Career: One of Evans' earliest film roles was in Not Another Teen Movie (2001). After filming wrapped for this, he was cast in lead roles in The Perfect Score (2004) and Cellular (2004). His breakthrough was as superhero the Human Torch in the adaptation of Fantastic Four (2005), a role he reprised for its sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007). Evans then went on to appear in Sunshine (2007), The Losers (2010) and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). In 2011, he starred as the titular character in Captain America: The First Avenger. He reprised this role for a number of other Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including Avengers Assemble (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Captain America: Civil War (2016). Other films he has appeared in include What's Your Number? (2011), The Iceman (2012), Snowpiercer (2013) and Gifted (2017). Evans' directorial debut was Before We Go (2014), which he also starred in.

Career: Finding herself drawn to more obscure fare, Swinton began an association with experimental director Derek Jarman. She continued to work with Jarman for the next nine years, developing seven critically acclaimed films, including Caravaggio, The Last of England, The Garden, Edward II and Wittgenstein. After Jarman's untimely death in 1994, she took the title role in the hugely popular arthouse flick Orlando and began experimenting with new and untried directors and mediums, but also starred in more mainstream productions, such as The Beach, Constantine, Michael Clayton (for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar), and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She also had roles in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I Am Love and Only Lovers Left Alive.

Career: Billy Elliot was a huge hit, garnering Jamie vast critical praise. He went on to star in numerous independent movies such as Undertow, Dear Wendy, The Chumscrubber and Hallam Foe. He also took the lead role in the 2002 horror film Deathwatch, played Smike in an adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby that same year and Jimmy in Peter Jackson's remake of adventure classic King Kong in 2005. He has also played real-life figures in two war films; US Marine Ralph Ignatowski in 2006's Flags of Our Fathers and Asael Bielski in 2008's Defiance. He appeared alongside Hayden Christensen in sci-fi drama Jumper that same year. His recent work includes Man on a Ledge, Snowpiercer and Nymphomaniac.

Career: Spencer has made guest appearances in a number of TV shows, including ER, Chicago Hope, Roswell, The X-Files, Becker, Malcolm in the Middle and Dharma and Greg. She is best known for playing domestic Minny Jackson in The Help (2011), a role that earned her an Oscar and a Golden Globe. More recently, she has starred in Fruitvale Station (2013), Snowpiercer (2013), Get on Up (2014), Black and White (2014) and Insurgent (2015). She had a recurring role in the sitcom Mom.

Career: He initially worked as a house-painter to make ends meet, but acting jobs soon started flooding in, mainly in theatre and TV. He bagged his first leading movie role in the cult film Knightriders in 1981, but it was his performance as John Glenn in the acclaimed The Right Stuff that marked him out as a rising star. In 1995, another fact-based drama about astronauts, Apollo 13, earned him his first Oscar nod. He's been nominated three more times for The Truman Show, Pollock (which he also directed) and The Hours. His other notable films include The Abyss, The Rock, Nixon, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence and Man on a Ledge.