Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
RadiGal2
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/07
#2re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 7:18pmWell Julia had done a few movies that caught a more attention than was ever expected prior to Pretty Woman, but PW clearly established her as a "full-fledged movie star". That said -- she captured an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress in Steel Magnolias year before Pretty Woman came along...
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 7:20pmBruce Willis & Cybil Sheppard - Moonlighting
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#4re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 7:49pmTom Hanks - "Bosom Buddies" (one of my all-time favorite TV shows).
#6re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 7:51pmDrew Barrymore and E.T.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#8re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 7:54pmJim Carrey
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#10re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:01pm
You're correct.
Eddie Murphy on SNL.
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#11re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:03pm
Sally Field on "Gidget" and "The Flying Nun"
Sarah Jessica Parker on "Square Pegs"
Johnny Depp on "21 Jump Street"
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#12re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:03pm
how many other actors/actresses got their start from famous movies and TV?
Pretty much all of them? It's not like any of these people mentioned hit it big on their first gig.
RadiGal2
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/07
#13re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:06pm
Rosie Perez was a Fly Girl too...
Andy Dick and Dave Foley Kids in the Hall.
Demi Moore and John Stamos both got their starts on General Hospital *L*
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#14re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:07pm
James Garner
Troy Donahue
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#15re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:10pmRadiGal: Oh, the soap ones are great... I used to watch Julianne Moore, Meg Ryan, and Marisa Tomei on "As The World Turns." (That one churned 'em out, didn't it???)
RadiGal2
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/07
#16re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:15pmerikamato: It's so funny how they like to neglect that part of that resume. I consider it my moral duty to refresh their memories. I actually only watched GH so those are the only two that I can recall truly launching into the big time.
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#17re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:21pm
Yeah, and I only watched CBS soaps, (Mainly "Guiding Light" and "As The World Turns"), so I only remember those folks. 
worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#18re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:24pm
"Johnny Depp on "21 Jump Street" "
Don't forget, he had a bit part in Platoon.
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#19re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:28pm
True, but I personally was concentrating on principal roles.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#20re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:31pmUm, Amanda - are you REALLY not going to mention Richard Thomas and the WALTONS?!?
#21re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:35pmKevin Kline- Sophie's Choice
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#23re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:49pmYou are lucky it took this long
#24re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/24/07 at 12:56am
Mr Roxy: Cybil Sheppard was a big star long before 'Moonlighting', that was more of a comeback vehicle for her.
As a 'One Life to Live' fan, Ryan Phillipe, Marcia Cross and Laurence Fishburne all started on my soap. Well, Marcia really started on "Edge of Night", where I believe she played a character named Beth, who had a sister named Elizabeth, and that always bugged me to no end.
#25re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/24/07 at 7:57amRosie Perez wasn't a Fly Girl. She was actually their choreographer.
#26re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/24/07 at 12:01pm
Robin Williams - Mork and Mindy
all of the friends - Friends
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#27re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/24/07 at 12:10pmWell, I'd argue that Courteney Cox got her "start" long before she was on Friends. That was certainly the pinnacle of her career thus far, but she had Family Ties and that Bruce Springsteen video long before Friends.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#28re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/24/07 at 5:24pmJack Black's first role was in the AMAZINGLY AWESOME political satire BOB ROBERTS.
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#29re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/25/07 at 11:13am
George Clooney on "The Facts of Life"
Brad Pitt in "Thelma and Louise"
#30re: Movies/ TV that gave actors/actresses their start
Posted: 4/25/07 at 11:15am
Susan Dey - The Partridge Family (TV)
Susan Sarandon - Joe (1970 - Movie)
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