Career: Other TV work followed with roles in Bleak House, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Agatha Christie's Marple, Waking the Dead and a standout performance in an episode of Doctor Who. An Academy Award nomination for her role in An Education (2009) elevated her to the world stage and she has never looked back. Since then she has starred in a number of independent and big-budget films, including Public Enemies (2009), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Never Let Me Go (2010), Drive (2011), Shame (2011), The Great Gatsby (2013) and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).

Career: Film roles for Kazan followed in The Savages (2007), Fracture (2007), Me and Orson Welles (2008), Revolutionary Road (2008) and It's Complicated (2009). She had a main role in happythankyoumoreplease (2010). On the small screen, she had a recurring role in HBO sitcom Bored to Death. She made her Broadway debut in a 2008 revival of William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba. More recently, she starred opposite Daniel Radcliffe in What If (2013). Kazan is also a writer. Her play Absalom premiered in 2009 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky. She also wrote and starred in the 2012 film Ruby Sparks. In 2014, she starred in the four-part miniseries Olive Kitteridge.

Career: Braugher's professional career began on stage at the New York Shakespeare Festival. He also trod the board in Washington DC before TV came calling. His first small screen role was in a Kojak TV movie - the first of many police-orientated projects for the actor. He made a bigger splash in his big screen debut, Glory, in 1990, but it was the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street that made him a star. He spent five years playing the self-righteous Detective Frank Pembleton before leaving the show in 1998, although he returned to the character in Homicide: The Movie in 2000. Other TV productions have included a two-year stint in crime drama Hack, miniseries Thief, the drama Men of a Certain Age and sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He also had a brief but recurring role in House. On the big screen Braugher has appeared in Primal Fear, City of Angels, The Mist and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

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.

Career: From 1991 to 1994, Judd had a recurring role in the TV drama Sisters. She made her film debut with a small role in Kuffs (1992), and received critical acclaim a year later for her next movie, Ruby in Paradise. Since then, she has starred in Heat (1995), TV movie Norma Jean & Marilyn, Kiss the Girls (1997), Double Jeopardy (1997) and De-Lovely (2004). She has not played a lead role in a Hollywood movie since Twisted flopped in 2004.