Kiss the Girls

Morgan Freeman (Actor) .. Alex Cross

Born: June 01, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee

Best Known For: That trademark voice.

Early-life: Born Morgan Porterfield Freeman on June 1, 1937, the son of a cleaner and a barber in Memphis, Tennessee. Freeman has three older siblings and was partly raised by his paternal grandmother. He was bitten by the acting bug at eight when he starred in a school play. At 12 he won a state-wide drama competition. Morgan turned down the chance to study drama at university to join the US Air Force. He left after four years and began concentrating on an acting career, starting out on stage in the early 1960s.

Career: Freeman's first credited big-screen appearance was in 1971's Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?, before he landed a regular role on children's show The Electric Company. In the mid-1980s, Freeman started getting more prominent roles in movies. Among his biggest hits have been Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Glory, Amistad, Deep Impact and Bruce Almighty. He is also an in-demand voice-over artist, lending his dulcet tones to sci-fi blockbuster War of the Worlds and the Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins. Freeman received an Academy Award of his own for his supporting role in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. A prolific actor, he has more recently appeared in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and always has several films in pre-production.

Quote: 'I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure - I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.'

Trivia: He worked as a mechanic in the US Air Force.

Ashley Judd (Actor) .. Kate McTiernan

Born: April 19, 1968 in Los Angeles

Best Known For: Acting and political activism.

Early-life: Born Ashley Tyler Ciminella in Los Angeles on April 19, 1968, to country music singer Naomi Judd and marketing analyst Michael Ciminella. Her elder half-sister, Wynonna, is also a country music singer. Ashley's parents divorced in the early 1970s and her mother raised her in Kentucky. She went on to attend the University of Kentucky. After college, she moved to Hollywood and studied with acting teacher Robert Carnegie at Playhouse West. In 1991, she made her TV acting debut in two editions of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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.

Quote: 'I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.'

Trivia: Judd is a global ambassador for YouthAIDS. She also supports a number of other charities and foundations, including Children's Medical Research Institute, Five & Alive, Jeans for Genes, and Malaria No More.

Cary Elwes (Actor) .. Nick Ruskin

Born: October 26, 1962 in Westminster, London

Best Known For: A string of movie roles.

Early-life: Ivan Simon Cary Elwes was born in Westminster, London, on October 26, 1962 to portrait-painter Dominick Elwes and interior designer Tessa Georgina Kennedy. He is the brother of producer/agent Cassian Elwes and artist Damian Elwes. His parents divorced when he was four and he was 13 when his father committed suicide. After graduating from Harrow, he moved to New York to study acting at the Sarah Lawrence College. He also attended the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Career: Elwes made his acting debut in Another Country (1984) and has continued working steadily ever since. His film credits include The Princess Bride (1987), Glory (1989), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), Twister (1996), Kiss the Girls (1997), Saw (2004), Ella Enchanted (2004) and Saw 3D (2010). On the small screen, he has appeared in The X-Files, miniseries Pope John Paul II, Psych, Leverage and TV movie The Anna Nicole Story.

Quote: 'I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.'

Trivia: Elwes is an ambassador for the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund with UNICEF.

Tony Goldwyn (Actor) .. Will Rudolph

Alex McArthur (Actor) .. Sikes

Jay O Sanders (Actor) .. Kyle Craig

Bill Nunn (Actor) .. Sampson

Tatyana Ali (Actor) .. Janell Cross

Brian Cox (Actor) .. Chief Hatfield

Born: June 01, 1946 in Dundee

Best Known For: Being the original Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter.

Early-life: Brian Denis Cox was born on June 1, 1946, in Dundee, to an Irish immigrant family. He was the youngest of five children. His mother, Mary Ann Guillerline, worked in the jute mills as a spinner, while his dad, Charles McArdle Campbell Cox, was a weaver and died of cancer when Brian was nine. Brian developed a passion for movies and, inspired by the work of Marlon Brando and Spencer Tracy, decided he wanted to become an actor. At 14, he joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre, and in 1966 honed his craft with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Career: Cox's earliest TV appearances were as an extra in cult TV series The Prisoner. He has been a mainstay in the world of TV and film ever since, popping up in Hammer House of Horror, Minder, Frasier and Deadwood. He played Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter, Michael Mann's adaptation of Red Dragon. (The name was later spelled Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs). He has appeared in a string of major Hollywood offerings, including The Long Kiss Goodnight, X-Men 2, Troy, The Bourne Supremacy, Zodiac and Red. On the stage he has appeared in Titus Andronicus, Taming of the Shrew and King Lear. He has also voiced characters in the video games Killzone and Manhunt.

Quote: 'I'm an actor who does really interesting work in independent movies. I want to keep doing that because I don't want the burden of an opening weekend sitting on my shoulders.'

Trivia: In 2003, Cox was awarded a CBE for services to drama.

Gary Fleder (Director)

12:10 am - 02:00 am, Thursday, March 5 on BBC One London (1)

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