Career: In 2001, Johnson appeared as a warrior in The Mummy Returns, and reprised his role a year later as the eponymous hero in The Scorpion King. He went on to star in a series of hit-and-miss projects, including Welcome to the Jungle, Be Cool, Walking Tall, Get Smart, Race To Witch Mountain, Tooth Fairy, Faster and The Other Guys. He returned to form in 2011 in the hugely popular Fast and the Furious sequel Fast Five alongside Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. More recently, he has starred in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Snitch, GI Joe: Retaliation, Fast & Furious 6 and Hercules.

Career: McShane's first film was 1962's The Wild and the Willing. After that, he built a reputation as a fine stage actor thanks to various West End productions. His first starring role came in 1966's Skywest and Crooked, which co-starred Hayley Mills and was directed by her actor father John. He played Heathcliff in an acclaimed TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights and gained plaudits for such productions as Roots, Jesus of Nazareth and Disraeli. McShane became a household name thanks to Lovejoy in 1986, and even appeared in Dallas. Other projects include Deadwood (for which he won a Golden Globe award), Sexy Beast, Kings, 44 Inch Chest, The Pillars of the Earth, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Jack the Giant Slayer.

Career: Hurt made both his London stage debut (in the acclaimed Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger) and his first film, The Wild and the Willing, in 1962. More theatre work and films such as A Man for All Seasons and 10 Rillington Place followed. In 1975, he won a Bafta for his portrayal of Quentin Crisp in TV drama The Naked Civil Servant, which made his name. He received Oscar nominations for Midnight Express and The Elephant Man. Other acclaimed projects included Nineteen Eighty-Four, Scandal, Alien and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He also portrayed the Tory politician Alan Clark in The Alan Clark Diaries for the BBC. He reprised his role as Quentin Crisp in 2009 in An Englishman in New York. He went on to appear in the final two Harry Potter films, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Doctor Who. He died on January 27, 2017, at the age of 77.

Career: Sewell made his film debut in 1991's Twenty-One and first appeared in the West End a year later in the play Making it Better, winning numerous plaudits. Other stage credits include Translations, Macbeth, Luther and Tom Stoppard's acclaimed Arcadia. His role in TV's Middlemarch made him a heart-throb in 1994. Since then, he's made regular appearances on the small and big screens in such productions as Dark City (1998), Martha Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998), Cold Comfort Farm and A Knight's Tale (2001). More recently, he played Dr Jacob Hood in Eleventh Hour, Tom Builder in The Pillars of the Earth and the lead role in Zen.

Career: He made his first professional stage appearance in the West End in The Woman in Black and went on to join the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons, taking roles in Son of Man, Les Enfants du Paradis, Troilus and Cressida, and the award-winning The Herbal Bed. Joseph's screen debut was in The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, and he attained international acclaim after appearing in Elizabeth and playing the part of William Shakespeare in 1998's Oscar-winning romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love. After returning to the stage, he also appeared in several high-profile movies including Enemy at the Gates and The Merchant of Venice, as well as US series Flash Forward, Camelot and American Horror Story.

Career: Ratner's big break came in 1998 when he directed the action-comedy Rush Hour. Made for $33million, it grossed more than $240million worldwide. The sequels Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Rush Hour 3 (2007) were equally successful. Ratner's other film credits include X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Tower Heist (2011) and Hercules (2014). He was also the producer on the TV series Prison Break and the film comedy Horrible Bosses (2011) and its 2014 sequel.