Career: Freeman's first credited big-screen appearance was in 1971's Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?, before he landed a regular role on children's show The Electric Company. In the mid-1980s, Freeman started getting more prominent roles in movies. Among his biggest hits have been Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Glory, Amistad, Deep Impact and Bruce Almighty. He is also an in-demand voice-over artist, lending his dulcet tones to sci-fi blockbuster War of the Worlds and the Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins. Freeman received an Academy Award of his own for his supporting role in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. A prolific actor, he has more recently appeared in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and always has several films in pre-production.

Career: In 1992, Banderas made his Hollywood debut with The Mambo Kings. Because he didn't then speak English, his dialogue was taught to him phonetically. He shot to international fame with his sensitive performance as Tom Hanks' lover in Philadelphia, then played opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire in 1994. He established himself as one of Hollywood's leading men after co-starring with Madonna in Evita in 1996. In 1998 he won acclaim for his performance in Zorro, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and later returned to the role in The Legend of Zorro. In 1999 he made his directorial debut in Crazy in Alabama and showed his comic ability as the voice of Puss in Boots in the Shrek franchise and its spin-off. He is a hugely busy actor.

Career: Mitchell made her film debut in low-budget Australian movie Love and Other Catastrophes (1996). Her first lead role came in High Art (1998). Her other film credits include Pitch Black (2000), Dead Heat (2002), Phone Booth (2002) and Man on Fire (2004). She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in Finding Neverland (2004). The following year, she had a lead role in Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda (2005). She has also starred in Silent Hill (2006), Henry Poole Is Here (2007), Surrogates (2009), The Crazies (2010), Olympus Has Fallen (2012) and Evidence (2013). In 2013, she had a lead role in short-lived TV drama Red Widow.

Career: Early in his career, Forster had supporting roles in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) and The Stalking Moon (1968) and he starred in Medium Cool (1969). He had lead roles in TV shows Banyon and Nakia and supporting roles in action and horror films, including Disney's The Black Hole (1979). Forster starred in such cult B-movies as Alligator (1980), Vigilante (1983), The Delta Force (1986) and The Banker (1989). After reaching a period where it seemed his career had died, Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997) revived it. Among the films he has appeared in since are Me, Myself and Irene (2000), Mulholland Drive (2001), Like Mike (2002) and Lucky Number Slevin (2006). Forster has also appeared in such TV shows as Heroes and Breaking Bad.