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: Edgerton appeared in the film Erskineville Kings (1999) but his breakthrough in Australia came when he played Will McGill in TV series The Secret Life of Us. He got his international breakthrough when he played Owen Lars in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). Edgerton then went on to appear in the films Ned Kelly (2003), King Arthur (2004), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), Kinky Boots (2005) and Smokin' Aces (2006). He starred as mixed martial arts fighter Brendan Conlon in Warrior (2011) and appeared in The Thing (2011) during the same year. His next notable roles were in Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and The Great Gatsby (2013). More recently, Edgerton has appeared in The Gift (2015), Black Mass (2015) and Loving (2016).

Career: Frost's starring role in Spaced led to other roles, most notably a one-off episode of Acorn Antiques. In 2002, Frost presented the show Danger! 50,000 Volts! as well as co-writing and starring in the radio comedy Sofa of Time. Two years later, Frost and Pegg teamed up for the smash "rom-zom-com" Shaun of the Dead (2004). Their next big-screen foray, Hot Fuzz (2007), went down equally well with audiences. The third film in their trilogy, The World's End, was released in 2013. Frost has also starred in TV comedies Hyperdrive and Mr Sloane, and the films Penelope (2006), Paul (2011), Attack the Block (2011) and Cuban Fury (2014).