Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere started acting as a child actress, and much of her screen time as a kid was in soap operas. She spent three years on the set of One Life to Live playing little Sarah Roberts, but that doesn’t conclude her entire soap opera career.
Her next soap opera part was a two-year-long stint as Lizzie Spaulding in Guiding Light. She then started focusing on a film career and went back to TV, though she hasn’t been seen in another soap opera since.
Chris Hemsworth
When casting for the Thor franchise, the producers needed to find someone who looks like a god to play a god. Then they found Chris Hemsworth and all was well with the world. Before becoming widely known as Thor, the god of thunder, Hemsworth has had a score of other roles. One such role was that of Kim Hyde in the Australian soap opera Home and Away.
He played that role for nearly 200 episodes before turning to film and other endeavors. Those fine Hemsworth genes, as well as a talent for acting, run in the family, as Chris’s two brothers are also not bad to look at and have on-screen careers.
Eva Longoria
Among the most vivacious Latinas that Hollywood has to offer is Eva Longoria. It’s insane that she’s in her 40s! Eva has proven herself to be a successful businesswoman and an actress of worth who keeps the big bucks coming in.
Apart from being an actress, she’s now a producer as well. In 2017, she brought some of her best acting skills to the table through the role of Margot Beste-Chetwynde in the miniseries Decline and Fall, released in 2017, and we loved it. But long before that, Longoria has appeared in both General Hospital and The Young and the Restless.
Brittany Snow
This blue-eyed blonde is not only a great actress, but she can also sing. In 1998 she started playing Susan Lemay (AKA Daisy) in the soap opera Guiding Light. She even won a Young Artist Award for that role.
Snow later went on to act in TV shows and films such as the Pitch Perfect franchise and Hairspray, which gave her a chance to prove her vocal cords’ worth.
Chadwick Boseman
Another Black Panther alum, Chadwick Boseman has also appeared on All My Children. In fact, he was the original guy cast to play Reggie. He played that role for a few episodes before being replaced by Michael B. Jordan.
You would expect that both Jordan and Boseman would be asked about this interesting parallel in their careers but the truth is that they have both been reluctant to talk about it. Great job not making people curious, guys.