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Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered The Olsen Twins. They literally supported their families financially by working their entire lives and then people have the audacity to belittle them and act like everything was handed to them on a silver platter. They literally didn’t have a childhood and have always been working. They don’t get the respect they deserve. They’re now still massively successful with their fashion lines and have earned the privacy to stay out of the spotlight.

Their sister on the other hand definitely benefited from the pathway they paved. But I just think about all the child stars who were literally the sole support of their family and they had no control over it. People make jokes about child stars going down bad pathways, but that’s more on the environment and the industry than it is on the kids. Imagine blaming kids for being introduced to things at a young age they shouldn’t have been introduced to. Drew Barrymore’s talks about the things she was exposed to as a kid being part of a family dynasty are so disturbing and the media blames the kids and not the industry that cultivated that environment.

End of rant.

svargs01 , Warner Bros. Report

Final score:

159points

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Chris Scritchfield 2 years ago

I think people project more anger at their mother onto them. As there have been several interviews roast and even documentaries made that villifies her as a monster onset. That and good old fashion jealousy.

24points

Snake_Plissken224 , ColliderVideo Report

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Mila Kunis used to work at the store her mom worked at even while she was staring on that 70s show to not let it go to her head.

Final score:

151points

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varwenea 2 years ago

I liked her in the show, and I still like her today. She seemed more genuine than most. She and Ashton Kutcher are a great couple.

41points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Ryan Reynolds had a pretty humble background. I used to rent movies to his brother, back when rental stores were a thing.

givemethebat1 , vancityreynolds Report

Final score:

139points

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varwenea 2 years ago

LOVE this man! Philanthropist, loads of local donations, owns Mint Mobile and Aviator Gin, always charming, humorous, and kind. His movies are always entertaining, too. I hope to see much more of him!

39points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Donald Glover. Dad was a postal worker and his mom was a daycare provider. Went on to be an insanely talented musician, producer, actor, etc.

SPOOKESVILLE , Jesse Chang Report

Final score:

138points

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Benyovszky 2 years ago

Up until this moment I sincerely thought his father was Danny Glover.

56points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered If you still count her, there is Milla Jovovich who was the daughter of a single mother from Ukraine. She's a nice lady who is still very down-to-earth. I've heard many good things about her.

nosmelc , millajovovich Report

Final score:

137points

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SerumSeven 2 years ago

One should always count Milla Jovovich.

39points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Mark Ruffalo is definitely not from a wealthy or well connected family. His family actually owns a pizza place in Kenosha, WI.

staffsargent , markruffalo Report

Final score:

125points

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Fat Harry 2 years ago

Saw the comment once, "Mark Ruffalo sounds like the false name a dog would give if it were pretending to be human".

63points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered I have a lot of respect for Adam Driver. He was the only main actor on Girls who didn't come from privilege or didn't have a parent who was already in the industry. Not surprisingly, he was the most successful actor after Girls ended.

PotentMiracleTonic , dtstuff9 Report

Final score:

113points

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s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago

Former Marine, too.

31points

DigitalFireStorm , New Line Cinema Report

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Elijah woods parents ran a restaurant in Iowa city and weren’t particularly wealthy

Final score:

107points

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Vicky Z 2 years ago

The fact that he was acting from a young age i suppose helped them though

18points

#10

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Jessica Chastain. Grew up in a low income family and could only make it through Julliard thanks to a scholarship (actually awarded by a foundation led by Robin Williams, if I'm not mistaken).

thefrayedfiles , jessicachastain Report

Final score:

107points

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Alex K 2 years ago

goddamn shes beautiful

19points

Ihateregistering6 , channingtatum Report

#11

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Channing Tatum. Grew up in Alabama and Mississippi, he basically only got into showbiz by being signed as a dancer, and he was only a Dancer because he used to be a stripper.

Final score:

104points

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Julie moreau quilliou 2 years ago

Go watch him in the clip for "beautiful trauma"! It's great

16points

#12

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Anna Kendrick is one of the prominent ones I can think of. No show biz parents, got her start in theater as a kid.

puppeteer23 , annakendrick47 Report

Final score:

103points

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varwenea 2 years ago

She was a sidekick in the Twilight movies, which transitioned to a prominent supporting role with George Clooney in Up in the Air, followed by 3 Pitch Perfect, Into the Woods, and numerous leads in rom coms. While the movie plots aren't always the best, she is always a joy to watch.

21points

#13

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Brad Pitt. Was working as the El Pollo Loco chicken on the corner of Sunset and La Brea while trying to make it in Hollywood.

revocer , DoD News Features Report

Final score:

103points

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Vicky Z 2 years ago

And even though he didn't have a strong background he had the guts to threaten Harvey Weinstein to defend Gwyneth Paltrow! This could have destroyed his career

61points

#14

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Jennifer Lawrence is def one. She's such a good actress and comes from a normal background. Grew up in Kentucky and her parents run a summer camp for kids.

dancersniper , Gage Skidmore Report

Final score:

100points

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snipergun 2 years ago

She's just so humble and human at all times. Yes she also enjoys what she made and she has right to do so, but still, when everyone was cra*ping over Kirsten Stewart, Jennifer just came to her and gave her big hug when they met on red carpet, or when she came with perfect reply to question about diet she does when she wants to loose weigh, etc. She's unbelievable, very charming to me with that rough but pure big mouth.

28points

Angelica Schuyler 2 years ago

I agree but she has done and admitted to racist and insensitive things

3points

K Witmer 2 years ago

She's cool but her family was very wealthy. They were upper middle class while she was growing up.

13points

ERIKA H. 2 years ago

I am going to get downvoted for this, but I really do not understand the hype around Jennifer Lawrence.

7points

Teresa Taylor 2 years ago

That's ok. I don't get the hype around the Kardashians. But they're all making a crap load more money than me. LOL

4points

Ylva 2 years ago

I'm glad she still seems very down to earth!

3points

CincyReds 2 years ago

My Kentucky Gal!

1point

Teresa Taylor 2 years ago

I love when she talks about how her brothers still torment her. They still beat her up and have hidden her Oscar. THAT's love!!

1point

Riley Quinn 2 years ago

Not only able to hold her own on screen, she's a pretty good singer besides. Lawrence sang a cappella "The Hanging Tree" in The Hunger Games.

0points

Anita Pickle 2 years ago

I would not say she is such a good actress, but people are drawn to her. She has a charm about her.

0points

Raven DeathShade 2 years ago

She played Katniss Everdeen and Mystique (in the new X-men), right? She's cool :).

0points

Twodogsandapicnictable 2 years ago

Just watch Winters Bone and pretend its biographical. Not that it is. Just try it.

-1point

Teresa Taylor 2 years ago

That's the first thing I ever saw her in and was blown away. Then I saw the Hunger Games and other films. She's quite talented.

0points

Aski Markup 2 years ago

Wasn't she a Weinstein girl?

-2points

TeaDude 2 years ago

Perhaps let's define her by what she's achieved through her hard work, and not by the actions of a predatory man: just a suggestion

7points

InsomniaticAlien , iamsandraohinsta Report

#15

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Sandra Oh. Her parents were middle-class South Korean immigrants and she paid out of pocket for her drama education at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. Her mom was a biochemist and her dad was a businessman.

Final score:

98points

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keepgoing 2 years ago

I love Sandra Oh...she made Grey's Anatomy.

14points

#16

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Wasn't Harrison Ford a carpenter or something first?

Edit: he pretty much was always an actor, but he wasn't satisfied with the roles he was getting early on, so he became a carpenter until he was discovered by George Lucas.

TortureSteak , Gage Skidmore Report

Final score:

97points

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

If he was a carpenter, and I was a lady.....;)

15points

#17

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Rachel McAdams

“born on November 17, 1978, in London, Ontario, Canada, to nurse Sandra (née Gale) and truck driver Lance McAdams

hamer1234 , Gage Skidmore Report

Final score:

94points

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Vicky Z 2 years ago

I really like her

12points

#18

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered selena gomez. she literally came from nothing and worked as a child to support her family.

sel017 , selenagomez Report

Final score:

87points

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Ylva 2 years ago

This sort of things are so sad!

20points

#19

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Awkwafina (daughter of IT worker dad, mother passed away when she was young), Simu Liu (son of engineers).

Kagomefog , awkwafina Report

Final score:

75points

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Thomas Sweda 2 years ago

Isn’t’ that a brand of bottled water?

12points

#20

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Matthew Mcconaughey and Forest Whitaker both came from Longview, TX. Both from modest families.

zetabur , officiallymcconaughey Report

Final score:

73points

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Anita Pickle 2 years ago

Where is the picture of Forest?

0points

#21

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Chris Evans? Isn't his dad just a plain old dentist?

blackrock55 , chrisevans Report

Final score:

70points

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Vicky Z 2 years ago

Who cares? Look at this good boi!!!

56points

#22

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered First thing that came to mind was Dev Patel. Mother was a caregiver, father was an IT guy.

amig_135 , Gordon Correll Report

Final score:

65points

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Joanie 2 years ago

Incredibly gorgeous man

38points

shrinkcylamen , MTV International Report

#23

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered kelly marie tran (lead voice actor in raya, rose tico in star wars) was a nobody whose parents were vietnam refugees. she did collegehumor videos before rian johnson casted her in star wars. tbh i think most asian-american actors are a good place to look if u wanna search for talent without nepotist connections because most asian immigrants don’t start off in hollywood.

Final score:

63points

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UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago

She was so charming in The Last Jedi. She didn’t deserve to be treated the way she was.

19points

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#24

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Seth Rogen - went to public school, mom is a social worker and dad worked at a non-profit.

Fresca_p , sethrogen Report

Final score:

55points

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

His mom is freaking hilarious.

12points

#25

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Vin Diesel was raised by a single mother and was doing community theater and independent projects which got him discovered for saving private ryan.

Finn Wolfhard: His father was a history researcher his mother was an assistant and designer.

I think in the UK something like 80% of the name brand actors come out of a few of the elite preparatory schools. There are a few standouts like John Boyega.

TBBT-Joel , vindiesel Report

Final score:

51points

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Raven DeathShade 2 years ago

I like Vin Diesel. I admire his commitment to Groot.

18points

#26

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered I guess Simu Liu from Marvel's Shang Chi counts. He was an accountant for a brief amount of time before becoming an actor. I'm sure he didn't get rich being an entry level auditor. Simu attended a private school in Toronto. He probably didn't make Hollywood connections there but being around affluence is an advantage. Edit: I thought it would be an advantage being brought up around affluence and communicating with the other wealthy people around. Apparently I'm wrong.

Impressive-Potato , simuliu Report

Final score:

38points

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V Martinez 2 years ago

I haven't seen the Marvel movie he's in, sorry. I have seen him in Kim's Convenience. He's a good actor and handsome young man.

16points

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#27

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Andrew Garfield’s parents were interior designers

YomYeYonge , Gerald Geronimo Report

Final score:

38points

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TheBlackPanda (JustABlackBear) 2 years ago

Underrated Spider-man

5points

#28

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered The banger cast of Short Term 12 (2013) were pretty much nobodies.

Brie Larson - parents are chiropractors.

John Gallagher Junior - parents were folk musicians in Delaware.

Kaitlyn Dever - father voices barney. Make that what you will, not sure how much a voice actor can get you connections.

Rami Malik - immigrant parents (insurance worker and accounting) from Egypt.

LaKeith Stanfield - no info on his parents. Grew up in dysfunctional family in the middle of nowhere California.

Stephanie Beatriz - Immigrant from Argentina and grew up in Texas.

The director and writer of Short Term 12, Destin Cretton, was born in Hawaii to a hairdressor and firefighter. He is now the director of Marvel's Shang Chi movies.

Pancake_muncher , brielarson Report

Final score:

37points

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Raven DeathShade 2 years ago

Rami Malik was great as Freddy Mercury!

21points

#29

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered I was suppose to be childhood friends with Taylor Lautner. (His dad would ask my mom for us to hang out together as children and play I guess?) He got the gig because his karate teacher just happened to know the yellow power ranger at the time according to my mom. And his dad was a jerk apparently.

Oniketojen , Eva Rinaldi Report

Final score:

30points

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TheBlackPanda (JustABlackBear) 2 years ago

This guy ruined his career because he thought he was a bigger actor than he really was. After Twilight he would ask for more money than he's worth when he got offered roles. Eventually they'd find someone else that would take what they're offering. He kept doing that until people forgot about him

12points

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#30

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered I think DiCaprio and Toby Maguire weren't connected. They were best friends growing up though and came up in the business together.

mbattagl , Georges Biard Report

Final score:

27points

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Patricia Murray 2 years ago

I don't know what to believe here. The movie Molly game it's well known that the AH (player X) is supposedly based on Tobey McGuire. That movie ruined me as a fan for him. I couldn't like him after that.

8points

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#31

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Barry Keoghan, fantastic Irish actor known for Killing of a Sacred Deer, “Druig” in Eternals, Green Knight, Dunkirk. From his Wikipedia:

“Keoghan grew up in Summerhill, Dublin, Ireland.[5] Alongside his brother, he spent seven years in foster care, in 13 different foster homes.[6] His mother died of a heroin overdose when he was 12 years old,[5][6] and he was then raised by his maternal grandmother and aunt.[5][7]”

Archfey_Tazlia , keoghan92 Report

Final score:

17points

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#32

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered The UK actor thing is very real and kind of crazy when you look into it. But there are some exceptions. Richard Madden’s parents were a school teacher and a firefighter, for instance.

Arkeolog , maddenrichard Report

Final score:

14points

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Aahzmandus Pervect 2 years ago

The UK actor thing?

14points

aretasdamon , Seann William Scott Report

#33

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Sean William Scott was selling churros while doing American Pie

Final score:

12points

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Vicky Z 2 years ago

Did he went back to that afterwards? Cause I've never seen him anywhere else

1point

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#34

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Olivia Cooke is from the same town as me (Oldham, Lancashire) and it is a really poor, miserable place so you are spot on with her. I was genuinely shocked that she could be from there and become so successful but that just shows you how talented she is

sailorellie85 , Gage Skidmore Report

Final score:

10points

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#35

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Aaron Paul ? His father was a baptist minister.

melonguy1789 Report

Final score:

10points

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Rijkærd 2 years ago

Love this guy...from Breaking Bad and 12 Monkeys ...

2points

#36

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Chris Pratt. Dude was living in a van, down by a Hawaiian river and was discovered while working as a server at a Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant.

PandahOG , prattprattpratt Report

Final score:

10points

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J.L. Martin 2 years ago

Photo title and photo don't match (Aaron Paul vs. Chris Pratt)

9points

#37

Someone In This Online Group Asked “Which Currently Popular Actor Is Not A Product Of Being Well-Connected And/Or Rich?” And 30 Folks Delivered Olivia Rodrigo. Grew up in the boonies in Temecula, CA. Her parents are middle class. She worked hard and now is a super star.

revocer , oliviarodrigo Report

Final score:

8points

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Raven DeathShade 2 years ago

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#38

Pete Davidson kinda. He did work himself up as a comic, which eventually got him into SNL. The connects he gained from there seem invaluable.

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Final score:

5points

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Dorothy Parker 2 years ago

His dad was NYFD firefighter who died on 9/11 when Pete was very young.

9points

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#39

Mackenzie Foy.

Her family had/has zero connections to the entertainment industry, and yet she wound up succeeding, and given she's still quite young, she's got plenty of years ahead of her to expand. There are others who befit this, but she comes to mind as an example.

BergenIconoclast Report

Final score:

4points

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Ylva 2 years ago

I love her interviews! Even when she was like ten she were super professional, more then many grown up celebrities.

4points

#40

McKenna Grace

Most recently in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. She's been in several big movies in small child roles with this one being her biggest so far, I think. As far as I know she's just some girl from Grapevine (Dallas) Texas. An acquaintance of mine is her aunt and moved out to California to help with her Mckenna's career (I think to mooch off her talent).

IglooBackpack Report

Final score:

3points

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Frank Smith 2 years ago

Drake came from a single mom family living cloe to poverty until he got a role on "Degrassi" then became a mega-hit musical artist.

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Don John 2 years ago

They might not have hit the wealth lottery , but a lot of them hit the looks lottery........ a large selection here wouldn't have got their start without being pretty good-looking young adults/kids.

8points

Leodavinci 2 years ago

Few of them are strikingly attractive... and some aren't very attractive at all.

1point

Patti 2 years ago

I think most actors, not celebrities, come from normal families

8points

Leodavinci 2 years ago

I'd be surprised if more than a low single digit percentage of actors come from acting families.

0points

Tee Witt 2 years ago

Very few of these came from 'nothing'.

4points

Frannie Kaplan 2 years ago

And their looks are 11/10.

0points

Pacifico Fernandez 2 years ago

Danny Trejo is my favorite. He was a criminal and started acting in jail. I love his story.

3points

Christopher Bowers 2 years ago

No Billy Bob Thornton stories? Billy Bob moved to LA and had a heck of a rough life. https://www.grunge.com/420853/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-billy-bob-thornton/ Also this too talks about how him and a friend stuggled to survive on just $6 a week. https://www.legends.report/billy-bob-thornton-how-pizza-and-rum-kept-his-dreams-alive/

3points

OctoPaige 2 years ago

How could this list omit the legendary DANNY TREJO! He was an actual convict, who looked so menacing that he got picked out to -play- a convict, and now he's MACHETE! Fighting fascists by day, peacefully selling tacos by night. Humble as heck. Love him.

2points

KimB 2 years ago

The dude just looks scary! He could be dressed in a tutu holding a basket full of kittens and still be scary!!! (He truly is an amazing guy tho definitely didn't let Hollywood go to his head)

2points

Jonathan Labelle 2 years ago

i think tom hank grew in a poor familly

2points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

Tom Hanks's childhood was reported to be a hellish one where his parents kept on remarrying over and over again (to different partners, meaning he ended up with many, many stepparents) and allegedly he had so may stepsiblings that he was referred to as "Number 10". Apparently if you act like a crazed, obsessed fan over him he keeps his distance but if you're decent around him he's a great guy to be around. In fact the only negative I've ever really heard about him was how he and his wife Rita Wilson treated Nia Vardalos over the profits/royalties from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but that was more of a business matter than anything.

0points

Lily Mae Kitty 2 years ago

James Gandolfini came from a normal middle class family. We went to school together. he was a really nice guy who stayed in touch with his old friends.

1point

Anita Rapp 2 years ago

Hillary Swank? Grew up in a trailer park.

1point

Nadine Bamberger 2 years ago

Misha Collins. I know, not even close to a Hollywood A Lister, but he was hopelessly as a child growing up with a single mom and a younger brother. They lived in Tests in the woods or abandoned houses. He's using his insanely devoted fanbase to do good deeds, runs the non-profit "Random Acts" and is a really kind guy.

1point

RK Barbo 2 years ago

I have to give a shout out to my all time fave, Michelle Pfeiffer. She was a so-cal beach bunny working as a cashier when she won Miss Orange County. The rest is history.

0points

Frannie Kaplan 2 years ago

Demonising people because they're rich... Guess what, sorry to break you bubble, but sometimes it's just PLAIN LUCK and a combination ofntalent. Also 90% of these people were insanely good looking teenagers. Brad Pitt? Tatum? Leo dicaprio? Their looks was their connection.

0points

Vic D 2 years ago

Dan Aykroyd ? Grew up in Ottawa Canada.

0points

Gelato Cat 2 years ago

these all the best actors out there

0points

Barbara Skolly 2 years ago

Tiffany Haddish. I know she just got arrested for DUI but boy did she have a tough upbringing with zero connections. One could make a movie about her life

0points

Al Christensen 2 years ago

How many of these will end up on the lost admiration list?

0points

jenjie.newt 2 years ago

Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad!

0points

Gabby M 2 years ago (edited)

Makes sense. Most of those celebs are known for being decent people.

0points

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Don John 2 years ago

They might not have hit the wealth lottery , but a lot of them hit the looks lottery........ a large selection here wouldn't have got their start without being pretty good-looking young adults/kids.

8points

Leodavinci 2 years ago

Few of them are strikingly attractive... and some aren't very attractive at all.

1point

Patti 2 years ago

I think most actors, not celebrities, come from normal families

8points

Leodavinci 2 years ago

I'd be surprised if more than a low single digit percentage of actors come from acting families.

0points

Tee Witt 2 years ago

Very few of these came from 'nothing'.

4points

Frannie Kaplan 2 years ago

And their looks are 11/10.

0points

Pacifico Fernandez 2 years ago

Danny Trejo is my favorite. He was a criminal and started acting in jail. I love his story.

3points

Christopher Bowers 2 years ago

3points

OctoPaige 2 years ago

2points

KimB 2 years ago

The dude just looks scary! He could be dressed in a tutu holding a basket full of kittens and still be scary!!! (He truly is an amazing guy tho definitely didn't let Hollywood go to his head)

2points

Jonathan Labelle 2 years ago

i think tom hank grew in a poor familly

2points

Diane Aguilar 2 years ago

0points