8 Great Actors Who Came to Film from Other Professions

Beloved by all Hollywood stars, far from all graduated from acting studios and theater colleges. Many of them came to the cinema from other professions, and some even started acting by accident. We will talk about 8 famous celebrities who do not have a special education, but are not deprived of talent and charm.

We can say that Danny Trejo is a criminal by his first profession. In his youth, he did not respect the law too much and therefore spent a total of 11 years behind bars. But in the case of Danny, the prison only benefited, as he gave up drugs, began to play sports and even became the Pennsylvania boxing champion in two weight categories.

After serving his final term, Trejo began to help young people fight drug addiction. Through his job, he chanced upon a screenwriter whose assistant he was helping to quit cocaine. As a result, he was offered to train actor Eric Roberts in boxing, and then they took on the first episodic role. By the way, for the first time Trejo starred in Andrei Konchalovsky's film Runaway Train, where he beat the same Roberts.

Brutal but charismatic Vinnie Jones is a professional football player. He played in the British Premier League for Wales and became famous for his aggressive behavior on the field and in life. Fans even gave him the nickname "Ax", which the athlete more than worked out, crippling opponents during matches and in pubs after the championships.

Jones was invited to audition for a movie by Guy Ritchie for his iconic film "Lock, Stock, Two Smoking Barrels". The brawler went to the director's office straight from the cell of the police station, where he was imprisoned for another drunken brawl. Richie Jones approached and from then on the career of actor Vinnie Jones began.

An American with Somali roots, Barhad Abdi lived a poor life and sold used mobile phones. One day he saw on TV an advertisement for the recruitment of people in the extras of the film "Captain Phillips" and decided to try his luck. By type, Abdi approached, but he could not even dream that he would play one of the key roles in the film.

And even more so, the dark-skinned phone salesman could not imagine that with this film he would get into the Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Now there are already 6 films in the actor's filmography and this is just the beginning!

Before becoming an actor, Sharlto was engaged in the promotion of low-budget projects and did not even think about filming. His friend Neil Blomkamp was looking for a guy to star in his sci-fi action movie District 9 and unexpectedly offered to try Copley.

Now we are sure that no one could play Vikus Van De Merwe better than Sharlto. The first experience in the cinema was incredibly successful and opened the way for the novice actor to other films. The actor starred in 20 films and TV series, and in 2009 he was recognized as the best actor of the year.

Today it seems that Golding is everywhere, he is filming so much. So it seems strange that his first film, Crazy Rich Asians, was released just three years ago, in 2018. Before becoming a movie star, Henry was a regular on TV, albeit as a travel show host.

Golding became an actor "by pull" - he was advised to film producers by a familiar accountant of one of the film studios. One of the biggest successes of the young actor was the role in the film "The Gentlemen" by Guy Ritchie, which became incredibly popular immediately after the release.

It's no secret that professional wrestlers often find themselves on the big screen. So it happened with Dave Batista, who changed the ring to a film studio. His Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy made him talk about the former athlete as a talented actor, and then the roles were found by Dave themselves.

Now Johnny Depp has over 250 film roles behind him and it seems strange that he never studied acting. However, this is true - Depp ended up in the cinema by accident, going with a friend to the casting of the film "A Nightmare on Elm Street". Suddenly, Johnny got his first serious role and after that he never stopped.

It must be said that the main “pirate of the Caribbean” has no education - at the age of 15, Johnny left school and while everyone was in colleges and universities he played in various rock bands, whipped girls and drank. However, Depp continues to do this now, but now the priorities are different and the rampant lifestyle is, on the contrary, a hobby.

The star of The Hobbit, and now also the Marvel universe, is a professional model and has given more than one year of her life to the catwalk. By the way, the girl was not going to become a model either - she just needed money to pay for college. Starting in the modeling business, Evangeline starred in commercials several times, and then she was offered to come to the casting for the series Lost. This was the end of the Lilly model and the birth of a new promising film actress.