20 Celebrities Who Were Featured In Music Videos Before They Were Famous

In 1993, Jennifer appeared in Janet Jackson’s music video for her monitor “That is the Means Love Goes.” 

In a 2018 MTV interview following her MTV Video Vanguard Award win, Jennifer mentioned how artists like Madonna and Janet have influenced her work.

“They have been my inspirations to even get into the music enterprise, to do what I did,” she mentioned. “Their movies impressed me to do the movies that I did, and so now, to be 20 years in and right here and successful this award, it is … mind-blowing.”

Naomi was simply 7 years previous when she was in Bob Marley’s “Is This Love” music video. She remembered the expertise in an article for the Guardian in 2016.

“Of all of the movies [I did], Bob Marley’s ‘Is This Love’ was probably the most thrilling. Our household cherished reggae,” she mentioned. “I didn’t realise Bob Marley can be standing proper subsequent to me, tucking me below a blanket. He was probably the most good-looking man, with lovely bone construction; mellow, too, and soft-spoken, with a robust Jamaican accent, the sort I already knew from dwelling.”

In 1992, Matthew starred within the Trisha Yearwood music video for the tune “Walkaway Joe.” He opened up about filming the video whereas he was in faculty throughout a 2021 interview.

“‘Walkaway Joe’ was my first time in entrance of the digicam,” he mentioned on The Kelly Clarkson Present. “‘And I nonetheless do not imagine I’ve met Trisha in particular person.”

The B-52’s “Love Shack” music video was RuPaul’s first-ever performing look. B-52’s member Cindy Wilson revisited the expertise of filming the video in a 2017 Billboard interview.

“Ru was a drag queen in Atlanta, and a bunch of individuals got here as much as New York and all of us began hanging out,” she mentioned. “That was a cool period for us, in addition to a very laborious time: the AIDS disaster, and dropping so many associates again within the mid-’80s, within the early days of New York. It was actually great, as a result of it was love and associates, and there was a beautiful sense of coming collectively, fooling around and hoping for the long run. It was actually particular.”

Angelina began out in quite a few movies, together with this one for Antonello Venditti’s 1991 rendition of “Do not Dream It is Over,” known as “Alta Marea.” She later appeared in Lenny Kravitz’s music video for “Stand by My Lady” and two Meat Loaf music movies.

Supermodel Alek Wek’s first gig was an element in Tina Turner’s 1995 “Golden Eye” music video, per her IMG Fashions web page.

“This Tina Turner video was considered one of my very first jobs and I assumed it was fairly fabulous!” Alek mentioned. She additionally performed a job in Janet Jackson’s video for “Received Til It’s Gone” in 1996.

Alicia starred within the “Cryin'” music video for rock group Aerosmith in 1993, simply two years earlier than she would get her breakout function of Cher in Clueless. 

She later carried out a routine with the tune on Lip Sync Battle in 2018. 

This look in Michael Jackson’s 1987 “Unhealthy” music video was considered one of Wesley’s early performing breaks. In 2017, Wesley informed Conan O’Brien that one cause Michael selected him to be within the video is he thought he was in a gang in actual life.

“Sadly, [Michael] … actually thought I used to be in a gang. He did not know that I used to be a educated thespian,” Wesley mentioned.

Courteney, who is not a educated dancer, was up towards skilled dancers for an element in Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing within the Darkish” music video, she informed Howard Stern in March 2022. She nonetheless scored the function, which was considered one of her first massive breaks.

“I assumed I used to be within the unsuitable place,” Courteney mentioned of the audition for the video. “I used to be like, I do not know what they’re doing, however I am unable to even bend my leg … I feel that is what they wished, a fan that simply could not imagine it.”

In 1996, Eva appeared in the music video for  “Se A Vida E (That is the Means Life Is)” by the Pet Store Boys. She was then within the Aerosmith video for “Gap in My Soul” in 1997.

As well as, seven years earlier than she would star alongside Will Smith in Hitch, Eva performed a job in his 1998 “Miami” music video.

Wentworth was featured in Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Collectively” music video in 2005. He was additionally in one other video of hers that very same yr, for the tune “It is Like That.” He took on these elements simply months earlier than he began taking part in the function of Michael Scofield in Jail Break, which started in August 2005.

Kim starred in Fall Out Boy’s music video for his or her hit “Thnks fr th Mmrs” in 2007, simply months earlier than the primary episode of Maintaining Up With the Kardashians was launched. She performed Pete Wentz’s love curiosity within the video.

“I bumped into her, and she or he was in all probability the nicest particular person ever,” Pete informed Individuals in 2018 about seeing Kim once more years after the video shoot. “She’s precisely the identical as she was then, besides she’s, like, a trillion occasions extra well-known.”

Elijah was one of many youngsters featured in Paula Abdul’s 1989 video for “Eternally Your Woman.”

“Actually, the very first thing that I ever did as an actor was with you,” an grownup Elijah later mentioned to Paula when Leisure Tonight spoke to the 2 at an occasion. 

“I am very pleased with it,” he added.