Career: Byrne was cast in her first film at the age of 13 in Dallas Doll (1994). She went on to star in a number of Australian TV series, including Heartbreak High and Echo Point. She won an award at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in The Goddess of 1967 (2000). Her first appearance in a Hollywood film was a small role in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). Since then, she has starred in Troy (2004), Marie Antoinette (2006), Sunshine (2007), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Insidious (2010) and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), Bridesmaids (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011) and Neighbours (2014). From 2007 until 2012, she played Ellen Parsons in acclaimed TV drama Damages.

Career: Spall made his film debut in the 2001offering Beginner's Luck. He went on to star in the projects Out of Control, The Lion in Winter, Shaun of the Dead, The Calcium Kid and Kidulthood. In recent years, he's rarely been out of the public eye, featuring in Cracker, the Russell Crowe comedy A Good Year, Wide Sargasso Sea, Hot Fuzz, a TV version of A Room with a View (in which he starred with his dad) and ITV1 drama He Kills Coppers. He's also appeared in Frankie Howard: Rather You Than Me, Desperate Romantics, and Channel 4 sitcom Pete Versus Life.

Career: Her first film role was in Lovers Lane (1999) and her big break came a year later in horror comedy Scary Movie. She went on to star in Scary Movie 2 (2001) and two further sequels, The Hot Chick (2002), Brokeback Mountain (2005), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), The House Bunny (2008), The Dictator (2012) and I Give it a Year (2013). She has also voiced characters in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and the 2013 sequel, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) and the 2011 sequel, and Yogi Bear (2010). On the small screen, Faris had a recurring role in Friends as the mother whose twin babies are adopted by Chandler and Monica, and more recently she has been starring in the American sitcom Mom.

Career: Baker entered the world of entertainment in 1991 when he appeared in a couple of music videos. He then moved into TV, working in E Street, Home and Away, and Heartbreak High. He has continued to work in various TV series, playing leads in The Guardian and Smith as well as his breakout role of Patrick Jane in The Mentalist. He has featured in supporting and lead roles on the big screen as well, nabbing parts in LA Confidential, Red Planet, The Affair of the Necklace, Land of the Dead, Book of Love, The Devil Wears Prada, Sex and Death 101, The Killer Inside Me and I Give It a Year. He was also part of the winning Rest of the World team at 2010's Soccer Aid match, despite having a penalty saved by England goalkeeper Jamie Theakston.

Career: Before Merchant met Gervais, he was performing stand-up comedy. The pair worked together at London radio station XFM. Later, Merchant worked on a production course at the BBC, in which he enlisted Gervais' help for a short film called 'Seedy Boss' - which is when the idea of The Office arose, with both writing and directing the series. While The Office then enjoyed success Stateside, Gervais and Merchant also concentrated on BBC sitcom Extras. Then came Merchant's radio show for BBC 6 Music, The Steve Show. The comic is in the midst of nationwide tour of the UK, with a stop in New York, and continues to show up in movies and TV shows, including vehicles like An Idiot Abroad and Life's Too Short.

Career: Driver's TV debut was in 1990's God on the Rocks. She then appeared in The House of Eliott, and Mr Wroe's Virgins. Her big break came in 1995 when she starred in The Politician's Wife and Circle of Friends. Her most notable movies since include Sleepers, Good Will Hunting (for which she received an Oscar nomination), Grosse Pointe Blank, and Return to Me. In 2003 she appeared in the West End opposite Matthew Perry. She returned to the big screen in the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, and released her debut album in 2004. More recently she's appeared in TV series The Riches and The Deep, and on the big screen in Barney's Version and I Give It A Year.

Career: Flemyng was then a regular in the ITV drama series Doctor Finlay from 1993 to 1996. His first major cinema role was in Angela Pope's 1996 drama Hollow Reed, followed by a main role in Guy Ritchie's popular 1998 London gangster film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He has since appeared in many box office successes, such as From Hell, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Transporter 2, Snatch and X-Men: First Class. In 2009, Flemyng joined the cast of the ITV science fiction cult drama series Primeval during its third series, as maverick ex-policeman Danny Quinn. More recently, he has starred in The Musketeers and The Missing.

Career: Colman's first TV work came in the series Bruiser in 2000, and was followed by appearances alongside her old friends David and Robert in The Mitchell and Webb Situation sketch show. She had a brief role in The Office, but it wasn't until Peep Show, Look Around You and Green Wing came along that people started to sit up and take notice. Since then she's featured in Hot Fuzz, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Beautiful People, Doctor Who, Twenty Twelve and Rev. More recently she made the move from comedy to drama in The Iron Lady, the hugely acclaimed Tyrannosaur and Hyde Park on Hudson. In 2013, she starred in the acclaimed ITV drama Broadchurch, which won her a Bafta TV award for Best Actress.