Career: Galifianakis moved to Los Angeles and managed to land a recurring role on short-lived NBC sitcom Boston Common. He landed a role alongside Lee Majors in box-office flop Out Cold (2001) and went on to have small roles in a number of films. In 2002, he began presenting a talk show on VH1 called Late World with Zach and went on to win a Primetime Emmy for his work on Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis. His big breakthrough came in 2009 when he played Alan Garner in The Hangover. Made on a budget of $35million, it grossed more than $465million worldwide. He went on to reprise the character in two equally popular sequels. In 2009, he also began starring in HBO comedy drama Bored to Death, a series than ran for three seasons. His other film credits include The Campaign (2012) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014).

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.