Representing four continents, these 13 hot prospects possess the rare combination of sex appeal, talent, ambition, and luck it takes to make it in a business where the majority of working actors earn less than $7,500 a year. Four started out as models, another four paid dues on soaps, and one’s still in high school, but all are making bids for movie greatness. L.A. native Monet Mazur, who was named after her father’s favorite artist, stars with New Zealand’s Martin Henderson in the motorcycle thriller Torque. Brazilian heartthrob Rodrigo Santoro, who played a shy graphic designer in Love Actually, will pair up with Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann’s Chanel No. 5 ads. Australia’s Rose Byrne stars opposite Brad Pitt in this year’s Troy. After a worldwide search, her co-star Diane Kruger, a German ex-model, was chosen to play Helen, the face that launched a thousand ships. Mexico’s Diego Luna, who broke hearts in 2002’s Y Tu Mama Tambíen, joins Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal. Charlie Hunnam, who was charming in Nicholas Nickleby and terrifying in Cold Mountain, is on board for Robert Towne’s Ask the Dust, with Salma Hayek and Colin Farrell. At just 18, California’s Emile Hirsch can already count Jodie Foster and, in the upcoming Imaginary Heroes, Sigourney Weaver among his co-stars. A southern belle with the second-biggest smile in Hollywood, Ashley Scott stars in Walking Tall, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Into the Blue, a loose remake of Peter Benchley’s The Deep. Gus Van Sant cast high-school student John Robinson in Elephant, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Next up for Robinson is Asia Argento’s The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things— and then he has to graduate. All My Children veteran Josh Duhamel stars in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and on NBC’s Las Vegas. Joy Bryant grew up in the Bronx, went to Yale, and modeled for Tommy Hilfiger. Now she’s in Baadasssss!, Mario Van Peebles’s upcoming movie about his dad. Britain’s Will Kemp, an accomplished ballet dancer, broke into the limelight with a Gap ad. He plays the Wolf Man in this year’s Van Helsing, with Hugh Jackman. They’ve all got legs, but time will tell who’s going to go the distance.