10 Actors Who Had INSANE Careers Before Movies

10. Whoopi Goldberg Was A Mortuary Beautician

Not only can Whoopi Goldberg boast an outstanding career spanning decades, she is a fantastic comedy writer, she is seen on daily TV in the US on The View, and has an Oscar win to her name for her role in Ghost in 1991. 

On top of all of that, she is also a trained beautician, something that she put to use in a very specific way before she was famous. Most people with such qualifications would use them while dealing with the living, but Whoopi Goldberg went in a different direction, working in the morgue.

The nature of such a job would make it seem like an incredibly difficult thing to do, but you can also imagine it being rewarding in helping to give people the best send-off possible. It would have helped that the future Oscar winner looked at it with a wonderful sense of humour, as she once told David Letterman.

To come out of situations like that and still be able to tell a funny story with a smile on her face says a lot about her character, however no matter how much she says she enjoyed the work, it's hard to imagine it comparing with being a movie star.