Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx is an actor, singer, songwriter, record producer and comedian. He won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the film Ray. Foxx started his career as a stand-up comic, and became a cast member of In Living Color in 1991 before working in his first film Toys in 1992. Foxx is also a musician who has released his own albums, in addition to being featured on songs by artists like Kanye West and Ludacris.
Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz began his career in the theater world after studying in Vienna and New York City with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. He became a prolific television actor in Europe before coming to prominence in Hollywood for his role as Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds in 2009. For his role as Landa, as well as his turn as Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained, Waltz earned the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor.
Kerry Washington
Kerry Washington is an American actress whose first feature film role was in the 2000 drama Our Song. In 2010 she made her Broadway debut in David Mamet's Race. She played the lead on the hit ABC show Scandal, which aired between 2012 and 2018. In 2016 she starred as Anita Hill in the HBO film Confirmation, about the confirmation process of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most powerful and well known actors in Hollywood. He began his acting career as a child star, appearing in recurring roles on television shows like Parenthood and Growing Pains. He earned his first Academy Award nomination in 1993 at the age of 19 for his role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and became a teen idol in the late 1990s for his roles in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Titanic. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Hugh Glass in Alejandro Inarritu's 2015 film The Revenant.
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson began acting in drama school in the 1970s. In-between starring in the Spike Lee films Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991), Jackson entered rehab to deal with cocaine and heroin addiction. He then became one of the most bankable and well known actors of his generation, starring in blockbuster films like Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993) and Quentin Tarantino's own Pulp Fiction (1994).The Guinness World Book of Records has named Jackson as the highest grossing actor of all time, with his 68 films having earned $7.42 billion.
