Career: Willis started out on stage and had small parts in movies and on TV before landing a lead role in hit series Moonlighting in 1985. The show's success led to major film roles and a brief stint in music. In 1988 he scored a massive hit on the big screen with Die Hard. Other successes include Pulp Fiction, Twelve Monkeys, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. In 2001 he announced he was steering clear of violent roles, but relented and went on to star in Hostage, Sin City and 16 Blocks. He scored another major success with A Good Day to Die Hard, and always has several movies in the pipeline (a fifth Die Hard film is being developed). Other recent films include Moonrise Kingdom, Red 2 and Sin City: A Dame to Die For.

Career: Alongside theatre roles, Baldwin's early career included parts in TV series The Doctors, Cutter to Houston and Knots Landing. His first film was Forever, Lulu in 1987. A year later he starred in Beetlejuice (1988), and had smaller roles in Married to the Mob (1988), Working Girl (1988), Talk Radio (1988), and She's Having a Baby (1988). The Hunt for Red October in 1990 saw him take the lead alongside screen icon Sean Connery. He went on to appear in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Getaway (1994), Pearl Harbor (2001), The Cooler (2003), The Departed (2006), The Good Shepherd (2006), Brooklyn Rules (2007), It's Complicated (2009) and Blue Jasmine (2013). He won a number of awards for his portrayal of Jack Donaghy in NBC sitcom 30 Rock between 2006 and 2013, was the host of a short-lived chat show called Up Late with Alec Baldwin and co-hosted the Oscars with Steve Martin in 2010. More recently, he has appeared in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), voiced lead character Timothy Templeton in The Boss Baby (2017) and appeared in an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. He also played Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live and received a Critics Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series.