6 TV show actors who started at Disney Channel

09/09/2022

Today, they are famous names from the small and the big screens, but they all started the same way : at Disney Channel. Focus on 6 of these actors.

Zendaya
Zendaya

Today, Zendaya is none other than the face of Sam Levinson’s TV show: Euphoria. If she also was in big blockbusters such as Dune or Spider-Man, did you know that the actress started her career at Disney Channel? Her first big TV role was in the show Shake It Up!

Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling

Oh yes, Ryan Gosling is indeed a Disney Channel child star. If we saw him in Young Hercules, he really started next to Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera at The Mickey Mouse Club. Far from Mickey and his friends, the actor is now the star of many really big Hollywoodian movies.

Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez

Now starring in the show Only Murders in the Building (available on Disney+ in France and on Hulu in the US), Selena Gomez was also a Disney Channel child star. In fact, a lot of fans know that she was the mythic Alex Russo in The Wizards of Waverly Place.

Cole Sprouse
Cole Sprouse

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, does that ring a bell? It is in fact the show led by the Sprouse twins, Cole and Dylan, that was a big hit during 3 seasons. That’s where Cole Sprouse’s career really started for him, him that you can now see in the show Riverdale.

Kat Dennings
Kat Dennings

Kat Dennings, it’s 2 Broke Girls, the MCU and more recently, Dollface. But that is not all. This 36 years old actress was also part of the Disney Channel machine. She didn’t do a big TV series like some others but appeared in the movie The Scream Team, where she plays Claire Carlyle who discovers, along with her brother, that their grand-father’s house is haunted…

Jared Padalecki
Jared Padalecki

Maybe you didn’t know this but Jared Padalecki is also known for his days on Disney Channel! He played in the movie A Ring of Endless Light alongside Mischa Barton (The OC). released in 2002, the movie was shot at the same time as Gilmore Girls, the show that put him on the spot several years before the beginning of Supernatural, that gave him the biggest role of his career.

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