A mid-range star of big-budget action films and the occasional comedy, Kurt Russell is among the few to make the successful transition from child star to successful adult actor. As a youth, Russell aspired to follow the footsteps of his father, Bing Russell, who, in addition to being a big league baseball player, was also an actor (he was perhaps best known for his role as the sheriff on the TV western Bonanza). That his heroes Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris did the same thing only strengthened Russell’s resolve to have both a baseball and acting career.

He first broke into acting on television, starring in the series The Travels of Jamie McPheeters, and made his film debut playing the “Boy Who Kicks Elvis″ in the 1963 Elvis Presley vehicle It Happened at the World’s Fair. After signing a ten-year contract with Disney, Russell got his big break as a juvenile actor in 1966, starring opposite Fred MacMurray in Disney′s live-action feature Follow Me Boys! His association with the studio lasted through 1975, and produced such comedic family movies as The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968), The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), The Barefoot Executive (1971), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). The last film marked Russell’s final collaboration with Disney, aside from his voicing the character of Copper in the studio’s The Fox and the Hound (1981). Still an avid baseball enthusiast during those years, Russell nurtured his dreams of becoming a professional ball player until a shoulder injury permanently changed his plans.

After ending his association with Disney, Russell disappeared from features — he did, however, appear in a few television movies — until playing the title role in Elvis, John Carpenter’s made-for-television biopic. His next role as a sleazy used car salesman in Robert Zemeckis′ hilariously caustic Used Cars (1980) allowed him to counter his wholesome, All-American nice guy image, and proved that he was an actor of untapped range. Director Carpenter recognized this and cast Russell as mercenary Snake Plissken in his brooding sci-fi action film Escape from New York (1981), and then as a scientist in the Antarctic in his chilling 1982 remake of The Thing. Realizing that his characters were larger than life, Russell typically played them with his tongue ever so slightly in his cheek.

In 1983, however, he moved to serious drama, playing opposite Cher and Meryl Streep in Silkwood. The success of that film helped him break into a more mainstream arena, and he was later able to win praise for his dramatic work in such films as Swing Shift (1984), Tequila Sunrise (1988), and Winter People (1989). However, it is with his performances in action films that Russell remains most widely associated. He has appeared in a number of such films, all of disparate quality. Some of Russell’s more memorable projects include Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Tango and Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), and Executive Decision (1996). In 1996, he reprised his Snake Plissken character for Carpenter’s Escape from L.A.. The following year, he starred opposite Kathleen Quinlan in the revenge thriller Breakdown, and then returned to the sci-fi action realm with Soldier in 1998. Some of Russell’s fame comes from his status as half of one of Hollywood’s most famous couples. The long-time partner of Goldie Hawn and father of one of her children, he has appeared with Hawn in Swing Shift and Overboard (1987).

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
Soldier (1998)
Breakdown (1997)
Escape From L.A. (1996)
Executive Decision (1996)
Stargate (1994)
Tombstone (1993)
Captain Ron (1992)
Unlawful Entry (1992)
Backdraft (1991)
Tango & Cash (1989)
Winter People (1989)
Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Overboard (1987)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
The Best of Times (1985)
The Mean Season (1984)
Swing Shift (1984)
Silkwood (1983)
The Thing (1982)
Escape From New York - Director’s Special Edition (1981)
Escape from New York (1981)
Elvis - The Movie (1979)
The Christmas Coal Mine Miracle (1977)
Captive, The - The Longest Drive II (1976)
Search for the Gods (1975)
Sniper (1975)
The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
Charley and the Angel (1973)
Superdad (1973)
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t (1972)
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1970)
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)
One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band (1968)
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
Mosby′s Marauders (1966)
Fugitive, The - V. 5 (1964)
It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963)

Jason Biggs gained overnight recognition for his role in the 1999 summer smash American Pie. As the boy who put the American in the Pie, Biggs earned a place alongside There’s Something About Mary’s Ben Stiller on the screen roster of Most Embarrassing Moments Involving Genitalia and Inanimate Objects. What many people who saw him as an overnight success didn′t realize, however, was that he’d actually been acting–on the screen, stage, and television–for most of his young life.
A native of Pompton Plains, New Jersey, where he was born May 12, 1978, Biggs began modeling and acting in commercials when he was a small child. When he was barely an adolescent, the young actor made his Broadway debut opposite Judd Hirsch in the acclaimed play Conversations With My Father and landed a recurring role on the short-lived sitcom Drexell’s Class around the same time. At the age of fifteen, he joined the cast of the daytime drama As The World Turns as Pete Wendall. His performance on the show, on which he appeared from 1994 to 1995, earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination. With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.
In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high-school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike. Riding high on his success, he soon entered into a two-picture deal with Miramax and a development project with 20th Century Fox Television, ensuring that his career had certainly gotten off to an auspicious and memorable start.

In 2000, Biggs′ recently won popularity was evidenced by his starring roles in a number of films. Included amongst them were Robert Iscove’s Boys and Girls, which cast the actor as a college student, and Amy Heckerling’s Loser, in which Biggs again set foot on a college campus to play a social misfit in love with an unattainable girl (Pie co-star Mena Suvari).

American Pie 2 (2001)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Saving Silverman (2001)
Boys and Girls (2000)
Loser (2000)
American Pie (1999

A frequent name on People magazine’s list of the 50 most beautiful people, hunky, low-key heartthrob Jared Leto had a peripatetic childhood, wandering nomadically with his older brother and divorced mother to Haiti, Louisiana, Wyoming, Colorado and Virginia, among other places. After briefly studying painting and filmmaking, he moved to Los Angeles at age 20 to pursue an acting career, making his TV debut on the innovative youth series “My So-Called Life” (ABC, 1994-95) as an enigmatic, strong silent type who was the on-again, off-again love interest of Claire Danes’ heroine. In his TV-movie debut “Cool and the Crazy″ (1994), a segment of Showtime’s “Rebel Highway″ series, Leto played the sympathetic young husband of a dissatisfied Alicia Silverstone, and he segued to features in the ensemble of “How to Make an American Quilt″ (1995). His first major role came as a virginal Irish teenager in the British film “The Last of the High Kings” (1996, released on video in the USA as “Summer Fling” in 1998).
For his impersonation of the celebrated track star Steve Prefontaine, Leto earned strong notices and proved a charismatic screen presence in the 1997 quasi-documentary biopic “Prefontaine”, directed by Steve James. For this challenging role, the actor immersed himself in the athlete’s life, meeting with members of the family and training for six weeks with one of the runner’s college roommates. With his blond hair and sculpted physique, he bore a striking resemblance to the real Prefontaine, but Leto went beyond just the surface, adopting Prefontaine’s voice and unique, upright running style, making the transformation so complete that when the runner’s sister Linda first saw him in character, she broke down and cried. Despite the attention and praise, the film failed to attract a large audience and disappeared quickly from multiplexes. Leto next delivered another strong turn as a hitchhiking college student suspected of being a serial killer in the uneven “SwitchBack” (1997) then landed the lead role of an aristocratic Brit in the period drama “Basil” (1998). He happily joined the ensemble cast of Terence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line” (also 1998) and then embarked on a string of small roles in high-profile films. Acting alongside heavyweights Brad Pitt and Ed Norton, Leto was the blond Angel Face of David Fincher’s “Fight Club″, played off his hunk status as Winona Ryder’s boyfriend in “Girl, Interrupted” (both 1999) and essayed a gay high school teacher who attracts the attentions of Robert Downey Jr. in “Black and White” (2000). He did what he could with the small part of a despised rival of the titular “American Psycho″ before undertaking larger roles as a heroin addict in Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem for a Dream”, adapted from the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., and as one of two Las Vegas 20-year-olds who go to Seattle and stand vigil after rocker Kurt Cobain’s suicide in “Highway″ (all 2000). In 2002, Leto appeared in “Panic Room” with Jodie Foster, marking his second teaming with director David Fincher.

One of the crop of obscenely attractive young stars to pop up during the late 1990s, Josh Hartnett has the kind of strong-jawed, puppy-eyed looks that make him equally suited for both movie stardom and Tommy Hilfiger ads.

Born in San Francisco on July 21, 1978, Hartnett was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Following his high school graduation, he attended New York’s SUNY-Purchase, but his time there ended after he was offered a role on the short-lived TV series Cracker. He also did a number of TV commercials and plays, and in 1998 he got his screen break with the plum role of Jamie Lee Curtis’ son in Halloween: ᰴ. Although the film received poor reviews, it did moderately well at the box office, and that same year Harnett’s profile further increased when he starred in The Faculty. One of a number of films to exploit the current trend in teen horror movies, it featured Hartnett fighting off alien teachers alongside the likes of fellow up-and-comers Elijah Wood and Shawn Hatosy. Although the film didn’t do as well as expected, thanks in part to the fact that the teen horror craze was beginning to lose steam, it in no way interfered with the increasing number of opportunities available to the young actor.

Hartnett could subsequently be seen in a number of diverse films; among his projects in 2000 alone, he played an Iago-like character in O, the teen re-telling of Othello; the son of Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton in the comedy-drama Town and Country; and the paramour of the eldest of the ill-fated Lisbon sisters in Sofia Coppola’s adaptation of The Virgin Suicides.

40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Blow Dry (2001)
O (2001)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Here on Earth (2000)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
The Faculty (1998)
Halloween: ˒O (1998)

Jude Law was born December 29, 1972 in Southeast London. He started acting with the National Youth Music Theatre at the age of 12, and at 17 he dropped out of school completely, to star in a Granada daytime TV Soap called “Families” (1990). In 1992, Jude began his stage career. He starred in many plays throughout London, and was nominated for the Olivier Award of “Outstanding Newcomer.” After doing the play “Indiscretions” in London, he moved and did it again on Broadway. This time, he was alongside Kathleen Turner. He then received a Tony Nomination for “Outstanding Supporting Actor.” He was then rewarded the Theatre World Award. After Broadway, Jude started on the big screen, in many independent films. His first big named movie was Gattaca (1997), with Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. He also had a good role in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997).
Jude’s latest rise to fame has been because of Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999), in which he plays Matt Damon’s obsession. The film did very well at the box office, and critics loved the acting of Jude. He is also a partner in the production company Natural Nylon. His partners include Lee Miller, Johnny, Ewan McGregor, and his wife Sadie Frost. With his production company producing, and Jude acting, his career seems to be on the rise. His spouse Sadie Frost (September 1997 - present) having a sucessful marrige manage 2 children. The two children with Frost: son, Rafferty (b. 1996), and daughter, Iris (b. 25 October 2000). One Stepson, Finley and former roommate of Ewan McGregor. (2000) On People (USA) magazine’s ‘50 Most Beautiful’ list. Jude’s parents were school teachers, but now run a theater company in France. He has one older sister, Natasha, who is a photographer. Is also a vegetarian.