Career: Hardy made his film debut in Black Hawk Down in 2001. A year later he starred in Star Trek: Nemesis and in 2003 he won the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for his performances in Blood and In Arabia We'd All Be Kings. He continued to make a name for himself on the small screen in The Virgin Queen, Meadowlands, Oliver Twist and The Take, and on the big screen in RocknRolla, Bronson, Inception, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, This Means War and Lawless. He delivered a standout performance as the villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, before scoring a critical hit with Locke in 2013. More recently he's taken the lead role in Mad Max: Fury Road, and played both Kray twins in Legend.

Career: Ahmed started his film career playing the role of Shafiq Rasul in the film The Road to Guantanamo (2006). Following this, he appeared in a number of independent films, including Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010) and Ill Manors (2012). His breakthrough role was in the film Nightcrawler (2014). Since then, he has appeared in Jason Bourne (2016), Rogue One (2016) and TV miniseries The Night Of. He also has a number of stage credits, including a role in the Asian Dub Foundation's opera Gaddafi. As well as acting, Ahmed has a music career both as a solo rap artist and a member of the hip-hop duo Swet Shop Boys.

Career: At 15, Williams became emancipated from her parents so that she could avoid America's child labour laws. She also moved to Los Angeles, and her big break came when she landed the role of Jen Lindley in teen drama Dawson's Creek. The popular series ran for six seasons, clocking up 128 episodes. During her time on the teen drama, she also starred on the big screen in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Dick (1999) and Prozac Nation (2001). She went on to receive an Academy Award nomination for Brokeback Mountain (2005); while filming she fell in love with co-star Heath Ledger, with whom she had a daughter. They had separated by the time of his death in 2008. Williams has received two further Academy Award nominations for Blue Valentine (2010) and My Week with Marilyn (2011). Her other film credits have included The Station Agen (2003), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Shutter Island (2010), Take This Waltz (2011) and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013).

Career: During 2008 and 2009, Slate performed her one-woman show, Jenny Slate: Dead Millionaire. In 2009, she began appearing on Late Night Night with Jimmy Fallon, and in the same year, she joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, an engagement that lasted one season. Her first major film role was playing Zoe in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011). She played the lead role in the critically acclaimed comedy drama Obvious Child (2014). More recently, she has voiced characters in Zootopia (2016), The Secret Life of Pets (2016) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). She also voices the character Tammy Larsen in Bob's Burgers. Her TV acting credits include Girls, Hello Ladies, Kroll Show, House of Lies, Parks and Recreation, Married and Lady Dynamite.