Career: Davis relocated to New York and worked as a sales assistant, waitress and model before landing a small role in Tootsie. More TV and film roles followed, but it was 1986's remake of The Fly that put her on the map. Beetlejuice helped her career no end too, and she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1988's The Accidental Tourist. Since then she's starred in Quick Change, Thelma and Louise, A League of Their Own, Speechless, Accidental Hero, The Long Kiss Goodnight and the Stuart Little movies. Davis has also appeared regularly on TV in the series Commander in Chief and Coma.

Career: Fry and Laurie's stage success led to the TV sketch show Alfresco, which also featured Emma Thompson, Ben Elton and Robbie Coltrane. In 1987, Elton cast him in sitcom Blackadder the Third as amiable idiot George. A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and Jeeves and Wooster cemented his reputation as one of the UK's brightest comedy talents. He appeared with several celebrity pals in the movies Peter's Friends, Maybe Baby, and Sense and Sensibility. Other projects include 101 Dalmatians, The Man in the Iron Mask, Stuart Little and its sequel, the Flight of the Phoenix remake and TV series Fortysomething. His novel, The Gun Seller, was also a hit. His award-winning role in House turned him into an international star. Since it ended in 2012, Laurie has largely concentrated on music.

Career: Fox debuted as a professional actor at the age of 15 in the sitcom Leo and Me. At 18, he moved to Los Angeles and took several bit parts, eventually making his mark in the sitcom Family Ties. Despite the show's heavy schedule, he found time to star in films, including the first of the Back to the Future trilogy, Teen Wolf, The Secret of My Success, and Bright Lights, Big City. In 1989, the series came to an end, giving Michael time to devote to his movie career, but he returned to TV in 1996 for Spin City and has guest starred in Scrubs. Despite ill health caused by Parkinson's disease, he has continued to work, most notably providing the voice for Stuart Little and featuring on TV in Boston Legal, Rescue Me and The Good Wife.

Career: After overcoming drink and drugs addictions, her second husband, actor Steven Bauer, encouraged her to take acting classes. Director Brian De Palma cast her in his 1984 murder-mystery Body Double and her sexy, funny performance won her rave reviews. Jonathan Demme was so impressed with her performance that he cast her in 1986's Something Wild without even auditioning her. Griffith's career skyrocketed when Mike Nichols gave her the title role in Working Girl in 1988, a box-office hit for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Comedy. Hits such as Pacific Heights (1990) and Shining Through (1992) followed, though her movie career has been in the doldrums for some time. Her 2003 Broadway debut in Chicago was, however, a huge success, and she continues to make guest appearances in TV dramas.

Career: Landed bit parts in The Way We Were and The Choirboys. However, it was 1979 drama The Onion Field that brought him to the attention of many critics. High-profile projects including Videodrome, Once Upon a Time in America and Salvador followed, and the latter earned him an Academy Award nomination. Woods then proved he had a gift for comedy in 1991 offering The Hard Way, and gave stunning performances in Casino, Nixon and Contact. More recently, he has appeared in Shark, Coma and Ray Donovan.