We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which actors they were surprised to learn were in ~that~ TV show or movie before they became famous. Here are the wild results.
1. Ashley Tisdale was a student in Donnie Darko:
2. Scarlett Johansson was Alex's older sister in Home Alone 3:
3. Octavia Spencer was the check-in lady at the wrestling arena in Spider-Man:
4. Leonardo DiCaprio was an extra as one of Darlene's classmates in Roseanne:
5. Zachary Quinto played a TV commercial director in an episode of Lizzie McGuire:
6. Ryan Gosling was in an episode of both Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? in the '90s:
7. Aubrey Plaza had one line as an NBC page on 30 Rock:
8. Kaley Cuoco played Elisa in the Disney Channel movie Alley Cats Strike:
9. Kevin McHale was a student at PCA in two episodes of Zoey 101:
10. Ben Affleck played an uncredited basketball player in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie:
11. Jennifer Lawrence's first acting role was as a school mascot in one episode of Monk:
12. James Marsden was in two episodes of The Nanny:
13. Jon Huertas was Brad, a witch hunter, in Sabrina the Teenage Witch:
14. Adam Scott was Griff Hawkins, the new kid/bully, in a few episodes of Boy Meets World:
15. Dianna Agron played a girl who could fit her whole fist in her mouth on Drake & Josh:
16. Amy Adams was on a single episode of Charmed in one of her very first acting credits:
17. John Cho played a parking valet in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas:
18. Rachel McAdams played Riley's sister in a single episode of Disney Channel's The Famous Jett Jackson:
19. Kevin Hart played a cameraman in Along Came Polly:
20. Jessica Alba was a school bully in The Secret World of Alex Mack:
21. Sara Ramírez was the cashier in You've Got Mail:
22. Elijah Wood is credited as "video game boy" in Back to the Future Part II:
23. Simon Helberg was a nerd in A Cinderella Story:
24. Julie Bowen played Virginia in Happy Gilmore:
25. Don Cheadle was in a single episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:
26. Hugh Laurie was actually in Spice World:
27. Laurence Fishburne played a soldier in Apocalypse Now, even though he was only 14 and lied about his age to get the part:
28. Taran Killam was Frankie Muniz's bully in Big Fat Liar:
29. Michael Cera was in Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's iconic movie called Switching Goals:
30. Maggie Wheeler was the camp counselor in The Parent Trap:
31. Eric Stonestreet played a hotel receptionist in 10 seconds of Almost Famous:
32. Johnny Galecki was Rusty in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation:
33. Steve Carell played a security guard in the iconic movie Sleepover:
34. Adam Sandler got his start as Smitty on The Cosby Show:
35. Katherine Heigl was in Disney's TV movie Wish Upon a Star:
36. Noel Fisher played the bully in Max Keeble's Big Move:
37. Kristen Stewart was an extra in Disney Channel's The Thirteenth Year:
38. Joe Manganiello was Peter Parker's bully in the original Spider-Man:
39. Abigail Breslin was the little girl at the parade in The Princess Diaries 2:
40. Mike O'Malley was the host of Nickelodeon's Global Guts:
41. Nikki Cox played Eric Matthews' girlfriend in a single episode of Boy Meets World:
42. Selena Gomez played a kid for two years on Barney & Friends:
43. Emmy Rossum played Claire in the Disney Channel movie Genius:
44. Zac Efron was on the short-lived WB series called Summerland:
45. Angela Bassett was a flight attendant in about two seconds of Kindergarten Cop:
46. And Ryan Reynolds was the love interest in the Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV movie:
Did we miss your favorite early role of a famous person? Tell us about it in the comments below!
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