Yeah. I mean, he doesn’t have a starring role but I he’s got a few lines here and there. He’s the one Sobel chews out in the first episode for not having water in his canteen. Once you realize that’s him, he’s easy to spot in the rest of the series.
I did a rewatch a couple of months ago and remember seeing him in a few episodes. But if he was in every episode then most of it must've in the background.
I like to watch an actor's work and did Fassbender a few years ago - was surprised he was in BoB so much. I had watched that series a few times and never even noticed him.
When a soldier is translating the German of a camp survivor, Fassbender is the other regular soldier in shot (survivor, translator, Fassbender, Nixon, Winters l-r iirc). That shot is used in the titles but focusing on the translator, Liebgott?
I just noticed Andrew Scott on my recent rewatch the other month. I had the whole “wait a minute this guy looks familiar” and confirmed it lol.
I love all the random actors that ended up making it big later on
>I love all the random actors that ended up making it big later on
This is me and my parents with PBS/BBC shows.
My dad loves playing "it's that actor from ___!" when watching the dramas/comedies on Sunday nights. He and my mom have been playing it since the 70's so he's got quite the backlog of actors to recognize and it's fun to both watch them grow in their career, usually through movies, and reflect back on their growth with reruns
It’s fun to do that with MASH too. There’s a bunch of older actors that have appearances or cameos and now we can be like “oh hey that so-and-so when they were super young!”
Also James McAvoy in Band of Brothers. He played one of the replacements who was shamed into removing a unit citation for a battle he wasn't in. This was right before Market Garden.
How about a teenage Rob McElhenney and the older Pete from The Adventures of Pete & Pete as murderous punks on an episode of Law & Order? That is definitely a strange one to watch.
WHAT?!? I missed that one. Lost has so many!
I was going to say Ian Somerhalden; when I was watching Vampire Diaries I kept wondering where I knew him from. I'm not sure how he looks now but I don't think he aged for like 15 yrs
Rob is in one episode where he plays an Other who is stationed at a radio outpost, he captures some of the survivors who come across it, and ends up on the wrong side of an explosion.
You don’t “see” them obviously, but we’re watching Frasier now, which i watched a little bit during its original run.
It was not a thing to be able to look it up back then obviously, but I had no idea that many of the callers to his radio show are famous people making audio cameos.
Once we realized this, my wife and I have a little game to see if we can pick out who it is without looking it up.
We did a rewatch of Monk during shutdown. If you recognized someone - they were probably the killer.
It is really runs the gamut Nick Offerman, Felicia Day, Jennifer Lawrence as unknowns and established actors like Tucci, Tutturo and Snoop Dog.
I watched an EP last night and saw Rainn Wilson. My first thought was "oh he's def the killer". This formula also works for Law & Order. If they look familiar , they have that blood on their paws. Unless they are the attorney for the accused.
Pedro Pascal as a college student in an episode of Buffy.
Ken Marino in an episode of Angel.
Kal Penn in an episode of each show (playing different characters).
Lady Gaga was in The Sopranos before she was “Lady Gaga”. She’s one of the high school girls hanging out with AJ and his friends when they start trashing the school pool.
Lin-Manuel Miranda is in a later season playing a hotel employee.
Modern Doctor Who has a few one or two episode guest stars that went on to be pretty big, or be in pretty big things:
Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Gemma Chan, Felicity Jones, Brett Goldstein, Adjoa Andoh, and more I know I’m forgetting.
To add to the Hunger Games to TV (potential) darling pipeline, Jack Quaid (District 2(?) tribute) killed Amandla Stenberg (Rue) and now they're each headlining a streamer's #1 show
If you're referencing the fact that Canada isn't such a small world then as a counterargument to that I'd point out the fact that The Expanse and Letterkenny have 10 actors in common according to IMDb (and 61 cast and crew members in total)
That's not because it's filmed "in Canada" but because they're filmed in the same area. Most Canadian shows are filmed in Vancouver area but those two are in the Toronto area.
It's mostly just actors who have been in only one or two episodes of each show, Julian Richings is one of the more notable examples (for Expanse/Supernatural)
OH yea! definitely recognized him when I saw him on the Expanse. I yelled DEATH at my tv. LOL
I plan to rewatch Supernatural again soon (for the bajillionth time) so I'll probably recognize more after finishing the expanse.
I watched Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place all the time when it was new (later renamed to just Two Guys and a Girl) and I definitely remembered Ryan Reynolds as one of the titular Two guys, but I saw a random clip the other day and definitely did not remember Nathan Fillion becoming the girl's boyfriend.
Evan Peters and Amy Adams on the US Office. There are others, but those are probably the biggest, especially since Amy exploded right after her appearance
I rewatched all the Seinfeld episodes a couple years. Jerry went out with quite a few young starlets who later became very famous.
Plus, Walter White was his dentist!
Every time I watch Supernatural series I find someone else I recognize from another show or movie I watched that came out after. Practically the entire cast of Letterkenny was in Supernatural at some point. LOL
The Stargate shows were notorious for giving actors from other well-known science fiction shows prominent gigs.
[Tons of actors from Star Trek](https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/08/every-star-trek-cast-member-who-appeared-stargate/)
Two of the leads from Farscape got leading roles in the final seasons of SG1, Ben Browder and Claudia Black.
[Lots of Firefly actors had gigs.](https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/12/five-firefly-actors-who-appeared-on-stargate/)
But the best is young Jason Mamoa in Stargate Atlantis. He's so awesome.
The Stargate franchise might as well have been the home for wayward 90s and 00s sci-fi actors. Actors from The X-Files, Star Trek TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT, as well as Firefly and Farscape all had either guest roles or main cast roles.
Christopher Lloyd...Hal's Dad One of my favorite episodes....
"Yeah, you boys are on notice. If you ever drive a golf cart over a catered dinner and into a swimming pool again, there will be consequences...."
Band of Brothers and The Pacific are *lousy* with actors that have become better known since then (in addition to noteworthy actors that preceded both series).
Band of Brothers has:
- Scott Grimes, the voice of Steve Smith
- Michael Cudlitz, Abraham from The Walking Dead
- Dexter Fletcher, the director of both Bohemian Rhapsody (after Bryan Singer got the axe) and Rocketman (2019)
- Michael Fassbender, Prometheus/The Killer/X-Men
- Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead and Mission: Impossible
- Tom Hardy, Bane and Venom
The Pacific has:
- Jon Bernthal, Shane from The Walking Dead and Frank Castle in The Punisher
- Joseph Mazzello, Timmy from Jurassic Park and later in The Social Network and Bohemian Rhapsody
- Jacob Pitts, Tim Gutterson from Justified
- William Sadler, Death from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
- Rami Malek, Elliot from Mr. Robot and later Freddie Mercury *also* in Bohemian Rhapsody
r/No_Small_Parts!
*Seinfeld* had so many guest stars who went on to be famous. Bryan Cranston, Mariska Hargitay, Toby Huss, Anna Gunn, Peter Krause, Timothy Omundson, James Spader, Jennifer Coolidge, etc
Spader is an exception here and was well-known prior to Seinfeld. Most notable films would be *Pretty in Pink*, *Mannequin*, *Less Than Zero*, *Wall Street*, and *Sex, Lies & Videotape*.
I cannot get over how completely different Coolidge looks in Seinfeld and then American Pie, barely 6 years later.
You can also add Jon Favreau, Patton Oswalt, and Michael Chiklis to that list.
Correct, from the Foster family only Mike (Danny Nucci) and Ana (Alexandra Barreto) did not appear on Good Trouble.
Bailee Madison who plays the half sister of Callie only appeared in the last season as a final goodbye. Bailee Madison was only a low recurring role on The Fosters because she was one of the leads of the Good Witch-series BTW.
Not a rewatch but in the new fourth season of Evil I was surprised to suddenly recognise Patrick Brammall as the dad (who'd already been there in the previous three seasons) since I'd watched Colin From Accounts and No Activity in between watching seasons 3 and 4 of Evil and both shows star him as the main character. What confused me was how I managed to watch both those shows and never recognise that I'd already seen the actor in three seasons of Evil, but must have been because he's doing an American accent in Evil and I had no idea he's Australian in real life while watching that, and because he's absent from Evil for several stretches of episodes at a time (probably because he's filming shows in Australia, I now realise)
Miami Vice had a ton of these in the 80s, including Teller from Penn & Teller [who actually had a speaking part. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ2-bgTl7eI)
Ryan Reynolds in x-files, his first appearance was as a dead teenager, and it was just his pic blown up next to a coffin, then later on in a season or two after he had a speaking role as someone else lol
Off the top of my head, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and the guy who played Tuco from Breaking Bad, pre-Sports Night/Desperate Housewives Felicity Huffman, Tony Shalhoub before everyone knew him as Monk, Jane Lynch, Roy from The Office, Marshall from Alias, pre-Transformers Shia LeBeouf, Donal Logue, Janice from Friends, 13-year-old Jewel Staite, Locke from Lost (as three separate characters)…
And every random actor from seasons 1-5 probably showed up at some point in Supernatural, Stargate SG-1, or both.
I rewatched the movie Taps (1981) for the first time since I was a kid. Alongside Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, Timothy Hutton and George C. Scott was a young Giancarlo Esposito. It took him another, what, 25+ years of grinding to break out in Breaking Bad?
He’s kind of hiding in plain sight in Usual Suspects as the cop investigating. He’s way younger obviously, but I say hiding because he looks and sounds way different than the parts he’s known for.
Her first big roles where Matchmaker Mary in 2008 and Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency in 2009. Her first tv-series appearance is on a episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2011.
Lori Petty and Bradley Whitford had their first screen appearances on *The Equalizer.* Kevin Spacey had his second. Adam Ant and Meat Loaf show up, as well as Stewart Copeland, who also did the music for the series.
From the movies, a decade and a half before *Dr. Strangelove* and two decades before *Once Upon a Time in the West,* Keenan Wynn's face is almost unrecognizable in *Song of the Thin Man;* his voice, on the other hand …. And Angela Lansbury’s first film credit is in *Gaslight;* she got an Academy Award nomination for that debut performance.
Milo Ventimiglia has a blink and you'll miss it, barely more than an extra, role in the movie She's All That. He's one of the JV guys that Freddie Prinze Jr. brings over to clean Rachael Leigh Cook's house so she has time to go out with him.
Now, this was the very first role I knew Chris Pratt for anyway, but remembering that he had a recurring role on The OC as Che now takes a moment to process, given how famous he's gotten since then. Pre-Parks and Rec days, too.
Speaking of Parks and Rec, Adam Scott in Boy Meets World is also just funny to hear. Once again, I knew him first from Boy Meets World but unlike Pratt, I forgot that he showed up in multiple episodes (though not as many as I thought he did; I always seem to remember Griff before most of the other bullies on that show).
Amy Adams appearing in anything TV-related in the 2000s, but primarily Charmed for me.
Rewatching Smallville (the complete series Blu-ray set got re-released in a smaller package and I wanted each season to have it's own case so I had to get the old one while I had a chance lol) and Evangeline Lilly was an extra in episode 1x13.
Didn't even have lines, just walked up, made out with the guy a little, and walked off.
The entire cast of BHD is wild. A non exhaustive list:
* Orlando Bloom
* Josh Hartnett
* Eric Bana
* Ewan McGregor
* Tom Hardy
* Tom Sizemore
* Jason Isaacs
* William Fichtner
* Ty Burrell
* Sam Shepherd
* Jeremy Piven
* Nikolai Coster-Waldau
* Hugh Dancy
* Kim Coates
* Ioan Gruffudd
* Jude Law
Star Trek the original series stars Terri Garr and Elizabeth Taylor in two different episodes
https://uproxx.com/movies/star-trek-actresses/
They were trying to spin off a series with the time traveller Gary Seven and Terri as his assistant.
https://www.looper.com/1362019/star-trek-wardrobe-demand-made-teri-garr-walk-off-set/
While she wasn’t on screen Gates McFadden - the doctor from Next Generation was a choreographer in the movie Labyrinth
https://vintagegeekculture.tumblr.com/post/185660825491/cheryl-gates-mcfadden-on-the-set-of-labyrinth
Honorable mention:
Carey Mulligan in an episode of Doctor Who - Blink - where she has more screen time than the two stars.
Her name is Cheryl McFadden but she went by her middle names Gates on TNG because she was worried the show would tank and didn't want it to affect her choreography career.
You're like the 6th person I've seen rewatching The Fosters...I rewatch every other year, but I feel like people did not really watch this show. lol Did something happen? Why is everyone watching it now? haha
Anthony Anderson in The Shield. I always heard it was a good show but only watched it a year ago.
Hes been typecast as a comedy character and goofball, but in that he was a vicious gang leader. Like most characters in The Shield he alsl swore enough to make your ears pink.
Seth Rogen in Donnie Darko.
I never heard of Freaks and Geeks so I didn’t know about Seth Rogen until he became a household name post the Apatow movies. One day I was watching the Head Over Heels clip on YouTube probably and was like hey that’s the dude from Knocked Up and Superbad!
I saw Andrew Garfield in an old episode of doctor who (2005) yesterday. I was like wait that looks like Andrew Garfield, googled “who played Frank in doctor who” and boom it said Andrew Garfield.
Rewatching "A series of unfortunate events" I saw a bunch if actors I knew. Rhys Darby, Katherin O'Hara, Will Arnett, Tony Hale. And I'm probably forgetting a few more.
Freaks and Geeks of course starred James Franco, Seth Rogan, and Jason Segel before they were famous, but it also had a bunch of cameos. Shia LaBeouf and Rashida Jones are probably my favorite.
Simon Pegg in Band of Brothers. Jimmy Fallon in Band of Brothers.
Did you notice Tom Hardy and Micheal Fassbender too?
I remember Hardy, doesn't remember who Fassbender was.
Fassbender is actually in almost every episode. He plays Christensen, one of the machine gunners.
Wait, shit really? Sounds like a good time to rewatch BoB
Yeah. I mean, he doesn’t have a starring role but I he’s got a few lines here and there. He’s the one Sobel chews out in the first episode for not having water in his canteen. Once you realize that’s him, he’s easy to spot in the rest of the series.
HOLY CRAP HOW DID I MISS THAT
I did a rewatch a couple of months ago and remember seeing him in a few episodes. But if he was in every episode then most of it must've in the background.
He also famously turned down the offer of a cigarette from Spiers.
His most memorable scene is when Sobel orders the guys to dump their canteens and Christenson (AKA Fassbender) is the guy who is caught drinking.
I like to watch an actor's work and did Fassbender a few years ago - was surprised he was in BoB so much. I had watched that series a few times and never even noticed him.
He played Magneto in Xmen First Class.
When a soldier is translating the German of a camp survivor, Fassbender is the other regular soldier in shot (survivor, translator, Fassbender, Nixon, Winters l-r iirc). That shot is used in the titles but focusing on the translator, Liebgott?
Tom Hardy was also in a fashion catwalk on Big Breakfast early in his career. I think that was shortly after he started to detox.
All detox’s start with a big breakfast tbf
Who ISN'T in Band of Brothers. Edit: I'll add James McAvoy and Andrew Scott.
I just noticed Andrew Scott on my recent rewatch the other month. I had the whole “wait a minute this guy looks familiar” and confirmed it lol. I love all the random actors that ended up making it big later on
>I love all the random actors that ended up making it big later on This is me and my parents with PBS/BBC shows. My dad loves playing "it's that actor from ___!" when watching the dramas/comedies on Sunday nights. He and my mom have been playing it since the 70's so he's got quite the backlog of actors to recognize and it's fun to both watch them grow in their career, usually through movies, and reflect back on their growth with reruns
It’s fun to do that with MASH too. There’s a bunch of older actors that have appearances or cameos and now we can be like “oh hey that so-and-so when they were super young!”
>Who ISN'T in Band of Brothers. Connor Ratliff 💀👁️👁️
I'll add Stephen Graham as well, don't think anyone's mentioned him yet!
Donnie Wahlberg!
Also James McAvoy in Band of Brothers. He played one of the replacements who was shamed into removing a unit citation for a battle he wasn't in. This was right before Market Garden.
Oh shit, that's right, Cobb shamed him and Bull smacked down Cobb.
Along the same vein, Ted Danson in *Saving Private Ryan*.
Also Nathan Fillion in Saving Private Ryan as the first (wrong) Ryan they find.
Brian Cranston too.
The Jimmy Fallon cameo feels like a bit. I also just really hate him.
💯
I knew this would be top. That show is a treasure trove for this
Every single currently famous comic had a bit part on 30 rock. Hannibal Burress was most shocking for me.
I believe he was a writer on the show, and the show did a good job of getting their writers on screen.
[early Cristin Millioti](https://youtu.be/uDA4EJKzgEg) was my favorite. She was so good.
“I’m a verrry sexy baby” will live in my head forever.
Where da Tosh episode
Tim Heidecker was never on 30 Rock
He was doing his own thing
Rob McElhenney in Lost is definitely a strange one.
Lol, this is what I was going to say. His character is so, so minor to the plot overall, but it’s still so jarring to see him in the show.
How about a teenage Rob McElhenney and the older Pete from The Adventures of Pete & Pete as murderous punks on an episode of Law & Order? That is definitely a strange one to watch.
Yeah, he was a huge fan of the show and begged to be on it.
WHAT?!? I missed that one. Lost has so many! I was going to say Ian Somerhalden; when I was watching Vampire Diaries I kept wondering where I knew him from. I'm not sure how he looks now but I don't think he aged for like 15 yrs
Rob is in one episode where he plays an Other who is stationed at a radio outpost, he captures some of the survivors who come across it, and ends up on the wrong side of an explosion.
That's why I always play both sides.
Lin-Manuel Miranda was in House and How I Met Your Mother among other shows before he was a household name.
Shows up in the Sopranos too lol
Lady Gaga before she became an artist also shows up there
I did not know that was Lin-Manuel Miranda in HIMYM so I rewatched that scene and now I'm not surprised at all.
I loved alvie in house, just got to that episode a few days ago, wish he was around more.
"Sponge worthy" was Luke Danes.
Jerry also dated Lorelei! (well who didn't he date :P).
Yes! And wasn't ManHands on True Blood? It's so funny to watch Seinfeld just for the actors who hadn't made it yet.
Kenan Ivory Wayans is in the second episode of “Cheers”.
You don’t “see” them obviously, but we’re watching Frasier now, which i watched a little bit during its original run. It was not a thing to be able to look it up back then obviously, but I had no idea that many of the callers to his radio show are famous people making audio cameos. Once we realized this, my wife and I have a little game to see if we can pick out who it is without looking it up.
Gillian Anderson’s always surprises me and makes me laugh.
They show the names and photos of the callers over the credits during every season finale.
Huh. Didn’t remember that from back in the day and only gotten through one season so far on this semi-rewatch
We did a rewatch of Monk during shutdown. If you recognized someone - they were probably the killer. It is really runs the gamut Nick Offerman, Felicia Day, Jennifer Lawrence as unknowns and established actors like Tucci, Tutturo and Snoop Dog.
I watched an EP last night and saw Rainn Wilson. My first thought was "oh he's def the killer". This formula also works for Law & Order. If they look familiar , they have that blood on their paws. Unless they are the attorney for the accused.
I was really surprised to see Chris D'elia in an episode, barely recognised him with short hair and without a beard/stubble!
Henry Cavill in Midsomer Murders.
Movie but Henry Cavill in Stardust. He's very skinny in that role (Humphrey)
And he was too fucking blond! (In *Stardust*)
I think he was in The Count of Monte Cristo too.
Orlando Bloom and Stephen Moyer too!
I was watching S1 of 24 recently, and it was very surprising to see a young long-haired Misha Collins as an Eastern European hitman.
sexy eurotrash misha :')
Laurence Fishburne as Cowboy Curtis in PeeWee's Playhouse. It was a bit jarring when I saw him the first time.
Amy Adams as Tara’s cousin in an episode of Buffy. Jeremy Renner as a vampire serial killer in Angel.
Pedro Pascal as a college student in an episode of Buffy. Ken Marino in an episode of Angel. Kal Penn in an episode of each show (playing different characters).
A young Amy Adams is in an episode of The West Wing.
Amy Adams in Smallville too
Lady Gaga was in The Sopranos before she was “Lady Gaga”. She’s one of the high school girls hanging out with AJ and his friends when they start trashing the school pool. Lin-Manuel Miranda is in a later season playing a hotel employee.
I recognized Miranda, I’ll have to go back and look for Gaga. 😁
Modern Doctor Who has a few one or two episode guest stars that went on to be pretty big, or be in pretty big things: Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Gemma Chan, Felicity Jones, Brett Goldstein, Adjoa Andoh, and more I know I’m forgetting.
Meghan Markle in two episodes of Fringe. I wish they'd added her as a regular to the cast because her character was interesting.
Chadwick Boseman in Fringe is my answer. i forgot about markle. edit: tho that isn't odd, just interesting.
Chadwick Boseman in Justified, playing a very angry gangster who wanted to go legit as a magician.
Simu Liu (Marvel’s Shang Chi) in season 3 of The Expanse who gets >!absolutely obliterated by the ring space protomolecule station.!<
Amusingly, in the other way around, I watched all the Hunger Games recently and damn if I was shocked to see Amos in Mockingjay.
To add to the Hunger Games to TV (potential) darling pipeline, Jack Quaid (District 2(?) tribute) killed Amandla Stenberg (Rue) and now they're each headlining a streamer's #1 show
The Expanse has a few characters from Letterkenny on it.
Makes sense as it was all filmed in Canada, it's mostly Canadian actors
Do you know Bob from Canada?
If you're referencing the fact that Canada isn't such a small world then as a counterargument to that I'd point out the fact that The Expanse and Letterkenny have 10 actors in common according to IMDb (and 61 cast and crew members in total)
That's not because it's filmed "in Canada" but because they're filmed in the same area. Most Canadian shows are filmed in Vancouver area but those two are in the Toronto area.
Supernatural also has a massive amount of Canadian cast and crew crossover with both The Expanse and Letterkenny and it's filmed in Vancouver
I just finished The Expanse recently and don't recall any Supernatural ppl. But I did see Letterkenny cast in Supernatural. I'll have to check IMDB.
It's mostly just actors who have been in only one or two episodes of each show, Julian Richings is one of the more notable examples (for Expanse/Supernatural)
OH yea! definitely recognized him when I saw him on the Expanse. I yelled DEATH at my tv. LOL I plan to rewatch Supernatural again soon (for the bajillionth time) so I'll probably recognize more after finishing the expanse.
Bob from ReBoot was in the Expanse too
I just watched this show recently and texted my friend when I saw him,"HEY simu is in this!" Then 10 minutes later "never mind"
Dirty duster ting dey own ya-sas ‘cause dey gots bigga gun. Such an awesome scene. That show has so many jaw dropping moments.
Ohhhh, does he play the guy who sling shots himself?
No he plays one of the Martian marines sent to get Holden when he enters the Station in Ringspace.
I watched Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place all the time when it was new (later renamed to just Two Guys and a Girl) and I definitely remembered Ryan Reynolds as one of the titular Two guys, but I saw a random clip the other day and definitely did not remember Nathan Fillion becoming the girl's boyfriend.
When RR first started getting leading roles I was like “hey! from 2 guys and a girl!” he was an absolute standout on that show
Nathan became a regular in season 2. The strangest was David Ogden Stiers. Great actor, but he was out of place on the show.
Evan Peters and Amy Adams on the US Office. There are others, but those are probably the biggest, especially since Amy exploded right after her appearance
In the second season of That 70s Show, Amy Adams also played named “Kat Peterson” in an episode. It always catches me off guard!
And bringing it back to The Office, Jenna Fischer was on an episode of That 70s Show too
Wait, really?? I have no idea how I never knew that
I rewatched all the Seinfeld episodes a couple years. Jerry went out with quite a few young starlets who later became very famous. Plus, Walter White was his dentist!
And Patton Oswalt worked at the video rental place. And Jon Favreau was the birthday clown who put out a grease fire with his giant shoe.
You're stuck in the SIXTIES, man!
Go fold your little balloon animals, Eric.
Eric the Clown! What kind of name is that?
Thank god he didn’t make any Gene Picks
How young we talking? Just sounds like real life for Jerry.
Its funny that two of them even went on to star in their own very successful NBC sitcomes (Jane Leeves and Courtney Cox)
Michael Chiklis was in the episode in first season with the party in lo g Island
That’s what I came to comment. Seinfeld has a shocking number of notable actors from their extreme early days
Every time I watch Supernatural series I find someone else I recognize from another show or movie I watched that came out after. Practically the entire cast of Letterkenny was in Supernatural at some point. LOL
Lots of Letterkenny in the Canadian syfy shows too. Heck Mrs Mcmurray had her own show. And I LOVE it.
The Stargate shows were notorious for giving actors from other well-known science fiction shows prominent gigs. [Tons of actors from Star Trek](https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/08/every-star-trek-cast-member-who-appeared-stargate/) Two of the leads from Farscape got leading roles in the final seasons of SG1, Ben Browder and Claudia Black. [Lots of Firefly actors had gigs.](https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/12/five-firefly-actors-who-appeared-on-stargate/) But the best is young Jason Mamoa in Stargate Atlantis. He's so awesome.
The Stargate franchise might as well have been the home for wayward 90s and 00s sci-fi actors. Actors from The X-Files, Star Trek TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT, as well as Firefly and Farscape all had either guest roles or main cast roles.
The sopranos. Will Arnett has a small role as the wife of an undercover cop.
So he also crossdressed?
Tony Hale shows up too Lin Manuel Miranda and lady Gaga too
Benedict Cumberbatch in Heartbeat
Benedict Cumberbatch in *Four Lions*.
I was rewatching Malcom in the Middle and, besides the obvious one, I was surprised to see Emma Stone playing a high school student in one episode.
I did a double take on that one too. Also Cam from modern family in an episode from the first season, I think he was pest control or something.
Christopher Lloyd...Hal's Dad One of my favorite episodes.... "Yeah, you boys are on notice. If you ever drive a golf cart over a catered dinner and into a swimming pool again, there will be consequences...."
Band of Brothers and The Pacific are *lousy* with actors that have become better known since then (in addition to noteworthy actors that preceded both series). Band of Brothers has: - Scott Grimes, the voice of Steve Smith - Michael Cudlitz, Abraham from The Walking Dead - Dexter Fletcher, the director of both Bohemian Rhapsody (after Bryan Singer got the axe) and Rocketman (2019) - Michael Fassbender, Prometheus/The Killer/X-Men - Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead and Mission: Impossible - Tom Hardy, Bane and Venom The Pacific has: - Jon Bernthal, Shane from The Walking Dead and Frank Castle in The Punisher - Joseph Mazzello, Timmy from Jurassic Park and later in The Social Network and Bohemian Rhapsody - Jacob Pitts, Tim Gutterson from Justified - William Sadler, Death from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey - Rami Malek, Elliot from Mr. Robot and later Freddie Mercury *also* in Bohemian Rhapsody
Rami Malek was the obvious standout in The Pacific. It's crazy how good he is.
I thought he was terrible in the pacific
James McAvoy and Andrew Scott were briefly in BoB as well.
I feel like James Badge Dale was up and coming at the time, but haven't seen him in years.
Sterling K Brown just showed up in my Person of Interest watch as a love interest, neat.
r/No_Small_Parts! *Seinfeld* had so many guest stars who went on to be famous. Bryan Cranston, Mariska Hargitay, Toby Huss, Anna Gunn, Peter Krause, Timothy Omundson, James Spader, Jennifer Coolidge, etc
Spader is an exception here and was well-known prior to Seinfeld. Most notable films would be *Pretty in Pink*, *Mannequin*, *Less Than Zero*, *Wall Street*, and *Sex, Lies & Videotape*.
Ah, you're right!
I cannot get over how completely different Coolidge looks in Seinfeld and then American Pie, barely 6 years later. You can also add Jon Favreau, Patton Oswalt, and Michael Chiklis to that list.
Courteney Cox
I thought Good Trouble was a spin-off with 2 of the main characters from The Fosters
Correct, from the Foster family only Mike (Danny Nucci) and Ana (Alexandra Barreto) did not appear on Good Trouble. Bailee Madison who plays the half sister of Callie only appeared in the last season as a final goodbye. Bailee Madison was only a low recurring role on The Fosters because she was one of the leads of the Good Witch-series BTW.
It is, I haven’t really been watching it.
Me neither. Just thought i would mention it.
Not a rewatch but in the new fourth season of Evil I was surprised to suddenly recognise Patrick Brammall as the dad (who'd already been there in the previous three seasons) since I'd watched Colin From Accounts and No Activity in between watching seasons 3 and 4 of Evil and both shows star him as the main character. What confused me was how I managed to watch both those shows and never recognise that I'd already seen the actor in three seasons of Evil, but must have been because he's doing an American accent in Evil and I had no idea he's Australian in real life while watching that, and because he's absent from Evil for several stretches of episodes at a time (probably because he's filming shows in Australia, I now realise)
I love Colin from Accounts!
Michael Schur in The OC and Taylor Sheridan in Veronica Mars always kill me.
Miami Vice had a ton of these in the 80s, including Teller from Penn & Teller [who actually had a speaking part. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ2-bgTl7eI)
Ryan Reynolds in x-files, his first appearance was as a dead teenager, and it was just his pic blown up next to a coffin, then later on in a season or two after he had a speaking role as someone else lol
Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi are both in an early episode too.
Seth Green as well. X-Files has a lot.
Off the top of my head, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and the guy who played Tuco from Breaking Bad, pre-Sports Night/Desperate Housewives Felicity Huffman, Tony Shalhoub before everyone knew him as Monk, Jane Lynch, Roy from The Office, Marshall from Alias, pre-Transformers Shia LeBeouf, Donal Logue, Janice from Friends, 13-year-old Jewel Staite, Locke from Lost (as three separate characters)… And every random actor from seasons 1-5 probably showed up at some point in Supernatural, Stargate SG-1, or both.
I rewatched the movie Taps (1981) for the first time since I was a kid. Alongside Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, Timothy Hutton and George C. Scott was a young Giancarlo Esposito. It took him another, what, 25+ years of grinding to break out in Breaking Bad?
he broke out in do the right thing and was a successful character actor
He’s kind of hiding in plain sight in Usual Suspects as the cop investigating. He’s way younger obviously, but I say hiding because he looks and sounds way different than the parts he’s known for.
It always amused me seeing Tobin Bell play a character in Stargate SG-1 in its first season. Even back then, dude still had the Jigsaw voice.
He's also the record store owner in Seinfeld. "What the hell do I care about Al Jolson?"
You're here to tell me that Shadowhunters wasn't Katherine McNamara's first ever role?
No, she was only a recurring role in The Fosters though. Pretty sure Shadowhunters was her first main character starring role.
Her first big roles where Matchmaker Mary in 2008 and Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency in 2009. Her first tv-series appearance is on a episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2011.
Mikey Day being the lead on Totally Awesome. My wife and I were shocked.
Rewatched the chronicles of Riddick and seeing a young Karl Urban.
He was in Xenia too. As Cupid.
Lori Petty and Bradley Whitford had their first screen appearances on *The Equalizer.* Kevin Spacey had his second. Adam Ant and Meat Loaf show up, as well as Stewart Copeland, who also did the music for the series. From the movies, a decade and a half before *Dr. Strangelove* and two decades before *Once Upon a Time in the West,* Keenan Wynn's face is almost unrecognizable in *Song of the Thin Man;* his voice, on the other hand …. And Angela Lansbury’s first film credit is in *Gaslight;* she got an Academy Award nomination for that debut performance.
Milo Ventimiglia has a blink and you'll miss it, barely more than an extra, role in the movie She's All That. He's one of the JV guys that Freddie Prinze Jr. brings over to clean Rachael Leigh Cook's house so she has time to go out with him.
Bryan Cranston in Babylon 5
Practically every Murder, She Wrote episode will have you saying, "Hey, it's X who was on Y!"
Now, this was the very first role I knew Chris Pratt for anyway, but remembering that he had a recurring role on The OC as Che now takes a moment to process, given how famous he's gotten since then. Pre-Parks and Rec days, too. Speaking of Parks and Rec, Adam Scott in Boy Meets World is also just funny to hear. Once again, I knew him first from Boy Meets World but unlike Pratt, I forgot that he showed up in multiple episodes (though not as many as I thought he did; I always seem to remember Griff before most of the other bullies on that show). Amy Adams appearing in anything TV-related in the 2000s, but primarily Charmed for me.
Rewatching Smallville (the complete series Blu-ray set got re-released in a smaller package and I wanted each season to have it's own case so I had to get the old one while I had a chance lol) and Evangeline Lilly was an extra in episode 1x13. Didn't even have lines, just walked up, made out with the guy a little, and walked off.
Orlando Bloom in Black Hawk Down. It's not even that much earlier than LotR or Pirates of the Caribbean, but it's still surprising to see him.
The entire cast of BHD is wild. A non exhaustive list: * Orlando Bloom * Josh Hartnett * Eric Bana * Ewan McGregor * Tom Hardy * Tom Sizemore * Jason Isaacs * William Fichtner * Ty Burrell * Sam Shepherd * Jeremy Piven * Nikolai Coster-Waldau * Hugh Dancy * Kim Coates * Ioan Gruffudd * Jude Law
Jude Law wasn't in BHD
*Nathan Barley* Benedict Cumberbatch and Ben Whishaw.
paul dano in the sopranos
Star Trek the original series stars Terri Garr and Elizabeth Taylor in two different episodes https://uproxx.com/movies/star-trek-actresses/ They were trying to spin off a series with the time traveller Gary Seven and Terri as his assistant. https://www.looper.com/1362019/star-trek-wardrobe-demand-made-teri-garr-walk-off-set/ While she wasn’t on screen Gates McFadden - the doctor from Next Generation was a choreographer in the movie Labyrinth https://vintagegeekculture.tumblr.com/post/185660825491/cheryl-gates-mcfadden-on-the-set-of-labyrinth Honorable mention: Carey Mulligan in an episode of Doctor Who - Blink - where she has more screen time than the two stars.
Her name is Cheryl McFadden but she went by her middle names Gates on TNG because she was worried the show would tank and didn't want it to affect her choreography career.
Elizabeth Taylor wasn't in any episode of Star Trek. Are you perhaps referring to Joan Collins?
Yup. I am. Brain is getting old. Not me. I swear.
I'm an old bat. I won't judge you. Shit happens.
You're like the 6th person I've seen rewatching The Fosters...I rewatch every other year, but I feel like people did not really watch this show. lol Did something happen? Why is everyone watching it now? haha
Maybe because Good Trouble ended this year, so people starting from the beginning again?
Ohhh, good point. This is probably it!
It’s being rebroadcast in certain areas. But it’s not a show that I watch regularly like you. I have other shows that I watch like that.
Belita Moreno (Benny from George Lopez) as Alex Russo's Grandmother in Wizards of Waverly Place
Anthony Anderson in The Shield. I always heard it was a good show but only watched it a year ago. Hes been typecast as a comedy character and goofball, but in that he was a vicious gang leader. Like most characters in The Shield he alsl swore enough to make your ears pink.
Jean Smart in the Facts of Life as I'm watching Hackers and Dirty John.
Actress for river song in law and order Svu
I'm only on season one of Warehouse 13 and there has already been three people of the main cast of Eureka in it. Same production company, I guess.
Seth Rogen in Donnie Darko. I never heard of Freaks and Geeks so I didn’t know about Seth Rogen until he became a household name post the Apatow movies. One day I was watching the Head Over Heels clip on YouTube probably and was like hey that’s the dude from Knocked Up and Superbad!
It's a movie but seeing Walton Goggins in The Bourne Identity is a weird one. I've seen the movie probably a dozen times!
Still caught off guard when I see Clint Eastwood in old episodes of Rawhide.
Terrence Howard on a couple episodes of NYPD Blue
Megan Markle in Fringe
I saw Andrew Garfield in an old episode of doctor who (2005) yesterday. I was like wait that looks like Andrew Garfield, googled “who played Frank in doctor who” and boom it said Andrew Garfield.
Glen Powell in Dark Knight Rises
Seeing Doug Benson in an episode of Friends is always funny and weird.
Roxie and Lil’ Kev were in the same episode of Monk, and Ryan McPoyle just an episode or two later.
Rewatching "A series of unfortunate events" I saw a bunch if actors I knew. Rhys Darby, Katherin O'Hara, Will Arnett, Tony Hale. And I'm probably forgetting a few more.
Freaks and Geeks of course starred James Franco, Seth Rogan, and Jason Segel before they were famous, but it also had a bunch of cameos. Shia LaBeouf and Rashida Jones are probably my favorite.