You will be surprised when you find out which of the famous stars with a world name got to the film studio, without even the slightest acting education.
If a person has a gift, then he will be able to play any role in such a way that everyone will feel: here he is - a real one, and not just a set image. And in this case sometimes no schools and universities of acting are needed, because talent comes from the heart.
1. Heath Ledger
The famous Australian actor Heath Ledger began trying to break into the ranks of the film industry at the age of 17, just after school. He traveled almost all of Australia in search of acting, and he succeeded. His first small role Heath received in the series "Clownery", after which he was able to act in several other films. But as a star he made his debut in the Australian feature film "Blackrock". A couple of years later, the directors of the popular comedy "10 reasons for my hatred" opened the doors to a talented self-taught man for the role of the Joker, after which his career finally became successful. The hit even won an Oscar for Best Game in the movie "The Dark Knight".
2. Meg Ryan
Are you surprised? Still would! After all, this beauty is famous all over the world for the magnificent paintings that have become classics of the genre: "Sleepless in Seattle", "French Kiss", "When Harry Met Sally", etc. Meg never thought before that she would be an actress. She planned to become a journalist and even studied at two relevant universities, one of which never finished.
Career path Meg Ryan began with minor and minor roles in commercials, in which the future celebrity acted in order to earn extra pocket money while studying at the university. However, it began to like and dragging deeper and deeper. Meg was expelled from the last year, and the career of the actress simply galloped upward, because a talented and beautiful girl simply could not be overlooked by more serious film studios and directors.
3. Tom Cruise
Megapopular Hollywood actor, sex symbol and real talent! At school, Cruz often participated in improvised children's plays, and already then people around him marked undoubted actor's talent, but in his youth, Tom dreamed of becoming a Catholic priest, not an actor. After all, Cruz abandoned this idea and went to live in New York, where he auditioned for various roles. Young talent did not have to wait long: in six months he starred in his first film "Otboy", after which he was invited to appear in other films and the career went on to take off.
4. Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin is a famous and talented actor, producer and musician. Phoenix earned her acting skills from childhood, when she gave performances on the street with her brothers and sisters in order to make a living. All the children were talented in their own way, and once they were noticed by the Hollywood agent Iris Burton, who helped the guys get their first real roles in advertising and TV shows. So began the career of Joaquin on the screen, and his perseverance and work over time led to fame and recognition.
5. Christian Bale
Christian always dreamed of becoming an actor, for this he dropped out of school at the age of 16 and went to seek his way to glory. He, like many others, began with minor roles in advertising. Bay practically did not refuse any offers, and it helped him to achieve success. The actor grew up in his mastery and debuted when he performed on the stage of the London theater "Western edge" in the play "The Botanist". Immediately after that, he got to shoot the film "Anastasia: The Enigma of Anna" and rushed ... The film after the film, he began to play side by side with celebrities such as Christopher Lee and Nick Pickard.
6. Russell Crowe
The first episodic role was literally with one line of text he received due to kinship ties in his youth. After that, the actor, like Joaquin Phoenix, at the age of 16 dropped out of school and put every effort to become a true professional in his field. He was popular with the shooting of the film "Gladiator", in which he played the role of the Roman General Maximus Decimus, for which Russell received the prestigious Oscar.
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo had a difficult childhood: parents in their lives did not achieve any success, his grandparents were emigrants, so the family had to live in a troubled quarter where iniquity, shooting and other troubles reigned. When DiCaprio turned 14, he made a firm decision to become an actor.
The guy himself found an agent and made a deal with him, saying that he could pay with the first fee from filming. Initially, the agent was able to produce small roles for him in advertising, but once the young Leo agent made happy a role in a big movie with De Niro himself, which brought the beginning actor success and opened the doors to Hollywood.
8. Jennifer Lawrence
It seems that this beautiful and talented actress is filmed in almost all the films. And once she was an unfamiliar girl. Her career as an actress started at age 14, when Jennifer convinced her parents to move her to live in New York and find a real agent. It was a bold decision and definitely right. It all started with a role in the comedy series "The Show of Bill Engwall", after which the girl was noticed and invited to participate in other films.
9. Adriano Celentano
World-famous comedian Celentano was born in a poor family and was the fourth child, so at a young age he grabbed for any work. But, despite the hard life, Adriano did not lose his sense of humor and was very fond of parodying politicians and other famous people before friends and relatives. Once he was photographed during such a speech by an occasional photographer, and her sister sent these pictures to a humorous contest in which he unexpectedly won and received a prize of 100 thousand liras. Then the young man realized that this was his calling. He began to work hard to become an actor of humorous genre, and he successfully succeeded.
10. Johnny Depp
The explosive and partly unexpected character of Depp helped him to stand out among others and achieve the stunning success that he has now. But in his youth he dreamed of being not an actor, but a musician. To become what he is today, Depp was helped by his first wife, Laurie Ann Ellison, when she introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage. Then, from his new friend Johnny received a recommendation to try to film, what young Depp did.
11. Gerard Depardieu
Depardieu grew up in a dysfunctional family, his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown and, as she could, brought up three children. Naturally, in such a family, no one noticed the talents of children, parents did not really care about the successes of children in school, as well as where children disappear all day. Therefore Gerard was hanging out with the punks and stealing, for which he almost fell into the colony for juvenile offenders.
Life turned over the case when the future star of French cinema, decided to sit in one of his friend's classes at the school for acting. The teachers asked the beginner to take part in the production of one of the scenes, after which his charisma was evaluated as very promising. And it was then that Gerard came to desire to become a real actor.
12. Jim Carrey
Jim in his childhood never imagined himself an actor, his family was poor, so you had to dream about more mundane things. Already a teenager, Kerry worked for 8 hours at the factory to help the family earn money for survival. He was so tired that he had no strength left to study. Jim studied very badly and could not finish grade 10, he was left several times for the second year, after which the guy completely dropped out of school.
In a spare moment, Jim was very fond of parodying celebrities. And they, together with his father, composed a parody sketch, which they decided to show in the club of Toronto, after which they began to appear more often. So Kerry got the first little fame and glory. Well, then it went ... Of course, an amusing standupper could not ignore the influential people of the film industry.
The first debut role of Jim is the image of the strange and bizarre detective "Ace Ventura". This picture thwarted the ovation and brought a profit of $ 100 million. This success was not expected, because the producers did not make big bets on Kerry, but they made a mistake.
13. Brad Pitt
This handsome guy was a risky guy since his youth. When he was only a couple of weeks away from school, he dropped everything and left Missouri directly to Hollywood to try his luck, with a little more than $ 300 in his pocket. When Brad arrived, he was hungry and went to the nearest McDonald's to have a snack, taking a newspaper with ads. And it was there that he saw the announcement of a set of actors of extras for the filming of the film. Pitt passed the tests, he was approved, so he got his first role in life.
14. Demi Moore
Become an actress Demi Moore pushed hard life and the offer of a neighbor to the hostel. Father Demi left her before birth, when his mother announced to him about pregnancy. Such a blow the woman could not resist and became addicted to alcohol. Over time, Demi Moore had a stepfather, the same alcoholic as the mother.
Debt accumulated, the family had to constantly move, and after the death of his stepfather, there was no money left even for food. And the young Moore had to go to school in the school years. For a long time for a tiny fee, she worked as a photomodel in cheap photosessions. But one day a friend and neighbor in the hostel, the future world star Nastasya Kinski, suggested that they go together to sample the actors for filming in a low-budget soap series, which Demi successfully passed and got her first role.
15. Jet Li
The famous actor from China Jet Li was born into a happy family with many children. However, his father died suddenly, Lee's code was only 2 years old. Since the mother did not have a profession and no qualifications, she could work maximum with a conductor in the bus. Therefore, the family plunged into poverty. Jet had to even go to school a year later, because there was not enough money for the form and textbooks.
In the first class, along with friends, Jet Li got to training the Wushu section, where he showed amazing abilities, for which the coach offered to continue his studies for free. And then the little wrestler realized that his future is a sport. The boy began to train hard. A few years later he began to receive the first medals and reached the world level, having won gold at 4 championships in a row. This glory became the red carpet in the world cinema.