Career: Hoult was talent-spotted at the age of three by a director struck by his concentration during a production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and landed his first film role aged five in Intimate Relations alongside Julie Walters and Rupert Graves. Then followed a steady, if not thunderous, stream of work in the likes of The Bill and Casualty, before he found himself as Hugh Grant's surrogate son in About a Boy. That led to high-profile roles in such critically acclaimed fare as Nicolas Cage movie The Weather Man and the Richard E Grant film Wah-Wah. Most recently he has wowed critics and earned a huge army of fans for his work on the Channel 4 teen drama Skins and TV movie Coming Down the Mountain. His recent film work includes roles in Kidulthood, A Single Man, Clash of the Titans, and X-Men: First Class.

Career: Cage changed his name from Coppola to Cage (inspired by Marvel comic hero Luke Cage) so he could achieve success in his own right. However, he got some of his earliest breaks in the movies Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club and Peggy Sue Got Married, which were directed by his uncle Francis. The actor won critical acclaim for films including Raising Arizona, Moonstruck and Wild at Heart, before picking up an Oscar in 1995 for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas. After that, he branched out into action films, making Con Air, The Rock and Face/Off, but returned to his offbeat roots with movies like Adaptation, Lord of War, The Weather Man and World Trade Center. Since then he has made a string of big-budget movies, including National Treasure: Book of Secrets (a sequel to his 2004 hit National Treasure), The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Season of the Witch. His 2011 film Drive Angry was a box-office flop, but he always has a number of films in the pipeline.