Can You Guess All These Actors’ First Roles?

Chadwick Boseman's first role was a very odd one. He was on "All My Children" as a character named Reggie Porter Montgomery and then he was fired within the week for complaining about issues with how his character was being portrayed. He was replaced by his future "Black Panther" co-star Michael B. Jordan.

Melissa McCarthy had a small but memorable role in the movie "Go" back in 1999. This was a full 12 years before what was arguably her very memorable breakout film role as Megan in the movie "Bridesmaids."

Though he'd done some TV work before, Denzel Washington's first big-screen theatrical release was "Carbon Copy." In the movie, he plays the illegitimate son of a white businessman. It's not very easy to find these days due to some rather insensitive racial content.

Word is that Johnny Depp wasn't even looking to be in the movie, he just showed up to accompany his buddy Jackie Earle Haley to the audition. Haley, ironically, would play Freddy Kreuger in the remake years later in 2010.

Cole and his brother Dylan have done a lot of work together, but the two of them started their careers as very young children on "Grace Under Fire." Their first movie role was opposite Adam Sandler in "Big Daddy."

The Rock had a ton of experience as a performer thanks to his career in the WWE, but it was "That '70s Show" on which he made his first appearance outside of the ring. He played a character named Rocky Johnson, who is actually his real-life father.

Unlike many actors, Emma Watson hit a home run her first time at bat when she starred in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." She'd had no other film or TV work prior to landing what would be one of the biggest film franchises in history.

Bradley Cooper's first role was on the show "Sex and the City." It was the fourth episode of the second season and he played a character named Jake, who was never heard from again. He went on to star in a number of TV shows over the years from "Nip/Tuck" to "Alias" to "Kitchen Confidential."

Kevin Hart was a guest star in a handful of episodes of the Judd Apatow comedy "Undeclared," the follow-up to his previous show "Freaks and Geeks." Both shows had incredible casts of comedians, yet both were summarily canceled fairly early in their run.

Way back in 1988, Matt Damon had his first role in the movie "Mystic Pizza." Word is that his good friend Ben Affleck also auditioned for a role in the movie but didn't manage to get it. His career seems OK now, though.

Leonardo DiCaprio had been on an episode of "Romper Room and Friends" as just a child, but his first credited role was on "The New Lassie." He'd go on to have a bigger role in "Growing Pains' as the character Luke and his film debut in "Critters 3."

Aside from a Paula Abdul video, Elijah Wood's first role was in the movie "Back to the Future II." He has a brief role as a little boy who watches Michael J. Fox's character play an arcade game then makes fun of it for being too old.

Ryan Reynolds got his start on the show "Fifteen" back in 1991 as a character named Billy Simpson. He actually was 15 years old at the time, so the casting worked out pretty well compared to some teen dramas.

Way back in 1991, Jake Gyllenhaal had a role in "City Slickers" as Billy Crystal's son. It would be another 10 years before he had his breakout role in the trippy sci-fi movie "Donnie Darko" opposite Drew Barrymore and Patrick Swayze.

Ed Norton started his Hollywood career with a bang in "Primal Fear." Thanks to a twist ending, his performance was a major standout that got him an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win for Best Supporting Actor.

Before he made history as Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe played a young David Copperfield in a TV mini-series. it was based on the Charles Dickens novel, which is actually named "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)."

Emma Stone's first film role was in the comedy "Superbad," but she had acting credits prior to that on TV. Her first role was on "The New Patridge Family," in which she played Laurie Partridge. Susan Dey played that role on the original series.

Natalie Portman had a big role in the movie "Leon: The Professional" at a very young age. In the film, she plays a 12-year-old girl whose family has been killed. She forms a relationship with a hitman so she can learn his trade to get revenge.

Surprisingly, Tom Hanks's first role was in the slasher horror flick "He Knows You're Alone." The movie was a bit of a knockoff of "Halloween" and features a movie theater scene that was later ripped off in the movie "Scream 2."

Before "Tremors" or "Footloose," Kevin Bacon was playing an awful frat brother named Chip Diller in "National Lampoon's Animal House." Most people remember the film for John Belushi, but Bacon did have a few minutes of screen time in there as well.

Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa, started his acting career as a regular on "Baywatch." Born in Hawaii, before he got into acting, Momoa was all about biology. He went to school for marine biology and then wildlife biology back in the day.

Sam Jackson's first credit goes all the way back to 1973 and the blaxploitation movie "Together for Days." Jackson was still a student at Morehouse College when he made the movie, which was shot in Atlanta.

Margot Robbie made her feature film debut in 2008's low-budget Australian action film "Vigilante." There's an Audi R8 used in the movie that was apparently the only one in all of Australia at the time, and it was a thorn in the side of the filmmakers since bystanders would enter shots to get a look at it.

Harrison Ford started acting in 1966 with "Dead Heat On a Merry-Go-Round." He played a bellhop pager in the movie, which starred James Coburn. If you look closely at Ford's nametag in the movie, it says, "Thornton Wild."

Keanu Reeves grew up in Canada and his TV debut was on the Canadian show "Hangin' In." The show was a comedy about a drop-in youth center in Toronto, and Reeves had a brief appearance as a client in one episode.

Meryl Streep had a credit from 1976 in which her voice was heard in the movie "Everybody Rides the Carousel." Her first real role, however, was in a made-for-TV movie called "The Deadliest Season." It was about a hockey player who accidentally kills another player on the ice.

After a couple of TV guest spots, Zoe Saldana made her film debut in "Center Stage," a movie about a group of dancers at a ballet academy. The movie was a bit of a failure since it only made back $26 million worldwide of a $29 million budget.

Mariska Hargitay got her start in film being terrorized by monsters in "Ghoulies." She took an unusual path to fame since her father was actor and Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay while her mother was legendary bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield.

Before Chris Pratt was guarding the galaxy or even in "Parks and Recreation," he showed up in an obscure show called "The Huntress" that was about a mother and daughter team of bounty hunters. It was on for a single season in 2001.

Viola Davis's first role was in the 1996 film "The Substance of Fire," in which she played a nurse. The film was based on a play, and both the Broadway production and the subsequent movie starred Sarah Jessica Parker in a lead role.

Donald Glover was part of the award-winning writing staff on "30 Rock," which is what he parlayed into several appearances as an actor on the show as well. He was in four episodes over the show's run but not as the same character each time.

Will Smith had a small role in the movie "Where the Day Takes You" at the beginning of his career. Thanks to his TV roles, he exploded pretty quickly in the world of film and his fourth film role was in the hit "Bad Boys," which he followed with "Independence Day."

Though her first major film role was in the movie "Leprechaun," it was several years earlier when Jennifer Aniston appeared in the McDonald's dance sequence in the movie "Mac and Me." If you've never seen "Mac and Me," check out any interview Paul Rudd has done with Conan O'Brien. He always brings a clip as a joke.

The movie "Grizzly" was about a killer bear and George Clooney's first film role was in a very small part as the bear's victim in the sequel. The movie was so bad it was never actually released, but it still counts as Clooney's first.

Helen Mirren had a very minor role in the 1966 movie "Press for Time" before her first credited role in the film "Herostratus" as "Advert Woman." The movie would be pretty much a forgotten relic of British cinema if not for Mirren's involvement.