Career: After attending Georgia State University, Julia moved to New York to begin her career. She also did some modelling. Her first role was in Blood Red, alongside her brother, in 1986, although it wasn't released for three years. Mystic Pizza was her first notable project in 1988, and a year later she received her first Oscar nomination for Steel Magnolias. Pretty Woman made her a massive star. Hits since then include Flatliners, Sleeping with the Enemy, My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill and Ocean's Eleven. She won an Oscar for Erin Brockovich, becoming Hollywood's highest paid actress in the process.

Career: Finney's movie debut was a small part in The Entertainer in 1960, playing the lead character's ill-fated son. Director Tony Richardson then offered Finney the lead in kitchen-sink drama Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and period romp Tom Jones. The latter made him a major star and gave him the first of his five Oscar nominations. He turned down the title role in Lawrence of Arabia, but gained plaudits in a string of acclaimed movies, including Murder on the Orient Express, The Duellists, Shoot the Moon, The Dresser, Miller's Crossing, Erin Brockovich, Big Fish and Skyfall. Finney's only film as director is 1967's Charlie Bubbles. His TV work includes Karaoke, Cold Lazarus, The Green Man, My Uncle Silas and The Gathering Storm.

Career: Eckhart made his film debut in 1997 in an adaptation of Neil LaBute's stage play In the Company of Men. The following year, he starred in LaBute's Your Friends & Neighbors. He reached a wider audience in 2000 playing a ponytailed biker in Erin Brockovich. Eckhart went on to star in Nurse Betty (2000), The Pledge (2001), Possession (2002), Thank You for Smoking (2005) and The Wicker Man (2006) before landing the role of Harvey Dent in the hugely popular The Dark Knight (2008). Since then, Eckhart has starred in such films as Rabbit Hole (2010), Battle Los Angeles (2011), Olympus Has Fallen (2013), I, Frankenstein (2014) and London Has Fallen (2016).