Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell started his meteoric rise to superstardom and infamy on the Sunday night feel-good drama serial Ballykissangel, a cosy, comfy romantic drama serial shown on the BBC in the latter part of the nineties. He was the serial's breakout star, and quickly made his big screen debut in the Tim Roth drama The War Zone. However, his real breakthrough came with the war drama Tigerland in 2000.
Farrell seemed to gravitate towards roles in which he played a character struggling with a psychological condition or challenge. He has a reputation for gritty realism into his portrayals, but the role that really finally cemented his reputation as an actor of note was In Bruges, for which he received critical acclaim and a Hollywood Foreign Press Award, and a Golden Globe Award in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy category.
He continued in the comedy vein in 2011 with the black comedy Horrible Bosses, opposite Jennifer Aniston, in which he was almost unrecognizable. He joined the cast of the Harry Potter spin-off series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2016, playing the role of Percival Graves.
Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson is known best for his portrayal of Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter franchise, but in reality his work decades before that had already earned him multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, most notably, a Best Supporting Actor nomination for the Mel Gibson historical epic Braveheart and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York. His role choices are eclectic, though, and he has more recently starred opposite an animated, beloved teddy bear from Darkest Peru, in Paddington 2.
In 2009, he won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the made-for-television movie Into The Storm.
Ralph Fiennes
Enigmatic Fiennes is the nephew of polar explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and boasts actors Martha, Sophie and Joseph amongst his siblings. Originally a stage actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Fiennes was nominated for both Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for his portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Goth in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. He followed up this success with an award-worthy portrayal of Count Almasy in The English Patient, garnering a trio of Best Actor nominations. Like his fellow In Bruges cast members, Fiennes was a recurring character in the Harry Potter franchise, playing the role of Voldemort.
In 2011 Fiennes began to explore directing and made his directorial debut going back to his roots, adapting Shakespeare's Coriolanus for the big screen. He also played the eponymous Roman. Falling back on Shakespeare again, Fiennes won a Tony award in 1995 for playing the role of Prince Hamlet on Broadway.
Clemence Poesy
French fashion model Poesy is another Harry Potter alum, playing the role of Fleur Delacour, having begun her career on the stage as a child. After graduating theater school in France she starred in predominantly French television serials and films. In 2005 she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series for her role of the eponymous young queen in Mary, Queen of Scots.
Poesy became known to American television audiences when she played Chuck Bass's French girlfriend, Eva, in season four of Gossip Girl.
Jordan Prentice
Prentice is best known for playing Rock in American Pie Presents : The Naked Male which automatically catapulted him into the cult star status. He also played a giant bag of weed in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.
Elizabeth Herrington
Herrington is an actress who hails from the north of England and has trodden the well-worn path of popular television on her way to being cast in films. Roles in the enduring police drama The Bill, hospital melodrama Casualty and Sunday-evening family friendly drama Doc Marten, opposite comedy favorite Martin Clunes, led to roles in Nanny McPhee, with Emma Thompson, and In Bruges.
