Career: Gyllenhaal won critical praise and an army of fans with his breakout performance in Donnie Darko in 2001. He played opposite Jennifer Aniston in another Sundance Film Festival favourite, 2002's The Good Girl, and once again earned good reviews. Marking his theatre debut, Gyllenhaal arrived on the London stage with a starring role in Kenneth Lonergan's revival of This Is Our Youth. Next he played against type as a soldier during the first Gulf War in Jarhead. His role as a sexually conflicted ranch hand in Brokeback Mountain earned him more rave reviews, and he's followed this with Zodiac, Rendition, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Source Code, Prisoners and Nightcrawler.

Career: After an initial struggle to find work, Quaid had a number of small roles on TV and in film before enjoying success with 1979's Breaking Away. He co-starred with Randy, as well as the Keach brothers and the Carradines, in the Western The Long Riders a year later. Quaid gained great reviews for the movie The Right Stuff in 1983, the same year he made the disastrous Jaws 3-D. The late-1980s brought him a series of box-office hits, such as Enemy Mine (1985), The Big Easy (1986), Innerspace (1987), Suspect (1987) and DOA (1988). Movies since then include Great Balls of Fire (1989), Wyatt Earp (1994), Traffic (2000) and Far from Heaven (2002), for which he won a clutch of awards. More recent offerings include GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra (2009), Pandorum (2009) and the remake of Footloose (2011). He starred in short-lived period drama Vegas, which ran for one season before being cancelled.

Career: In 1997, Rossum made her TV debut in an episode of Law & Order. She went on to join the daytime soap As the World Turns in 1999 and played a young Audrey Hepburn in the TV movie The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000). Her first major film was Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003). The following year, she starred in The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and was cast in the main role of Christine Daae in a big-screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004), a role that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. After starring in the big-budget Poseidon (2006), Rossum has largely focused on independent films, including Dare (2009). Since 2009, Rossum has played Fiona Gallagher in the American version of Shameless.

Career: Holm's first professional appearance was as a spear carrier in a 1956 production of Othello. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was said to be the most likely successor to Laurence Olivier. His first memorable screen appearance came in 1968's A Midsummer Night's Dream. His most famous movies since include Alien, Chariots of Fire, Greystoke, Brazil, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Day After Tomorrow.

Career: Ward's first TV role was in Emerald Point N.A.S. and her first film role was in The Man Who Loved Women (1983). She got guest roles in TV and film throughout the rest of the 1980s, such as in Nothing in Common (1986). From 1991 to 1996, she played Teddy Reed in the TV series Sisters. She has since had recurring roles in Once and Again, House, CSI: NY and Graves. Her film credits include The Fugitive (1993), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Gone Girl (2014) and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).