Career: Basinger was constantly in demand throughout the 1970s, but hated modelling so began taking acting lessons and sang under the stage name Chelsea. In 1976, she moved to Los Angeles and appeared on TV, most notably in an episode of Charlie's Angels. Her movie debut came in 1981's Hard Country. She had bigger roles in Never Say Never Again, The Natural and Nine 1/2 Weeks - the latter made her a star. Basinger famously pulled out of the 1993 film Boxing Helena; the resulting court case cost her so much money that she was declared bankrupt. She won an Oscar for 1997's LA Confidential; other major projects include Batman, Wayne's World 2, The Getaway, Cellular, 8 Mile, Charlie St Cloud and Grudge Match.

Career: Aykroyd met John Belushi in Chicago and introduced him to the blues before the pair appeared as The Blues Brothers on Saturday Night Live. He worked on the show between 1975 and 1979. Steven Spielberg cast him in his flop war comedy 1941, and a year later he and Belushi starred in a big-screen comedy featuring their Blues Brothers characters. They reunited for flop Neighbors before Belushi's death in 1982. Following the smash hit Trading Places, Aykroyd wrote and starred in 1984 hit Ghostbusters. A string of projects followed, including Spies Like Us, Dragnet, Driving Miss Daisy, Grosse Pointe Blank and 50 First Dates. He lent his vocal talents to the 3D Yogi Bear movie, working alongside pop star Justin Timberlake, and makes regular cameo appearances.

Career: One of Green's biggest early roles was Oz in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has also starred in three Austin Powers movies and has numerous TV acting credits to his name for a whole variety of series, including Tucker, That ‘70s Show, Greg the Bunny, Four Kings, and Dads. He is also heavily in demand for voice work. He voices Chris Griffin in Family Guy, Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Monty Monogram in Phineas and Ferb, Lt Gibbs in Titan Maximum and various characters on Robot Chicken. His other movie credits include My Stepmother is an Alien (1988), America's Sweethearts (2001), Rat Race (2001), The Italian Job (2003), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Sex Drive (2008) and Old Dogs (2009).

Career: Hannigan got her big break as Dan Aykroyd's daughter in 1988 comedy My Stepmother Is an Alien. One of her co-stars was Seth Green who also featured alongside her in the sitcom Free Spirit. She then made appearances in US shows Picket Fences, Touched by an Angel and Roseanne. In 1997, she was cast as Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a TV series based on a 1992 movie flop. It became one of the most popular US shows for years, again featuring Green as Oz, her werewolf boyfriend. Hannigan achieved big-screen success as the seemingly naive Michelle Flaherty in the American Pie films, made her West End stage debut in 2004, starring in Nora Ephron's When Harry Met Sally, opposite Luke Perry, and starred in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother between 2005 and 2014.

Career: Lewis's TV debut came in TV movie Home Fires in 1987, and later the same year she had a recurring role in the series I Married Dora. Her first film was 1988's My Stepmother is an Alien. Projects such as National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Too Young to Die? and A Family for Joe followed. She had a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination in 1991 for Cape Fear. She's since appeared in Husbands and Wives, Kalifornia, Romeo is Bleeding, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Natural Born Killers, Strange Days, From Dusk Till Dawn and Starsky & Hutch.