Trivia: Actress and singer Brie Larson began her career in the late '90s, making appearances on shows like Touched By an Angel when she was still in elementary school. In 2001, she scored a starring role on the series Raising Dad, which lasted for just one season, but the young actress had no trouble finding new projects, as she was cast in the Disney Channel TV movie Right on Track in 2003. She subsequently appeared in another Disney movie, Sleepover, and released an album, Finally Out of P.E., in 2005. Larson would go on to appear in movies like 13 Going on 30 and The Babysitter, before being cast as Kate on the acclaimed Showtime series The United States of Tara. She played Envy Adams in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (which let her showcase her vocal talents) and was the love interest in 21 Jump Street. Larson has a supporting role in Joseph Gordon Levitt's Don Jon and had a recurring role on Community. In 2015, she played Amy Schumer's sister in Trainwreck, but made a bigger mark later in the year with the independent film Room. Playing a young woman held captive for seven years, Larson won rave reviews and an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Trivia: First acting role was in a Gerber television commercial. Was chosen by director Lenny Abrahamson from over 2,000 child actors to play the role of Jack in the highly-acclaimed 2015 film Room. Became the youngest male to receive a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award when he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for his part in Room. Presented the award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards. Has two sisters who are also child actors and have appeared in major films and television series.

Trivia: Largely underappreciated for years in Hollywood before her Oscar-nominated turn as the First Lady in Nixon (1995), Joan Allen has had a distinguished career encompassing the stage, screen, and television. A native of Rochelle, Illinois, where she was born August 20, 1956, the blond, swanlike actress developed an interest in acting while in high school. Voted Most Likely to Succeed by her senior class, Allen went on to study theatre at Eastern Illinois University. She then moved to Chicago, where she became one of the founding members of the vaunted Steppenwolf Theatre Company, along with such respected talents as Gary Sinise and John Malkovich.Allen made her screen debut with a small role in the 1985 film Compromising Positions and a year later played two wildly different characters in Manhunter and Peggy Sue Got Married. Her portrayals of a tragically confused young woman who attempts to seduce a serial killer in the former film and a brainy high school student in the latter impressed a number of critics, but it was on the stage that Allen was most appreciated. In 1988, she won a Tony award for her Broadway debut performance in Burn This, and a year later she earned her second Tony nomination for her role in Wendy Wasserstein's highly acclaimed The Heidi Chronicles.Following increasingly substantial roles in such films as In Country (1989), Ethan Frome (1992), and Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Allen won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her stunning portrayal of First Lady Pat Nixon in Oliver Stone's Nixon. The acclaim surrounding her performance in the 1995 film finally gave Allen the Hollywood recognition she deserved; the following year this recognition was further enhanced with her Oscar-nominated turn as the long-suffering Elizabeth Proctor in Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of The Crucible.More praise came Allen's way in 1997, when she headlined a stellar ensemble cast in Ang Lee's lauded adaptation of Rick Moody's The Ice Storm. Starring as a troubled upper middle-class Connecticut housewife alongside the likes of Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Christina Ricci, and Tobey Maguire, Allen gave repression a stirring, beautifully nuanced name. That same year she went in a completely different direction, starring as the wife of an FBI agent (John Travolta) in John Woo's popular action thriller Face/Off. Allen returned to the realm of the repressed housewife in 1998, starring (and reuniting with Maguire) in the acclaimed 1950s-set comedy drama Pleasantville. The turn of the century found Allen taking leads in a trio of issue-oriented dramas: In the multi-character handgun treatise All the Rage (released on video in 2000), she played the wife of a short-fused lawyer (reuniting with Pleasantville's Jeff Daniels in the process); in the Irish production When the Sky Falls, she teamed with The Long Good Friday (1980) director John Mackenzie to tell the true, tragic story of a Dublin crime reporter; and in Rod Lurie's The Contender, Allen nabbed her biggest role to date -- and her first Best Actress Oscar nomination -- as a would-be U.S. vice president who finds herself at the center of a sex scandal.After all the attention for The Contender, the savvy Allen continued to oscillate between big roles in low-profile independent films and small roles in big-budget popcorn fare, to even greater success. She featured prominently in two of the biggest box-office hits of 2004: the sentimental romance The Notebook and the wildly successful second installment of the Jason Bourne franchise, The Bourne Supremacy. In the latter, she dug into a meaty, sympathetic supporting role as an all-business CIA agent who pursues the framed title character. Spring 2005 saw the near-concurrent release of two of her indie films, both of which premiered at Sundance Festivals from years prior: Campbell Scott's lapsed-hippie family drama Off the Map and Mike Binder's Terms of Endearment-ish saga The Upside of Anger. The former cast Allen against type as a let-it-all-hang-out New Mexico naturalist who finds her family coming apart at the seams in the mid-1970s. More widely acclaimed was her Anger appearance: As a drunk, headstrong, suburban Detroit housewife who lashes out at her four daughters -- and everyone else -- after her husband leaves the family, Allen turned in a performance that was both caustic and relatable, and garnered some of the best notices of her film career.In 2008 she played the bad guy in the action film Death Race, and the year after that she starred as Georgia O'Keefe in the biopic about her directed by Bob Balaban. She returned to the role of Pamela Landy for The Bourne Legacy, the Tony Gilroy directed reboot of the popular franchise that featured Jeremy Renner taking over the title role.

Trivia: Wrote and acted in 1997's Paradise Falls, which won awards at the Atlanta Film Festival, the Hollywood Film Awards, and WorldFest Charleston. Son Jackson Bridgers acted with him in two separate series: Deadwood and Justified. Won Best Actor award at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival for his star turn in The Woman. In 2012, he wrote and directed a short film, The Birthday Present, starring his daughter Kate. Started an independent film production company, Travelin' Productions, with friend Michael Hemschoot.

Trivia: Started her professional career as a dancer. Appeared with the National Ballet of Alberta production of Cinderella at the age of 12. Received a Fine Arts Talent Scholarship for the University of York. Made her film debut in the 1999 TV movie Vendetta.

Trivia: Started acting in high school, as the lead role in Hamlet, after his English teacher threatened to fail him if he didn't audition. Is the founding artistic director of Repercussion Theatre, a Montreal-based Shakespeare-in-the-Park touring company that delivered its first performance, A Midsummer Night's Dream, in 1988. A popular video-game voice actor, is known for the roles Altair in Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Dalton in Halo 4. Is fluent in English, French and Farsi. A paintball enthusiast, has competed on a team called The Suave Bastards.

Trivia: After spending most of the 1980s in television, Wendy Crewson moved to a number of high-profile feature films in the 1990s. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Crewson attended Canada's Queens University and continued studying acting in London, England, after college. Back in North America, Crewson sharpened her versatile talent in a number of TV productions, including Heartsounds (1984), Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985), and Robert Altman's acclaimed political satire Tanner '88 (1988), starring Altman regular and Crewson's husband-to-be Michael Murphy. Though Crewson continued to do TV in the 1990s, including The Lives of Girls and Women (1994), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), and At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story (1998), she increasingly branched out into features. Making her mark in a small part in The Doctor (1991), Crewson moved on to larger roles as the mother of a psychotic Macauley Culkin in The Good Son (1993), Tim Allen's ex-wife in the comedy hit The Santa Clause (1994), and Peter Gallagher's unfortunate blind date in the tearjerker To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996). After playing a tough lawyer in the crime thriller Gang Related (1997), Crewson further displayed her ability to convey strength as Harrison Ford's undaunted First Lady in Wolfgang Petersen's summer blockbuster Air Force One (1997). Following a substantial role in the independent romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate (1999), Crewson seemed to be on the verge of adding another hit to her resumé as one of Robin Williams' original owners in the fantasy Bicentennial Man (1999), but the film failed to live up to box-office expectations.

Trivia: Taught full-time at an elementary school for 12 years prior to her acting career.Has Bachelor's degrees in Kinesiology and Education.Did a TEDx Talk titled "Chasing Games and Beginning Again."Made her writing and directorial debut with the 2016 feature comedy drama Go Fish.Lent her voice to a number of video games, including Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Assassin's Creed Odyssey.Has worked with The Children's Miracle Network, Sick Kids Foundation, OSPCA, Habitat for Humanity, Bytown Association for Rescued Kanines, among others.

Trivia: A native of Lindsay, Ontario, Canadian actress Megan Park first showed an interest in drama at age seven, when she aggressively persuaded her parents to let her perform in a regional production of The Sound of Music. The experience only fortified her love of acting, and she thus deepened and expanded her professional resumé in the years to follow, with extensive work in the London, Ontario-based Original Kids Theatre Company. By the age of 15, Park signed with a Toronto agent and landed parts in two series -- The Blobheads and Ace Lightning -- in addition to a plum role in the ABC-Disney telemovie This Time Around (2003). Park took several steps up in terms of intended audience and mature subject matter with her lead performance as a syphilis-infected adolescent in the Lifetime original movie She's Too Young (2004), and took her feature bow that same year with a supporting turn in Gail Harvey's period drama Some Things That Stay. Park's breakthrough year, however, arrived in 2007 -- with prominent supporting roles in two very different A-list features: Jon Poll's adolescence-themed satire Charlie Bartlett and George Romero's zombie gorefest Diary of the Dead. Park next jumped to television, playing high school student Grace Bowman on ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager from 2008 to 2013. She followed that up with recurring gigs on shows like The Neighbors and The Lottery.