Josh Holloway

The character of con man Sawyer was written as a fast-talking New Yorker, but Georgia-born Holloway used his Southern drawl in his successful audition for the part. ''I just threw the [Buffalo] accent out the window,'' he told EW. ''I knew they'd laugh at me if I tried it.'' Surely the drawl was more impressive than Holloway's résumé, which consisted mostly of guest spots on such shows as CSI and Angel. Oh, and one memorable moment in the 1993 music video for Aerosmith's ''Cryin''' (shown), where he played the thief who makes the mistake of snatching Alicia Silverstone's purse and gets his butt kicked by the teen. Guess that was good practice for Sawyer's tussles with Kate and Ana Lucia.