George Clooney
Clooney was not the first choice for the role of Archie Gates; in fact he was not really a choice at all, given that he had yet to make a splash on the big screen in a serious or gritty leading role and his most famous role to date was as a Doctor McDreamy-type physician on the hit television series E.R. He received two Primetime Emmy Awards for portraying Dr. Doug Ross on the show, and this success attracted movie offers, including crime comedy Out of Sight.
Two years after the release of Three Kings, Clooney was cast in the successful Oceans Eleven franchise. This cemented his position in the film industry as more than just the most eligible bachelor in Hollywood. Critical acclaim, and honors, followed in equal measure, with Oscar nominations for Good Night and Good Luck, and an Academy Award win in the Best Supporting Actor category for Syriana. A Best Motion Picture Oscar followed a few years later for the political thriller Argo, which he directed. In all, Clooney has been nominated for Academy Awards across six different categories, a record shared with Walt Disney.
Off-screen, Clooney is known for being fifties icon Rosemary Clooney's eldest nephew, Brad Pitt's best friend, and Amal Clooney's husband.
Mark Wahlberg
In the halcyon days of a Calvin Klein-clad Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, it was almost impossible to imagine that the ripped and shirtless brother of two New Kids On The Block might one day be considered a big hitter in Hollywood movie circles. Yet, Wahlberg emerged from teen idol-dom to star in some of the most successful movies of the two thousands. He made his movie debut in 1993 with Renaissance Man, but came to big screen prominence opposite a young Reese Witherspoon in the William Peterson-directed psycho drama Fear.
Latterly, Wahlberg has achieved success behind the camera, executive producing the hit television shows Entourage and Boardwalk Empire. He is also one of the stars of the reality television show Wahlbergers.
Ice Cube
The second member of the Three Kings cast to make the transition to Hollywood from rap music, O'Shea Jackson - known professionally as Ice Cube - is best known as the primary songwriter for the rap group N.W.A. alongside Dr Dre and Easy E. His first mainstream movie role was in Boyz In Da Hood in 1991, where his performance received wide and universal critical and commercial acclaim. In 2015 he served as executive producer on the "biopic" Straight Outta Compton, which detailed the career of N.W.A.
Away from show business, Ice Cube has created a clothing line, called Solo by Cube, and is the face of Michelob Ice beer.
Spike Jonze
Jonze (given name Adam Spiegel) was much better known as a producer and director than an actor when his good friend David Russell wrote a role specially for him in Three Kings. He had never acted in a movie before, and despite initial trepidation from his co-stars, was considered to give the best performance of all of the cast. Jonze's career began as a photographer and publisher, co-founding the youth culture magazine Dirt, and the skateboard company Girl Skateboards.
Jonze's movie directing debut was rewarded with an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, for his work on the film Being John Malkovich. He then co-created and directed the extremely popular yet controversial Jackass series on the MTV Network.
In a career spent predominantly behind the camera, Jonze has made sporadic on-screen performances, most notably, in The Wolf of Wall Street and Moneyball.
Norah Dunn
In 1988, Dunn was one of two actresses (Olympia Dukakis being the other) to feature in two of the films nominated for Academy Awards in the Best Motion Picture Category, playing Tess McGill's new personal assistant in the Cinderella story Working Girl, and a Camarari Bakery employee in the eventual category winner Moonstruck. However, it is as a cast member of Saturday Night Live that Dunn is best known, with a slew of celebrity impersonations under her belt, and a respected career as a comedian to boot. However, her fellow SNL cast mates were less than complimentary about her as a co-star, claiming that she is hard to work with, difficult and a troublemaker. This, after her boycott of the show in 1990, in protest of Andrew Dice Clay's misogynistic behavior on set. In today's climate, she would be called a pioneer, but thirty years ago, was considered too difficult to keep on set; she was released from her contract in 1991.
Cliff Curtis
Kiwi Curtis was the recipient of the Best Actor award at the 2014 Asia Pacific Screen Awards for his performance in the movie The Dark Horse; his career is populated equally by big screen epics, and New Zealand based dramas. Curtis' most notable roles include Whale Rider and Blow.
Recently, Curtis has been a regular cast member on the AMC channel's Fear the Walking Dead, playing the role of Travis Manawa, a former English teacher with a raft of personal problems.
