Career: Cranston became active in local theatre but his parents had mixed feelings about their son entering the profession. In the 1980s, he began landing guest roles on a number of TV shows, including CHiPs, Loving, Airwolf, Hill Street Blues and Falcon Crest. His career continued to be built on a steady stream of guest roles until his first big break came in 2000 when he landed a recurring role as Hal in the hugely popular sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. It ran for seven seasons, clocking up 151 episodes. Two years after Malcom ended, Cranston secured what turned out to be a landmark role in AMC drama Breaking Bad as high school chemistry teacher Walter White. For his work on the series, Cranston won a Golden Globe and four Emmys. Since starring in Breaking Bad, Hollywood producers have been beating a path to his door. He has starred in The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Drive (2011), Larry Crowne (2011), Contagion (2011), John Carter (2012), Rock of Ages (2012), Total Recall (2012), Argo (2012) and Godzilla (2014). In 2014, he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Lyndon B Johnson in the play All the Way.

Career: Bening made her film debut in The Great Outdoors (1988) and followed this up with a role in box-office flop Valmont (1989). Her big break came in 1990 when she earned an Oscar nomination for her role in The Grifters. She went on to star with her future husband Warren Beatty in Bugsy (1991) and also appeared in Regarding Henry (1991), Love Affair (1994), The American President (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996) and The Siege (1998). Her biggest critical and commercial success came in 1999 when she starred in American Beauty. Her other film credits include Being Julia (2004), The Women (2008) and The Kids Are All Right (2010).

Career: Wilson's first on screen appearance was in an episode of the soap opera, One Life to Live, in 1997. His feature film debut was in Galaxy Quest (1999), which was followed by a minor supporting role in Almost Famous (2000). Following this, he appeared in a number of TV shows, including Six Feet Under, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Charmed and Entourage, as well as such films as America's Sweethearts (2001) and Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses (2003). In 2005, he was cast as Dwight Schrute in the American version of The Office, a role he played until the series ended in 2013. He also directed three episodes of the series. Wilson then went on to land leading roles in such films as The Rocker (2008) and Super (2010) and was cast in Juno (2007), Monsters vs Aliens (2009), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and others. More recently, he voiced Gargamel in The Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017).