Career: Travolta eventually moved to Los Angeles to further his acting career. His big break came with sitcom Welcome Back Cotter; he also made an early movie appearance in Carrie. Saturday Night Fever and the film version of Grease proved he was a major force to be reckoned with. More big-screen outings followed but, despite the success of Look Who's Talking, a string of flops in the 1980s meant he fell out of favour until Quentin Tarantino cast him in Pulp Fiction in 1994. He's since made various hits, including Swordfish, Primary Colors and Get Shorty. Over the past few years he's appeared in Wild Hogs, Hairspray, From Paris with Love and The Taking of Pelham 123. He remains an A-list star.

Career: Plummer made his Broadway debut in 1953 in The Starcross Story - a play that lasted just one night. He had better luck with his next show, Home is the Hero, which lasted for 30 performances. He has since appeared successfully on stages around the world, including London. Plummer's film career began in 1958 when he was cast in Stage Struck, but it was The Sound of Music in 1965 that made him an international star. Since then, he has been a heavily in-demand character actor and appeared in a number of notable films, including The Night of the Generals (1967), The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Malcolm X (1992), The Insider (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001) and The Lake House (2006). He received his first Academy Award nomination in 2009 for The Last Station, but lost out to Christoph Waltz. He had better luck in 2012 when he won an Oscar for his performance in Beginners (2010). His recent credits include Priest (2011) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).

Career: Sheridan's breakthrough role was in The Tree of Life (2011). He starred in coming of age drama Mud (2012) and played Gary Jones in Joe (2013). His other film credits include The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), Last Days in the Desert (2015) and Last Entertainment (2015). He played a young Cyclops in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).

Career: Ehle first rose to prominence in 1992 when Peter Hall cast her as Calypso in the TV miniseries The Camomile Lawn. Her performance as Elizabeth Bennett in the 1995 BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice earned her a Bafta award. A spell with the Royal Shakespeare Company was followed by her first major film role in Paradise Road (1997). In the same year she played the lead role in Alan Bleasdale's TV drama Melissa. Other film roles have included This Year's Love (1999), Sunshine (1999), The King's Speech (2010), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), The Ides of March (2011), Contagion (2011) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). In 2011, she appeared in short-lived American medical drama A Gifted Man. More recently, she has appeared in RoboCop (2014).