Britain's most likely: the young actors set for stardom

But all the young actors pictured, right, have been tipped for success by the influential film industry magazine Screen International.

Rebecca Hall, the daughter of the director Sir Peter Hall, and Dan Stevens and Hayley Atwell, both seen in the TV adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel, are among the names being hailed as the next generation of British stars.

Others include Riz Ahmed, who appeared in Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantanamo, Nonso Anozie, who was acclaimed for his Othello with the Cheek by Jowl company, and Simon Woods, who played the endearing Mr Bingley in Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley.

Two potential stars, both chosen to appear in the Zoe Heller adaptation Notes on a Scandal alongside Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, are still at school. They are 16-year-old Juno Temple and Andrew Simpson, 17.

Several casting directors singled out Joe Anderson for "his unconventional good looks and charming personality". He is currently shooting the romance Becoming Jane alongside Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy and will then make Copying Beethoven with Ed Harris.

Des Hamilton, a casting director, told Screen International that Thomas Turgoose, who stars in This is England, Shane Meadows' film about fascist skinheads, had made the best screen debut he had seen in years.

The final actors on the Screen talent list are Jodie Whittaker, currently appearing in Enemies at the Almeida theatre in London, and Andrea Riseborough, who left Rada last year. Both have just shot Roger Michell's Venus alongside Peter O'Toole.

But the magazine also picks the hottest talent among new producers, directors and writers, too.

With these, it has particular form. In 2004, it chose Andrea Arnold, whose film debut Red Road has just won the Cannes jury prize, and last year it featured Mia Bays, who this year won an Oscar for best short film.

Among its new tips for success are two brothers, Ben and Chris Blaine, writer-directors who have produced a series of award-winning shorts and are now working on three features.

Others include Jamie Johnson, a director making short films for Channel 4 and adverts, Krishnendu Majumdar, a director who has made uncompromising TV documentaries such as Who You Callin' a Nigger? and Lucy Moore, a writer, whose first script, Gone, was described by one commissioning editor as the best first script she had read.

Tristram Shapeero, who directed the Channel 4 comedy series Peep Show, Green Wing and Brass Eye, is being touted to move into film.

Some talents on the Screen International hot list have made bigger leaps than that. Barrington Paul Robinson spent 15 years working in finance before becoming a producer while Laurence Belton, a writer, trained as a lawyer.

The other chosen talents are: Miranda Bowen, Corinna Faith, Daniel Mulloy, Tom Harper, Robert Morgan, Gabriel Range, Simon Finch, John Williams and Chris Waitt, all writer-directors; Laurence Relton, Kate Hardie and Richard Warlow, all writers; Jane Hooks, David Smith, and Wendy Bevan-Mogg and Izzy Mant, all producers.

Screen International's successes

* Nonso Anozie

After notable stage success in King Lear and Othello, Anozie moved into film with an epic, The Last Legion, and has just been cast in the film version of Ian McEwan's Atonement

* Simon Woods

Enjoyed a big break as Mr Bingley in last year's Pride and Prejudice and is now lined up for films including Penelope with Reese Witherspoon and the next series of the BBC's Rome

* Rebecca Hall

After acclaim on stage, including productions, such as As You Like It, directed by her father, Sir Peter Hall, her first films were a British comedy, Starter for Ten, last year and then The Prestige in Los Angeles

* Nichola Burley

Alongside a constant flow of television work, she was noted for strong performance in Dominic Savage's just-released film Love + Hate. She will be the lead in his new work in London

* Lucy Holt

Her plans to act were sidetracked by modelling work but she is now back on course with agents praising her talent for comedy. She has just filmed Hallam Foe with Jamie Bell

* Dan Stevens

After causing controversy in The Romans in Britain at the Sheffield Crucible and as the gay lead in The Line of Beauty on BBC2, Stevens is now on stage with Judi Dench in Hay Fever

* Rafi Gavron

Within a week of getting an agent, he won a part in Anthony Minghella's film Breaking and Entering. The 16-year-old is now off to Italy for the new series of Rome

* Hayley Atwell

She was scarcely out of drama school when she was cast in The Line of Beauty. Having just finished a run with the Royal Shakespeare Company, she is now doing more television

* Riz Ahmed

After wowing last year's Edinburgh festival in the play Prayer Room and appearing in Michael Winterbottom's film The Road to Guantanamo, Ahmed is rehearsing the opera Gaddafi