2007 Faces to watch

Mary Elizabeth Winstead
The ingenue last seen in “Grindhouse” plays Lucy, the strong-willed daughter of equally bullheaded cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) in the latest installment in the action-thriller franchise, “Live Free or Die Hard.” Opens June 27.  (Hector Mata / AFP / Getty Images)

Zac Efron
The graduate of the Disney Channel’s phenomenally successful “High School Musical,” heads to the big screen in “Hairspray,” another popular musical about teen-agers, but this time circa 1960s. And he’s sharing the screen with Oscar nominees John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer and winner Christopher Walken. Opens July 20.  (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

Garrett Hedlund
After playing Lindsay Lohan’s virginal Mormon boyfriend in this weekend’s “Georgia Rule,” he joins Kevin Bacon in the vigilante thriller “Death Sentence.” Opens Aug. 31.  (Evan Agostini / Getty Images)

Marina Hands
The French actress received the Cesar—that country’s equivalent of an Oscar — for her passionate performance as a nobelwoman who experiences a sexual awakening with her a gamekeeper in the romance “Lady Chatterley,” based on D. H. Lawrence’s last novel. Opens June 22.  (Michael Kappeler / AFP/Getty Images)

Josh Flitter
The young actor played Shia LaBoeuf’s wise-cracking caddy in 2005’s “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” and now he pairs up with Emma Roberts — Julia’s niece — who plays the famous teen-age sleuth in “Nancy Drew,” which opens June 15. Later this summer, he’s offering his support to John Krasinski, Mandy Moore and Robin Williams in the comedy “License to Wed,” which opens July 4.  (Robert Gauthier / LAT)

Taraji P. Henson
The actress steals every scene as the fast-talking, ex-stripper girlfriend of an outspoken Washington, D.C. D.J. (Don Cheadle) in the comedy-drama “Talk to Me.” Opens July 13.  (Jason DeCrow / AP)