46 Surprising Celebrity Acting Roles From Waaayyyyy Before They Were Famous

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.

1.Ashley Tisdale was a student in Donnie Darko:

2.Scarlett Johansson was Alex's older sister in Home Alone 3:

3.Octavia Spencer was the check-in lady at the wrestling arena in Spider-Man:

4.Leonardo DiCaprio was an extra as one of Darlene's classmates in Roseanne:

5.Zachary Quinto played a TV commercial director in an episode of Lizzie McGuire:

6.Ryan Gosling was in an episode of both Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? in the '90s:

7.Aubrey Plaza had one line as an NBC page on 30 Rock:

8.Kaley Cuoco played Elisa in the Disney Channel movie Alley Cats Strike:

9.Kevin McHale was a student at PCA in two episodes of Zoey 101:

10.Ben Affleck played an uncredited basketball player in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie:

11.Jennifer Lawrence's first acting role was as a school mascot in one episode of Monk:

12.James Marsden was in two episodes of The Nanny:

13.Jon Huertas was Brad, a witch hunter, in Sabrina the Teenage Witch:

14.Adam Scott was Griff Hawkins, the new kid/bully, in a few episodes of Boy Meets World:

15.Dianna Agron played a girl who could fit her whole fist in her mouth on Drake & Josh:

16.Amy Adams was on a single episode of Charmed in one of her very first acting credits:

17.John Cho played a parking valet in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas:

18.Rachel McAdams played Riley's sister in a single episode of Disney Channel's The Famous Jett Jackson:

19.Kevin Hart played a cameraman in Along Came Polly:

20.Jessica Alba was a school bully in The Secret World of Alex Mack:

21.Sara Ramírez was the cashier in You've Got Mail:

22.Elijah Wood is credited as "video game boy" in Back to the Future Part II:

23.Simon Helberg was a nerd in A Cinderella Story:

24.Julie Bowen played Virginia in Happy Gilmore:

25.Don Cheadle was in a single episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:

26.Hugh Laurie was actually in Spice World:

27.Laurence Fishburne played a soldier in Apocalypse Now, even though he was only 14 and lied about his age to get the part:

28.Taran Killam was Frankie Muniz's bully in Big Fat Liar:

29.Michael Cera was in Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's iconic movie called Switching Goals:

30.Maggie Wheeler was the camp counselor in The Parent Trap:

31.Eric Stonestreet played a hotel receptionist in 10 seconds of Almost Famous:

32.Johnny Galecki was Rusty in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation:

33.Steve Carell played a security guard in the iconic movie Sleepover:

34.Adam Sandler got his start as Smitty on The Cosby Show:

35.Katherine Heigl was in Disney's TV movie Wish Upon a Star:

36.Noel Fisher played the bully in Max Keeble's Big Move:

37.Kristen Stewart was an extra in Disney Channel's The Thirteenth Year:

38.Joe Manganiello was Peter Parker's bully in the original Spider-Man:

39.Abigail Breslin was the little girl at the parade in The Princess Diaries 2:

40.Mike O'Malley was the host of Nickelodeon's Global Guts:

41.Nikki Cox played Eric Matthews' girlfriend in a single episode of Boy Meets World:

42.Selena Gomez played a kid for two years on Barney & Friends:

43.Emmy Rossum played Claire in the Disney Channel movie Genius:

44.Zac Efron was on the short-lived WB series called Summerland:

45.Angela Bassett was a flight attendant in about two seconds of Kindergarten Cop:

46.And Ryan Reynolds was the love interest in the Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV movie:

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