11. Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt. Was working as the El Pollo Loco chicken on the corner of Sunset and La Brea while trying to make it in Hollywood.
12. Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum. Grew up in Alabama and Mississippi, he basically only got into showbiz by being signed as a dancer, and he was only a Dancer because he used to be a stripper.
13. Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick is one of the prominent ones I can think of. No show biz parents, got her start in theater as a kid.
14. Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lawrence is def one. She’s such a good actress and comes from a normal background. Grew up in Kentucky and her parents run a summer camp for kids.
15. Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh. Her parents were middle-class South Korean immigrants and she paid out of pocket for her drama education at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. Her mom was a biochemist and her dad was a businessman.
16. Harrison Ford
Wasn’t Harrison Ford a carpenter or something first?
Edit: he pretty much was always an actor, but he wasn’t satisfied with the roles he was getting early on, so he became a carpenter until he was discovered by George Lucas.
17. Rachel Mcadams
Rachel McAdams
“born on November 17, 1978, in London, Ontario, Canada, to nurse Sandra (née Gale) and truck driver Lance McAdams
18. Selena Gomez
selena gomez. she literally came from nothing and worked as a child to support her family.
19. Awkwafina
Awkwafina (daughter of IT worker dad, mother passed away when she was young), Simu Liu (son of engineers).
20. Matthew Mcconaughey And Forest Whitaker
Matthew Mcconaughey and Forest Whitaker both came from Longview, TX. Both from modest families.
