Before They Were Famous

[stayillogical]

This was an MDC topic, but I think it'd be a much more fun general thread discussion.

Anyways, the reason this just came to mind is because I'm watching bits and pieces of the movie Airborne (surfer teen moves to Cincinnati, rollerblading race at the end) and Jack Black is in it!! I did not remember this AT ALL.

So, what other movies, TV or fun facts come to mind about entertainment folk before they were famous?

[deadkidsean]

Cincinnati, fuck yeah.

[deadkidsean]

Not many remember Leo's stint on Growing Pains, but it is where I first started digging his stuff.

[Wait_For_It]

I can't think of specific people off the top of my head but I recognize a lot of famous people with minor roles on Seinfeld.

[shes.a.ghost]

Jack Black was in Enemy Of The State and The Cable Guy. I always forget that.

[Mirrorsandfevers]

Jack Black was in Enemy Of The State and The Cable Guy. I always forget that.
And the Jackal. He gets fucked up.

[bard]

seth green was in the second episode of the x files before he was famous....

[stayillogical]

I can't think of specific people off the top of my head but I recognize a lot of famous people with minor roles on Seinfeld.

Wasn't Teri Hatcher Jerry's girl, the one that he thought had implants?

[Wait_For_It]

Wasn't Teri Hatcher Jerry's girl, the one that he thought had implants?
Yes. I found a pretty good list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Seinfeld_minor_characters#C elebrities_or_significant_TV_actors _not_playing_themselves) with most of the celebrity appearances on the show.

[roughroads]

Paul Rudd was Paris in Romeo and Juliet
Hugh Laurie was in an episode of friends.
Robert Lenord (the guy who plays Wilson on House) Was Neil in Dead Poets Society

[Wait_For_It]

Jim Parsons was in Garden State.

[stayillogical]

Hugh Laurie was in an episode of friends.

"You WERE on a break!"

Great cameo.

[abcdefghijake]

Not many remember Leo's stint on Growing Pains, but it is where I first started digging his stuff.

How does anyone forget?

[kbi the crowing]

Seth Rogan has a really small part in Donnie Darko

[stayillogical]

Youtube clips would be awesome people. I love that scene with Seth Rogen in the classroom. "Uhhh... didn't your dad like stab your mom?"

[FueledByRock]

Youtube clips would be awesome people. I love that scene with Seth Rogen in the classroom. "Uhhh... didn't your dad like stab your mom?"
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About a minute in.

[aoftbsten]

Not many remember Leo's stint on Growing Pains, but it is where I first started digging his stuff.

I remember that, I loved that show.

[Gaugzilla]

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Jack Black in "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." Worst role ever.

[Gaugzilla]

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What's better than Super Nintendo? Paul Rudd in an SNES commercial.

[anthonydarko]

seth green was in the second episode of the x files before he was famous....
He was also in IT as well, playing the young version of Richie Tozier.

[sleepyseanzzz]

tenacious d was in biodome, that movie was in the 90s and i didnt think tenacious d's first cd came out after 2000 so i dont know if tenacious d was first or if jack black the actor was first then he formed the d

[sleepyseanzzz]

I can't think of specific people off the top of my head but I recognize a lot of famous people with minor roles on Seinfeld.

kitty from that 70s show comes to mind. god there are so many others

edit: saw your list....just wow, jeremy piven, drake bell, i knew courtney cox but didnt know if she was on friends at the time because end of seinfeld and beginning of friends may have overlapped, i knew the girl from drew carey show/scrubs was a girlfriend of jerry's too.

btw putty, elaines bf aka joe swanson from family guy, just saw him in the movie underdog tonight (dont ask why i was watching it) and my girlfriend's little sister said he is in a lot of disney/nickelodeon type animated shows, come to think of it he was also in the emperors new groove (which i also watched with her last year)

[stayillogical]

Seth Green's best role was Chuckie Miller in Can't Buy Me Love.

[anthonydarko]

Seth Green's best role was Chuckie Miller in Can't Buy Me Love.
:highfive:

[ZachMadeMeOdd]

Paul Rudd was Paris in Romeo and Juliet
Hugh Laurie was in an episode of friends.
Robert Lenord (the guy who plays Wilson on House) Was Neil in Dead Poets Society

I have one better. Paul Rudd's first movie ever was a horror movie, and it was in one of the Halloween series.

[Gaugzilla]

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Hugh Laurie was also in "Stuart Little." Also, that movie, no joke, written by M. Night Shymalan.

[anthonydarko]

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Hugh Laurie was also in "Stuart Little." Also, that movie, no joke, written by M. Night Shymalan.
:jawdrop:

[five inch taint]

Adam Sandler was on the Cosby Show.
Jim Carrey was in Once Bitten, Earth Girls Are Easy and Pink Caddilac
John Goodman was in Revenge Of The Nerds.
Johnny Depp was in Platoon.
Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich and Matthew McConaughey were both in Dazed and Confused.


I can not think of anymore.