The road to movie stardom is a long and winding one that many actors will travel and few will truly succeed at. To get there they'll have to endure numerous auditions, low level jobs and endless rejection with no guarantees that they'll make it in the end. It's all a combination of talent, drive and sheer luck. Harrison Ford famously worked as a carpenter to make ends meet in his early years and had all but given up on acting until he landed an audition for Star Wars - the rest, of course, is history. But one job that provides any budding actors a handy way to observe what life is like on a set is to become an extra, so it's no surprise that every once in awhile you'll spot a future star lurking in the background of a film or TV show. And the endlessly fickle nature of Hollywood will see someone who began their career as a background extra go on to be a bigger success than anyone in the movie they started out in. And that's the case with this list, as we look at 8 future stars that paid their dues and started from the ground up. Curious to know what film teamed Arnold Schwarzenegger with director Robert Altman, or Charlize Theron against a giant plant monster? Then read on...
