Jude Law
As part of a joke referencing his Sexiest Man Alive Title and six theatrical releases of 2004, host Chris Rock pondered at the 2005 Oscars ceremony: "Who is Jude Law?" Well, he's the son of schoolteachers named after the Thomas Hardy novel who spent his teen years enrolled in Britain's National Youth Music Theatre and eventually dropped out of high school to work on the soap Families. He bared all on Broadway in 1995's Indiscretions, which earned him a Tony nomination. On his first big film break, 1994's Shopping, he met Sadie Frost who wed the Road to Perdition villain