Career: After overcoming drink and drugs addictions, her second husband, actor Steven Bauer, encouraged her to take acting classes. Director Brian De Palma cast her in his 1984 murder-mystery Body Double and her sexy, funny performance won her rave reviews. Jonathan Demme was so impressed with her performance that he cast her in 1986's Something Wild without even auditioning her. Griffith's career skyrocketed when Mike Nichols gave her the title role in Working Girl in 1988, a box-office hit for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Comedy. Hits such as Pacific Heights (1990) and Shining Through (1992) followed, though her movie career has been in the doldrums for some time. Her 2003 Broadway debut in Chicago was, however, a huge success, and she continues to make guest appearances in TV dramas.

Career: At an audition, Dennis met director Robert Altman, who persuaded him to move to Los Angeles, where he soon began picking up regular work. He made his movie debut in 1978's The Fury, following it up with such forgettable productions as A Wedding, Stony Island and A Perfect Couple. He appeared to have landed his breakthrough role in Altman's Popeye in 1980, but it was a huge flop, and he had to wait another five years before becoming a star thanks to a regular role in TV drama Hill Street Blues. He went on to appear in The Player (another Altman movie) and Die Hard 2. Dennis was a founding cast member of NYPD Blue in 1993 and stayed with the show until it ended in 2005. He won four Emmy Awards for his work on the series, and between runs made appearances in films such as City of Angels and American Buffalo.