Career: Australian director Gregor Jordan auditioned him for the lead in Two Hands (1999), which he got. An in-your-face Aussie crime thriller, the film was outstanding and helped him secure a role in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999). After that, Heath feared being typecast as a teen hunk so he accepted a role in Mel Gibson historical war drama The Patriot (2000). He followed that with roles in the hugely popular A Knight's Tale (2001), the dark drama Monster's Ball (2001) and fantasy thriller The Brothers Grimm (2005). He won critical acclaim for his role as a conflicted gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain (2005) and the Joker in The Dark Knight (2008), for which he won a posthumous Oscar. He died on January 22, 2008, at the age of 28.

Career: In 1999, two days after graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he landed the role of Legolas in Peter Jackson's hugely successful The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Bloom's other film credits include Black Hawk Dawn (2001), Ned Kelly (2003), The Calcium Kid (2004), Troy (2004), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), The Three Musketeers (2011), Zulu (2013) and Romeo and Juliet (2014). He reprised the role of Legolas in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (2014).

Career: Rush's film debut was a bit part in 1981's Hoodwink and he didn't have a major role on the big screen until he played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night six years later. He had a small role as a dentist in a 1993 episode of Lovejoy, but his big break came in 1996 with Shine, for which he won an Academy Award. He has received further nominations for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Quills (2000) and The King's Speech (2010). His other film credits include Elizabeth (1998), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Munich (2004) and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Throughout his film career, Rush has continued to work on the stage.

Career: While living in Australia, Watts appeared in such films as Flirting (1991), Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) and Gross Misconduct (1993) as well as the soap opera Home and Away. She then moved to America but struggled early on in her career to land work. Watts got a supporting role in Tank Girl (1995) but it flopped at the box office. She then appeared in a number of largely forgotten films and TV programmes before getting her breakthrough in Mulholland Drive (2001). Following this, she landed the lead role in The Ring (2002) and then 21 Grams (2003). Her first comedy was I Heart Huckabees (2004). The next year, she appeared as Ann Darrow in King Kong (2005) and reprised her role as Rachel for The Ring 2 (2005). Watts then went on to appear in The Painted Veil (2006), Funny Games (2007), The International (2009) and The Impossible (2012). She also produced The Painted Veil and Funny Games. More recently, Watts appeared in the second film from the Divergent Series, Insurgent (2015), as well as Demolition (2015), Chuck (2016) and the Netflix drama series Gypsy. She was also executive producer for Gypsy.

Career: Edgerton appeared in the film Erskineville Kings (1999) but his breakthrough in Australia came when he played Will McGill in TV series The Secret Life of Us. He got his international breakthrough when he played Owen Lars in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). Edgerton then went on to appear in the films Ned Kelly (2003), King Arthur (2004), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), Kinky Boots (2005) and Smokin' Aces (2006). He starred as mixed martial arts fighter Brendan Conlon in Warrior (2011) and appeared in The Thing (2011) during the same year. His next notable roles were in Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and The Great Gatsby (2013). More recently, Edgerton has appeared in The Gift (2015), Black Mass (2015) and Loving (2016).

Career: Griffiths hit the big time in 1994 when she picked up the Australian Film Critics Award and the Australian Film Institute Award for best supporting actress in Muriel's Wedding. She went on to feature in Hilary and Jackie (for which she received an Oscar nomination), Jude, Divorcing Jack, Among Giants and My Son the Fanatic. She won a Golden Globe award for American drama Six Feet Under. Other projects have included The Rookie, The Hard Word, Ned Kelly, and Step Up. She starred in ABC drama Brothers & Sisters between 2006 and 2011.