Career: Sean worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company before making his TV debut in a 1984 episode of The Bill. Roles in The Fifteen Streets, Stormy Monday and Patriot Games followed before Lady Chatterley and the first Sharpe TV movies made him a household name in 1993. Other work includes A Woman's Guide to Adultery, Bravo Two Zero, GoldenEye, Ronin, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Equilibrium, Troy, National Treasure and HBO TV series Game of Thrones. He is one of Hollywood's most sought-after character actors and always has a number of productions 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.