Career: After declaring himself mentally unfit for military service, Hauer returned to acting, making his film debut in 1969's Monsieur Hawarden. Film and TV work in his native Holland followed, and by 1981, a series of excellent performances in such projects as Soldier of Orange and Spetters led him to be cast in his first US movie, Nighthawks, opposite Sylvester Stallone. A year later, Blade Runner made him an international star. Films such as Ladyhawke, The Hitcher, and Blind Fury followed. He fell out of favour during the 1990s, following a string of disappointing movies, but has never stopped working. In 2002, he was in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, had a small role in Batman Begins in 2005 and was in season six of True Blood.

Career: After landing a role in Disney TV movie The Young Runaways (1978), several TV movies followed before she made her big-screen debut in the slasher film Eyes of a Stranger (1981). Her big break came in high school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). She went on to star in The Hitcher (1986), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Backdraft (1991), Single White Female (1992), Dolores Claiborne (1995), Georgia (1995), Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), and eXistenZ (1999). More recently, Leigh has starred in Road to Perdition (2002), In the Cut (2003), The Machinist (2004), and Synecdoche, New York (2008). On the small screen, she has played roles in Weeds, and Revenge. On the stage she has appeared in Cabaret, Proof, and Abigail's Party.