Trivia: Earning effusive comparisons to another Audrey, sylph-like French actress Audrey Tautou became an international star with her performance as the eponymous do-gooder in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's romantic fable Amélie (2001).Born in Beaumont, France, on August 9th, 1978, Tautou's childhood interest in monkeys led to plans to become a primatologist, but she found her true calling when she began to study acting in school. After graduation, Tautou found roles on French TV, and earned Canal+'s prize in 1999 for Best Newcomer. Moving to films, Tautou quickly made a mark with her performance as Natalie Baye's young co-worker in Venus Beauty Institute (1999) and earned the César for Best New Actress. While Tautou worked steadily, playing a supporting role in the ribald Denis Diderot biopic Le Libertin (2000) and leads in Voyous Voyelle (2000) and Happenstance (2000), her appearance in Venus Beauty Institute proved to be even more pivotal beyond her César. After original choice Emily Watson bowed out, Jeunet was disconsolate about finding the right Amélie until he saw Tautou on the Venus Beauty Institute poster. Perfectly merging Tautou's elfin mien with the title character's impish ruses for bringing happiness to everyone around her, Amélie became a record-breaking sensation in France, with Tautou hailed as the heiress to Audrey Hepburn's inimitable charm. An art house success in America, Amélie garnered more praise for Tautou and a berth as one of Entertainment Weekly's Entertainers of the Year. While she attempted to heed Jeunet's negative experience with Alien Resurrection (1997) and refused for years to cash in with a Hollywood blockbuster, the shakily bilingual Tautou subsequently took on her first English-language role in Stephen Frears' acclaimed thriller Dirty Pretty Things (2002) and finally succumbed to the lure of La-La-Land in 2006 when she starred opposite Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's hotly anticipated The DaVinci Code. Though The Da Vinci Code failed to earn much in the way of critical respect, Tautau's role of the legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel in the 2009 biopic Coco Before Chanel was received extremely well.

Trivia: Actress Kelly Reilly grew up in a working-class neighborhood in London. Too timid to voice her desires to study drama, she learned about acting the hard way, plunging into a professional career and picking up as much as she could along the way. She began picking up small roles on British television and regularly worked throughout the next decade before she began snatching up roles in higher profile projects like 2005's Pride & Prejudice and Mrs. Henderson Presents.

Trivia: In his youth, studied acting at the Patricia Hammond School of Dramatic Art (the name was changed to the Debbie Fyffe Theatre School in 1996). Got first professional acting job at 11, playing Kurt von Trapp in The Sound of Music at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. Two big breaks came in the mid-1990s: playing Sam Spalding for two seasons on the British school drama Grange Hill; and being cast as Jim Hawkins in the U.S. musical film Muppet Treasure Island (1996), which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance in a Feature Film—Leading Young Actor. Portrayed Dudley Moore in Pete and Dud: Come Again, a stage production about the comedic relationship between Moore and Peter Cook, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005 before moving to London the following year. His British Comedy Awards nominations include Best Newcomer, for Star Stories in 2006; and Best Sketch Show, for his eponymous series, The Kevin Bishop Show, in 2009.

Trivia: British model and actress Lucy Gordon began her career on screen in the early 2000s, beginning with supporting roles in movies like Four Feathers and Serendipity. Gordon's fame grew considerably in 2007, when she played Jennifer Dugan in Spider-Man 3, and she later appeared in the French films Cineman and Serge Gainsbourg, vie heroique. Tragically, Gordon was found dead in her Paris apartment in 2009. She was 28 years old.