Actor: Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid broke through in Breaking Away and The Right Stuff, the latter giving him Gordon Cooper, played with a confidence the film treats as slightly ridiculous and entirely earned.

The Big Easy, Innerspace and Great Balls of Fire gave him a run of 1980s leads, and he lost a substantial amount of weight for Wyatt Earp in a way he has said damaged his health.

Frequency, Far from Heaven and The Parent Trap fill out the later work, and he has been open about a cocaine addiction during the 1980s.