Career: Hiddleston made his small-screen debut in the 2001 TV movie The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. A year later, he starred in the TV movie The Gathering Storm. After graduating from Rada, he made his film debut in Unrelated (2007). He is best known for playing the character Loki in the Thor movies and in The Avengers (2012). His other film credits include Archipelago (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), War Horse (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014). He won an Olivier Award in 2008 for his role in Cymbeline.

Career: Irons made his TV debut in 1971 in the series The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and landed several other roles throughout the decade, including in the children's series Play Away. But it was in the 1980s he became widely recognised, thanks to the movie The French Lieutenant's Woman and TV tour de force Brideshead Revisited. These made him a sought after leading man and he went on to appear in productions such as Dead Ringers, Damage, Lolita, Die Hard with a Vengeance and Reversal of Fortune, for which he won an Oscar. He also lent his voice to The Lion King and has trodden the boards on Broadway, starred with his son Samuel in Danny the Champion of the World, and had a major role in The Borgias.

Career: Prior to her acting career, Miller worked as a photographic model for Coca-Cola, and Italian Vogue, and posed topless for the 2003 Pirelli calendar. Her career then rocketed when she signed a two-year deal with Pepe Jeans London. She made her film debut alongside Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson in South Kensington. Then came Alfie, Layer Cake and her stage debut in a West End production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. Other work on the big screen includes roles in Stardust, The Edge of Love, and GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra; her performance as Tippi Hedren in TV drama The Girl was widely acclaimed.

Career: Between 2000 and 2008, Evans starred in various West End productions, including Taboo, Rent, La Cava, Avenue Q and Miss Saigon. His first film role was in Clash of the Titans (2010). Since then, he has appeared in such films as Blitz (2011), Dracula Untold (2014), The Girl on the Train (2016) and Beauty and the Beast (2017).

Career: As a child actress, Moss appeared in the TV series Picket Fences, provided the voices of characters in Frosty Returns and Once Upon a Forest, and appeared on the big screen in Imaginary Crimes (1994). From 1999 to 2006, she starred in 25 episodes of TV drama The West Wing. She had a supporting role in 1999 movie Girl, Interrupted. Other films and TV work followed until her big break came in 2007 when she landed the role of Peggy Olson in Mad Men. More recently, she appeared in Jane Campion's TV miniseries Top of the Lake, for which she won a Golden Globe.

Career: During the 1990s, Hawes starred in music videos for the likes of Suede and James before gaining roles in TV in Heartbeat, Karaoke and The Beggar Bride. She got her TV breakthrough when she appeared as Zoe Reynolds in spy drama Spooks from 2002 until 2004. Then she went on to appear as Rose in The Vicar of Dibley, as Jane in Death at a Funeral (2007) and as the voice of Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video game series, starting with Tomb Raider: Legend. She was cast as Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes, a spin-off of the series Life on Mars, in 2007 and the series lasted until 2009. Following this, she appeared in such TV series as Identity and Upstairs, Downstairs. In 2014, she joined the cast of Line of Duty as Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton and guest starred as Ms Delphox in Doctor Who. More recently, she has appeared in The Missing and The Durrells.