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Josh Hartnett (Actor) .. The Drifter

Born: July 21, 1978 in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Best Known For: Roles in Pearl Harbor and The Black Dahlia.

Early-life: Joshua Daniel Hartnett was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on July 21, 1978, and raised largely by his father and stepmother. He has three siblings Jessica, Jake and Joe. He graduated from South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota in June 1996, then attended a New York acting school. In 1997, he was offered the role of Michael Fitzgerald in the American TV series Cracker, as well as roles in several small plays and commercials. He reached a mainstream audience with his starring role in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later in 1998 and followed this up with The Faculty (1998).

Career: Hartnett has developed a steady career, having appeared in several hit films, including The Virgin Suicides (1999), Black Hawk Down (2001), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Sin City (2005) and The Black Dahlia (2006). In 2008, he branched out into producing, with the movies August (in which he also features) and Nobody. In 2014, he began starring in the TV horror drama Penny Dreadful.

Quote: 'I try my hardest not to have any plans. It drives the people in my life crazy. But I try to spend the majority of my time back home.'

Trivia: Hartnett is a vegetarian.

Ron Perlman (Actor) .. Nicola the Woodcutter

Born: April 13, 1950 in New York

Best Known For: Playing Hellboy

Early-life: Ronald Francis Perlman was born April 13, 1950 in New York City, New York. He attended George Washington High School, the Lehman College in New York City, where he got the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre, and the University of Minnesota. He graduated from the latter in 1973 as a Master of Fine Arts. Made his TV debut in 1979 series Ryan's Hope. His big screen debut came in acclaimed prehistoric drama Quest For Fire. Perlman paid the rent with projects including The Ice Pirates, The Fall Guy and Miami Vice, before TV series Beauty and the Beast made him a cult star in 1987.

Career: In 1993 he made his first collaboration with director Guillermo del Toro in Cronos, and also became a favourite of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet after starring in The City of Lost Children. The French director also cast him in Alien Resurrection. Re-teamed with del Toro for Blade II, who also cast him as the heroic demon star of Hellboy in 2004. Also starred in a sequel to that hit, and voiced an animated spin-off. Has lent his familiar tones to assorted cartoons and video games over the years, including Batman and Halo 3. In recent years has won a new wave of fans thanks to hit TV series Sons of Anarchy, and the films Drive and Conan the Barbarian. He starred in del Toro's 2013 fantasy epic Pacific Rim.

Quote: On acting: 'This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.'

Trivia: He supports the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Demi Moore (Actor) .. Alexandra

Born: November 11, 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico

Best Known For: Being Bruce Willis's ex-wife.

Early-life: Born Demetria Guynes on November 11, 1962, in Roswell, New Mexico. She claims to have had a miserable childhood. Her father left home before she was born, and her stepfather constantly changed jobs, which meant the family moved around 40 times. He was also an alcoholic and committed suicide when Moore was 17, a year after she left school. She worked for a debt collector and did some modelling in Europe before studying acting.

Career: Moore made her movie debut in 1981's Choices, and had a regular part in the soap opera General Hospital for a year. Supporting roles in Blame It on Rio and No Small Affair followed before Brat Pack movie St Elmo's Fire made her a star in 1985. Five years later she was propelled onto Hollywood's A-list by Ghost, and became the first actress to be paid $10million. Big movies since include A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal and Disclosure. She hasn't enjoyed the same level of success for 20 years, although she did produce the Austin Powers movies. More recently she's appeared in Charlie's Angels II: Full Throttle, Mr Brooks and Margin Call.

Quote: 'Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.'

Trivia: In 2009, Moore and Ashton Kutcher launched The Demi and Ashton Foundation, a charity that aims to fight child sexual slavery.

Woody Harrelson (Actor) .. The Bartender

Born: July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas

Best Known For: His starring role in Cheers and a string of hit movies.

Early-life: Born Woodrick Tracy Harrelson on July 23, 1961, in Midland, Texas, but grew up in Lebanon, Ohio. His father, Charles, has twice been found guilty of committing murder for money - once in 1968, the second time in 1978. He is also believed to have been one of several so-called hobos escorted from the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas immediately after JFK's assassination in 1963. Harrelson gained a degree in theatre arts and English from Hanover College in Indiana before moving to New York.

Career: Harrelson was an understudy for Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues on Broadway and appeared in various small productions before gaining the role of dimwitted barman Woody Boyd in Cheers in 1985. His TV commitments made it difficult for him to gain good movie roles, although he did star in the hit White Men Can't Jump in 1992. When the sitcom finished a year later, he concentrated on films, and has since starred in Indecent Proposal, Natural Born Killers, The People vs Larry Flynt, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Thin Red Line, A Scanner Darkly, No Country for Old Men, The Messenger, Zombieland, 2012 and The Hunger Games movies. In 2014, he starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in HBO crime drama True Detective.

Quote: 'I like crying. And I not only wanna cry with other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!'

Trivia: Harrelson has had a few brushes with the law.

Kevin McKidd (Actor) .. Killer

Born: August 09, 1973 in Elgin, Scotland

Best Known For: Trainspotting

Early-life: Born August 9, 1973, in Elgin, Scotland. He had an impoverished working-class upbringing on a council estate near Inverness. and is the youngest of two sons of a plumber and a secretary. McKidd loved his childhood 'running around the fields' near his home and allegedly fell into acting because he believed he was too overweight for football. When he appeared in a school play 'everyone laughed either because I was fat, or because I was being funny... it was a good buzz.'

Career: After studying engineering at an Edinburgh College he switched to drama. He landed a part before the course ended, in the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Other roles followed, including his breakthrough performance as the ill-fated Tommy in Trainspotting. Subsequent movies have included Regeneration, Hideous Kinky, Dog Soldiers and Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy. On TV he has played Anna Karenina's love interest, Count Vronsky, in Channel 4's classic adaptation, and more recently, Mary Queen of Scots' lover in Gunpowder, Treason & Plot.

Quote: 'I'd love to be able to get a job big enough to pay off my parents' mortgage. I'd love to say, 'I was a pain as a kid, but there you go'.'

Trivia: He provided the voice for 'Soap' MacTavish in the video games Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in 2009 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in 2011.

Gackt (Actor) .. Yoshi

Shun Sugata (Actor) .. Uncle

Jordi Molla (Actor) .. Valentine

Guy Moshe (Director)

10:01 pm - 11:35 pm, Tuesday, April 7 on Great! Action (42)

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