Career: Shaw's first major TV role was in a 1967 episode of Coronation Street. Keen on Shakespeare, he appeared in a TV movie of Hamlet, and Roman Polanski's 1971 film Macbeth. After impressing TV executives with his performance alongside Lewis Collins as Purdey's ex-fiance in The New Avengers, he landed the part of Doyle in The Professionals. When it was axed after four years in 1981, he went back to the stage. In 1993 he returned to TV with The Chief, and three years later starred in BBC mega-flop Rhodes. Since then, he's appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel, A&E, Judge John Deed, Death in Holy Orders, Inspector George Gently, Apparitions and picked up a Tony nomination for a Broadway production of An Ideal Husband.

Career: Krige made her acting breakthrough in 1979 in a BBC Play for Today. That led to TV movie A Tale of Two Cities and the films Chariots of Fire (1981) and Ghost Story (1981). She also appeared in King David (1985) and Barfly (1987). She made her West End debut in an award-winning production of Arms and the Man, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. She honed her skills in stage productions of King Lear, The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew. She became a cult star as the dreaded Borg queen in Star Trek: First Contact in 1996 and reprised the role for the final episode of TV series Star Trek: Voyager and a theme park attraction. Cult series Six Feet Under, Children of Dune and Deadwood also boosted her profile. More recent projects include the movies Silent Hill (2006), Lonely Hearts (2006), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) and Thor: The Dark World (2013), as well as TV series MI-5, Tyrant and The Syndicate.