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You start watching [[Lost|a show]]. There's an actor on it. Let's call him [[Terry O'Quinn]]. As far as you know, you've never seen him before.
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* Prior to being the [[Gentle Giant]] in ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'', Robbie Coltrane had a minor role in ''[[Krull]]''.
** Also there were those two James Bond movies.
*** An interesting case of location-based
*** Even before ''[[Cracker]]'', he was in a bunch of episodes of British TV comedies, including two of ''[[Blackadder]]'', three of ''[[The Young Ones]]'', and '''17''' of ''[[The Comic Strip Presents]]''.
* Just like Hayden Christenson above, [[Criminal Minds|A.J. Cook]] was in ''[[Higher Ground]]''.
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** And sang the title song in ''[[Better Off Dead]]''.
* Jeremy Davies (Daniel Faraday from ''[[Lost]]'') was Upham, the cowardly translator, in ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' and Lee's fiance in ''[[Secretary]]''.
** He also had a small part in the 2002 remake of ''[[Solaris]]'', and as a teen he starred in the film "Spanking The Monkey"
** Before those he also had a small role in ''[[Twister]]''.
* Geena Davis is a girl Named Larry in ''Fletch''.
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* [[Eliza Dushku]], AKA Faith from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', appeared as [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s teenage daughter in ''[[True Lies]]''. Also in a fun example, she and [[Amber Benson]], AKA Tara in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' were both in the movie ''Bye Bye Love''.
** [[Eliza Dushku]] also played [[Leonardo DiCaprio]]'s step-sister in ''This Boys Life''.
* Most [[Fan Wank
** Also part of the [[Five-Man Band]] in ''[[The Faculty]]''.
* Most people would recognize Jason Earles as Miley Stewart's brother in ''[[Hannah Montana]]''. Before that, he played the nerdy Grady in ''[[Phil of the Future]]'', and before that, a geeky, virgin bandy trying to get laid and assisted in creating a porn video of his friends in ''[[American Pie]]: Band Camp''.
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* Renee O'Connor, of [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] fame, had a small role in ''The Adventures Of Huck Finn'', starring Elijah Wood.
** She is also in the second ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' [[Pilot Movie]] as Deianira {{spoiler|the lost queen of Troy}}.
** She played a waitress in one of the ''[[Darkman]]''
* One for lefties - Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. was a producer on ''[[The West Wing]]'' and played President Bartlet's father in a couple of episodes. Now? "Hey, it's [[Countdown with Keith Olbermann|Keith's guest host]]!"
* [[Masi Oka]], best known as the [[Adorkable]] Hiro Nakamura from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', had previously played Franklin on ''[[Scrubs]]'' and had a bit part in ''[[Austin Powers]]'' where he insisted the monster was most definitely ''not'' Godzilla.
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** She also shows up at the very end of ''[[Jumper (novel)|Jumper]]'', as the protagonist's half-sister.
** In ''[[Zathura]]'' as the sister.
** Also in ''Catch That Kid'', which also has
** Immediately pre-breakout, she played the underage love interest in ''[[Into the Wild]]''.
** She also stars in the 2004 movie ''[[Speak]]'' (based on the novel of the same name), being 13 years old at the time.
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