30 Actors, Unrecognizable In These Roles

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30 Actors, Unrecognizable In These Roles

Whether it be their humble beginnings, or surprise cameos -- you've probably seen more of your most beloved pop culture icons than you realize. We asked our readers to show us the most mind-blowing and unrecognizable appearances from some of our favorite stars. Winner is below, but first the runners-up ...

Before Breaking Bad... Before Malcolm in the Middle... Bryan Cranston was Jerryi's dentist. CRAGKEDCONI
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Sean Bean played But most shockingly ALERT) a transvestite (SPOILER called Tracie in he/she doesn't die! The Accused'
CRACKED.COM This fierce Klingon Warrior with the Pain Stick was played by ... John Tesh
Emmy Award winner James Whitmore played a variety of roles in his life. He is probably best known for playing Brooks Hatlen in The Shawshank Redemptio
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Tim Curry played Nigel Thornberry for all 5 seasons of The Wild Thornberrys. Smashing, indeed. CRACKED.COM
Shlubb in 'Sin City' is Ron Freaking Swanson! GRACKED.COM
Everybody knows that Kevin Peter Hall played the Predator. Did you know he's also the helicopter pilot at the end of the movie? CRACKED.COM
The blind preacher from Little Nicky was played by Quentin Tarantino CRACKED.COM
CRACKED COM Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is Donnie from The Wild Thornberrys & Needles from Back to the Future
Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead, starring Simon Pegg, is both an homage to, and a parody of, the films of George Romero. Romero was a such a fan, t
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THIS IS JANINE, SIMON PEGG'S GIRLFRIEND IN HOT FUzZ, WHO BREAKS UP WITH HIM FOR ANOTHER MEMBER OF HER FORENSIC UNIT. OR CATE BLANCHETT, FOR SHORT. CRA
Before becoming Red Forman, Kurtwood mith put his Foot in Klingon .as5e5 in Star Trek VI CRACKED CON
THAT SPACE COYOTE? JOHNNY CASH. 411L Pi CRACKED COM
James Stewart as Wylie Burp in his final film 66 0 CRACKED COM
Did you know Dick Van Dyke had TWO roles in Mary Poppins? Um.... Wot?? As Bert AND the old banker. Fiddlesticks! Thankfully, his old accent was much
David Duchovny (The X-Files) may have hosted soft-core adult series Redshoe Diaries but with his character in Twin Peaks he surely could have submitte
n the Steven Spielberg movie Hook This poor pirate, whom Captain Sook tortured was played by... actress Glenn Close! CRACKEDCOMT
CRACKEDCON Before he was Hellboy, Ron Perlman became accustomed to sitting in al makeup chair for long hours preparing for his role ofvincent on the 1
CRACKED.COM CCH Pounder, of WAREHQUSE 18 and LAW & ORDER fame, was also thE oICE of Queen Mo'at in AVATAR
Although not famous actors, ex NFL Star Hines Ward and Scott lan of Anthrax, 86 have both played zombies on AMC'S The Walking Dead. CRACKED.COM
He made what is widely considered to be the greatest movie of all time. His final role was as a planet that ate Transformers. CRACKED.COM
the Animal III) Boris (MIB Recognise him? No, I didn't elther. Jermaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a large number of guest stars. Including Iggy Pop.
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This guy drowning in the surf in the music video for Billy Joel's Second Wind? That's Adam Savage, from the MythBusiers as he leoked in 1995. CRACKE

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