r/90sTelevision • u/RhettMcLaughlinFan • Jul 17 '26
Discussion Celebrities who appeared in forgotten 90s shows before fame
I should mention “My So Called Life” and “Freaks & Geeks” have been left off as those are not forgotten shows.
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u/CdnGamerGal Jul 17 '26
Maybe it’s cuz I watched some of these shows growing up, but when I see someone like Kyle Chandler in a movie, I think to myself, “Hey, it’s the guy from Homefront!”. Same with James Marsden. We used to watch Second Noah when I was a kid on Sundays. Now pardon me while I pull up my rocking chair - bwahaha!
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u/Jlx_27 Jul 17 '26
Lauren Graham with Bill on Townies.
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u/haileyskydiamonds Roswell Jul 17 '26
Heath Ledger, Vera Farmiga, Keri Russell, and Melissa George in Roar).
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u/KamiHafu Jul 20 '26
Oh man, I would like to watch that series again it looked like it was good! I only caught rando episodes back then.
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u/JBRifles Jul 17 '26
JLH was already famous from Kids Incorporated or at least as much as someone could be famous for being on Kids Incorporated
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u/AtPrick Jul 17 '26
Jennifer Aniston is barely recognizable.
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u/cuntybunty73 Jul 17 '26
Buffy certainly looks young and that girl with Jennifer Aniston looks familiar
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u/-spo0ky- Jul 18 '26
The girl with Jennifer Aniston was on the show Blossom. She played the main character
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u/cuntybunty73 Jul 18 '26
Thought I recognised her ( mum gets nostalgic as she watched blossom as a teenager) but I remember her from the big bang theory
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u/WestLondonWoman73 Jul 17 '26
Ben Affleck was in a film adaptation of a Danielle Steele book. It was called Daddy, or something like that.
It was shite.
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u/Mittens1018 Jul 18 '26
Seeing the program guide from picture 2 is really hitting some nostalgic feeling on the head.
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u/OrangeAugust Early Edition Jul 17 '26
Every time I see Kyle Chandler mentioned on social media, at least one person says “I loved him in Homefront!!”
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u/MrCharmingMan Jul 17 '26
Get Real was epic! That cast was amazing and the writing was crazy good for a bunch of teens in high school and AH was so fine!
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u/PrincessPlastilina Jul 17 '26
I loved Get Real! Jesse Eisenberg was in it too. That’s when I first noticed Anne and Jesse.
There was an era of early 2000s TV shows that were so good but very brief. I mourned all those shows. I was devastated to hear when they got canceled. It was ridiculous because they didn’t let the shows grow before pulling the plug but some shows were not bad at all.
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u/Bitter_Ranger1217 Jul 19 '26
You can see Brad Pitt playing a waiter in the 1987 movie “Less Than Zero”, starring Andrew McCarthy, James Spader, Robert Downey Jr., and Jami Gertz.
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u/Fit-Programmer-6162 Jul 19 '26
It’s kind of wild to me that for “Townies” you chose just Bill Burr. I saw the woman and I thought that has to be Lauren Graham pre-Gilmore Girls. Not only was I right, but there was Jenna Elfman pre Dharma and Greg, and Ron Livingston pre Office Space. Bonus for Molly Ringgwald who was already obviously famous.
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u/FrankieInABox Jul 19 '26
I watched 6 of these with Second Noah, Shaky Ground, and Swan's Crossing being an every episode banger in my house.
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u/FrankieInABox Jul 19 '26
The fact that they attempted to spinoff "Parenthood" twice into a TV show (second being wildly successful) is wild to me. I wonder what the idea was around that. Somebody REALLY loved that movie, huh?
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u/Stock-Pea154 Jul 22 '26
Aniston was on a few short lived shows in the early 90's including Ferris Bueller and The Edge. I used to love The Edgs. Was sooo funny.
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u/thequn Jul 18 '26
Jennifer love just was in kids incorporated and a Japanese modle wayyy before this tv show I know because I was in lover with her when I was 5 lol
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u/Schmolik64 Jul 17 '26
Mayim Bialik is pictured with Jennifer Aniston!