Career: Thurman made her mark in Dangerous Liaisons, and has been a star ever since. She made the controversial Henry and June in 1990, followed by more mainstream offerings Final Analysis and Mad Dog and Glory. Pulp Fiction proved she was more than just a pretty face in 1994. Over the course of her career, she has taken roles in the disastrous Batman and Robin and The Avengers, but fared better with the likes of Gattaca, Sweet and Lowdown, Paycheck, the Kill Bill movies, Be Cool and The Accidental Husband. In 2007, she was made a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Away from acting, Thurman is an active supporter of several charitable organisations. She is working on a third Kil Bill film and is one of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Career: After moving to Los Angeles, Liu worked as an aerobics instructor before gradually gaining roles. After short appearances in Beverly Hills 90210, ER, and The X Files, she won a regular part in sitcom Pearl. Various forgettable roles followed before she set pulses racing as a dominatrix in Mel Gibson's Maverick and landed a regular part in Ally McBeal, which made her a star. She's since appeared in Shanghai Noon, Charlie's Angels and its sequel, Chicago, Kill Bill, Lucky Number Slevin and Elementary.

Career: Fox made her film debut in Oliver Stone's war drama Born on the Fourth of July (1989). She got her breakthrough in Independence Day (1996) playing Jasmine Dubrow, a role she reprised for Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). Fox later appeared in the films Soul Food (1997), City of Angels (2000) and in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films as the assassin Vernita Green. She has also appeared in a number of TV shows, such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Law and Order, Alias and Missing.

Career: After being discharged from service, Carradine became a commercial artist in New York, then found fame on Broadway in a number of productions. He moved back to Hollywood in the mid-1960s. Little-seen projects such as TV series Shane and movie Bus Riley's Back in Town followed. He became a household name thanks to long-running programme Kung Fu, playing a role originally earmarked for Bruce Lee. The same year, 1972, he starred in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha. Films since include The Long Goodbye, Gray Lady Down, The Long Riders and Bird on a Wire before finding a new generation of fans in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies. He continued to act until his death in a Bangkok hotel room in 2009.

Career: In 1990, Tarantino sold the script for True Romance for $50,000 and he was going to use most of this money to make a low-budget version of his screenplay for Reservoir Dogs. However, a friend of a friend showed a copy to Harvey Keitel, who raised the extra money needed to increase the budget to $1.5million. The film was released in 1992 to critical acclaim. Tarantino's second film as a director, Pulp Fiction, was a huge commercial success, winning the Palme D'Or at the Cannes film festival and an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Projects since then include From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown, the Kill Bill movies, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained. He has also directed work for TV, notably earning an Emmy nomination for directing an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.