Career: Smith's charm swayed Quincy Jones and the NBC TV network to give him a starring role in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, a series that ran for six years. In 1992, he made his film debut with Where the Day Takes You. Since then, he's enjoyed a steady string of box-office hits, including Bad Boys, Independence Day, Men in Black and its two sequels, and Ali, which gained him an Oscar nomination. Other projects include Enemy of the State, Six Degrees of Separation, I, Robot, I Am Legend, Seven Pounds and Hancock. His recent work includes Men in Black 3, After Earth, and new movie Focus.

Career: Throughout the 1990s, Okonedo steadily built up a body of TV credits, including appearances in Casualty, The Bill and The Governor. She got her break in films with a small role in 1995 Jim Carrey vehicle Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. She also featured in The Jackal and Mad Cows, but it was Stephen Frears' thriller Dirty Pretty Things that people really began to take notice. More TV work followed in Clocking Off, Never Never and Spooks, before an Oscar-nominated performance in Hotel Rwanda. Other projects include Doctor Who, Tsumani: The Aftermath, The Secret Life of Bees, Skin, Criminal Justice, and Mrs Mandela.

Career: More film roles followed for Kravitz, including Birds of America (2008), The Greatest (2009) and It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010). Her breakthrough came in 2011 when she had a recurring role in Californication and played Angel Salvadore in X-Men: First Class (2011). Since then, Kravitz has starred in After Earth (2013), Divergent (2014), The Road Within (2015), Insurgent (2015) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Away from acting, Kravitz has modelled in fashion magazines and fronted the band Elevator Flight. She now performs with the band Lolawolf. They released their debut album, Calm Down, in 2014.

Career: Dhawan went on to have a recurring role in CITV series Weirdsister College but his big break came in 2004 when he played Akthar in the National Theatre's original stage production of Alan Bennett's The History Boys. He reprised the role in the Broadway, Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong productions and the 2006 big-screen version. More recently, Dhawan has starred on TV in Bradford Riots, Wired, Five Days, The Deep, Outsourced, Last Tango in Halifax and An Adventure in Space and Time. He also provides the voice of Eddie in CBeebies series Chuggington.

Career: Shyamalan was still a student in New York when he made his first film, Praying with Anger (1992). It never received mainstream distribution. His second film, Wide Awake (1998), only received a limited release and only recouped $300 against a $6million budget. 1999 was a big breakthrough year for Shyamalan. He co-wrote the screenplay for the hugely popular Stuart Little (1999) and gained international recognition when he wrote and directed The Sixth Sense (1999), which was nominated for six Academy Awards and grossed more than $670million worldwide. Since then, Shyamalan has struggled to achieve critical praise for his films but they have all been financially successful. He has written and directed Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004), Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010) and After Earth (2013).