20 actors who did small roles before they were famous

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16) ⁠Jessica Alba

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Jessica Alba started small, with appearances in such television shows as Flipper (1995) and movies like Camp Nowhere (1994). However, the real breakthrough came when she got a role in the television series Dark Angel (2000), for which she received many critical accolades. From those early small roles to the major box-office successes such as Fantastic Four (2005), Alba was able to hone her craft and eventually move on to her entrepreneurial pursuits.

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Edited by Sugnik Mondal