Celebrity Roles Before Their Fame (29 pics)

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Angela Bassett was a flight attendant in about two seconds of Kindergarten Cop

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Selena Gomez played a kid for two years on Barney & Friends

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Mike O'Malley was the host of Nickelodeon's Global Guts

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Joe Manganiello was Peter Parker's bully in the original Spider-Man

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Adam Sandler got his start as Smitty on The Cosby Show

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Johnny Galecki was Rusty in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

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Eric Stonestreet played a hotel receptionist in 10 seconds of Almost Famous

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Maggie Wheeler was the camp counselor in The Parent Trap

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Laurence Fishburne played a soldier in Apocalypse Now, even though he was only 14 and lied about his age to get the part

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Hugh Laurie was actually in Spice World

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Don Cheadle was in a single episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

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Elijah Wood is credited as "video game boy" in Back to the Future Part II

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Jessica Alba was a school bully in The Secret World of Alex Mack

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Kevin Hart played a cameraman in Along Came Polly

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John Cho played a parking valet in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

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Amy Adams was on a single episode of Charmed in one of her very first acting credits

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Adam Scott was Griff Hawkins, the new kid/bully, in a few episodes of Boy Meets World

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James Marsden was in two episodes of The Nanny

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Jennifer Lawrence's first acting role was as a school mascot in one episode of Monk

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Ben Affleck played an uncredited basketball player in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie

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Kaley Cuoco played Elisa in the Disney Channel movie Alley Cats Strike

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Aubrey Plaza had one line as an NBC page on 30 Rock

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Ryan Gosling was in an episode of both Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? in the '90s

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Zachary Quinto played a TV commercial director in an episode of Lizzie McGuire

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Leonardo DiCaprio was an extra as one of Darlene's classmates in Roseanne

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Octavia Spencer was the check-in lady at the wrestling arena in Spider-Man