Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet made her name as a British actress with performances in period dramas, most notably Sense and Sensibility, for which she won a BAFTA Award for the role of Marianne Dashwood. She made her name as a global star when James Cameron cast her in his blockbuster Academy Award-winning epic Titanic, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. Afterward, she preferred roles in smaller, less commercial films such as Quills and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. For her work in The Reader, adapted from the novel of the same name by Bernard Schlink, she won both the Oscar and the BAFTA in the Best Actress category. Other Kate Winslet films include Heavenly Creatures, Holy Smoke!, Hideous Kinky, Revolutionary Road, Little Children, Finding Neverland, and A Little Chaos.
Judy Davis
Davis is one of Australia's most esteemed actresses, with a career that spans more than four decades. A classmate of Mel Gibson at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art, Davis spent the first part of her career working in the theater, winning an Olivier Award nomination in 1982 for her role in the production of Insignificance.
In 1984, Davis was cast in David Lean's epic adaptation of A Passage to India, opposite Dame Peggy Ashcroft, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. A second nomination followed six years later for Husbands and Wives. She became only the fourth Australian actress to receive an Academy Award nomination and the first to be nominated in both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories. In 2017 she was cast in the television mini-series Feud: Bette and Joan as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. Davis's other films include Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, My Brilliant Career, Barton Fink, Marie Antoinette, and The Eye of the Storm.
Liam Hemsworth
Liam Hemsworth made his debut on the television soap opera Neighbors. It was in the movie adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' The Last Song that he caught the attention of the global film-going public. Two years later he starred in The Hunger Games as Gale Hawthorne. His other films include Empire State, Independence Day: Resurgence, Isn't It Romantic, Killerman, and Arkansas.
Hugo Weaving
Best known for playing the role of Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy, Weaving also starred in both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Weaving began his illustrious acting career playing Australian cult hero cricketer Douglas Bradman in the biopic Bodyline, before being cast as Mitzi del Bra in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994. Weaving has also become one of the most successful voice actors of his generation, most recently voicing Megatron in The Transformers franchise. His other films include Cloud Atlas, V for Vendetta, Happy Feet, and Proof.
Sarah Snook
Snook joined fellow Dressmaker star Kate Winslet in the 2015 movie Steve Jobs, a few months after filming on The Dressmaker wrapped up. She was cast in 2018 on the HBO drama series Succession, playing the role of Siobhan Roy, which catapulted her to mainstream fame. Her other films include Jessabelle, The Glass Castle, and Sleeping Beauty.
