14 Celebrities Who Owe Their Fame To Other Famous People

Celebrities are even more weirdly interconnected than you thought.
14 Celebrities Who Owe Their Fame To Other Famous People

Understandably, several celebrities prefer to mingle with other famous stars. After all, they're neighbors, colleagues, as well as peers in their industry. And while these relationships usually make sense, they occasionally startle us with unexpected results.

Hollywood is a growing industry with a lot of long-lasting friendships. Here are a few of the most interesting celebrity connections in Hollywood, ranging from attending the same graduation to interacting on a movie set to producing films collectively. Most of them do not even take credit for their accomplishment and instead give them to other personalities and colleagues.

It's never unexpected to hear that well-known people are acquainted. We envision them attending the same parties and being members of the same secret groups. But it turns out they're more intertwined than you believed, to the point where some celebrities owe their celebrity entirely to other celebrities.

Bring a glass of coke and some freshly popped popcorn because a piece of interesting information is coming your way…

WHAT FAMOUS FRIEND TALKED JOHNNY DEPP INTO TRYING HIS HAND AT ACTING? (Not Jackie Earle Haley.) Johnny was trying to make it as a musician when a mutu
Back when Vin Diesel was still a struggling actor, he made a short film about a (surprise) struggling actor, called Multi-Facial. Steven Spielberg saw
CRACKED COM Dennis Hopper's career was saved by John Wayne. Hopper had been ostracized from Hollywood for eight years during the 60s - until Wayne and
Dan Harmon moved to California because Oliver Stone had optioned his friend Rob Schrab's comic, Scud: The Disposable Assassin. The friends were so con
Dr Phil used to be Oprah's legal consultant during a case. She liked him SO much she gave him a TV show.
CRACKEDCOR COM Lisa Loeb was friends and neighbors with Ethan Hawke, who was Starring in the movie Reality Bites. Hawke played the single Stay (1 Miss
SLEEPING IN A VAN CRACKEDCON AND WAITING TABLES AT BUBBA GUMP SHRIMP CO., IS WHERE ACTRESS RAE DAWN CHONG (DAUGHTER OF LEGENDARY COMEDAN, TOMMY CHONGD
Michael C. Hall got his big break when he met award winning director Sam Mendes at an acting workshop. When Alan Cumming dropped out of the lead role
Iggy Pop was an out of control drug addict when David Bowie took him under his wing. After helping Pop wean himself off drugs, Bowie helped him write
Before he became a mega sensation, Ed Sheeran used to sleep on Jamie Foxx's couch. The two first met on Foxx's radio showb impressing Foxx sO much tha
Bumping into screenwriter Jill Mazursky made J.J. Abrams' careers At the mall, Abrams had a chance run-in with Jill Mazursky, screenwriter and daughte
Donald Sutherland owes his career, from M*A*S*Hto The Hunger Games, to Christopher Plummer. Sutherland was told he should move from England to Califor
Terry Bradshaw, former NFL quarterback, credits Phil Robertson (of Duck Dynasty) for his success. CRAGN Bradshaw was backup QB to Robertson at Louisia
Hugh Jackman says he owes his career to Russell Crowe Crowe passed on the role of Wolverine, and then recommended his friend Hugh for the job, which e
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