29 Iconic Movies With Cleverly Hidden Cameos

Sometimes actors can steal the spotlight without us ever realizing it. We'll explore celebrities who appeared in films without the public noticing with this list. "Ant-Man," "Deadpool 2," "Pulp Fiction," and more are on the top of our list.

Filmmakers enjoy including hidden appearances in their productions. From the people who inspired the films to the actors' families and friends, movies are full of hidden cameos that you probably overlooked. The fact is, sometimes cameos are so slick, we never even catch the actor doing them. From Avril Lavigne in Teen Witch to Steve Buscemi, these celebs aren’t just masters of stealing the spotlight, they are also apparently masters of slipping by unnoticed.

So climb aboard, keep reading, and get ready to jot down notes for some movies and scenes you will almost definitely want to rewatch. We can’t make any promises, but we know these slipped by us.

Check out these wild examples below:

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HOOK Glenn Close CRACKED.com She plays the nervous pirate who was forced into the Boo Box and introduced a generation to claustrophobia. — 22 Surprising Celebrity Appearances Everybody Forgets About

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Gary Oldman played one of Hannibal Lecter's victims in Hannibal. He was the guy who was barely left alive, with his face messed up beyond all recognition. CRACKED.COM — 7 Movies That Secretly Hid Big Actors Under Special Effects

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The conductor in the Mamushka scene in The Addams Family, Marc Shaiman, actually wrote the music. CRACKED.COM — IMDB, IMDB

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Renee Zellweger shows up in Dazed and Confused. She's the girl passing by when Wooderson delivers the famous line about high school girls staying the same age. CRACKED.COM — Dallas News

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CGI DE-AGING WASN'T USED FOR KING T'CHAKA IN BLACK PANTHER. PUHLI ENEMTE For the 1992 flashbacks, John Kani's son, Atandwa Kani, took on the Black Panther mantle. CRACKED.COM — People Magazine

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Ryan Gosling's and Emma Stone's body doubles in La La Land also play actors. The actors playing a couple, that Sebastian and Mia pass by on the studio lot, are actually Gosling and Stone's own body doubles. CRACKED.COM — FilmSchoolRejects

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Spike Jonze taught Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street. Jonze is the guy that explains the world of penny stocks to DiCaprio. It happened because Wolf's casting director, Ellen Lewis, was also the casting director for Jonze's movie Her, and saw him read with the people they were auditioning for her. She remembered him as actually on okay actor, so she called him up for Wolf. CRACKED.COM — Vulture

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Ewan McGregor has a very easily missed voice cameo in The Force Awakens. Obi-Wan's voice saying Rey... these are your first steps, is actually McGregor's - they asked him to record that one line, and he agreed. CRACKED.COM — Vanity Fair

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M. Night Shyamalan has a cameo in SPLIT. Shyamalan plays the building's maintenance guy who pulls up footage for Dr. Fletcher to look at. He's credited on IMDb as Jai Hooters Lover. CRACKED.COM — PopSugar, IMDb

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Chris Hemsworth actually voices Frog Thor, or Throg, in a Loki episode. Thor Frog is literally a version of Thor in the form of a frog, and the screams he makes as he tries to escape the jar he's in are Chris Hemsworth's. CRACKED.COM — SlashFilm

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IN MALEFICENT, YOUNG AURORA WAS PLAYED BY ANGELINA JOLIE'S DAUGHTER VIVIENNE. According to Jolie, the role OF EVIL went to her daughter because Dis they needed a child actor who wouldn't be scared of her intimidating costume. CRACKED.COM — ELLE

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Baby Driver has a cameo from a former bank robber who consulted on the movie. Joe Loya, was hired as a script consultant and tech consultant for his expertise-- and, ironically, also got a cameo as a security guard in a heist. CRACKED.COM — NPR

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Major Arnold Toht wasn't Ronald Lacey's only role in an Indiana Jones film. He also appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but he was pretty easy to miss- -he played a nameless Gestapo agent. CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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AT THE END OF THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY- PART 2, KATNISS AND PEETA ENJOY THEIR LIFE TOGETHER WITH THEIR TWO KIDS. Living up to the cool aunt stereotype, Jennifer Lawrence gave the roles to her two nephews, Bear and Theodore. CRACKED.COM — Yahoo!

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Tommy Wiseau has a bizarre cameo in COLD MOON. He briefly plays some kind of rodeo official showing a snake to a crowd of people. But he also just looks like Tommy Wiseau getting to touch a really big snake. CRACKED.COM — YouTube

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HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS GILLIGAN'S ISLAND them CRACKED.COM In this made-for-TV movie, the Clown Princes of Basketball team up with the castaways to battle super-robots to save the island from an unscrupulous ... let's just leave it at trick basketball and robots. — MeTV

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No one can dance to AVRIL LAVIGNE SABRINA THE TEENAGED WITCH CRACKED.co Avril and her punk-ish band thrash around on stage while the teen witch and her friends sit at cocktail tables and politely bob their heads. Shouldn't somebody be throwing a chair through a window or something? Rock and roll is dead. — YouTube

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PETE & PETE Steve Buscemi was a guidance counselor. 10+ Read All CRACKED.COM He appeared in three episodes as Mr. Hickle, Little Pete's uptight guidance counselor (and Ellen's dad). Most memorably, he wins a neighborhood prank war by broadcasting polka music into the Wrigley home via Mom's plate. — YouTube

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THE LITTLE MERMAID Alyssa Milano CRACKED .COM Milano didn't even know she made this cameo. She only found out that she was the model for Ariel when asked to do DVD commentary. — 22 Surprising Celebrity Appearances Everybody Forgets About

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PETE & PETE Gordon Gano was a (doomed) substitute teacher. VIOLENT FEMMES CRACKED.COM After Ellen drives her math teacher literally insane by questioning the practicality of math itself in (=Why?, Mr. Zank is the first in a long line of substitutes that she vanquishes with the simple question: why? — YouTube

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The Incredible Hulk 12 THE INCREDIBLE HULK IS HE MAM OR MONSTER OR IS NE A CRACKED.COM Jack Kirby, co-creator of The Hulk, pops in as a police sketch artist. He beat Stan Lee to the cameo game by ten years! — 17 Author Cameos In Movie Adaptations You Might Have Missed

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PETE & PETE Chris Elliot was a soothsaying meter reader. KILOWATTHOUR CRACKED.COM Meter Man Ray is SO good at his job, he can SEE the future. Specifically, he sees a nuclear holocaust. — YouTube

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BARRY BONDS BEVERLY HILLS 90210 CRACKED.COM Barry plays Barry, who shows up on the golf course to talk trash Steve Sanders and his dad. You missed those opportunities to watch me trounce your old man here! Shots fired. — ESPN

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CSI 3T Kevin Federline CRACKED.COM K Fed played a gang boss (and guy wearing a hat for the first time) named Pig, in an episode called Fannysmackin!. — 22 Surprising Celebrity Appearances Everybody Forgets About

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A Christmas Story WE TRUST IN GOD Pay Cash All Others by JEAN SHEPHERD CRACKED.com Jean Shepherd is the dad who points Ralphie to the end of the Santa line. — 17 Author Cameos In Movie Adaptations You Might Have Missed

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MONACO FOREVER Jean- -Claude Van Damme CAST Michael CHARLES PITT Trollop One NANCY BROCK Trollon DANIELLE ROME Two Gay Karata Man JEAN CLAUDE VANDAM italian Daughter ANGELINI BANDINE Italian Mother MRS. NARDINI Hohe BILL WHITE Hedi Frilliam NANCY ZINZELL Linda MARTHA FERRIS Amarican Tourist SYDNEY LASSICK Fisherweman GISELLE CRACKED.com JC was credited as Gay Karate Man in his first film role. — 22 Surprising Celebrity Appearances Everybody Forgets About

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Jaws PETER BENCHLEY JAWS A Novel CRACKED.COM Peter Benchley plays the real monster: a fearmongering journalist. He describes a cloud that has appeared on the horizon... a cloud in the shape of a killer shark. — 17 Author Cameos In Movie Adaptations You Might Have Missed

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Linda Blair has a quick cameo in SCREAM. She plays an eager reporter who tries to interview Sidney Prescott but gets ushered away by Deputy Dewey Riley. CRACKED.COM — Syfy

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Mother Night KURT VONNEGUT. JR. CANARY is MOTHER NIGHT CRACKED.COM Kurt Vonnegut prefaced his novel by saying we are what we pretend to be, SO we must be careful about what we pretend to be. In the film, he pretends to be Sad Man On Street. — 17 Author Cameos In Movie Adaptations You Might Have Missed

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