Jensen Ackles is known for playing the role of cocky, cute, and deadly Dean Winchester for 15 years on the TV show Supernatural. His fans might be surprised to hear it, but Ackles actually had other acting jobs before he started doing Supernatural.
From 1998 to 2000, Ackles played the role of Eric Brady in the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Supernatural has even included a little nod to Ackles’s soap days, sending its characters into a parallel universe in which they meet a soap opera actor named Jensen Ackles.
Liam Hemsworth
Taking a dip in the Hemsworth gene pool would have been a service we would all happily pay good money for. With 6′ 3″ of blue-eyed charm and sexy Australian accent, Liam is not only great to watch but also wonderful to hear.
Liam gained world fame playing Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games franchise, but his fellow Australians knew him way before that. His first acting credit was a guest appearance in Home and Away, the same soap opera his brother Chris starred in for several years.
Elizabeth Banks
Actress, producer, and overall goddess Elizabeth Banks started out small. Before becoming the trailblazer she is and landing her role in The Hunger Games franchise, she had to settle for smaller roles.
One such role was that of a young waitress named Rosalie in All My Children. The part was tiny but the rest of Banks’s career was nothing like it.
Bryan Cranston
In the first few decades of his career, most people knew Bryan Cranston as either Dr. Tim Whatley from NBC’s popular sitcom Seinfeld, or as Hal from the Fox sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle". Few people know of his portrayal of Dean Stella in the soap opera One Life to Live. He was considered your average nice, goofy, and funny older male actor, but everything changed when he took the role of Walter White on AMC’s iconic "Breaking Bad", which is known as one of the best TV shows of all time.
"Breaking Bad" revolves around Walter White, an aging and depressed chemistry teacher, and his new partner, Jesse Pinkman, a high-school dropout. The two decide to work together and open a meth business after Walter discovers he has terminal cancer and that his family isn’t financially secure. Bryan Cranston’s performance in the show is considered among the best on-screen acting of all time.
Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos met Kelly Ripa, actor and co-star, and host of ‘Live! With Kelly’ on the set of All My Children. After falling in love almost immediately, the two eloped the following year in May 1996 and played lovers on screen for twelve years.
The couple had three children together thereafter. Although the two are working parents and can often be found on different coasts, they have remained a strong unit who’s very much in love.