Career: Affleck made his film debut in dark comedy To Die For (1995) and followed this up with box-office flop Race the Sun (1997). He had better luck when he starred with his brother in Chasing Amy (1997) and Good Will Hunting (1997). He went on to star in a string of commercial failures but his fortunes changed when he was part of the ensemble cast in Ocean's Eleven (2001). He reprised his character, Virgil Malloy, in two Ocean's sequels. Affleck's big break came in 2007 when he starred opposite Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a role that earned him an Academy Award nomination. Since then, Affleck has starred in The Killer Inside Me (2010), Tower Heist (2011), Out of the Furnace (2013) and Manchester By the Sea (2016).

Career: Before Amistad, Chiwetel starred in TV movie Deadly Voyage. The film G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time (1999) was not well received, but his next film, Dirty Pretty Things (2002), led to him winning a number of awards. Since then, he has starred in Twelfth Night (2003), Love Actually (2003), Four Brothers (2005), Serenity (2005), Kinky Boots (2005), American Gangster (2007), 2012 (2009) and Salt (2010). An accomplished stage actor, he won a Laurence Olivier Award in 2008 for playing the lead role in Othello. More recently he played the lead role in the critically acclaimed 12 Years a Slave (2014).

Career: Winslet started out on TV, with roles in Casualty and The Dark Season, but it was her film debut in Peter Jackson's acclaimed 1994 drama Heavenly Creatures that set her on the road to success. She gained her first Oscar nod for Sense and Sensibility a year later, and stayed with period pieces for Jude and Hamlet. In 1997 came James Cameron's Titanic, which gained her another Academy Award nomination. Since then, Winslet has featured in an array of films, including Hideous Kinky, Enigma, Iris, The Life of David Gale, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Finding Neverland. She finally won an Oscar for 2008's The Reader. Her recent films include Labor Day and Divergent.

Career: Harrelson was an understudy for Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues on Broadway and appeared in various small productions before gaining the role of dimwitted barman Woody Boyd in Cheers in 1985. His TV commitments made it difficult for him to gain good movie roles, although he did star in the hit White Men Can't Jump in 1992. When the sitcom finished a year later, he concentrated on films, and has since starred in Indecent Proposal, Natural Born Killers, The People vs Larry Flynt, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Thin Red Line, A Scanner Darkly, No Country for Old Men, The Messenger, Zombieland, 2012 and The Hunger Games movies. In 2014, he starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in HBO crime drama True Detective.

Career: Mackie made his film debut in 8 Mile (2002) and his first starring role was in Brother to Brother (2004). In the same year, he played the lead role in Spike Lee's box-office flop She Hates Me and starred in the Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby. He went on to play rapper Tupac Shakur in Notorious (2009) and received critical acclaim for his role in The Hurt Locker (2009). He has successfully made the transition to big-budget Hollywood movies and his recent credits include The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Real Steel (2011), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), Gangster Squad (2013), The Fifth Estate (2013), Runner Runner (2013) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).

Career: Gadot made her film debut as Gisele in Fast & Furious (2009) and reprised the role in Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013) and Furious 7 (2015). She performed her own stunts in the Fast & Furious movies. Her other film credits include Knight and Day (2010), Kicking Out Shoshana (2014), Triple 9 (2016), Criminal (2016) and Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016). In 2013, she was cast as Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Gadot also plays the Amazon princess and immortal warrior in Wonder Woman (2017) and Justice League (2017). Away from acting, she is the face of Gucci's Bamboo perfume brand.