Career: Grant started out as a member of comedy troupe The Jockeys of Norfolk. He appeared in his first film, Privileged, in 1982. Other early projects include The Detective, A Very Peculiar Practice, The Demon Lover and Ladies in Charge. He had higher profile roles in Maurice, The Lair of the White Worm and The Remains of the Day. His big break came when he was cast in Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994. Big-screen productions since include An Awfully Big Adventure, Sense and Sensibility, Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes, About a Boy, Love Actually and two Bridget Jones films. He could recently be heard in animated film The Pirates!

Career: In 1994, Collette landed the lead role in Muriel's Wedding, gaining 40 lbs for the part. She made her Hollywood debut in hit-and-miss 1995 comedy The Pallbearer. However, her Oscar-nominated role in The Sixth Sense really put her on the map in Tinseltown. Toni has also appeared in Shaft, About a Boy and won critical acclaim for her work in 2006 comedy drama Little Miss Sunshine. Later projects include Tsunami: The Aftermath, The Black Balloon, and Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger. Between 2009 and 2011 she starred in the American comedy drama United States of Tara in a role that saw her win an Emmy and Golden Globe. Away from acting, she also plays in her band Toni Collette and the Finish.

Career: Hoult was talent-spotted at the age of three by a director struck by his concentration during a production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and landed his first film role aged five in Intimate Relations alongside Julie Walters and Rupert Graves. Then followed a steady, if not thunderous, stream of work in the likes of The Bill and Casualty, before he found himself as Hugh Grant's surrogate son in About a Boy. That led to high-profile roles in such critically acclaimed fare as Nicolas Cage movie The Weather Man and the Richard E Grant film Wah-Wah. Most recently he has wowed critics and earned a huge army of fans for his work on the Channel 4 teen drama Skins and TV movie Coming Down the Mountain. His recent film work includes roles in Kidulthood, A Single Man, Clash of the Titans, and X-Men: First Class.

Career: Following a number of low-key movies, Weisz appeared in 1996 big-screen hit Chain Reaction, then in Stealing Beauty, before more commercial success arrived with The Land Girls in 1998. She then starred in blockbuster The Mummy with Brendan Fraser, and its sequel The Mummy Returns, as well as giving critically acclaimed performances in Beautiful Creatures, About a Boy, Enemy at the Gates, Confidence, Runaway Jury, Constantine, and The Constant Gardener. More recently, she has starred in Eragon, Fred Claus, Definitely, Maybe, The Lovely Bones, The Whistleblower, Dream House and The Deep Blue Sea. Weisz occasionally appears on stage, and won an Olivier Award for her performance in a 2010 production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Career: Guest parts followed in a number of TV shows until Small landed a lead role in BBC comedy drama Sunburn. This lasted for two series and she followed it up with the six-part drama Glasgow Kiss. She went on to star in About a Boy (2002) and Dear Frankie (2004) and had guest parts in Cutting It and Rebus before landing a lead role as DS Barbara Havers in BBC crime drama The Inspector Lynley Mysteries alongside Nathaniel Parker. The series ran from 2001 until 2008. More recently, the in-demand actress has starred in Murderland, Mistresses, Downton Abbey, Kidnap and Ransom, New Tricks, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Death in Paradise and Midsomer Murders.

Career: In 1997, Smurfit starred in BBC miniseries Ivanhoe, and a year later, she appeared in another period drama, Berkeley Square, before making a name for herself as Orla O'Connell in Ballykissangel. After two series of the BBC drama, the year 2000 saw Smurfit star on the big screen in The Wedding Tackle and The Beach and on the small screen in drama North Square and comedy Cold Feet. Her other credits include About a Boy (2002), Bulletproof Monk (2003), the lead role on TV in Trial & Retribution between 2003 and 2009, and Irish drama The Clinic. More recently, Smurfit has been playing glamorous society queen and vampire slayer Lady Jayne Wetherby in TV horror drama Dracula.