10 Celebrities Who Started As Models
They are the 10 Celebrities Who Started As Models.
Before they were celebs, some of them worked in fast food and others worked in modeling.
We are going to talk about those who have worked in the modeling industry and suddenly decided that an acting career is more suitable for them.
Some of them seem to have been working in the spot light all their lives, when some are just new faces.
But for having a modeling career you must have “the face”, and by “the face” I mean you have to be really beautiful and photogenic.
Well, the same happened with the celebrities from this list; they got the face and the groove.
N10. Cameron Diaz
The star from The Other Woman and Charlie’s Angels, Cameron Diaz ranks #10 on our list with 10 Celebrities Who Started As Models.
She is one of the funniest actresses on the big screen but she is not afraid to do action movies either.
Cameron is very talented woman, although she can’t really sing or dance very well.
Before she was an actress, Diaz started out as a fashion model for Elite Model Management at 16, where she was able to show her assets by appearing in commercials for Levi’s and Calvin Klein.
And in 1990, Cameron was on the front cover of Seventeen Magazine.
N9. Milla Jovovich
The girl from The Fifth Element is one of the Celebrities Who Started As Models.
Personally, I had no idea that the actress started as a model.
She is known by everyone as the kick-ass girl from every movie such as killing zombies in the versions of Resident Evil.
Milla started acting a young age, and since there his career only went up.
Jovovich was into modeling when she was only 12 years old, when she was featured on the front cover of an Italian magazine called Lei.
Today she is one of the most respectable actresses from Hollywood and a great human being.
N8. Ashton Kutcher
It was the time for a man to join the list! Ashton Kutcher breaks the ice and ranks #8 on the list with Celebrities Who Started As Models.
The star from TV show, Two and a Half Man started his modeling at Next modeling agency, located in New York.
Ever since, he was featured in Calvin Klein advertisements and a lot of movies and TV shows.
After, he went to play Kelso in That 70s Show; a show that ran for eight years. This is where he met his actual girlfriend and mother of his child, Mila Kunis.
While he was acting in TV shows and movies, Ashton had been seen in many different commercials and since then, he is still acting in movies and is an accomplished producer and inventor.
N7. Charlize Theron
The girlfriend of Sean Penn and the star of up-coming movie, Mad Max, Charlize Theron has always been a natural beauty.
Why do I say natural beauty? I mean that she always had a thing for acting and modeling.
At the age of 16 she won a modeling contract and moved to Italy. Spend an entire year traveling Europe and eventually “landed” in New York to become a ballet dancer.
Her dreams to become a ballerina were soon vanished when she injured her knee. She was 19 back then, and her mom told her she has to make a tough decision, either move on or move back to South Africa.
I guess that’s why she became an actress.
N6. Marilyn Monroe
When it comes to Marilyn Monroe as a model, everyone knows a thing or two.
Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn had grown up most of her life in foster homes. But years later, she changed her name into Baker because of the legitimacy of her father.
In 1956 she changed her name officially to Marilyn Monroe after she had been acting for several years.
Marilyn was known as the “blonde bombshell” in many movies that she had appeared in, back in the 1950s and 1960s.
But unfortunately she died at the young age of 36 in 1962.
N5. Rachel Weisz
This girl has started her modeling career at age of 14 in 1984 thus she is now one of the 10 Celebrities Who Started As Models.
Rachel’s film career took a well-deserved turn when she was cast in the movie The Mummy with Brendan Fraser in 1999.
But before she made her international appearance in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, Rachel was in London where she appeared in several television shows and movies.
Today, she is famous for her roles in many movies such as Fred Claus, The Bourne Legacy and Oz, The Great and the Powerful.
N4. Halle Berry
Storm from X-Men, or another Bond girl, is a former fashion model and an Academy Award winner.
In 2002 she won an Oscar for the movie Monster’s Ball and was one of the highest paid actresses during the 2000s.
She also played in X-Men movies as Storm, as I said before. There she had the role of a mutant who controls the weather.
But before everyone knew her as the Storm, she was a fashion model. Back then Halle was in multiple beauty pageants and became the first runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant in 1986.
In the same year she also landed sixth place in the Miss World Pageant.
Her career as a fashion model was as blooming as her career as an actress.
N3. Channing Tatum
We already knew that Channing was a stripper in the old days. In 2012, he was People’s Sexiest Man Alive. So you can’t really say that Channing Tatum is an ugly guy.
Many people say that he is one of the best looking men in Hollywood and I agree with them.
Among the people who said Channing is a beautiful man were the people from the modeling industry that noticed his features.
Before becoming this famous in television and movies, Tatum worked as a fashion model for designers Armani and Abercrombie & Fitch.
Channing also worked in commercials and was in Vogue magazine, after signing with Page Parkes Modeling Agency in 2000 and modeled in Italy and New York.
N2. Uma Thurman
The actress from Quentin Tarantino’s films (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) was one of the 10 Celebrities Who Started As Models.
But before she had the chance to star in Tarantino’s films, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed actress was a model.
She began her career as a model at age of 15 with Click Models. In 1986 she covered the British Vogue Magazine.
After two years in the modeling industry, Uma started her acting career and became famous ever since.
Better known for playing controversial roles such as a gangster’s girlfriend in Pulp Fiction, Gattaca, and Poison Ivy in Batman & Robin, Uma is as many say a chameleon.
N1. Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is one of the richest actresses but is also one of the Celebrities Who Started As Models.
Her movies gross millions every time at box-office, but she isn’t just a good actress. Beside the movies, Angelia does extraordinary philanthropic work.
She started her acting career when she was almost seven years old with her father, Jon Voight, in “Lookin’ to Get Out”.
Some of you might remember her as the cute computer-geek, Acid Burn, in the movie Hackers.
At 14 years old, Angelia was taking acting classes but dropped out to become a funeral director and became a fashion model.
She went back into acting a short time later after, “renting an apartment above a garage,” according to sources.
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