Career: Thanks to financial help from his brother, Goodman moved to New York in 1975 and attempted to make ends meet as a barman and waiter while gaining acting experience on stage and in adverts. His first film was 1977's Jailbait Babysitter. Other small film and TV roles followed, as did an acclaimed performance in Broadway musical Big River. His first film with the Coen brothers was 1987's Raising Arizona (he's worked with them a further three times). A year later he made his debut in Roseanne. The sitcom ran for nine years and made him a household name. Other notable projects include The Flintstones, The Artist, Flight and Treme.

Career: Taylor made the transition from child star to adult success thanks to roles in such hits as Raintree County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer, for which she received Academy Award nominations. She later won the Best Actress Academy Award for Butterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She became the first actress to be paid $1million for a film role in 1963 historical epic Cleopatra, where she met future husband Richard Burton. She received an honorary Academy Award in 1993 and was made a Dame in 2000. Symptoms related to heart failure led to her being admitted into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in February 2011. She remained there until her death at the age of 79 on March 23, 2011.

Career: Berry had a regular role in TV series Living Dolls in 1989, followed by a two-year stint in Dallas spin-off Knots Landing. Early films include Jungle Fever, Boomerang, and The Flintstones. She received acclaim for her performance in Bullworth in 1998, and a year later won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing the lead in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Projects since include Swordfish, Die Another Day, X-Men and its sequels, and Monster's Ball, for which she won a Best Actress Oscar. In 2005, she was given a worst actress Razzie award for Catwoman - and is one of the few stars to turn up to the ceremony to accept it. Other projects include Perfect Stranger, Things We Lost in the Fire, Frankie and Alice, Could Atlas, The Call and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Career: MacLachlan began his career on stage. He was appearing in Tartuffe in Seattle when he was offered a role in David Lynch's adaptation of sci-fi novel Dune. Despite the film being a flop, Lynch asked him to appear in Blue Velvet, which was a success. The same year, 1986, he turned down Charlie Sheen's role in Platoon. He won an Emmy for Lynch's surreal 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. Other projects include The Trial, The Flintstones, Showgirls, Timecode, and several appearances in Sex and the City. His recent credits include Desperate Housewives, Made in Jersey, How I Met Your Mother, Portlandia, Believe, The Good Wife, and Agents of SHIELD.

Career: Florek started his professional career on stage in the Big Apple before heading west to theatres in San Diego and La Jolla. He made his TV debut in 1982's The Country Girl, and his first film, Eddie Macon's Run, was released a year later. He became a star in 1988 thanks to a role in LA Law, but quit to take part in Law and Order in 1990. The actor spent three years with the show, but later reprised his role as Cragen in spin-off Special Victims Unit in 1999. Florek has also appeared in the films Angel Heart, Sweet Liberty and Hard Rain.