Career: Following some stage work, he made his film debut in 1979's Escape from Alcatraz. Later the same year he had a small role in an episode of Lou Grant - his first TV appearance. A regular role in the series Palmerstown, USA came soon after. Other projects followed, and by the mid-1980s he was a familiar face to audiences thanks to Places in the Heart, Witness, Lonesome Dove (for which he received an Emmy nomination) and The Color Purple. The first Lethal Weapon movie made him a household name. He's appeared in all three sequels. He has also appeared in The Royal Tenenbaums and Be Kind Rewind, and gave an award-winning turn in disaster movie 2012.

Career: Willem toured with Theatre X for four years, before joining avant garde New York company The Performance Group. He made his first venture into film acting with a role in Heaven's Gate, but was cut from the finished movie. He went on to win parts in To Live and Die in LA and The Loveless, but his big break came with Platoon, which earned him an Oscar nomination. He also made headlines in 1988 when he took the lead role in the controversial The Last Temptation of Christ. Since then, his movies have included Mississippi Burning, Born on the Fourth of July, The English Patient, Shadow of the Vampire (for which he received another Oscar nod) and Spider-Man. His more recent films include Antichrist, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Daybreakers and Miral.

Career: Rosanna has worked steadily in big-budget and independent movies, as well as on TV. She first gained attention in The Dark Secret of Harvest Home, co-starring Bette Davis, in 1978. SOB was her first major film in 1981, and four years later she enjoyed international success in Desperately Seeking Susan, alongside Madonna. She followed it up with major films Silverado, After Hours, 8 Million Ways to Die and New York Stories. She then had a string of lesser-known projects before coming back with Pulp Fiction in 1994, and appeared in The Whole Nine Yards in 2000. She has continued to work steadily since then, including appearances in Malcolm in the Middle, Dirt, Medium, Lipstick Jungle, Eastwick, Private Practice, Girls and Ray Donovan.

Career: A string of other projects followed, including TV series China Beach, and the movies Blue Steel, Flight of the Intruder, Guilty By Suspicion, Point Break and Passenger 57. By the early 1990s, Sizemore was inundated with film roles, including True Romance, Striking Distance, Wyatt Earp and Natural Born Killers. He was typecast as either macho cops in Strange Days and The Relic or gruff soldiers in Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down. In recent years he's rarely been out of work, featuring in TV shows such as Robbery, Homicide Division, Dr Vegas, CSI: Miami, Southland, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Hawaii Five-O. He always has a number of projects in the pipeline.

Career: Rhames first appeared on Broadway in the play The Winter Boys in 1984. Ving continued his rise to fame through his work in soap operas. He found work as a supporting actor, and came to the attention of the general public by playing the role of Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction (1994). Major hits like Con-Air and the three Mission Impossible movies followed. He won a Golden Globe in 1998 for best actor in a TV miniseries for his performance in HBO's Don King: Only in America - and memorably presented it to Jack Lemmon. Other hits include Bringing Out the dead and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. He played the title role in a short-lived remake of Kojak.