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came out of absolutely nowhere, but each now-iconic actor had actually been in other projects before their star-making turns on the Netflix show. We\'ve gathered some of the most surprising.

Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler) – Hannah Montana: The Movie

(2009) where she played Clarissa Granger (pictured). She went on to appear in four short films and five features, before finally landing the role of a lifetime (so far…) in Nancy

Keery\'s first credited role is as \'Scenester\' in the TV series

, which is a fairly hilarious character name (though he does have the hair for it). He also appeared in

Noah Schnapp (Will Byers) – Bridge Of Spies

Schnapp\'s demonstrated some serious performance skills in season two of

(which we might have seen more of in season one if he hadn\'t been trapped in another dimension), so it probably shouldn\'t be a surprise that he\'s got a really, really solid acting CV.

Not only was his first role in a Steven Spielberg film (

\' Jonathan has had more roles than most of the kids, mainly because he\'s been walking the planet longer (he was born in 1994). As well as appearing in British crime standards

(he\'s from Bridlington!) he\'s done the nostalgia thing before, too, shooting the \'90s-set

before he joined the show. He\'ll be seen next in Fox\'s ghost story take on the X-Men,

, Wolfhard appeared in another iconic spooky show–

(pictured). Before that, he made his debut in a short film titled \'Aftermath\' and made a brief appearance in

as \'boy\' in his first role, which doesn\'t sound quite as iconic as

\' Lucas Sinclair. The young actor had five roles in TV series (mostly one-off appearances) on the road to his starmaking turn in

but he was perhaps best known for playing Young Simba in

David Harbour (Jim Hopper) – Suicide Squad

–it was his debut role, in 2002). And like Noah Schnapp, he appeared in a Steven Spielberg film (as \'Dock Worker\' in 2005\'s

). Unlike both of them, he\'s had a long and varied career, mainly because he\'s older than both of them combined.

to illustrate this, mainly because you\'ve probably forgotten who he was in it. He was also in

Amazingly, Gaten had only been in one TV show before

, and no movies! His sole role before the show came in

, where he played Finn. He\'s apparently in the video for Katy Perry\'s

character Dustin Henderson basically steals every scene he\'s in, so we\'re sure he\'ll show up on something else at some point.

Oh yeah, we forgot to mention he\'s a huge Broadway star, having appeared in

Millie, like Charlie Heaton, is British, and first appeared as Young Alice in

. Her career keeps going from strength to strength, and we\'ll see her next in

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