Career: Black left university early to join Tim Robbins' Actors' Gang theatre group, where he met his musical partner Kyle Gass. Black's first film was Robbins' Bob Roberts in 1992. He then moved into TV, making numerous appearances in such shows as The Golden Palace, The X-Files and Touched By An Angel. Other early films include Waterworld, Dead Man Walking and Mars Attacks! His breakthrough role was in 2000's High Fidelity. He's also starred in Shallow Hal, Orange County, School of Rock, Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong and The Muppets. Lending his vocal talents to the animated Kung-Fu Panda movies cemented his star status.

Career: Cusack got a number of small roles in films while she was studying but her big break came when she appeared in the TV series Saturday Night Live for one season. After that, she appeared on Broadcast News (1987) and Working Girl (1988). For the latter, she was Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actress. She then went on to appear in such films as Addams Family Values (1993) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). Cusack got her second Oscar nomination, as well as a Golden Globe nomination, for her appearance in In & Out (1997). She has become well known to family audiences for being the voice of Jessie in the Toy Story films. Between 2011 and 2015 she appeared in the US version of the TV series Shameless as Sheila Jackson. Since then, her acting roles have included TV show A Series of Unfortunate Events and the film Snatched (2017).