Danielle Panabaker

Disney had her first. Panabaker, born in Augusta, Georgia in 1987, was acting as a teenager and came up through Stuck in the Suburbs, Sky High and Read It and Weep, alongside the HBO miniseries Empire Falls. The work was recognised at the time: she took three Young Artist Awards, for a guest turn on The Guardian, for the television film Searching for David's Heart, and for the ensemble of Yours, Mine and Ours.

What happened next was a deliberate hard left. Between 2007 and 2012 she made Mr Brooks, the Friday the 13th remake, The Crazies, John Carpenter's The Ward and Piranha 3DD, an unusually concentrated horror run for someone who arrived via the Disney Channel. Some of those films are poor. She is not the problem in any of them, and the reason is that she plays fear as irritation and disbelief rather than hysteria, which reads as human in a genre that mostly does not.

The Flash then gave her the thing that actually builds a career, which is time. Caitlin Snow and her alter ego Killer Frost let her play warmth and menace inside the same show for years, and superhero television at that length is a peculiar kind of training: enormous volume, variable scripts, an audience that notices everything.

Around all of that sits a steady line of television movies and procedural work, from Shark and Necessary Roughness to a run of romantic seasonal films. It is a career built on being dependable, which is a less glamorous virtue than it should be.