The Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves Cast - Then And Now

The actress stepped into the role at the last-minute, after first choice Robin Wright had to drop out when she got pregnant. She’s been married to Irish director Pat O’Connor for 26 years and the pair have two kids. While appearing sporadically on the big screen, including 2000’s ‘The Perfect Storm’ with George Clooney, Mastrantonio has focused more on TV and the stage. She frequently crops up as law enforcement authority figures in everything from ‘Law and Order: Criminal Intent’ to the small screen adaptation of ‘Limitless’.

Costner had another couple of glory years with ‘JFK’ released the same year and then ‘The Bodyguard’ in 1992. But the gossip rags’ attack on ‘Waterworld’ dulled his star and despite some intermittently great entries since – ‘Thirteen Days’, ‘The Upside of Anger’, ‘Open Range’ – the actor is still reaching for another iconic role.

One of the most indelible baddies in screen history, Rickman famously improvised some of his funniest dialogue having turned the role down twice. His distinguished screen career ran the gamut from romantic weepy ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’ to 2016 sequel ‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’, via probably his most iconic role as Professor Snape in the ‘Harry Potter’ series. He sadly died of cancer aged just 69 in January 2016.

The absurdly gruff-voiced actor has been a successful Hollywood character actor since graduating from Juilliard in 1986. Now 58, apart from ‘Robin Hood’, he’s probably best-known for playing a villain in ‘The Crow’, while being brief tabloid fodder in the early Noughties when he dated Mick’s daughter Elizabeth Jagger, 26 years his junior. He’s currently filming ‘Ghost In The Shell’ opposite Scarlett Johansson.

Now 40 – yes really – Newman missed most of his last year of school to play the cheeky young merry man. He spent most of his acting career on UK telly, in episodes of ‘Doctors’, ‘Judge John Deed’ and ‘Holby City’. However, his main job now is as a personal trainer in Wimbledon and he’s successful at it - he employs ten other trainers and has two gyms with a third on the way.

The 71-year-old Bristolian actor was a child performer and taught at the University of Baghdad before making it as an actor. Since ‘Prince of Thieves’, he’s been a regular on British TV – in the BBC adaptation of ‘War & Peace’ and three episodes of gentle crime drama ‘Grantchester’. Which is probably better than his 2003 effort ‘Never Say Never Mind: The Swedish Bikini Team’, in which he starred alongside Gimli from ‘Lord of the Rings’. And some blonde women in swimwear.

The Hollywood legend was still a comparatively little-known actor when he played Robin’s best buddy, having finally made his mark as a film performer two years previously in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ and ‘Glory’. Since then, the 79-year-old has become one of the most beloved stars – and voices – ever, winning an Oscar for ‘Million Dollar Baby’ in 2004.

Slater’s movie career took a bit of a dive in the mid-90s, not helped by an substance abuse problem which resulted him in being convicted of trying to take a gun on a plane, as well as assaulting his girlfriend and a police officer. In amongst the cheese of ‘Kuffs’ and ‘Bed of Roses’ were quality efforts like ‘True Romance’ and ‘Broken Arrow’. The 46-year-old is now married to Brittany Lopez, 17 years his junior and stars in hit show ‘Mr Robot’.

THE LOUDEST ACTOR IN THE UNIVERSE managed to avoid his trademark bellow for most of his role as Robin’s dad in ‘Prince of Thieves’. Post-1991, Blessed’s acting career has been a mixed bag, voicing the fourth-most-annoying character in ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’ and lending his dulcet tones to 2012 animation ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’. He’s spent more time becoming a hirsute national treasure.

Most famous for his appearances on improv comedy show ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’, the performer’s a well-regarded voice actor, appeared in ‘Office Space’ and ‘Seinfeld’ and got good notices for playing the killer plant in the London revival of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’. Although no doubt his proudest moment on the British stage was starring opposite Les Dennis in a play at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006.