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Stars' First Roles

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Jul 14, 2017 5:41 PM
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Ashton Kutcher

The handsome actor was strutting his stuff on the catwalks in Paris and Milan before he ditched his modeling career for acting and starred in Coming Soon.


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Mila Kunis

Discovered by an agent soon after arriving in Los Angeles from the Soviet Union, the actress landed a role on The John Larroquette Show.


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Amy Adams

The Golden Globe-winning actress performed on stage for dinner theatergoers before landing her first starring role in Drop Dead Gorgeous.


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Anne Hathaway

The Oscar-winning actress got her start on television in the comedy-drama Get Real, as did the Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg, who is also pictured. 


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Jared Leto

Long before he was known for his perfect hair, the Oscar winner debuted his soon-to-be-famous locks on Camp Wilder.


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Matthew McConaughey

The Dallas Buyers Club star and Oscar winner began his career as a reenactor on Unsolved Mysteries.


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Halle Berry

Soon after becoming a beauty queen the Oscar-winning actress took her good looks to the set of the sitcom Living Dolls.


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Lindsay Lohan

Fashion model by the age of  3 and child star by age 10, LiLo got her start on soap opera Another World before landing the highly successful film, The Parent Trap.


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Jennifer Lawrence

The Oscar-winning actress hit the Hollywood scene in her first role as a mascot on Monk.


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Reese Witherspoon

In 1991 the breakout star and Oscar winner landed a feature role in The Man in the Moon.


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Meryl Streep

Before being nominated a record 18 times for an Academy Award, the Oscar-winning star proved her acting chops on The Deadliest Season and provided her voice for 1975's animated film Everybody Rides the Carousel.


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Jennifer Lopez

The dancer-turned-actress-turned mogul got her acting start in her first major motion picture, My Little Girl.


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Nicole Kidman

1983 was the year that saw this Aussie actress break into Hollywood—with one of her many roles being the TV film, Skin Deep.


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Tom Cruise

Around the same time, her ex-husband was getting his cinematic start in the romantic film Endless Love.

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