Daniel Dae Kim

Korean-born Kim, who plays expert fisherman Jin, grew up in the United States. Maybe that's how he landed a character with an all-American name like Tom Baker, the counter-terrorism agent he played as a recurring role for two seasons on 24. Baker didn't get to do much, though he did get to arrest Sherry Palmer (Penny Johnson Jerald, shown) in the season 2 finale. Kim had similarly thankless recurring roles on ER and Angel before he got his big break on Lost. ''I wish I could say that they were looking for me all over the globe,'' he told EW, ''but my agent got the call that they needed a Korean who could speak Korean, and I got the part.''