LEE PACE
AGE 28

BROKE OUT IN... ABC's freshman series Pushing Daisies, as a pie shop owner who can raise the dead with his touch.

WHY HIM Talk about range: Long before Daisies, Pace was a Golden Globe nominee for his portrayal of a transgendered nightclub performer in Showtime's Soldier's Girl (2003).

WHAT'S NEXT He appears as a charming pianist alongside Amy Adams and Frances McDormand in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (March 7) as well as in the upcoming lush fantasy, The Fall.