Career: Dougray made his TV debut in an episode of Taggart in 1992, the same year he also appeared in Lovejoy, Tell Tale Hearts and his first film, The Weak and Wide Astray. Three years later he got his big break when he was cast as Major Rory Taylor in Soldier Soldier. He followed that with The Crow Road and Twin Town before moving to Hollywood to make Ever After and Deep Impact. A well-known face on both sides of the Atlantic, Dougray's work also includes Mission: Impossible II, This Year's Love, Enigma and Ripley's Game. He was a frontrunner to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond before it eventually went to Daniel Craig. More recently, he has starred on TV in The Day of the Triffids, My Week with Marilyn, Hitman and United. He is constantly in demand.

Career: Sharif spent the next eight years appearing in Arabic movies. His first English-speaking role was playing Sherif Ali in 1962's Lawrence of Arabia (for which he was Oscar-nominated). It made him a star, and he reunited with the film's director, David Lean, for Doctor Zhivago three years later. Movies such as The Night of the Generals (1967), Funny Girl (1968) and its 1975 sequel Funny Lady, The Last Valley (1970) and The Tamarind Seed (1974) followed. TV series The Far Pavilions was a hit in 1984, but he made little else of note until 1999 movie The 13th Warrior. He also starred alongside Steve Coogan in The Parole Officer (2001). He died of a heart attack on July 10, 2015.

Career: After working on David Attwood's Wild West, Andrews shot to fame as a leading man in the BBC's highly acclaimed mini series The Buddha of Suburbia, which was also written by Kureishi, before starring alongside Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes three years later in Anthony Minghella's epic The English Patient. Other projects include Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, Mighty Joe Young, The Chippendales Murder, and Bride & Prejudice. Despite being a British man of Indian descent, he landed the role of Iraqi Sayid Jarrah in the hit US series Lost, a show he appeared in between 2004 and 2010.