Leonardo DiCaprio
DiCaprio began his career when he was a teen, appearing on the television soap opera Santa Barbara and the hit comedy Growing Pains. However, in 1993 he achieved international stardom after starring in the movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape? for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. Four years later he starred in Titanic, opposite Kate Winslet, a role that began a friendship between the two young stars that endured over the years, and created a easy familiarity that made their performances as the Wheelers seem all the more authentic.
Since 2000, DiCaprio's work has been a rich and varied tapestry of genres that includes crime drama Catch Me If You Can opposite Tom Hanks, and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York. DiCaprio and Scorsese have collaborated on a number of projects including the Academy Award winning Wolf Of Wall Street, for which he received the Golden Globe Award in the Best Actor Category. After multiple nominations he was finally awarded an Oscar for his performance in The Revenant.
Kate Winslet
Playing the role of April Wheeler marks Winslet's second outing as Leonardo DiCaprio's love interest, the first being the international mega-hit that was James Cameron's Titanic. At the time of making Revolutionary Road, Winslet was married to director Sam Mendes, and she was instrumental in getting him to sign on to the project, primarily because she wanted to play the character of April.
Winslet's breakthrough role in many ways came before Titanic, cast as Marianne Dashwood in the big screen adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Cast frequently in this very English type of bodice-ripper, Winslet went on later in her career to tackle a far more varied selection of roles that included Nazi guard turned bus conductor Hanna in the film adaptation of Bernard Schlink's The Reader; she won both an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for this performance.
Winslet won a Grammy Award in 2001 for her rendition of the song What If? from the soundtrack to the movie A Christmas Carol. She is one of the few Academy Award winners who has performed a song on the Christmas Day edition of long running BBC music series Top Of The Pops.
Kathy Bates
The last in the trio of Titanic alumni, stage actress Bates shot to international stardom playing psychopathic stalker Annie Wilkes in the screen adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel Misery. For the performance she was highly decorated, winning Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in the Best Actress category. She followed up one of the creepiest movies of all time with one of the most heartwarming, and ensemble piece by the name of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
Bates moved to the small screen in 2011, playing the eponymous role in the Emmy award winning series Harry's Law.
Michael Shannon
Nominated twice for an Academy Award, Shannon is both actor and musician, the first nomination coming in the Best Actor category for his performance as John Givings. He has also received a Tony Award nomination in the Best Featured Actor category for his performance in A Long Day's Journey Into Night in 2016.
Shannon admitted to feeling overwhelmed on hearing that he had been cast opposite both Winslet and DiCaprio because of their palpable onscreen bond and off-screen friendship, but came to believe that this friendship made it far easier to work with them and to believe in their portrayals of the Wheelers as their marriage is unravelling.
Kathryn Hahn
Most recognized for her recurring role on the television series Crossing Jordan, in which she played the character Lily Lebowski, and she went on to appear in many supporting actress roles in some of the most successful comedies of the two thousands, including Anchorman and How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days.
More recently, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Transparent.
David Harbour
Harbour is best known for the role of Jim Hopper in the Netflix sci-fi horror series Stranger Things, for which he won a Critics' Choice Television Award in 2018, as well as Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations.
In 2005 he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
