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.
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Octavia Spencer was the check-in lady at the wrestling arena in Spider-Man :
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Leonardo DiCaprio was an extra as one of Darlene's classmates in Roseanne :
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Zachary Quinto played a TV commercial director in an episode of Lizzie McGuire :
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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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Aubrey Plaza had one line as an NBC page on 30 Rock :
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Kaley Cuoco played Elisa in the Disney Channel movie Alley Cats Strike :
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Kevin McHale was a student at PCA in two episodes of Zoey 101 :
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Ben Affleck played an uncredited basketball player in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie:
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Jennifer Lawrence's first acting role was as a school mascot in one episode of Monk :
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James Marsden was in two episodes of The Nanny :
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Jon Huertas was Brad, a witch hunter, in Sabrina the Teenage Witch :
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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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Dianna Agron played a girl who could fit her whole fist in her mouth on Drake & Josh :
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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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John Cho played a parking valet in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas :
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Rachel McAdams played Riley's sister in a single episode of Disney Channel's The Famous Jett Jackson :
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Kevin Hart played a cameraman in Along Came Polly :
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Jessica Alba was a school bully in The Secret World of Alex Mack :
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Sara Ramírez was the cashier in You've Got Mail :
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Elijah Wood is credited as "video game boy" in Back to the Future Part II :
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Simon Helberg was a nerd in A Cinderella Story :
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Julie Bowen played Virginia in Happy Gilmore :
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Don Cheadle was in a single episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air :
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Hugh Laurie was actually in Spice World :
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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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Taran Killam was Frankie Muniz's bully in Big Fat Liar :
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Michael Cera was in Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's iconic movie called Switching Goals :
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Maggie Wheeler was the camp counselor in The Parent Trap :
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Eric Stonestreet played a hotel receptionist in 10 seconds of Almost Famous:
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Johnny Galecki was Rusty in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation :
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Steve Carell played a security guard in the iconic movie Sleepover :
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Adam Sandler got his start as Smitty on The Cosby Show :
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Katherine Heigl was in Disney's TV movie Wish Upon a Star:
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Noel Fisher played the bully in Max Keeble's Big Move :
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Kristen Stewart was an extra in Disney Channel's The Thirteenth Year :
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Joe Manganiello was Peter Parker's bully in the original Spider-Man :
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Abigail Breslin was the little girl at the parade in The Princess Diaries 2:
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Mike O'Malley was the host of Nickelodeon's Global Guts :
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Nikki Cox played Eric Matthews' girlfriend in a single episode of Boy Meets World :
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Selena Gomez played a kid for two years on Barney & Friends :
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Emmy Rossum played Claire in the Disney Channel movie Genius :
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Zac Efron was on the short-lived WB series called Summerland :
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Angela Bassett was a flight attendant in about two seconds of Kindergarten Cop :
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And Ryan Reynolds was the love interest in the Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV movie:
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