40 Celebrities Who Starred In Totally Random Roles When Their Careers Were Kicking Off
You’ll know the feeling. You’re watching a TV show — maybe a slightly older one — and suddenly a familiar face pops up. This famous face now has several Oscar nominations, you realize, but here they are playing “Girl #2” or “Angry Customer.” Well, everyone’s gotta start somewhere. Here are 40 celebs who popped up in the most unexpected places.
Remember the glory days of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie back in 2003? Throw the DVD on today and you might recognize Anamaria, the pirate who slaps Jack Sparrow. That’s a younger, pre-fame Zoe Saldana. But she’s on record as saying she had a miserable time on that set, so don’t expect her back in that franchise anytime soon.
Evan Peters played Quicksilver in the X-Men movies and multiple roles in TV series American Horror Story. But before that, he got his can spanked by Steve Carrell in The Office in 2010. Yep, Michael Scott’s nephew, the one who ends up subjected to corporal punishment in front of the whole workforce, was played by a young Peters.
You probably realize that Keira Knightley looks a lot like Natalie Portman, but did you know a Star Wars movie took full advantage of this? A young Knightley played Queen Amidala’s body double Sabé in 1999’s The Phantom Menace. Apparently, even the mothers of the girls had trouble telling them apart on set.
Before Brad Pitt was well, Brad Pitt, he was a teenager called Randy on the smash hit soap opera Dallas. He was in three episodes back in 1987. Flash forward to the 2000s and there was a rumor Pitt might appear in a movie version of the show — playing Bobby Ewing this time — but nothing has come of that yet. Don’t hold your breath.
