Career: Hardy made his film debut in Black Hawk Down in 2001. A year later he starred in Star Trek: Nemesis and in 2003 he won the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for his performances in Blood and In Arabia We'd All Be Kings. He continued to make a name for himself on the small screen in The Virgin Queen, Meadowlands, Oliver Twist and The Take, and on the big screen in RocknRolla, Bronson, Inception, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, This Means War and Lawless. He delivered a standout performance as the villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, before scoring a critical hit with Locke in 2013. More recently he's taken the lead role in Mad Max: Fury Road, and played both Kray twins in Legend.

Career: An agent spotted Theron arguing with a bank clerk and signed her on the spot. After eight months of acting lessons she landed her first role, a non-speaking part in Children of the Corn III. A more significant role in 2 Days in the Valley followed. Tom Hanks cast her in That Thing You Do! in 1996, and she hasn't looked back, appearing in hits such as The Devil's Advocate, Mighty Joe Young, and Reindeer Games. In 2003, she starred in the remake of The Italian Job and critically acclaimed drama Monster; her performance in the latter won her an Oscar. She also starred in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Aeon Flux, Hancock, The Road, Young Adult, Snow White & the Huntsman and Prometheus.

Career: Hoult was talent-spotted at the age of three by a director struck by his concentration during a production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and landed his first film role aged five in Intimate Relations alongside Julie Walters and Rupert Graves. Then followed a steady, if not thunderous, stream of work in the likes of The Bill and Casualty, before he found himself as Hugh Grant's surrogate son in About a Boy. That led to high-profile roles in such critically acclaimed fare as Nicolas Cage movie The Weather Man and the Richard E Grant film Wah-Wah. Most recently he has wowed critics and earned a huge army of fans for his work on the Channel 4 teen drama Skins and TV movie Coming Down the Mountain. His recent film work includes roles in Kidulthood, A Single Man, Clash of the Titans, and X-Men: First Class.

Career: More film roles followed for Kravitz, including Birds of America (2008), The Greatest (2009) and It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010). Her breakthrough came in 2011 when she had a recurring role in Californication and played Angel Salvadore in X-Men: First Class (2011). Since then, Kravitz has starred in After Earth (2013), Divergent (2014), The Road Within (2015), Insurgent (2015) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Away from acting, Kravitz has modelled in fashion magazines and fronted the band Elevator Flight. She now performs with the band Lolawolf. They released their debut album, Calm Down, in 2014.

Career: Keough made her acting debut in 2010 as Marie Currie in The Runaways. Next, she played the female lead in The Good Doctor (2011), Jack in Jack & Diane (2012), Nora in Magic Mike (2012) and Young Amanda in Yellow (2012). After appearing in a number of short films and music videos, Keough joined the cast of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Next, she played the lead role in TV series The Girlfriend Experience. Her other recent film credits include American Honey (2016), The Discovery (2017) and It Comes at Night (2017).

Career: In 2004, Huntington-Whiteley did a shoot for Teen Vogue in New York and made her catwalk debut. Two years later, she began modelling for Victoria's Secret. Since then, Huntington-Whiteley has modelled for Burberry, appeared on the cover of British Vogue, and posed nude for a Pirelli Calendar. She made a move into acting by playing the female lead in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). Her next major acting role will be in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).