What did the famous Hollywood actors look like in their first films

The beginning of an acting career for many modern Western stars looks about the same. The path to the big cinema began either in soap operas and TV series, which are remembered only by the creators today, or in full-length horror and science fiction films that received unprecedented popularity in the 80s. However, some "Hollywood celestials" began their careers at a very young age, managed to taste the glory of teenagers and grow into mature actors and audience favorites. It is about them that our story today is about.

Elijah Wood

1. Elijah Wood in the movie "Avalon".

Today, few people remember that the famous Hobbit from Peter Jackson's epoch-making trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" first appeared on movie screens at the age of eight. His debut, but episodic role was the boy at the slot machine in the fantastic film by Robert Zemeckis "Back to the Future-2".

2. Elijah Wood in the movie "Avalon".

A year after a minute shot in one of the highest-grossing films of the 1980s and a small role in Richard Gere's film "Internal Investigation", Elijah plays the son of Aiden Quinn in Barry Levinson's film "Avalon". The story of a Jewish family who immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century became the last and most successful part of the Baltimore film trilogy. The film received positive reviews from critics, was nominated for an Oscar and for the first time attracted attention to the little blue-eyed actor.

Drew Barrymore

3. Drew Barrymore in the movie "Alien".

One of the "beautiful and dangerous" girls of the elite special forces "Charlie's Angels" is actually a representative of the famous Barrymore acting clan. Her grandfather, John Barrymore, starred in 67 films, one of which was the Oscar-winning "Grand Hotel" starring Greta Garbo.

4. Drew Barrymore in the movie "Alien".

Therefore, it is not surprising that Drew got on the movie screens so early and at the age of nine received a Golden Globe nomination for a supporting role in the melodrama "Irreconcilable Contradictions". The debut picture of the little actress was the fantastic film "Other Hypostases", Drew was then only five years old.

5. Drew Barrymore in the movie "Alien".

A year later, she gets one of the main roles in the famous Steven Spielberg film "Alien". It was the image of little Gertie, who together with her brothers saves a cute alien creature from NASA specialists, that made Barrymore one of the most famous child movie stars of the 1980s.

Leonardo DiCaprio

6. Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie "What's eating Gilbert Grape".

Today, almost every film in which DiCaprio plays becomes a hit in the rental and receives high critical acclaim. But this was not always the case, of course. For the first time, the future actor appeared in front of the camera at the age of 2.5 years, when his father took him to a popular children's TV show. And when Leo turned ten, he firmly decided to become an actor and began his six-year journey to the big cinema.

7. Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie "Toothpicks-3".

The boy went from series to series, the first of which was the popular "Santa Barbara", but there were no offers from the directors. Only in 1991, DiCaprio gets a role in the comedy horror film by Kristin Peterson "Toothpicks‑3". The debut turned out to be unsuccessful: the third picture about furry aliens failed at the box office, and the game of the actors was blown to smithereens by critics.

8. Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie "What's eating Gilbert Grape".

But we can thank this failure at least for the fact that in two years DiCaprio will star in the drama "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and will perform, perhaps, one of his most brilliant roles.

9. Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie "The Life of this guy".

10. Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie "The Life of this guy".

Lindsay Lohan

11. Lindsay Lohan in the movie "The Parent Trap".

The infamous Hollywood star began her career as a model when she was just three years old, becoming the first red-haired child to conquer the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency.

12. Lindsay Lohan in the movie "The Parent Trap".

By the age of ten, the daughter of the" macaroni king "from Wall Street starred in more than a hundred commercials and played the role of Ellie Fowler in the TV series"Another World". When Lindsay turned eleven, the girl finally made her film debut.

13. Lindsay Lohan in the movie "The Parent Trap".

Her first film was the Disney comedy "The Parent Trap", where she played twin sisters trying to reconcile their long-divorced parents.

14. Lindsay Lohan in the movie "The Parent Trap".

Thanks to this debut, Lohan received a contract for three films with Disney and became the winner of the Young Actor Award in the category "Best Performance in a Film".

Natalie Portman

15. Natalie Portman in the movie "Leon".

The queen of the planet Naboo from the famous George Lucas film saga " Star Wars "and the prima ballerina from Darren Aronofsky's film" Black Swan " began her acting career at odds with all the trends in Hollywood.

16. Natalie Portman in the movie "Leon".

The daughter of a Jewish doctor, an excellent student, a future Harvard graduate who is fluent in five languages, dreamed of an acting career from an early age. For this, she turned down an offer to become a model when she was only eleven, and, as it turned out, for good reason.

17. Natalie Portman in the movie "Leon".

At the age of thirteen, Natalie gets her first role in Luc Besson's film "Leon", where she gets a chance not only to get on world screens, but also to work with the famous Jean Reno. The film debut immediately made Portman a favorite of the public and one of the most popular Western actresses.

18. Natalie Portman in the movie "Leon".

Kristen Stewart

19. Kristen Stewart in the movie "Fear Room".

The role of Bella Swan from the "twilight movie saga" made Stewart one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and for a long time secured for her the image of the long-suffering beloved of the vampire Edward. However, before that, Kristen managed to star in sixteen films, many of which never reached the mass audience.

20. Kristen Stewart in the movie "Fear Room".

The actress first appeared on the screens when she was only nine years old, in the Disney production of "The Mermaid's Son", a year later she got a small role in the melodrama Rose Troche "The Safety of things". But critics and viewers noticed it only in 2002, when David Fincher's thriller "Fear Room" was released, where the mother of the heroine Kristen was played by Jodie Foster.

21. Kristen Stewart in the movie "Fear Room".

The twelve-year-old actress was in no way inferior to her famous partner on the set and was able to convince the audience of her talent.

Christian Bale

22. Christian Bale in the film "Anastasia: The Secret of Anna".

Billionaire Bruce Wayne, leading the double life of the superhero Batman, from the popular Christopher Nolan trilogy, winner of the Golden Globe and Oscar awards, began his acting career as a nine-year-old boy.

23. Christian Bale in the film "Anastasia: The Secret of Anna".

After filming in a commercial for British television, Bale again gets on TV screens three years later, thanks to participation in the project "Anastasia: The Secret of Anna", which tells the story of a stranger who pretends to be the surviving daughter of Nicholas II.

24. Christian Bale in the movie "Mio, my Mio".

The debut work of the young actor in the cinema was the film of the Soviet director Vladimir Grammatikov "Mio, my Mio", based on the children's fairy tale by Astrid Lindgren.

25. Christian Bale in the movie "Empire of the Sun".

In the same 1987, the picture of Steven Spielberg "Empire of the Sun", where Christian played the main role, was released on the screens.

26. Christian Bale in the movie "Empire of the Sun".

The image of an English boy who was lost during the Second World War and left without parents in occupied Shanghai brought the young actor world fame and an award from the National Council of Film Critics of the United States.

27. Christian Bale in the movie "Empire of the Sun".

28. Christian Bale in the movie "Empire of the Sun".

Scarlett Johansson

29. Scarlett Johansson in the movie "North".

The favorite of the famous director Woody Allen, one of the most talented American actresses made her film debut when she was only ten years old. The first picture in which Johanson starred was the work of Rob Reiner "North", where her partners on the set were the young Elijah Wood and Bruce Willis.

30. Scarlett Johansson in the movie "Thieves".

A year later, the young Scarlett plays in the same film with Sean Connery, the crime drama "Just Cause". For nine years, the young actress managed to play in twelve films, but world fame came to her only at the age of nineteen, thanks to Sofia Coppola's film "Translation Difficulties".

31. Scarlett Johansson in the movie "If Lucy Falls".