Career: Robbins began appearing in films and on TV in the early 1980s before hitting the big time in 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham. He had a successful streak in the early 90s thanks to such films as The Player, Short Cuts, Pret-a-Porter, The Shawshank Redemption and Arlington Road. He's also a talented director, with Bob Roberts and Dead Man Walking among his credits. He won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Mystic River - at 6ft 5 he is the tallest-ever winner of an acting Oscar. His more recent work includes Green Lantern, TV movie Cinema Verite, Thanks for Sharing and Life of Crime.

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.