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== G-L ==
* Fans of ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' can find [[Papa Bear|Jack Bristow]] (Victor Garber) in the oddest places, including a few episodes of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'', on the deck of [[Titanic]], as a
* [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ss7_5PSnyA ate] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbtJIiBx3Ls at] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99i1OJlejlo Burger King.]
* [[Gina Gershon]] was an uncredited dancer in the early [[Sarah Jessica Parker]] movie ''Girls Just Want to Have Fun'', and has a small part as [[The Lyddie|Benny]]'s friend [[Embarrassing First Name|Trombley]] in [[Pretty in Pink]].
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* Kathie Lee Gifford's first major role was a singer on ''[[Name That Tune]]''.
* Darla's victim in the opening scene of the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' pilot was played by Carmine Giovinazzo of ''[[CSI: NY]]''.
** Carmine also guest starred on the season 2
* The fantastic [[Summer Glau]], before becoming [[Firefly|River Tam]] and Cameron from ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', was also on an episode of ''[[Angel]]'' as a ballerina.
** And on an episode of ''[[CSI]]'' as the crying best friend of a victim.
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* [[Milla Jovovich]] was [[Parker Lewis Can't Lose|Parker Lewis]]' female target in the series pilot.
** And a French foreign exchange student in an episode of ''[[Married... with Children|Married With Children]]''.
* As [[Wil Wheaton]] regularly reminds us, he got some lip action with a pre-famous [[Ashley Judd]] in an
* Tim Kang acted in a ''ton'' of commercials (for Cingular, Home Depot and Dairy Queen) before landing the role of Agent Cho on ''[[The Mentalist]].'' He also had a small role on ''[[The Sopranos]]'', seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXONOtUAKME here].
* [[Stana Katic]] of ''[[Castle]]'' once had a bit part as a flight attendant on ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]''.
** And as Officer Morgenstern (she of the [[BFG]]) in ''[[The Spirit (film)|The Spirit]]''.
* It's a bit of a shock to watch old episodes of ''Desmonds'', and realise that the [[Token White]] loser wideboy is Dominic Keating from ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''.
* [[Star Trek: The Original Series
** And ''Gunfight at the OK Corral'', which was [[Actor Allusion|alluded]] to in the episode "Spectre of the Gun" in an illusion.
* The 1956 novel ''[[The Last Hurrah]]'', which was very loosely based on real events in early 1950s Massachusetts politics, features a character named Kevin McCluskey, who is a telegenic but politically inexperienced candidate with a fancy education, a pretty wife, smiling kids, a respectable [[World War II|war record]] from his days in the Navy, and [[Brainless Beauty|more good looks than brains]]. Reading the book anytime after 1960, the character [[John F. Kennedy|seems strangely familiar]]...
* [[Ben Kingsley]] showed up on the BBC's ''Playing Shakespeare'' in the late 1970s.
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** Not to mention her appearance in the 1999 ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' miniseries as Rose Fleming, where she looks about
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** And her appearance as the slutty friend in ''[[The Hole]]'', [[
* Jane Krakowski, aged 16, appears in the opening moments of ''[[Fatal Attraction]]'' as the Gallaghers' babysitter.
* Before he was the main character in ''[[Numb3rs]]'', David Krumholtz was the dorky Jewish kid Joel who had a crush on [[Christina Ricci]]'s Wednesday Addams in ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]''.
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* Don Stark aka [[That '70s Show|Bob Pinciotti]] appeared as holographic gangster Nicky the Nose in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]''.
** He also had a role in ''[[Santa with Muscles]]''.
* Before making a name for himself as a leading man with ''[[The Transporter]]'' films, [[Jason Statham]] appears as a secondary character in John Carpenter's ''[[Ghosts of Mars
* [[Kristen Stewart]] in ''[[Panic Room]]''. Weird to look back on it years later, since she was 10 when the movie was made.
** She also shows up at the very end of ''[[Jumper (novel)|Jumper]]'', as the protagonist's half-sister.
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* [[Patrick Stewart]] appeared in the BBC educational show ''Playing Shakespeare'' in the 1970s before becoming [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Captain Jean-Luc Picard]].
** He was Leondegrance in ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]''. Said film also had [[Liam Neeson]] (Gawain), Helen Mirren (Morgana), and Gabriel Byrne (Uther Pendragon).
** He also played Gurney Halleck in ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]''.
** [[Poirot|David Suchet]] was in the same.
* An actor named Woodrow Strode played the King of Ethiopia in ''[[The Ten Commandments]]''. In a later scene, he doubled as a royal slave. Years later, Mr. Strode became mildly well known. This led viewers of [[Cecil B. DeMille|Mr. DeMille's]] epic to conclude that [[Wild Mass Guessing|Rameses enslaved the Ethopian king]].
* [[Poirot|David Suchet]] played the rival Arab dictator in the first ''[[Iron Eagle]]'' movie.
* Faran Tahir, prior to becoming [[Iron Man (film)|Raza]] or [[Star Trek (film)|Captain Robau]], combined this with [[You Look Familiar]] by appearing as two separate characters on ''[[24
* [[Amber Tamblyn]] was one of Dawn's friends in the sixth season of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
* [[Amanda Tapping]] showed up in an episode of ''[[Due South]]'' a year before ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' aired, playing a scientist with a secret government program that was strongly implied to be tracking UFOs.
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* Sam Trammel plays the upstanding owner of a popular bar in ''[[True Blood]]'', but way back when in the second episode of ''[[Dexter]]'' he played a drunk with a persistent hit-and-run problem. {{spoiler|He didn't last long}}.
* [[John Travolta]]'s first role was in the horror movie ''The Devil's Rain''. He yells "Blasphemer!" and falls down the stairs, and the protagonists see the flashback inside his eyes.
** Many young people in the 21st century would be surprised to see him in reruns of ''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]]''.
** And after that, playing [[Delinquents|Billy]], [[Alpha Bitch|Chris]]' [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|boyfriend]] in ''[[Carrie]]''.
* A young [[Keith Urban]] appears in the 1992 video for [[Alan Jackson]]'s "Mercury Blues". Most Americans probably didn't recognize Urban's face until 1999.
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