8 More Actors Who Got Famous Off Just One Scene

5. Terry Crews - White Chicks

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Columbia Pictures

White Chicks may be a bad movie, if we're being polite, but its existence is justified for one single reason - it helped the world fall in love with Terry Crews.

Crews had already appeared in a number of movies and TV shows in bit-parts, but White Chicks forever immortalised him in pop-culture for the hilarious scene where he sings along to Vanessa Carlton's pop classic "A Thousand Miles."

Crews' spirited performance, both singing enthusiastically and shaking his head to the instrumentation, is without question the funniest scene in the otherwise laugh-adverse film, and immediately put him on audience's radars.

Crews became a regular supporting player in comedy and action films for many years afterwards, until winning what would ultimately become his defining role - Terry Jeffords on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

But without his meme-worthy turn in White Chicks, there's no saying how his career might've gone.

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