Trivia: With strawberry blonde hair and an innocent smile, actress Agnes Bruckner has a strangely familiar face that seems to make her more sympathetic and identifiable than most of her onscreen contemporaries. Her stunning breakout performance as a troubled young girl who seeks escape from her downbeat life through poetry in Karen Moncrieff's Blue Car earned Bruckner an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, pointing to a bright future for the magnetic and unusually assured young actress. Born to a Russian father and Hungarian mother in Hollywood, CA, the bilingual aspiring actress found her first role in the little-seen short film Girl (1997). That same year, the then-12-year-old Bruckner landed a role on the popular daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, and the following year, she took her first lead as a young girl who dedicates herself to saving the residents of a miniature city found beneath a construction site in The Shrunken City. As Hollywood came calling, Bruckner played a supporting role in the thriller The Glass House in 2001, though her true breakthrough wouldn't come until the release of Blue Car the following year. 2002 proved a productive and exciting year for the ascending young star, with roles in the Columbine-inspired teen drama Home Room and Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers making her an increasingly familiar face to moviegoers. A role in the harrowing drama Rick (2003) found Bruckner the target of an Internet predator who just happened to be her father's sleazy boss, and in 2004, following supporting roles in Stateside and May director Lucky McKee's girl-school chiller The Woods, Bruckner could be seen in the high-profile Hollywood adventure Haven.

Trivia: The son of a publisher and a philosophy professor, handsome young British actor Hugh Dancy studied English Language and Literature at Oxford and speaks fluent French. He got his start performing in theater productions under the direction of Sam Mendes before he made his first few television guest-star appearances on Dangerfield, Cold Feet, and the miniseries Trial & Retribution II. He got his first starring role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of David Copperfield, which aired in the States on TNT, and he continued doing costume dramas adapted from literature with the BBC productions of Madame Bovary and Daniel Deronda. In 2000, he experimented with fantasy adventures, starring in the Three Musketeers-inspired Young Blades and appearing in an episode of Relic Hunter. He had a small role in the war drama Black Hawk Down before making the move toward romance with the straight-to-video titles The Sleeping Dictionary (opposite Jessica Alba) and Tempo (opposite Melanie Griffith). Dancy stuck with romance for his next feature, the fantasy comedy Ella Enchanted, opposite Princess Diaries star Anne Hathaway. He worked steadily in projects such as King Arthur, Basic Instinct 2, and The Jane Austen Book Club. In 2007 he began a lengthy relationship with fellow actress Claire Danes. He landed a big part in 2009's Confessions of a Shopaholic. He enjoyed a fantastic 2011 with roles in the superb comedy Our Idiot Brother, the well-reviewed indie thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, and the period comedy Hysteria.

Trivia: A trained pugilist who shifted to acting after an accident, Gallic heartthrob Olivier Martinez succumbed to mainstream Hollywood with his co-starring role in Adrian Lyne's erotic potboiler Unfaithful (2002).The son of a Spanish-Moroccan boxer and a French secretary, Martinez was born and raised in a working-class suburb of Paris. Though he aimed to follow the paternal tradition of becoming a professional fighter then a mechanic, Martinez's plans changed after he was injured in a car wreck. Passing an audition for the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique, Martinez began to study acting at age 23. Shortly after he finished school, Martinez's performance in a Paris production of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under the Elms landed him his first major film role, co-starring with French icon Yves Montand in Jean-Jacques Beineix's adventure IP5 (1992). Confirming his status as a rising French star, Martinez acted opposite Italian legend Marcello Mastroianni in Bertrand Blier's experimental Un, Deux, Trois Soleil (1993) and won the César for Most Promising Actor. Martinez's next film, The Horseman on the Roof (1995), though, earned him billing as the "French Brad Pitt." As an Italian revolutionary on the run in 19th century France, Martinez shared sizzling onscreen chemistry with co-star Juliette Binoche and got his first taste of tabloid attention when the two became an offscreen item as well. A European hit, The Horseman on the Roof also put Martinez on the American art-house map.Disdainful of Hollywood and hardly fluent in English, Martinez followed his Horseman triumph with a smaller role in Blier's black comedy Mon Homme (1996). Martinez hit the international art-house circuit again as a man who concocts an imaginary affair with the title character in Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), but his next European films, The Slammer (1999), The City of Marvels (1999), and Toreros (2000), did not have as much exposure. Martinez's career took another key turn, however, when he played the small but vital role of Lazaro in Julian Schnabel's superb biopic Before Night Falls (2000). As a friend deeply involved in Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas' troubled life, Martinez earned accolades particularly for the restrained, moving death scene with star Javier Bardem. Softening his views on the U.S. during filming, aided perhaps by girlfriend and subsequent Semana Santa (2002) co-star Mira Sorvino, Martinez then starred in the American indie Western Bullfighter (2001). He won his first major Hollywood role when Lyne's daughter brought him to the director's attention. Though the part was originally written for an American, Lyne deemed Martinez a believable lust object for someone married to Richard Gere, altered the nationality, and Martinez became bored housewife Diane Lane's fatal attraction in Unfaithful. Continuing his run as foreign eye candy for women, Martinez was cast as Helen Mirren's Italian gigolo in the TV remake of The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2002). Assuming the role of the Italian gigolo played by Warren Beatty in the feature film version, Martinez again revealed his gift for playing an alluring, cold-hearted paramour with his performance as older, wealthy lady Helen Mirren's fatal attraction. Adding another decidedly "Hollywood" project to his credits, Martinez subsequently ditched his Euro boy toy trappings and joined Colin Farrell, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez on the crack police team organized by Samuel L. Jackson in the summer action movie S.W.A.T. (2003).Martinez found continued success throughout the 2000's and 2010's, most notably appearing in films like The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The Snow Goose, Dark Tide, The Physician and Texas Rising.

Trivia: Became interested in acting after playing a lead role in his school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Initially wanted to study graphic design in college. In 2004, performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of All's Well That Ends Well starring Dame Judi Dench. After the birth of his son, became involved in an infant-feeding program with his wife at Wythenshawe Hospital called "breastfeeding buddies" that aims to encourage women to breastfeed their babies.