Career: The US success of Mad Max 2 led to Gibson being offered mainstream Hollywood roles, including The Bounty, Mrs Soffel, and The River, before Lethal Weapon turned him into an A-list star in 1987. His directorial debut was 1993's The Man Without a Face, and his follow-up in front and behind the camera, Braveheart, won several Oscars. His company, Icon, has backed a string of hit-and-miss movies in recent years, including Kevin and Perry Go Large, and What Women Want. Gibson has also starred in Signs, and The Patriot, and wrote and directed controversial drama The Passion of the Christ, which Gibson himself funded. After taking a break from acting, he returned with Edge of Darkness and The Beaver.

Career: Rodriguez appeared as an extra in the films Summer of Sam and Cradle Will Rock. She went to a New York casting call for the movie Girlfight, and landed the lead role. It brought her to the attention of leading casting agents, and before long she was snapped up for the projects 3AM, The Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil, Blue Crush and SWAT. A keen video game fan, she lent her dulcet tones to Driver 3 and Halo 2, and currently provides one of the voices for animated series IGPX. Aside from appearing in Lost, she can soon be seen in horror thriller The Breed.

Career: Heard made her acting debut in the pilot episode of teen drama Jack & Bobby and went on to make guest appearances in a number of programmes, including The Mountain, The OC, Criminal Minds and Californication. She made her movie debut in Friday Night Lights (2004). Roles on the big screen followed in Side FX (2005), Drop Dead Sexy (2005) and North Country (2005). In 2006, she was cast in the title role in horror flick All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. More recently, she has appeared in bigger budget Hollywood movies such as Drive Angry (2011), The Rum Diary (2011), Paranoia (2013) and Machete Kills (2013). In 2011, she starred in the short-lived TV crime drama The Playboy Club.

Career: Sheen's screen debut came in 1974's The Execution of Private Slovik. Despite dreaming of a baseball career, he began acting professionally in the mid-1980s. He appeared in Red Dawn, Lucas and Ferris Bueller's Day Off before Platoon made him a star in 1986. He followed it up with Wall Street, Young Guns, Eight Men Out, Major League and two Hot Shots! movies. Sheen's career suffered as a result of his drug abuse during the 1990s, but he returned to form with appearances in Being John Malkovich, Spin City, Two and a Half Men and Anger Management.

Career: Vergara made her TV debut at the age of 17 in a Pepsi commercial that was widely broadcast in Latin America. When she was 20, she moved to Bogota, Colombia, where she worked as a runway model and co-hosted a travel series on the international Univision Spanish-language TV network. After her long-running contract with Univision ended, she appeared on ABC sitcoms Hot Properties and The Knights of Prosperity. She had a five-week stint on Broadway in 2009 playing Mama Morton in Chicago. More recently, she has played alongside Ed O'Neill since 2009 in popular ABC sitcom Modern Family.

Career: Hudgens' first acting role was in an episode of the sitcom Still Standing. She made her movie debut in the drama Thirteen (2003). She went on to star in the big-screen version of Thunderbirds (2004), but her big break came a year later when she played Gabriella Montez in the Disney's hugely popular High School Musical (2005). Two equally popular sequels followed. Since then, she has starred in Sucker Punch (2011), Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012), Spring Breakers (2012) and Machete Kills (2013).

Career: Bichir's first film role was in Choices of the Heart (1983). Much of his early success was in Mexican TV and film and he earned a couple of high-profile awards during this time. His breakthrough in the United States came when he appeared in the TV film In the Time of the Butterflies (2001). Later, he played Fidel Castro in Che (2008) and played Esteban Reyes in seasons four to seven of the TV series Weeds. Bichir began to find more mainstream work after he played Carlos Galindo in A Better Life (2011). He then landed roles in such films as Savages (2012), The Heat (2013), Machete Kills (2013), The Hateful Eight (2015) and drama series The Bridge. He made his directorial debut in 2016, with the film Un Cuento de Circo & A Love Song. Since then, he has appeared in the films Lowriders (2016) and Alien: Covenant (2017).