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BEFORE THEY WERE SUPERHEROES: A LOOK BACK ON THE STARS BEFORE THEY DONNED THEIR CAPES.

MAY 24

POSTED BY: Akatech Solutions | | DATE: May 24, 2016. | Source: Yahoo.com

Halle Berry (Storm) in 'Jungle Fever’

Before she played the weather-manipulating mutant in X-Men, Berry experienced some stormy times playing Samuel L. Jackson’s crack-addicted girlfriend in Spike Lee’s 1991 drama.(Photo: Everett)

Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) in 'Oklahoma!’

Jackman cut his claws as a singing, dancing cowboy in an acclaimed stage revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical that was later filmed for television in 1999, just before he was cast in Bryan Singer’s first X-Men adventure. (Photo: Everett)

Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) in 'National Lampoon’s Senior Trip’

Best known today for playing tightly-wound Avenger Hawkeye, a younger, floppy-haired Renner cut loose as a perpetually stoned high school troublemaker in the 1995 comedy. (Photo: Everett/Marvel)

Mark Ruffalo (Hulk) in 'You Can Count on Me’

Ruffalo got a taste of the Hulk’s nomadic lifestyle when he played a well-intentioned, but unreliable drifter in Kenneth Lonergan’s much-acclaimd 2000 debut film. (Photo: Everett/Marvel)

Michael Keaton (Batman) in 'Night Shift’

Prior to entering the crime-fighting profession, Keaton believed that operating a brothel out of a morgue was a legitimate career option in the 1982 comedy. (Photo: Everett)

Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) in 'The Pick-Up Artist’

Downey talks a good game as billionaire inventor Tony Stark, but he’s an even slicker salesman in James Toback’s portrait of a serial womanizer from 1987.(Photo: REX/Marvel)

Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) in 'Manny & Lo’

Credit Black Widow’s survival skills to Johansson’s stint as an 11-year-old foster care runaway, trying to make a life with her pregnant older sister in this 1996 drama. (Photo: Everett/Marvel)

Patrick Stewart (Professor X) in 'I Claudius’

Long before he ran the Xavier’s School as the telepathic mastermind in the X-Men movies, Stewart played a Roman soldier (with hair!) in the 1976 BBC swords-and-sandals series. (Photo: Everett)

Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man) in 'Roseanne’

In his one-shot appearance as a snarky teenager on this classic sitcom in 1991, Maguire comes across as one of the twerps that picked on Peter Paker rather than Peter Parker himself. (Photo: Everett)