Career: Four years later, he landed what would become his big break - the role of David in hit comedy series Roseanne. He played the articulate but unworldly lad for five years. This led to a series of similar parts, this time on the big screen, in movies such as I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Opposite of Sex. His CV also includes appearances in Vanilla Sky, My Name is Earl, Hancock and Table for Three. In 2006, he took to the stage in a Broadway production of The Little Dog Laughed (which also featured his first nude scene). He returned to the small screen for the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

Career: Early in his career, Parsons worked on Off-Broadway productions and appeared on TV several times. He had a recurring role on Judging Amy, appeared on the TV series Ed and had minor roles in such films as Garden State (2004) and School for Scoundrels (2006). His big break came when he landed the role of Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory, a role that earned him four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical. He went on to appear in the films The Big Year (2011), The Muppets (2011), Home (2015) and Hidden Figures (2016).

Career: Two years after That Night, Dushku was catapulted into the spotlight when she appeared opposite Hollywood heavyweights Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. Future Avatar director, James Cameron, chose her to play Dana Tasker, whose mundane life is flipped upside down by the revelation that her father is a secret agent. Five minutes after this earth-shattering discovery she's forced to cling onto the bonnet of an airborne jet - well what did you expect? Cameron's everything-including-the-kitchen-sink approach worked wonders for Dushku as she expanded her palette and became the newest name to look out for. Towards the middle of the 1990s she disappeared from screens to concentrate on her studies, but re-emerged in 1998 to star as Faith in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Her character was a dark reflection of the squeaky clean title character. Dushku revelled in playing this edgy, leather-clad anti-hero: she's all grown up and doesn't need Arnie to rescue her anymore. After turning down a chance for her own spin-off, Dushku took the title role on Tru Calling, a supernatural drama about a woman who relives days to stop deaths from happening. Four years after Tru Calling was cancelled, Dushku teamed up once again with Buffy creator Joss Whedon; she took the lead role in his new science fiction romp called Dollhouse, in 2009.