Career: Margulies' first movie was 1991's Out for Justice. She went on to appear in regional theatre, cropping up occasionally in such TV shows as Law & Order, and Murder, She Wrote. Her big break came in 1994 when she began playing nurse Carol Hathaway in ER. Thanks to her popularity, she was offered a $27million contract to stay with the show, but quit in 2000 to concentrate on theatre roles. Margulies then appeared in the movies Evelyn and Ghost Ship before returning to the small screen in several episodes of The Sopranos, The Lost Room and Canterbury's Law. She's currently the star of legal drama The Good Wife, for which she won a Golden Globe in 2010.

Career: Cumming's cabaret act, Victor and Barry, with Forbes Masson, was critically acclaimed, winning numerous awards. TV roles quickly followed, but he continued working on the stage. Stints with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre raised his profile, as did his accolades following his film debut in the drama Prague (1992). In 1994, he starred in TV sitcom The High Life, closely followed by the movies Circle of Friends (1995), GoldenEye (1995) and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (1997). More recently, he has worked on three Spy Kids films (2001-2003), X-Men 2 (2003), The Tempest (2010), Burlesque (2010) and TV drama The Good Wife. A firm favourite on Broadway, Cumming won a Tony Award in 1998 for playing the MC in Caberet. He returned to the role in 2014.

Career: Archie landed a supporting role in the 1999 comedy film East is East, and followed it up with several small TV roles, as well as the smash comedy flick Bend it Like Beckham. Her first Hollywood role was in 2005 as a British diplomat in the Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener in 2005. In the same year she won the Shooting Star Award for her role as the title character in Yasmin at the Berlin Film Festival, and in 2007, she appeared with Angelina Jolie in the movie adaptation of A Mighty Heart. Her performance earned her The Chopard Trophy for a Breakout Performance at the Cannes Film Festival. She joined the cast of critically-acclaimed legal drama The Good Wife in 2009.

Career: George also modelled during her teens, which led her to be cast as Angel in Aussie soap Home and Away. After leaving in 1996, she appeared in fantasy series Roar alongside Heath Ledger and relocated to LA. She had small roles in Dark City, The Limey, Mulholland Drive, Charmed and Down with Love before having a regular stint in Alias. Her first starring role in a movie was in the Amityville Horror remake. Since then George has starred in a variety of TV and film projects, including 30 Days of Night, In Treatment, Triangle, The Slap and Lie to Me

Career: Ferrera followed her appearance in Real Women Have Curves with roles in TV series including Touched By An Angel and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She also starred in the movies The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005), Lords of Dogtown (2005) and Steel City (2006), but only became a household name after she was approached by Salma Hayek to take the lead role in Ugly Betty, the US remake of a successful Colombian soap opera. The series was popular on both sides of the Atlantic and ran for four series. Since Ugly Betty ended, she has appeared in The Good Wife, and in November 2011, she made her London stage debut playing Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago in the West End. She voices the character Astrid in the How to Train Your Dragon movies.