The handsome actor was strutting his stuff on the catwalks in Paris and Milan before he ditched his modeling career for acting and starred in Coming Soon.
Discovered by an agent soon after arriving in Los Angeles from the Soviet Union, the actress landed a role on The John Larroquette Show.
The Golden Globe-winning actress performed on stage for dinner theatergoers before landing her first starring role in Drop Dead Gorgeous.
The Oscar-winning actress got her start on television in the comedy-drama Get Real, as did the Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg, who is also pictured.
Long before he was known for his perfect hair, the Oscar winner debuted his soon-to-be-famous locks on Camp Wilder.
The Dallas Buyers Club star and Oscar winner began his career as a reenactor on Unsolved Mysteries.
Soon after becoming a beauty queen the Oscar-winning actress took her good looks to the set of the sitcom Living Dolls.
Fashion model by the age of 3 and child star by age 10, LiLo got her start on soap opera Another World before landing the highly successful film, The Parent Trap.
The Oscar-winning actress hit the Hollywood scene in her first role as a mascot on Monk.
In 1991 the breakout star and Oscar winner landed a feature role in The Man in the Moon.
Before being nominated a record 18 times for an Academy Award, the Oscar-winning star proved her acting chops on The Deadliest Season and provided her voice for 1975's animated film Everybody Rides the Carousel.
The dancer-turned-actress-turned mogul got her acting start in her first major motion picture, My Little Girl.
1983 was the year that saw this Aussie actress break into Hollywood—with one of her many roles being the TV film, Skin Deep.
Around the same time, her ex-husband was getting his cinematic start in the romantic film Endless Love.
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