O. He always has a number of projects in the pipeline.

Career: Hurley started her acting career in theatre, before making her movie debut in 1987's Aria. She met Hugh Grant on the set of the film Rowing with the Wind. She appeared on TV for the first time a year later in an episode of Inspector Morse and made her Hollywood debut in action thriller Passenger 57 in 1992. She became a household name after accompanying Grant to the Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere in 1994 wearing a black Versace dress held together by strategically placed gold safety pins, often referred to as "That Dress". Until the mid-1990s she produced movies with Simian Films, an organisation at the time jointly owned by her and Grant. She appeared in the first two Austin Powers films, Edtv, My Favourite Martian, and Bedazzled.