Career: Pacino made his film debut in 1969's Me, Natalie, but it was his performance as a junkie in The Panic in Needle Park two years later that prompted director Francis Ford Coppola to cast him as Michael Corleone in The Godfather. The film was a huge hit and earned Pacino his first Oscar nomination. He followed it up with more hits including Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and Scarface (1983), but as his movie career appeared to be on the wane during the 1980s, he took a break to return to the theatre. He returned to the screen in 1989 with Sea of Love and, after seven previous nominations, went on to win an Oscar for Scent of a Woman (1992). He continues to combine movies, TV, theatre and directing work - recent projects include Danny Collins (2015) and Misconduct (2016).

Career: De Niro made a handful of films in the 1960s and early 1970s, but it wasn't until 1973's Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets (his first collaboration with Martin Scorsese) that his career took off. He received an Oscar for The Godfather Part II a year later and was nominated Academy Awards for Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter, and took home his second Oscar for Raging Bull. The King of Comedy, Once Upon A Time in America, Brazil, The Mission, Angel Heart and The Untouchables followed. Over the past few decades, De Niro has made crowd pleasers such as Cape Fear, Casino, Heat, Meet the Parents and Analyze This, as well as directing A Bronx Tale and The Good Shepherd. He gave a fabulous comic performance in the fantasy movie Stardust, before starring alongside fellow big-screen icon Al Pacino in cop thriller Righteous Kill. His more recent films have included Silver Linings Playbook and The Family.

Career: After working on stage, Kilmer got his big break in 1984 comedy Top Secret!, in which he also sang all the songs. After a year spent backpacking through Europe, Kilmer landed the role of Iceman in Top Gun, and his career took off. Films including Willow (in which he met his future wife Joanne Whalley), The Doors, Tombstone, Batman Forever and The Island of Dr Moreau followed. After the failure of Dr Moreau, Kilmer turned his attention to crafting character parts, and won praise from critics for his turns in The Salton Sea and Kiss Kiss, Bang, Bang. Other films include The Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, MacGruber and Kill the Irishman.

Career: A string of other projects followed, including TV series China Beach, and the movies Blue Steel, Flight of the Intruder, Guilty By Suspicion, Point Break and Passenger 57. By the early 1990s, Sizemore was inundated with film roles, including True Romance, Striking Distance, Wyatt Earp and Natural Born Killers. He was typecast as either macho cops in Strange Days and The Relic or gruff soldiers in Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down. In recent years he's rarely been out of work, featuring in TV shows such as Robbery, Homicide Division, Dr Vegas, CSI: Miami, Southland, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Hawaii Five-O. He always has a number of projects in the pipeline.

Career: The success of Leon opened a lot of doors in Hollywood, and led to roles in Heat, Beautiful Girls and Mars Attacks! before George Lucas cast her in his Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace. In 1999, the same year that the Star Wars movie dominated the box office, she graduated from high school in New York. Aside from reprising the role of Queen Amidala for 2002's Attack of the Clones and 2005's Revenge of the Sith, she also starred in the movies Where the Heart Is, Anywhere But Here and Closer, for which she received an Oscar nomination. Other films include V for Vendetta, Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium, The Other Boleyn Girl, New York, I Love You, Brothers, and No Strings Attached. She won an Oscar in 2011 and a clutch of other awards for her role in Black Swan.

Career: Voight's professional career began on stage with a role in a Broadway production of The Sound of Music. He made his TV debut in a 1963 episode of Naked City and four years later appeared in Fearless Frank, his first film. He became a star in 1969 thanks to an Oscar-nominated performance in Midnight Cowboy. A series of well-received movies followed, such as Catch-22, Deliverance and The Odessa File. He won a Best Actor Academy Award for 1978's Coming Home. Major films since include Table for Five, The Champ, Heat, Mission: Impossible, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Ali and The Manchurian Candidate. He played Jonas Hodges, the main antagonist of Jack Bauer, in the seventh season of American drama 24. More recently, he has starred in Ray Donovan.

Career: From 1991 to 1994, Judd had a recurring role in the TV drama Sisters. She made her film debut with a small role in Kuffs (1992), and received critical acclaim a year later for her next movie, Ruby in Paradise. Since then, she has starred in Heat (1995), TV movie Norma Jean & Marilyn, Kiss the Girls (1997), Double Jeopardy (1997) and De-Lovely (2004). She has not played a lead role in a Hollywood movie since Twisted flopped in 2004.