Trivia: After graduating from Georgetown University in 1997, Bradley Cooper set his sites on becoming not just a working actor, but a good actor. He enrolled in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University and began molding his abilities around a love of the craft, rather than a paycheck. He made his first onscreen debut while attending the program, with an appearance on Sex and the City in 1998, as well as a starring role on the short-lived Darren Star series The $treet. Cooper kept his life well-balanced, however, spending time teaching acting to inner-city children through the Learning through the Expanded Arts Program and taking a job as host of the Discovery Channel show Extreme Treks in a Wild World, which took him on journeys to Peru and British Colombia. His first feature film role came in 2001 with a part in the absurdist comedy Wet Hot American Summer. Near this time, Cooper was cast as Will Tippin in the ABC series Alias, which he stayed with for two seasons. He was also cast in a number of canceled series such as Miss Match, Touching Evil, and Kitchen Confidential. Cooper would find greater and greater success with comedy, however, landing a part in 2005's Owen Wilson comedy The Wedding Crashers that exposed him to a wider audience, as well as roles in 2006's Failure to Launch, and 2008's Yes Man . But of course, Cooper's breakthrough film turned out to be the explosively successful 2009 comedy The Hangover. Cooper's starring role as the smartest friend in a misguided trio, searching for their buddy after losing track of him during his extremely wild bachelor party made him an instant household name, and he would reprise the role for 2011's The Hangover 2. In the meantime, Cooper would nab starring roles in more and more films, like the thriller Limitless and the big screen adaptation of The A-Team.He scored his biggest critical hit to date with 2012's Silver Linings Playbook where his portrayal of a bi-polar man trying to pull his life back together after being released from a mental institution garnered him a number of year-end accolades including a nomination for Best Actor from the Screen Actors Guild and at the Academy Awards. He returned to the Oscar race in 2014 playing the title role in Clint Eastwood's 21st century war drama American Sniper, for which he also was nominated for Best Picture, having served as a producer on the film.

Trivia: With a mother who ran London's famed Lee Strasberg drama school -- and being the sort of knockout blonde beauty adored by the cameras -- it was not surprising that Sienna Miller eventually gravitated to an acting career. Born in New York to an American banker father and a mother who was always associated with the arts, young Miller received her primary education at the Heathfield School in Ascot, Surrey, before pursuing acting at New York's Lee Strasberg Institute. Her feature debut in the 2002 drama Joy Rider found the emerging actress caught in the middle of a heated love triangle, and after essaying a role in a BBC television drama Bedtime in 2001, Miller crossed the pond to appear on the stateside series Keen Eddie. Trading zingers with the series' lead Mark Valley, Miller played her character with just the sort of chemistry needed to make an action comedy series work. If subsequent roles in the films Layer Cake and Alfie weren't enough to get people talking about Miller, her sometime relationship with the latter film's star, Jude Law, certainly helped keep gossip columnists in business. In the years to come, Miller would remain a well known name primarily for her acting, appearing in several projects per year such as Factor Girl, The Edge of Love, and many more.

Trivia: Grew up in a devoutly religious family in Dayton, OH, where his father is a Pentecostal minister; learned to play the drums in church. One of first auditions in Hollywood was for the title role in the 2005 CBS biopic Elvis, which ultimately went to Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2007, started playing drums for the rock band Mitchells Folly, who released their debut album, Whirlwind, in 2008. At the 2008 Breckenridge Festival of Film, shared a Best Supporting Actor Award with costar Dan McCabe for War Eagle, Arkansas. His competition for the buzzed-about role of Ryan Lafferty on ABC's Brothers & Sisters included actors Jason Ritter and Scott Porter.

Trivia: Actor Kyle Gallner commenced film and television roles in the early 2000s; he specialized in supporting portrayals of individuals who fall prey to the destructive influences of more dominant and malevolent characters. Though Gallner began his Hollywood tenure with guest roles on series including Touched by an Angel, Third Watch, and Judging Amy, he quickly moved into more prominent assignments, including season-long runs on the youth-oriented detective show Veronica Mars (as Beaver Casablancas, the younger brother of a twisted bully and the victim of child abuse), and season three of CSI: NY (as Reed Garrett, a former foster child-turned-kidnapping victim). Gallner subsequently moved into feature roles; he was particularly memorable as the son of a mentally ill, emotionally tortured mother (Marisa Tomei) in the independent feature Danika (2006), and Harold, an accomplice of a twisted teen who shoots an old man's dog, in the revenge-fueled thriller Red (2008).

Trivia: Many U.S. filmgoers will associate Keir O'Donnell with his performance as Todd Cleary, the not-so-subtle homosexual artist who tries to seduce a terrified Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn), in David Dobkin's comedy smash-hit Wedding Crashers (2005). Actually, this slightly diminutive comedic actor (who hails from Australia) traces his film career back to the early 2000s, though Crashers marked his first major Hollywood appearance. Vaughn had O'Donnell turn up to reprise that characterization (with a running gag related to the movie) in his late 2005 touring stage performance; it later evolved into the ensemble performance film Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show. O'Donnell then landed supporting roles in such films as the crime thriller Pathology (2008), the romantic comedy Flakes (2007), and the slasher movie Amusement (2008). He was in the hit 2009 Kevin James film Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and then took smaller roles in When in Rome and The Runaways.

Trivia: Family moved to Grand Prairie, Texas when he was young and that's where he was raised.Moved to Los Angeles after graduating college and his first acting break came after he signed with the Wilhelmina modeling agency and landed commercials for JC Penney, Pizza Hut and The Sims videogame.Perhaps best known for playing Billy Abbott on CBS' The Young and the Restless from 2008 to 2014, and Jason Morgan and Drew Cain on ABC's General Hospital since 2015.Won 3 Daytime Emmy Awards for his performance on The Young and the Restless - 2 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and 1 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.Is a supporter of the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, after being a patient there for 5 years as a child.

Trivia: Heroes star Leonard Roberts was certainly no stranger to television before being cast on NBC's hit fantasy series. A prolific small-screen presence since the mid-'90s, Roberts had already essayed recurring roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Providence, and Smallville by the time he joined the cast of Heroes as fugitive D.L. Hawkins, who never settled in one place for too long while attempting to elude authorities. In addition to his series work, Roberts has also appeared in such features as Love Jones, Hoodlum, Drumline, and Joe and Max -- the latter of which found the actor cast in the role of legendary heavyweight champion Joe Louis.

Trivia: Studied at the Young Actors Studio & Performing Arts Center, located outside of Dallas in Farmers Branch, Texas. Dropped out of Boy Scouts of America to pursue acting, then portrayed a Boy Scout in his first acting job---an industrial film about the importance of scouting. Worked with a personal trainer to get in shape to play a lifeguard in Aquamarine. Dream role is to play a musician.

Trivia: Moved from Texas to Los Angeles in 1997. Received his SAG card for doing a Pepsi commercial while still in college. Has appeared in numerous TV series, including Generation Kill, Big Love and Mad Men. Considered his work in Generation Kill as his breakthrough acting role. Is a fan of the USC Trojans and the Los Angeles Lakers. Counts photography as one of his hobbies.

Trivia: Was raised as an only child by a single mother.Started acting at the age of five.After graduating high school, decided to pursue acting and worked day jobs before landing his first job on Nickelodeon's ZOEY 101.Has made numerous appearances on television shows like CSI, The Mentalist, Secret Life of the American Teenager and Dexter.Best known for his roles on Dexter, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and Zoey 101.

Trivia: His father is a pediatric cardiologist. Studied political philosophy and English literature at the University of Vermont; originally planned to be a college professor. Started his acting career while still in college, when his car broke down outside New York City and he decided to look for work; he landed the ABC Afterschool Special Taking a Stand. Made his film debut in 1995's Higher Learning. Was filming a fight scene for 2004's The Bourne Supremacy when Matt Damon actually broke his nose. Has worked multiple times with George Clooney (Leatherheads) and J.J. Abrams (Super 8).

Trivia: Grew tired of working on Wall Street, so he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. Made his TV debut on a 2005 episode of The Inside. While filming the CW series Privileged, he played a prank on costar JoAnna Garcia by moving her car to make her think it had been stolen. Likes to spend his free time near the ocean.

Trivia: Father was a bank director; mother was a schoolteacher. Began acting professionally in Germany after leaving his native Iran. Is a trained mime. Played the recurring role of Jamot on the eighth season of 24.

Trivia: Actor Eric Close found his breakthrough role on the prime-time serial drama Sisters (1991), opposite Julianne Phillips, Sela Ward, and Swoosie Kurtz. Close's performance as a policeman in the sixth season of the program established his onscreen reputation as a solid and reliable performer. Alongside that program, Close landed roles in low-rent films such as Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994) and the made-for-television soaper The Stranger Beside Me (1995). The actor then received second billing after small-screen mainstay Michael Biehn in the Western series The Magnificent Seven (1998), joined the regular cast of the short-lived sci-fi drama The Sky Is Falling (1999), and scored a lead in Glenn Gordon Caron's eccentric, short-lived superhero series Now and Again. Close drew his largest audience, however, with his contributions to the outstanding crime-investigation drama Without a Trace, as Martin Fitzgerald, the missing-persons agent amorously, and perhaps unwisely, involved with colleague Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery).

Trivia: Was raised in Bonn, Germany. Speaks fluent Arabic, English and German. Before turning to acting, studied sports science in Germany and trained alongside the German Olympic team. Made his professional stage debut at London's Royal Court Theatre. Appeared in Season 8 of 24 as bad guy Samir Mehran. Joined the cast of Steven Spielberg's Terra Nova in the fall of 2010. Stated in an interview that his favorite indulgence was chocolate.

Trivia: With his distinct yet pleasant "everyman" appearance, Sam Jaeger largely built up his career resumé with a string of guest appearances on television programs during the late '90s and into the first decade of the new millennium -- including Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Scrubs. Cinematically, Jaeger tackled small roles in the 2006 gangster comedy Lucky Number Slevin (starring Ben Kingsley) and the 2007 Jennifer Garner-headlined romantic comedy-drama Catch and Release. The next year, he was cast on the fantastical legal drama Eli Stone as slick, competitive lawyer Matt Dowd. Over the next few years, Jaeger would find success on the TV series Parenthood.

Trivia: A native of rural Lancaster, PA, stage and screen player Jonathan Groff cut against the grain of his sports-inclined family by gravitating to theatrical performance from an early age, with innumerable onstage appearances at the Fulton Opera House during his youth. As preparation for university applications, Groff impulsively caught a bus to New York City and began theatrical tryouts, where he promptly landed the role of Rolf in one of the revivals of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music; theatrical success soon took over and superseded Groff's collegiate plans. Subsequent stage projects included prominent roles in Fame at the Beverly, Massachusetts North Shore Music Theater, and a key role in the 2007 Broadway disaster In My Life, directed by Joe Brooks.At about the same time, Groff moved into television work with a portrayal of Henry Mackler on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.

Trivia: Welsh-born actor Owain Yeoman studied theater at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and English Literature at Brasenose College at Oxford University before beginning his professional career, playing the role of Lysander in 2004's Troy. He soon later scored the role of Steven Daedelus on the series Kitchen Confidential, and later Lucas Dalton on The Nine. More TV success would follow in 2008, as Yeoman picked up the roles of Sgt. Eric Kocher on Generation Kill and Wayne Rigsby on The Mentalist.

Trivia: Shares an interest in acting and music with his three older brothers. Started acting after he accompanied his oldest brother Logan to an audition and ended up getting booked himself. Appeared opposite his three brothers in a scene in the 2012 movie adaptation of The Three Stooges. Called his role as the young Peter Parker in the 2012 feature film The Amazing Spider-Man a "dream come true," because he dressed up as the webbed crusader for Halloween at the age of 2. Covered Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" with his brother Logan in a YouTube video.

Trivia: Parents owned a restaurant that hosted live music and dinner shows as he was growing up. Debuted on television in a guest role on the CBS show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in the episode "Lost & Found" in 2010. First credited role in a feature film was Jet in 2010's Redemption Road alongside Michael Clarke Duncan and Taryn Manning. Has done extensive voice-over work, including for characters on the Nickelodeon TV shows Bubble Guppies and Shimmer and Shine. Has listed ballet, hip-hop, jazz, modern and club/freestyle among his dance skills on his resume.

Trivia: Actor Cory Hardrict, sometimes credited as Cory C. Hardrict, specialized in clean-cut urban roles, traversing genre boundaries to turn up in fantasy, horror, and slice-of-life dramatic outings with equal footing. Hardrict began his career on television during the late '90s, with a whirlwind of appearances in weekly prime-time programs including Felicity, Once and Again, and City of Angels, and took one of his earliest feature bows in the 1999 Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed. He accepted a small role as a Southern California high-school student in the Kirsten Dunst drama Crazy/Beautiful, and then (a few years later) entered the arena of horror by turning up in at least two installments of the Return of the Living Dead franchise. In 2006, Hardricttook on a small supporting role in another supernatural shocker, Driftwood. The next year, he was cast in the recurring role of Luc Bisgaier on the ABC Family drama series Lincoln Heights. Off-camera, Hardrict made headlines for his romantic involvement with (and 2008 marriage to) Sister, Sister star Tia Mowry.

Trivia: With his rugged good looks and icon status, Clint Eastwood was long one of the few actors whose name on a movie marquee could guarantee a hit. Less well-known for a long time (at least until he won the Academy Award as Best Director for Unforgiven), was the fact that Eastwood was also a producer/director, with an enviable record of successes. Born May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, Eastwood worked as a logger and gas-station attendant, among other things, before coming to Hollywood in the mid-'50s. After his arrival, he played small roles in several Universal features (he's the pilot of the plane that napalms the giant spider at the end of Tarantula [1955]) before achieving some limited star status on the television series Rawhide. Thanks to the success of three Italian-made Sergio Leone Westerns -- A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) -- Eastwood soon exchanged this limited status for bona fide international stardom.Upon his return to the U.S., Eastwood set up his own production company, Malpaso, which had a hit right out of the box with the revenge Western Hang 'Em High (1968). He expanded his relatively limited acting range in a succession of roles -- most notably with the hit Dirty Harry (1971) -- during the late '60s and early '70s, and directed several of his most popular movies, including 1971's Play Misty for Me (a forerunner to Fatal Attraction), High Plains Drifter (1973, which took as its inspiration the tragic NYC murder of Kitty Genovese), and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Though Eastwood became known for his violent roles, the gentler side of his persona came through in pictures such as Bronco Billy (1980), a romantic comedy that he directed and starred in. As a filmmaker, Eastwood learned his lessons from the best of his previous directors, Don Siegel and Sergio Leone, who knew just when to add some stylistic or visual flourish to an otherwise straightforward scene, and also understood the effect of small nuances on the big screen. Their approaches perfectly suited Eastwood's restrained acting style, and he integrated them into his filmmaking technique with startling results, culminating in 1993 with his Best Director Oscar for Unforgiven (1992). Also in 1993, Eastwood had another hit on his hands with In the Line of Fire. In 1995, he scored yet again with his film adaptation of the best-selling novel The Bridges of Madison County, in which he starred opposite Meryl Streep; in addition to serving as one of the film's stars, he also acted as its director and producer.Aside from producing the critical and financial misstep The Stars Fell on Henrietta in 1995, Eastwood has proven to be largely successful in his subsequent efforts. In 1997, he produced and directed the film adaptation of John Berendt's tale of Southern murder and mayhem, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and he followed that as the director, producer, and star of the same year's Absolute Power, 1999's True Crime, and 2000's Space Cowboys. With Eastwood's next movie, Blood Work (2002), many fans pondered whether the longtime actor/director still had what it took to craft a compelling film. Though some saw the mystery thriller as a fair notch in Eastwood's belt, many complained that the film was simply too routine, and the elegiac movie quickly faded at the box office. If any had voiced doubt as to Eastwood's abilities as a filmmaker in the wake of Blood Work, they were in for quite a surprise when his adaptation of the popular novel Mystic River hit screens in late 2003. Featuring a stellar cast that included Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon, Mystic River was a film that many critics and audiences cited as one of the director's finest. A downbeat meditation on violence and the nature of revenge, the film benefited not only from Eastwood's assured eye as a director, but also from a screenplay (by Brian Helgeland) that remained fairly faithful to Dennis Lehane's novel and from severely affecting performances by its three stars -- two of whom (Penn and Robbins) took home Oscars for their efforts. With Eastwood's reputation as a quality director now cemented well in place thanks to Mystic River's success, his remarkable ability to craft a compelling film was nearly beginning to eclipse his legendary status as an actor in the eyes of many. Indeed, few modern directors could exercise the efficiency and restraint that have highlighted Eastwood's career behind the camera, as so beautifully demonstrated in his 2004 follow-up, Million Dollar Baby. It would have been easy to layer the affecting tale of a young female boxer's rise from obscurity with the kind of pseudo-sentimental slop that seems to define such underdog-themed films, but it was precisely his refusal to do so that ultimately found the film taking home four of the six Oscars for which it was nominated at the 77th Annual Academy Awards -- including Best Director and Best Picture. Eastwood subsequently helmed two interrelated 2006 features that told the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima from different angles. The English-language Flags of Our Fathers relayed the incident from the American end, while the Japanese-language Letters from Iwo Jima conveyed the event from a Japanese angle. Both films opened to strong reviews and were lauded with numerous critics and industry awards, with Letters capturing the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film before being nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. Nowhere near slowing down, Eastwood would direct and star in the critically acclaimed Gran Torino, as well as helming critical favorites like Invictus, the Changeling, Hereafter, and J. Edgar, racking up numerous awards and nominations. In 2014, he helmed the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, to mixed reviews, and the biographical adaptation American Sniper.A prolific jazz pianist who occasionally shows up to play piano at his Carmel, CA restaurant, The Hog's Breath Inn, Eastwood has also contributed songs and scores to several of his films, including The Bridges of Madison County and Mystic River. Many saw his critically championed 1988 film Bird, starring Forest Whitaker (on the life of Charlie "Bird" Parker), as the direct product of this interest. Eastwood also served as the mayor of Carmel, CA, from 1986 until 1988.