Before they were famous

[RDM]

Not so much "before they were famous" more "after they were dead"

http://themoviedoc.tumblr.com/post/1285382106/elvi...

[gazchap]

Fishtigua said:

Craig Ferguson, the Scotish/American chatshow host, originally wrote Martin Clune's grumpy Doc Martin character.

And played the part of Confidence in the episode "Confidence and Paranoia" from the first series of Red Dwarf.

Kelly Brook's first TV appearance (I think) was as a student in a comedy sketch in Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

didelydoo said:

Jim Carrey was in the Dirty Harry film, The Dead Pool. Not many people know that.

FourWheelDrift obviously did though as he posted that little known fact over three months ago in this very thread.

[onyx39]

Charlie Fairhead from Casualty played.a part in The Long Good Friday

[FourWheelDrift]

Elizabeth Hurley with Julia Sawalha in Inspector Morse episode Last Seen Wearing. Also Rachel Weisz was in Twilight of the Gods.

[Eric Mc]

P-Jay said:

Jeff Goldblum & Jim Carrey as furry aliens in 'Earth Girls are Easy' with Geena Davies, admittetly Goldblum had made 'The Fly' the year before, but Carrey made this a few months after playing a corpse in Deadpool and before playing 'Lounge Entertainer' in Pink Cadillac the year after.

Goldblum also had a fairly prominent role as a government official in the 1983 film "The Right Stuff".

[didelydoo]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

FourWheelDrift obviously did though as he posted that little known fact over three months ago in this very thread.

Like I said, not many people know that.....

[Halb]

The Mayor before Carcetti from the Wire was the science teacher in Gremlins.

[myles1972]

James Corden in Teachers.

[ChrisDT]

Had i, robot on in the background last night and spotted a very young Shia LaBeouf as Farber.

[Spanglepants]

Jeff Goldblum was in Death Wish as a gang member, 1974.
Lawrence Fishburne was I Death Wish 2 playing a similar part- forgot the year but he wasn't known then, maybe '81 or so.

[FourWheelDrift]

Spanglepants said:

Jeff Goldblum was in Death Wish as a gang member, 1974.
Lawrence Fishburne was I Death Wish 2 playing a similar part- forgot the year but he wasn't known then, maybe '81 or so.

Nah, they were already famous on page 2

[Spanglepants]

Doh! Fair enough , responded to the posts above rather than checking the whole thread

[Negative Creep]

Ainsley Harriet played a Gelf in Red Dwarf VI

[entropy]

Alyson Hannigan in My Stepmother is an Alien

Being a kid of a certain age (Footloose was teen movie) I can't have been the only 8 year old having the hots for Sarah Jessica Parker in Flight of the Navigator http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ij_Z5Z9iI

Miami Vice had featured lots of actors before they were famous: Bruce Willis, Benicio Del Torro, Ving Rhames, David Strathairn...

[Scottman]

Not sure if it has been posted before, but Rachel Weisz was in an episode of Inspector Morse back in 1993.

[FourWheelDrift]

I did, on this page 11 posts up.

[Spanglepants]

Kurt Russell - It Happened At The worlds Fair (with Elvis) 1963

[Alfa numeric]

FourWheelDrift said:

Elizabeth Hurley with Julia Sawalha in Inspector Morse episode Last Seen Wearing. Also Rachel Weisz was in Twilight of the Gods.

Liz Hurley also plays an Aristo's wife (who is also an ex-prostitute) in an early 90's episode of Sharpe.

[Sway]

Shaw Tarse said:

And the blonde girl spotted on an American football screen?

Pamela Anderson.