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A [[Fan-Speak]] phrase: this is what you say to yourself when [[Tom Hanks Syndrome|someone gets their first serious role, instead of the goof-off they've always been,]] and you're at least half-expecting a train wreck, and then... wow! They pull it off! Turns out [[He Really Can Act (Sugar Wiki)|He Really Can Act]]
The in-universe version is [[Master Actor]].
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** Audio Books? How about Inkspell? He's the vocal inspiration for one of the roles! (Mo. And he played him in the well casted ''[[The Inkworld Trilogy|Inkheart]]'' movie.)
* [[Jeri Ryan]]'s debut on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' was met with a degree of eye-rolling from the fanbase: "Oh great, here comes a shameless attempt at [[Ms. Fanservice]], [[Narm]] ahoy, etc..." Then came that episode where she had to manifest a dozen different personalities in twenty minutes... [[Hidden Depths]] indeed.
** Garrett Wang in "Timeless," the [[
* Much of the young adult cast (the "Golden Trio", in particular) of the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' franchise have been receiving relieved sighs from critics, who recognize that, as they've grown, they've all truly grown into their characters. [[Daniel Radcliffe]], who recently{{when}} starred (nude, yes) in ''[[Equus]]'' in London's West End (and other places afterwards), also received positive reviews overall... And come to think of it, there are plenty of child actors that developed into, you know, actual actors.
* Jamie Foxx earned his stripes with ''Ray''.
** ''[[Collateral]]''.
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*** [[Speak]] is a great performance too.
*** [[Adventureland]] also counts, with a surprisingly realistic performance.
** Perhaps her most admired performance so far is her role as a prostitute from ''[[Welcome to
** Stewart seems to be a genuinely talented actress; she's simply best known for a role whose motivations and lines are incredibly hard to communicate convincingly.
* Billy Connolly in a number of smaller roles, but the breakout is probably the film ''Mrs Brown''. As well as [[The Boondock Saints]] franchise in which he plays the stoic, [[Badass Grandpa|aging yet ruthless]] [[Hitman with a Heart]].
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** And her brief, almost self mocking appearance on ''[[Supernatural]]'' in season 5.
* In the early '90s, probably no one thought that rapper [[Mark Wahlberg|"Marky Mark" Wahlberg]] will once be nominated for an Oscar (''[[The Departed]]'', 2006).
** ''[[The Basketball Diaries]]'' proved it first, but he also gave magnificent performances in ''[[Boogie Nights]]'', ''[[Three Kings]]'', and ''[[I
** Similarly, his brother Donnie Wahlberg was just that dude from New Kids on the Block until he showed up in ''[[Ransom]].'' Later performances in ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' and ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' cemented his status as a solid, talented character actor.
* Most people wrote Orlando Bloom off as basically worthless because of his [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|popularity with]] [[Unfortunate Implications|girls and women]] until his [[Take That Me|self-deprecating]] appearance on an episode of ''Extras'' and his performance as a near-suicidal failed writer in the London play ''In Celebration.'' Fans could have told these people that all they needed to do was watch him in ''Ned Kelly'' or ''Haven'' to see what he can do.
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* People only familiar with [[Angelina Jolie]] from the ''[[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider|Lara Croft Tomb Raider]]'' movie would do well to watch such films as ''Life or Something Like It'', where she gives a powerful performance as a TV reporter who discovers she is doomed to die in a week.
** Her role in ''[[Girl, Interrupted]]'' cemented her status as a great actress, and that was before ''Tomb Raider''.
* For a while, it seemed like [[James Franco]] was going to be remembered as whiny and irritating Harry Osborn in ''Spider-Man''. Then along came ''[[Pineapple Express]]'', and
** This had arguably happened earlier when he fully embodied the role of [[James Dean]] and when he held his own in ''[[Milk]]''. Earlier still in ''[[Freaks & Geeks]]'' as Daniel, the cool rebel deconstruction, who desperately wants to break out of the loser perception everyone has of him. His speech about being one of the "Dumb Kids" is heartbreaking, even if you know before hand that it is setting up a final joke...
** He actually improved alot over the course of the ''Spider-Man'' movies, going from wooden in one movie, to "whiny and irritating" in the next, to ''very convincing'' in the third, as he plays Harry as evil and vengeful, with amnesia, in a moral dilemma, and ''dying'' all in the same film.
* [[Gorillaz]] bassist Murdoc is voiced by Phil Cornwell, who's a comedian by trade. Since the tone in the interviews and animated shorts is usually [[Non Sequitur|weird and light-hearted,]] this works out pretty well. But in the iTunes session interviews, there are some surprisingly frightful parts, and Cornwell proves himself as an actor by bringing Murdoc across as [[Jerkass|phenomenally scummy,]] even intimidating. The brutal on-tape fights and {{spoiler|[[Ho Yay|suggestive]] chloroform scene}} are played quite convincingly for the characters, adding a dark new layer to the [[Gorillaz]] story development.
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