Career: Kutcher landed his first job in 1998, and it made him a star - sitcom That 70s Show ran for eight years and the fame he gained from it allowed him to move into films. His debut came in Coming Soon, but he hit the big time with Dude, Where's My Car? Hits since include Just Married, My Boss's Daughter, The Butterfly Effect, What Happens in Vegas, Valentine's Day and No Strings Attached. He's since returned to TV with Two and a Half Men. Kutcher also hosted practical joke show Punk'd and co-created Room 401, a weird horror/reality show hybrid.

Career: Made her film debut in 1994's Camp Nowhere. Originally cast in a minor role, she was offered a bigger part when another actress dropped out, and the film gave her a chance to make her mark. Her part in children's TV series Flipper and The Secret World of Alex Mack won her fans, who also became hooked on Dark Angel when it first aired in the US in 2000. She became a sex symbol and was voted No 1 on Maxim's Hot 100 Babe List in 2001. Recently she starred on the big screen in Sin City and The Fantastic Four, as well as its follow-up.

Career: Garner worked in a restaurant in New York while trying to land acting roles. She then moved to Los Angeles, and made her TV debut in an adaptation of Danielle Steel novel Zoya. She went on to have small roles in Law & Order, Deconstructing Harry (1997), TV drama Time of Your Life and Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) before landing the lead in sci-fi TV series Alias in 2001. Other projects include Pearl Harbor (2001), Catch Me if You Can (2002), Daredevil (2003) and its spin off Elektra (2005). More recently, she has starred in Juno (2007), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), The Invention of Lying (2009), Arthur (2011), The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) and Dallas Buyers Club (2013). Away from acting, she enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking and kickboxing.

Career: After attending Georgia State University, Julia moved to New York to begin her career. She also did some modelling. Her first role was in Blood Red, alongside her brother, in 1986, although it wasn't released for three years. Mystic Pizza was her first notable project in 1988, and a year later she received her first Oscar nomination for Steel Magnolias. Pretty Woman made her a massive star. Hits since then include Flatliners, Sleeping with the Enemy, My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill and Ocean's Eleven. She won an Oscar for Erin Brockovich, becoming Hollywood's highest paid actress in the process.

Career: Dempsey became a teen mag favourite when he starred in Can't Buy Me Love in 1987 as Ronald, a nerd who pays a popular cheerleader to go out with him. He won a Young Artist Award for the role, which led to parts in movies including In a Shallow Grave and Loverboy. However, his career went into a downward spiral, and many of his films, including Run and Face the Music, were box-office flops. A range of TV movies followed, and he appeared opposite Dustin Hoffman in 1995's Outbreak. After starring in Scream 3, Dempsey's popularity increased again, and he has since been seen in Will & Grace and Sweet Home Alabama. He currently stars as Dr Derek Shepherd in medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Though he had a box-office hit with family film Enchanted in 2007, Made of Honor, released in 2010, was less well received.

Career: Biel went on to star in six seasons of 7th Heaven and made guest appearances in seasons 7, 8 and 10. During her run on the show, she found the time to star in I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998), The Rules of Attraction (2002), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Blade: Trinity (2004), Elizabethtown (2005) and The Illusionist (2006). Recent credits include I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), The A-Team (2010), Total Recall (2012) and Hitchock (2012).

Career: Encouraged by a girlfriend, he made his stage debut as a stand-up comic in 1989. Foxx changed his name to something androgynous after learning that women were first on the bill at open-mic nights in comedy clubs. By 1991 he was a star in the US thanks to TV show In Living Color. His first film was 1992's Toys. Since then he's had his own, self-titled show, and featured in movies The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Any Given Sunday, Ali and Collateral. His leading role in Ray Charles biopic Ray propelled him onto Hollywood's A-list. He's also released several albums, and collaborated with Kanye West on hit single Gold Digger.

Career: Cooper's first acting role was a small part in an episode of Sex and the City in 1999. He made his film debut in Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and his first break came the same year when he was cast as Will Tippin in TV drama Alias, a role he would play over five seasons. He went on to work regularly in a number of TV shows and films until his biggest break came in 2009 when The Hangover was a huge box-office hit around the world. This opened the door to roles in higher-profile Hollywood films such as The A-Team (2010), two Hangover sequels, Limitless (2011), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Hustle (2013). Following the success of Guardians of the Galaxy, in which he voiced Rocket Raccoon, his most recent triumph is Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, American Sniper.

Career: Her debut album, All Hail the Queen, was released in 1989 when she was 19. After she issued her fourth hip-hop album, Order in the Court, she began to sing soul music and jazz standards. She released her first soul/jazz album, The Dana Owens Album, in 2004. She returned to hip-hop in 2008 on the record All Hail the Queen II. Away from music, she began acting in the 1990s in American sitcom Living Single. She went on to have supporting roles in the films House Party 2 (1991), Jungle Fever (1991), Juice (1992), Set It Off (1996), Living Out Loud (1998) and The Bone Collector (1999) and had her own talk show from 1999 to 2001. She gained mainstream success in Chicago (2002), Bringing Down the House (2003) and Hairspray (2007). More recently, she returned to TV with The Queen Latifah Show.

Career: At the age of 16, Hathaway was cast in short-lived TV series Get Real. Her big-screen debut came in The Other Side of Heaven. In the same year she beat 500 other girls to land a role alongside Julie Andrews in Disney's The Princess Diaries. The film was a huge success and the family films Nicholas Nickleby, Ella Enchanted and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement followed before she started taking on more mature roles. The first of these was gritty drama Havoc. Since then, Hathaway has starred in a number of box-office hits, including Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada, Becoming Jane, Rachel Getting Married, Alice in Wonderland, Love & Other Drugs, The Dark Knight Rises and Les Miserables, a role that secured her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.