Rainn Wilson

Lots of hot “new” stars on current television shows can be spotted on DVDs of slightly older programs, doing small roles back in the day.

Ellen Pompeo wasn’t always the titular “Grey” on Grey’s Anatomy; she can be spotted as “Missy” in a final-season episode of Friends. The episode was “The One Where the Stripper Cries” (the stripper, though, was Taxi’s Danny DaVito…not Pompeo).

Rain Wislonn, “Dwight” on The Office, played a quirky wanna-be superhero who helps Jessica Alba’s Dark Angel in the first-season episode “I and I Am a Camera” (above).

Josh Holloway might be Lost as “Sawyer,” but if you have the final season DVDs of Chuck Norris’ Walker, Texas Ranger, then you can see Holloway in the episode “Medieval Crimes” as a character named…Ben. Fans of Lost know just how ironic that is!

Have you spotted anyone else?

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