Trivia: Australian character actress and playwright Yvonne Strahovski attended the Theatre Nepean drama program at the University of Western Sydney before achieving fame as a small-screen star on series and telemovies in her native Australia. Viewers first caught her on Channel 7's short-lived yet memorable Headland series, then as Martina on the weekly Channel 9 drama Sea Patrol. After a role her her debut feature, Middle of Nowhere, Strahovski heard Hollywood beckoning, and in 2006, she officially moved to Los Angeles. Almost immediately, she signed for a plum role in her first Tinseltown series: the NBC sci-fi comedy Chuck (2007), about Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi), a computer nerd-turned-highly unlikely spy. The actress played Sarah Walker, the top CIA agent assigned to work with Chuck, with whom she becomes romantically involved. A bit role in the 2011 action upos Killer Elite followed, and the followng year Strahovski joined the cast of Showtime's hit serial killer series Dexter while still maintaing her role on Chuch.

Trivia: Toured extensively with the Australian theater company Bell Shakespeare, appearing in productions of Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. Met wife Roxane Wilson when they were cast as lovers in the 1999 film Change of Heart. Struggled for his first five years in the U.S. to find work and to make ends meet. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2010 Qantas Film and Television Awards for his role on the New Zealand television comedy-drama Outrageous Fortune. In 2010, was named the host of The Amazing Race Australia and, prior to that, starred for four seasons on the Australian version of the reality competition The Mole.

Trivia: Moved to Australia at age 9. Studied at the Australian Theatre for Young People. Worked as an editor with filmmaker Paul Cox on several feature films and documentaries. Was in the running to play the young Obi Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels, but lost out to Ewan McGregor. Adapted the 2007 short film The Rose of Ba Ziz from a children's book written by his father. Is among the cast of the 2007 documentary In the Company of Actors, which chronicles rehearsals and preparations for the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.

Trivia: In the early 1990s, played rugby league for several professional teams, including the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the South Sydney Rabbitohs. At age 23, had a brief career as a light heavy-weight boxer. Wrote the screenplay for The Final Winter which was eventually made into a film in 2007. Move to the US in 2008 to play a detective in the TV movie, SIS. Published his first book, We Don't Live Here Anymore, in 2009. Was a writer for the rugby league comedy show The Matty Johns Show in 2010. In 2014, was chosen to play Ra's al Ghul in the third season of Arrow.

Trivia: Is of Lebanese descent. Studied law before deciding to become an actor. Attempted to launch his career in the US before landing the role of John Ibrahim in Underbelly: The Golden Mile in 2010. In 2010, was named Cleo's bachelor of the year. The Actors College of Theatre and Television set up a scholarship in his honour in 2012; the Firass Dirani ACTT Scholarship allows the winner to study acting for up to three years full time.

Trivia: An Australian actor with a cult following in England and America, Nick Tate has enjoyed a successful career on three continents since the 1970s. Nicholas John Tate was born in Sydney, Australia, into a family of British and Russian extraction, with actors (and singers) on both sides going back two generations -- his father, John Tate (1914-1979), was a busy character actor whose movie appearances later included roles in On the Beach (1959) and The Day of the Triffids (1962). A performing career might have seemed a natural choice for Nick, but his parents initially tried to discourage this, hoping that he would choose a more conventional career. By age 14, however, Tate was playing the title role in the Sydney Opera Company's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. That led to an entrée to Australian radio and, later, the fledgling television industry, for which he intended to work behind the camera, as a technician and director, learning the technical side of the visual medium over the next few years. By the mid-'60s, however, Tate was once again pursuing aspirations as an actor, encouraged by those around him who felt his talent and his rugged good looks would translate well in any medium. After a two-year interruption for the army, Tate returned to civilian life and immediately began getting stage and television work. In 1965, he emigrated to England, in part to restore some kind of contact with his father, who had moved to England in the wake of the breakup of his marriage to Tate's mother. What work the younger Tate got was mostly in action and crime series, such as Dixon of Dock Green and Z Cars -- which, ironically enough, were also the kinds of series in which John Tate appeared -- along with small roles in major movies, including A Man For All Seasons and Battle of Britain. Tate subsequently returned to Australia to work in a musical version of The Canterbury Tales and out of that got a leading role in an Australian television series called Dynasty (1970), in a role that teamed him onscreen with his father, who retired following the run of the series. Tate continued to do theatrical work, juggling it with television appearances, but by the mid-'70s he had returned to England. It was on that occasion that he was called in to read for the producers of a pilot for an intended new science fiction series called Space: 1999, which was to be distributed internationally. He was originally cast as a lunar pilot who is killed off in the first episode, but he was good enough that, in a casting shuffle, he won the co-starring role of Alan Carter, the chief pilot of Moonbase Alpha, a part that had to be rewritten for him to play it as an Australian. Tate's two seasons on Space: 1999 gave him a worldwide following, and his was easily the most popular character on the series, a resourceful, no-nonsense man of action, a sort of futuristic equivalent to the RAF pilots of World War II. His work on the series didn't distract him from more serious roles, however, and he was also cast in Fred Schepisi's The Devil's Playground in the part of Brother Victor, a role for which he won several acting awards. Tate's subsequent films have included Summerfield, The Gold and the Glory, and Cry Freedom, and he has also done a large amount of television work in England and Australia; he even managed to slip in work in the late '80s on the FOX network series Open House, which, for a change of pace, was a sitcom. Tate has since appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Murder, She Wrote, and JAG, and also portrayed Noodler in Steven Spielberg's Hook. In the 1990s, he also established himself as a voice artist, including work on the new run of episodes of Jonny Quest, among other animated series. After the dawn of the new century, Tate brought his family and career back to Australia, where, in addition to acting, he went on to write and direct.

Trivia: New Zealand-born Michael Dorman scored his first big break in 2002 when he was cast in the Australian series The Secret Life of Us. He would stick with the show until 2005 before going on to appear in a number of other Australian projects, like the 2008 horror film Acolytes and 2009's Prime Mover. In 2010, Dorman made the transition to American cinema, with a role in the vampire movie Daybreakers.