Career: At 16, Kidman made her TV and film debuts in Young Talent Time and BMX Bandits respectively. Roles in Bush Christmas and A Country Practice followed. In 1989, Dead Calm and miniseries Bangkok Hilton brought her international acclaim, and launched her career in America. Future husband Tom Cruise cast her in Days of Thunder, while To Die For proved she was more than just a pretty face. Since then, she's appeared in a number of Hollywood movies, including Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge!, The Others and The Hours (for which she won an Oscar). More recent films include Rabbit Hole, The Paperboy, The Railway Man, Grace of Monaco, Before I Go to Sleep and Paddington.

Career: Willem toured with Theatre X for four years, before joining avant garde New York company The Performance Group. He made his first venture into film acting with a role in Heaven's Gate, but was cut from the finished movie. He went on to win parts in To Live and Die in LA and The Loveless, but his big break came with Platoon, which earned him an Oscar nomination. He also made headlines in 1988 when he took the lead role in the controversial The Last Temptation of Christ. Since then, his movies have included Mississippi Burning, Born on the Fourth of July, The English Patient, Shadow of the Vampire (for which he received another Oscar nod) and Spider-Man. His more recent films include Antichrist, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Daybreakers and Miral.

Career: Heard made her acting debut in the pilot episode of teen drama Jack & Bobby and went on to make guest appearances in a number of programmes, including The Mountain, The OC, Criminal Minds and Californication. She made her movie debut in Friday Night Lights (2004). Roles on the big screen followed in Side FX (2005), Drop Dead Sexy (2005) and North Country (2005). In 2006, she was cast in the title role in horror flick All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. More recently, she has appeared in bigger budget Hollywood movies such as Drive Angry (2011), The Rum Diary (2011), Paranoia (2013) and Machete Kills (2013). In 2011, she starred in the short-lived TV crime drama The Playboy Club.

Career: His first film, My Sister's Wedding (2001), was never released, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in Mike Nichols' 2003 HBO miniseries Angels in America, and his first film proper was The Alamo (2004). Other film credits include The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Hard Candy (2004), Watchman (2009), The A-Team (2010), Insidious (2011), Prometheus (2012) and The Conjuring (2013). On the small screen, he played the lead role in short-lived medical drama A Gifted Man. An accomplished singer, Wilson has performed in a number of musicals, including The Full Monty, Oklahoma, Carousel and Miss Saigon.

Career: Lundgren made the move into acting and had a bit part in the 007 adventure A View to a Kill in 1985, but it was Rocky IV the same year that made him a household name. Lundgren also played He-Man in the movie Masters of the Universe (1987) and was the first actor to play Marvel comics hero The Punisher on the big screen in 1989. Other notable projects include 1992 blockbuster Universal Soldier and Keanu Reeves' sci-fi flop Johnny Mnemonic (1995). He's spent the past few years making a string of low-budget action adventures, including The Peacekeeper (1997), Hidden Agenda (2001) and The Defender (2004), appeared in Sylvester Stallone's action flick The Expendables (2010) and its two sequels and returned to the Universal Soldier franchise for two sequels. In 2013, he began starring in American TV action drama SAF3.