30 Acting Roles That You May Not Know Now-Famous Actors Had Because They Weren’t Celebrities Yet (Part 2)

In the history of cinema, it is almost impossible to find an actress or actor whose career did not include minor roles or participation in obscure films. Even the great English actor Daniel Day-Lewis, who very carefully chose the films in which he starred so that every third of his films brought him an Oscar nomination, still played several lesser roles in his youth.

What can we say about those Hollywood stars who have long and stubbornly walked to the top, filming along the way in sometimes completely disgusting, low-budget and simply uninteresting films and TV shows? An acting career is like a cardiogram, it has its ups and downs, and sometimes the latter are no less than the former. Even for the worldwide recognized movie stars.

The online database IMDb has collected a selection of little-known roles of star actresses and actors whose names are ringing all over the world today. Bored Panda has already made a list of the most interesting and unusual appearances of stars in lesser roles, so here is the second part of our collection for you!

Feel free to scroll to the very end, promise not to be surprised when you see familiar faces in completely unexpected images, and perhaps this post will be an occasion for you to revisit something from the good old ages of cinema, when our world was still very young, and the greatest movie stars were extremely small.

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Natalie Portman And Jean Reno In Léon: The Professional (1994)

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30 Acting Roles That You May Not Know Now-Famous Actors Had Because They Weren’t Celebrities Yet (Part 2)

Natalie Portman And Jean Reno In Léon: The Professional (1994)

Christian Bale In Empire Of The Sun (1987)

Leslie Nielsen In Forbidden Planet (1956)

Jake Gyllenhaal In City Slickers (1991)

Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Harry Basil, And Glenn Withrow In Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

Kevin Bacon In National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Hilary Swank In Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992)

Jeremy Renner In National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995)

Willem Dafoe In Streets Of Fire (1984)

Cary Elwes And Robin Wright In The Princess Bride (1987)

Reese Witherspoon In The Man In The Moon (1991)

Meryl Streep In The Deer Hunter (1978)

Sarah Jessica Parker And Amy Linker In Square Pegs (1982)

Nicolas Cage In Valley Girl (1983)

Ben Affleck And Pam Potillo In Abc Afterschool Specials (1986)

Daryl Hannah In Blade Runner (1982)

Jodie Foster In Taxi Driver (1976)

Ewan Mcgregor In Shallow Grave (1994)

Matthew Mcconaughey And Rory Cochrane In Dazed And Confused (1993)

Nancy Allen And John Lithgow In Blow Out (1981)

Jerry O'Connell And Ryan Reynolds In Buying The Cow (2002)

Ron Howard In The Andy Griffith Show (1960)

Edward Norton In Primal Fear (1996)

David Hasselhoff And Caroline Munro In Starcrash (1978)

Steve Guttenberg And Krysten Ritter In Veronica Mars (2004)

Anthony Hopkins In Magic (1978)

Charlize Theron In 2 Days In The Valley (1996)

Neve Campbell In Party Of Five (1994)

Emma Stone And Jonah Hill In Superbad (2007)

Mel Gibson In Mad Max (1979)

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