Minority Report

Tom Cruise (Actor) .. Chief John Anderton

Born: July 03, 1962 in New York

Best Known For: His blockbusting movies.

Early-life: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born in New York on July 3, 1962. His mother was a teacher, his father, whom Cruise later described as 'abusive', was an electrical engineer. He has three sisters. Cruise spent part of his childhood in Canada before returning to the US after his parents separated. While at high school, Tom caught the acting bug and abandoned his plans to enter the priesthood. At the age of 18, he returned to New York, where he landed his first film role in Endless Love.

Career: Within five years of his big-screen debut, Cruise was one of the hottest actors of his generation, having starred in the likes of Risky Business and Top Gun. The likes of Rain Man, The Color of Money, Interview with the Vampire and Days of Thunder followed. He has also turned his hand to producing and made the smart move of taking a share of several of his film's profits, making him one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood. Recent hits include Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Jack Reacher, Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow. He has been Oscar-nominated three times, for his performances in Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire and Magnolia, but has yet to win. His next major film is Mission: Impossible 5.

Quote: 'I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a film-maker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you.'

Trivia: Cruise was awarded The Legend of Our Lifetime at the 2014 Empire Awards.

Colin Farrell (Actor) .. Danny Witwer

Born: May 31, 1976 in Dublin

Best Known For: His partying lifestyle.

Early-life: Born Colin James Farrell on May 31, 1976, in Castleknock, Dublin. He's the youngest of four children, and one of his sisters, Claudine, is now his personal assistant. His father, Eamon, was a professional footballer, and Farrell thought of following in his footsteps until he realised his love of drinking and girls got in the way of training. Instead, he concentrated on acting after being taken to a drama club by his brother.

Career: Farrell dropped out of Gaeity Drama School in Dublin, but landed a part in Ballykissangel a few months later. Roles in The War Zone, and Ordinary Decent Criminal followed before Hollywood beckoned. An acclaimed performance in Tigerland in 2000 led to him being cast in Hart's War, and Minority Report. Phone Booth, his first lead role, was a hit and made him a force to be reckoned with. Since then, Farrell has starred in such films as The Recruit, Daredevil, Intermission, Alexander, Miami Vice, In Bruges (for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Crazy Heart and Ondien. He always has a number of films in the pipeline.

Quote: 'I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.'

Trivia: He failed an audition to become a member of Boyzone.

Samantha Morton (Actor) .. Agatha

Born: May 13, 1977 in Nottingham

Best Known For: A series of exceptionally varied roles.

Early-life: Born Samantha Jane Morton in Nottingham on May 13, 1977, to parents who divorced when she was three. They both subsequently remarried, and she has eight brothers and sisters. Samantha was inspired by a teacher to think about a career in acting, and went on to train at the Central Junior Television Workshop. She left at the age of 16 and joined the Royal Court theatre group. At the same time, she appeared in episodes of Soldier Soldier, Boon, Peak Practice and Cracker, and first attracted major attention playing a young prostitute in Band of Gold. She followed that up with leading roles in adaptations of Emma and Jane Eyre.

Career: Samantha's first major movie, Under the Skin gained her a Best Actress Award from the Boston Film Critics Society. The attention made director Woody Allen take notice and he cast her as Hattie in Sweet and Lowdown, for which she received an Oscar nomination. Samantha then played a heroin addict in Jesus' Son, gave another superb performance in Morvern Caller, and was subsequently cast by Steven Spielberg for the sci-fi thriller Minority Report opposite Tom Cruise. The 2002 In America role, which saw her as a young Irish mother coping with life in New York City, won her numerous accolades and another Academy-Award nod. She gained more critical acclaim for her portrayal of Moors murderer Myra Hindley in Channel 4's drama Longford. She made her directorial debut in 2009 with Channel 4 drama The Unloved.

Quote: 'Acting and music are self-indulgent professions. I have a love/hate relationship with what I do.'

Trivia: In 2012, Morton supported the Fostering Network's annual campaign Foster Care Fortnight.

Max von Sydow (Actor) .. Director Lamar Burgess

Born: April 10, 1929 in Lund, Sweden

Best Known For: Playing Father Merrin in The Exorcist.

Early-life: Carl Adolf von Sydow was born on April 10, 1929, in Lund, Sweden. While at school he started a theatre club with fellow students. He honed his craft at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school and made his film debut in 1949 Swedish offering Bara en mor (aka Only a Mother). In 1957 he starred in landmark Ingmar Bergman movie The Seventh Seal. A string of international films followed, including The Greatest Story Ever Told (in which he played Jesus) and American epic Hawaii.

Career: In 1973, von Sydow was cast in The Exorcist, which became one of his biggest hits to date. He didn't land another career-defining role until 1980 when he played Ming the Merciless in a much loved version of Flash Gordon. A string of hit-and-miss movies followed, including Conan the Barbarian, Never Say Never Again, Dune and Hannah and Her Sisters. He also turned his hand to directing in 1988 with the movie Ved vejen. In recent years he made a return to the world of blockbusters with Minority Report and Rush Hour 3, and also added dramatic weight to TV series The Tudors. His recent work includes Shutter Island, Robin Hood, and Truth & Treason.

Quote: 'Acting is such a weird profession. It's such a futile thing. Even when it's there on film, there's nothing really to it.'

Trivia: Was offered the title role in the first James Bond film Dr. No (1962), which went to Joseph Wiseman.

Lois Smith (Actor) .. Dr Iris Hineman

Peter Stormare (Actor) .. Dr Solomon Eddie

Born: August 27, 1953 in Sweden

Best Known For: Fargo.

Early-life: Born Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm on August 27, 1953, in Sweden, he began his acting career with the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre. He remained there for 11 years before, in 1990, taking up the position of Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre. Three years later he relocated to New York and focused on English-language productions.

Career: He gained international recognition in 1996 for his role as one of the kidnappers in Fargo. He went on to star in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Armageddon (1998), Mercury Rising (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Chocolat (1999), Minority Report (2002), Bad Boys II (2003) and The Brothers Grimm (2005). From 2005, he had a recurring role in Prison Break as John Abruzzi. He continues to be heavily in demand for film and TV roles. Some of the TV shows he has starred in include CSI, Monk, Weeds, Covert Affairs, Wilfred, Leverage and NCIS: Los Angeles. He has also voiced a number of characters in video games.

Quote: After arriving in America: 'I was a foreigner and I knew that most of the parts I would be offered would be foreigners. I knew I could not compete with Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, and Nicolas Cage, and so I did not fight it.'

Trivia: He became an American citizen in the late 1990s. After some encouragement from Bono, he released his first album in 2002.

Tim Blake Nelson (Actor) .. Gideon

Neal McDonough (Actor) .. Fletcher

Born: February 13, 1966 in Dorchester, Massachusetts

Best Known For: Minority Report.

Early-life: Neal McDonough was born on February 13, 1966, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. One of six children of an Irish father, Neal has four brothers and one sister. After attending Barnstable High School, he completed a fine arts degree at Syracuse University in 1988, and then trained as an actor at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences. After TV appearances on shows including NYPD Blue and Quantum Leap and fulfilling a boyhood dream by starring in the film Star Trek: First Contact, Neal decided to give up on acting until his agent got him an audition for Band of Brothers.

Career: After McDonough's role as 1st Lt Lynn 'Buck' Compton in the wartime drama, Steven Spielberg hired him for Minority Report. He has since cropped up in several films, including Walking Tall and Timeline, and played Dr Stephen Connor in popular US drama Medical Investigation. His recent films include Flags of Our Fathers, 88 Minutes, Traitor and Forever Strong. He will be back on the big screen in the summer of 2011 in Captain America: The First Avenger.

Quote: 'When Spielberg approached me about Minority Report at the Golden Globes I was trying to act really cool, meanwhile inside I was going crazy.'

Trivia: He has English and Irish ancestry.

Kathryn Morris (Actor) .. Lara

Steve Harris (Actor) .. Jad

Daniel London (Actor) .. Wally

Steven Spielberg (Director)

Born: December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Best Known For: Creating some of the biggest blockbusters in film history.

Early-life: Steven Allan Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Father Arnold and mum Leah split when he was young. Inspired by old war films, he made the drama Escape to Nowhere when he was 13. That won him the first of many awards. He dropped out of university but his early offerings, Firelight and Amblin, garnered much acclaim. He then landed a job at Universal Studios, where he directed TV movies.

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.

Quote: 'Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.'

Trivia: His net worth in 2010 was estimated to be $3billion.

Jan De Bont (Producer)

Bonnie Curtis (Producer)

Gerald R Molen (Producer)

Ronald Shusett (Producer)

Scott Frank (Writer)

Jon Cohen (Writer)

Philip K Dick (Writer)

11:45 pm - 02:05 am, Thursday, April 30 on ITV1 London +1 (35)

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