Career: Headey landed a small role in the Oscar-nominated The Remains of the Day (1993) and a year later, she played Mowgli's love interest in The Jungle Book. In 1997, she starred opposite Vanessa Redgrave in Mrs Dalloway (1997). Her film credits also include Gossip (2000), The Parole Officer (2001), The Brothers Grimm (2005), 300 (2006), St Trinian's (2007), Dredd (2012), The Purge (2013) and 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). In addition to her film work, Headey has also appeared on the small screen in Band of Gold, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Game of Thrones.

Career: Frost's starring role in Spaced led to other roles, most notably a one-off episode of Acorn Antiques. In 2002, Frost presented the show Danger! 50,000 Volts! as well as co-writing and starring in the radio comedy Sofa of Time. Two years later, Frost and Pegg teamed up for the smash "rom-zom-com" Shaun of the Dead (2004). Their next big-screen foray, Hot Fuzz (2007), went down equally well with audiences. The third film in their trilogy, The World's End, was released in 2013. Frost has also starred in TV comedies Hyperdrive and Mr Sloane, and the films Penelope (2006), Paul (2011), Attack the Block (2011) and Cuban Fury (2014).

Career: Vaughn was written into Swingers (1996) by Favreau to play the character of Trent. It was a critical success and led to Steven Spielberg casting Vaughn in the big-budget sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park in 1997. He spent the next decade notching up hit after hit, from heavyweight dramas like Return to Paradise (1998), through to comedy fare like Old School (2003), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) and Be Cool (2005). He is considered the leader of, what the media refers to as, "The Frat Pack," along with Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell and Owen and Luke Wilson. His other film credits include The Break-Up (2006), Into the Wild (2007), Fred Claus (2007), Four Christmases (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), The Internship (2013) and Delivery Man (2013).

Career: While working at a local supermarket, she joined a theatre group in Bath and formed a double act with friend Jane Roth. Later, they joined forces with Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones in an improvisation troupe, before securing a role in a Radio 4 comedy with Arabella Weir. Introduced to Father Ted creators Arthur Matthews and Graham Linehan, she was cast in the sketch show Big Train, closely followed by Jam, Human Remains and Marion and Geoff. After three years of writing, her dark comedy Nighty Night hit our screens in 2004. She has since appeared in Love Actually, Nathan Barley, Confetti, and Four Lions.

Career: In 2001, Johnson appeared as a warrior in The Mummy Returns, and reprised his role a year later as the eponymous hero in The Scorpion King. He went on to star in a series of hit-and-miss projects, including Welcome to the Jungle, Be Cool, Walking Tall, Get Smart, Race To Witch Mountain, Tooth Fairy, Faster and The Other Guys. He returned to form in 2011 in the hugely popular Fast and the Furious sequel Fast Five alongside Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. More recently, he has starred in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Snitch, GI Joe: Retaliation, Fast & Furious 6 and Hercules.

Career: In 2001, Cena signed with the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) and made his TV debut a year later against Kurt Angle. Cena soon became a fan favourite and wrestled under the names The Prototype and Mr P. Away from wrestling, he began making a name for himself as an actor. In 2006, he starred in WWE movie The Marine and went on to star in 12 Rounds (2009), Legendary (2010) and a number of Fred movies.

Career: Before Merchant met Gervais, he was performing stand-up comedy. The pair worked together at London radio station XFM. Later, Merchant worked on a production course at the BBC, in which he enlisted Gervais' help for a short film called 'Seedy Boss' - which is when the idea of The Office arose, with both writing and directing the series. While The Office then enjoyed success Stateside, Gervais and Merchant also concentrated on BBC sitcom Extras. Then came Merchant's radio show for BBC 6 Music, The Steve Show. The comic is in the midst of nationwide tour of the UK, with a stop in New York, and continues to show up in movies and TV shows, including vehicles like An Idiot Abroad and Life's Too Short.