TAKESHI KANESHIRO, 35

Profile: Half-Taiwanese, half-Japanese

Trademark: Long hair (Sometimes sports a sweet little beard)

Music link: Got his start as a pop idol at age 15

Special skill: Learnt martial-arts moves for role in House Of Flying Daggers

Other roles: Starred as a cop in Hong Kong blockbuster Confession Of Pain; played the Grim Reaper in Accuracy Of Death; acted as an earthbound angel in Lavender; took on a ruthless empire builder in ancient China in Red Cliff

Quote proving he doesn't like attention: "Just forget me. No reason. When it ends, it ends."

KEANU REEVES, 44

Profile: Half-Chinese- Hawaiian, half-English

Trademark: Once it was his long hair but now it's a scruffy beard

Music link: Played bass in a band called Dogstar

Special skill: Learnt martial-arts moves for role in Matrix movies

Other roles: Starred in The Day The Earth Stood Still, which was so lame it should've been called Confession Of Pain; met the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey; battled demons in Constantine; took on a ruthless vampire in Dracula.

For more my paper stories click here.