Michelle Williams graces next months February issue of Marie Claire, looking effortlessly beautiful, as always. Although the actress has been doing her thing on screen for nearly two decades, it wasn’t until fairly recently that she began to garner such levels of high critical acclaim.
Call it the curse of the teen drama, but the majority of the kids we used to watch on TGIF growing up aren’t usually the same ones taking home that Oscar. I mean does anyone really know what the cast of Step By Step or Boy Meets World is up to these days? But, there were a select few actors and actresses who made it out of the 90s unscathed, and have gone on to become serious Hollywood heavy hitters.
Click through to see the humble (and sometimes really cheesy) beginnings of these now A-listers.
Ummm….if I recall, Freaks and Geeks had the opposite problem: they got rave critical reviews, but unfortunately nobody was watching. In fact, TIME named it, on more than one occasion, one of the best comedies of all time.
do your research.