Career: Following several little-seen movies, Neill's breakthrough came as Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict. After the 1983 miniseries Reilly: Ace of Spies, he divided his career between TV work, mainstream dramas and arthouse films, including such projects as Kane and Abel, Plenty, Dead Calm and A Cry in the Dark. Steven Spielberg cast him in Jurassic Park in 1993, the year he was awarded an OBE. He also won critical acclaim for The Piano and Sirens. Other projects include The Horse Whisperer, Restoration, Event Horizon, Jurassic Park III, mini-series Merlin's Apprentice, The Tudors and the BBC's gritty period drama Peaky Blinders. One of the busiest actors in Hollywood, he always has several films in the pipeline.

Career: Attenborough's film debut was 1942's In Which We Serve, playing a cowardly sailor; in real life, he served with the RAF's Film Unit, sustaining permanent ear damage in the process. He became a post-war star thanks to hits such as Brighton Rock (1947),The Great Escape (1963), and I'm All Right Jack (1959). He and Bryan Forbes formed a production company in the early 1960s, which made films including The Angry Silence (1960) and Whistle Down the Wind (1961). Attenborough directed his first film, Oh! What a Lovely War, in 1969, won an Oscar for Gandhi in 1982, and also directed the acclaimed movies A Bridge Too Far (1977), Chaplin (1992) and Shadowlands (1993). He returned to acting in the 1990s to appear in Jurassic Park (1993), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and Elizabeth (1998). He was knighted in 1976 and made a life peer in 1993. He died on August 24, 2014, at the age of 90.

Career: Her official film debut was in the 1980 film Foxes, which also starred Jodie Foster, but her big break came five years later when she played a blind girl in Mask. She went on to appear in David Lynch films Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990) and in 1991 received an Oscar nomination for her role in Rambling Rose, which co-starred her mother. The following year she won a Golden Globe for her role in the TV movie Afterburn, and in 1993 starred in the blockbusting Jurassic Park. Her recent credits include TV movie Recount, Everything Must Go (2010), Little Fockers (2010),The Master (2012), and TV series Enlightened.

Career: Started out on stage, where he was spotted by filmmaker Robert Altman. He made his big-screen debut in 1974's Death Wish, and worked with Altman on California Split and Nashville. He also had a one-line role in Woody Allen's 1977 Oscar-winning movie Annie Hall. Goldblum has worked steadily ever since in such films as The Right Stuff, The Big Chill, Silverado, The Fly, The Tall Guy, Earth Girls are Easy, Jurassic Park and Independence Day. More recent projects include The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Mini's First Time, Man of the Year and Fay Grim. Away from acting, he plays in a jazz band with RoboCop actor Peter Weller. He starred in short-lived TV series Raines, and in 2009, he returned to TV to star in his second crime series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Career: Jackson's first film was Together for Days in 1972. He later spent two years as a stand-in on The Cosby Show, before starring in the original Broadway production of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. A series of walk-on parts in films and on TV followed. Spike Lee cast him as the crack-addicted Gator in Jungle Fever, which gained him international acclaim. His most notable films have included Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction (for which he was Oscar-nominated), Star Wars: Episodes One, Two and Three, Shaft, The 51st State, Unbreakable, Changing Lanes, Black Snake Moan, Django Unchained, Thor, The Avengers and many more. He is regarded as one of the most bankable assets in the movie business and always has a number of films in the pipeline.

Career: Spielberg's 1971 thriller Duel paved the way for feature film The Sugarland Express, a modest hit. In 1975, Jaws started a long run of successes, including the Indiana Jones films, ET, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. He also co-founded studio Dreamworks SKG, which has backed various hits, including Shrek, American Beauty and Gladiator. Spielberg's recent films include The Terminal, Munich and War of the Worlds. He has also worked as the producer on a string of hit films, including The Goonies, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Back to the Future trilogy, the Transformers trilogy, and True Grit. His recent work includes The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, War Horse and Lincoln. He won an Oscar for Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List and an honorary award in 1987.