Career: Hardy made his film debut in Black Hawk Down in 2001. A year later he starred in Star Trek: Nemesis and in 2003 he won the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for his performances in Blood and In Arabia We'd All Be Kings. He continued to make a name for himself on the small screen in The Virgin Queen, Meadowlands, Oliver Twist and The Take, and on the big screen in RocknRolla, Bronson, Inception, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, This Means War and Lawless. He delivered a standout performance as the villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, before scoring a critical hit with Locke in 2013. More recently he's taken the lead role in Mad Max: Fury Road, and played both Kray twins in Legend.

Career: After declaring himself mentally unfit for military service, Hauer returned to acting, making his film debut in 1969's Monsieur Hawarden. Film and TV work in his native Holland followed, and by 1981, a series of excellent performances in such projects as Soldier of Orange and Spetters led him to be cast in his first US movie, Nighthawks, opposite Sylvester Stallone. A year later, Blade Runner made him an international star. Films such as Ladyhawke, The Hitcher, and Blind Fury followed. He fell out of favour during the 1990s, following a string of disappointing movies, but has never stopped working. In 2002, he was in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, had a small role in Batman Begins in 2005 and was in season six of True Blood.

Career: McCoy has guest starred in Doctors, Waking the Dead, Taggart, The Bill and Endeavour. Her first leading role was in the 2009 BBC Three comedy drama Personal Affairs. She also starred in Victoria Wood's one-off drama Loving Miss Hatto. Her big break came in 2014 when she began portraying Milady de Winter in BBC drama The Musketeers.