Career: While living in Australia, Watts appeared in such films as Flirting (1991), Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) and Gross Misconduct (1993) as well as the soap opera Home and Away. She then moved to America but struggled early on in her career to land work. Watts got a supporting role in Tank Girl (1995) but it flopped at the box office. She then appeared in a number of largely forgotten films and TV programmes before getting her breakthrough in Mulholland Drive (2001). Following this, she landed the lead role in The Ring (2002) and then 21 Grams (2003). Her first comedy was I Heart Huckabees (2004). The next year, she appeared as Ann Darrow in King Kong (2005) and reprised her role as Rachel for The Ring 2 (2005). Watts then went on to appear in The Painted Veil (2006), Funny Games (2007), The International (2009) and The Impossible (2012). She also produced The Painted Veil and Funny Games. More recently, Watts appeared in the second film from the Divergent Series, Insurgent (2015), as well as Demolition (2015), Chuck (2016) and the Netflix drama series Gypsy. She was also executive producer for Gypsy.

Career: Early in his career, Forster had supporting roles in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) and The Stalking Moon (1968) and he starred in Medium Cool (1969). He had lead roles in TV shows Banyon and Nakia and supporting roles in action and horror films, including Disney's The Black Hole (1979). Forster starred in such cult B-movies as Alligator (1980), Vigilante (1983), The Delta Force (1986) and The Banker (1989). After reaching a period where it seemed his career had died, Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997) revived it. Among the films he has appeared in since are Me, Myself and Irene (2000), Mulholland Drive (2001), Like Mike (2002) and Lucky Number Slevin (2006). Forster has also appeared in such TV shows as Heroes and Breaking Bad.

Career: Lynch enrolled at the Pennysylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he made his first films, including the animated Six Men Getting Sick and The Alphabet. He began working on his debut feature, Eraserhead, in 1971. It was released six years later and has become a cult favourite. In 1980 he received the first of his Oscar nominations for directing and co-writing The Elephant Man. The others were for Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. Celebrated TV series Twin Peaks was a hit with critics and viewers alike. Since then he's made such films as Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and Inland Empire, branched out into selling coffee beans and even produced electro-pop music.