30 Stealthy Celebrity Cameos in Famous Movies and TV Shows
Jennifer Lawrence got her start by playing a high school mascot
![30 Stealthy Celebrity Cameos in Famous Movies and TV Shows](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/5/814065_320x180.jpg)
Think you’ve seen every celebrity cameo in your favorite movies and TV shows? Think again! Some celebrities manage to make their appearances very subtly, so much so that you may not even have noticed them. To that end, below are 30 of the most stealthy celebrity cameos out there…
![MONK Jennifer Lawrence OCGA 2001 200L MENS WRESTLING 2002 WOMENS VOLLEYBALL GOVERS VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONS R CHAMPIONS R CHAMPIONS SH GIRL'S HOOPS HE CRACKED.COM This overeager mascot would go on to win an Academy Award (several years later, for something completely different).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/6/814116.jpg)
![Trevor Noah was the voice of Griot in Black Panther. If that talking A.I. sounded familiar, it's almost certainly because you've seen an episode of The Daily Show. Considering a griot is an African storyteller, Noah (who grew up in Apartheid-era South Africa) was an appropriate choice. And he was able to understand Xhosa without subtitles, too. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/5/814115.jpg)
![Vanilla Ice TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II CRACKED.COM 30 years before he was, extremely sadly, the crown jewel of the president's New Year's Eve celebration, Ice entertained another nearly-maskless mob of cultural relics when he led the infamous Ninja Rap.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/0/814110.jpg)
![CSI Kevin Federline CRACKED.COM к Fed played a gang boss (and guy wearing a hat for the first time) named Pig, in an episode called Fannysmackin'.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/5/814105.jpg)
![MONACO FOREVER Jean-Claude Van Damme CAST Michael CHARLES PITT Trollop One NANCY BROCK Troilop Two DANIELLE ROMÉ Gay Karata Man JEAN CLAUDE VANDAM Italian Daughter ANGELINI BANDINI Italian Mother MRS. NARDINI Hobo BILL WHITE Medi (Fräulein) NANCY ZINZELL Linda MARTHA FERRIS American Tourist SYDNEY LASSICK Fisherwemen GISELLE TSOBANIAN CRACKED.COM JC was credited as Gay Karate Man in his first film role.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/3/814113.jpg)
![BAYWATCH Mila Kunis CRACKED.COM As a kid, Kunis played two different precocious kids on the show.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/8/814118.jpg)
![An Oscar-nominated actor went undercover in Kingdom of Heaven. King Baldwin IV was the most famous king to have leprosy. In this 2005 Ridley Scott movie, he's played by Edward Norton in a mask. During shooting, that mask never came off, so nobody knew it was him. None of the cast knew they were working with the guy who had just been in Death to Smoochy. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/8/814108.jpg)
![STAR TREK: VOYAGER Sarah Silverman CRACKED.COM The Voyager travels back to 1996 and meets Silverman's quirky astronomer character. We can parse this from the constant 90's references, and how she says I'm a scientist!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/4/814104.jpg)
![Harvey Weinstein A FREAKING BARBIE MOVIE CRACKED.COM On this direct-to-DVD movie, My Scene Goes To Hollywood, Weinstein makes a bunch of young actresses jealous by isolating one of them and complimenting her, all while leering from behind his indoor sunglasses.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/3/814103.jpg)
![THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST Mel Gibson CRACKED.COM Those are Gibson's greasy mits, no doubt fresh off a floorburger, driving spikes into Jesus' palms.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/1/814111.jpg)
![Thomas Brodie-Sangster, AKA Jojen Reed from Game of Thrones, plays a First Order officer in The Force Awakens. Не jumped at the role, even though it has only one line, as Star Wars was a big childhood thing to tick off the list to him. Plus, he's always wanted to play a bad guy, and that counts. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/2/814112.jpg)
![FAMILY TIES Tom Hanks CRACKED.COM Не has a 3-episode drunk uncle arc in which he ultimately horks down enough vanilla extract to slap Michael J. Fox in his Michael J. Face.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/6/814106.jpg)
![The voice of Beavis and Butt-Head was in the South Park movie. One of the most memorable moments in Bigger, Longer & Uncut is when Kenny shows his face and speaks without the muffle for the first time. And it just so happens that it was Mike Judge who voiced him. For three whole lines that were sped up to hide his identity. T KE EPRICA T Unfortunately, the rumors of an upcoming Boomhauer movie with puppets are unfounded. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/2/814102.jpg)
![In The Bank Job, Mick Jagger has a cameo as a bank employee. It shows him as he might look if the Rolling Stones didn't pan out t - he was a finance and accounting student at the London School of Economics. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/0/814100.jpg)
![There's a big-deal director playing dead in Hoffa. Danny DeVito and Tim Burton have worked together more times than most people realize. In DeVito's Jimmy Hoffa biopic, Burton had perhaps the most on-brand role of his сагеег. Не appears momentarily as a dead body in a coffin during a funeral. Presumably, Johnny Depp was hiding nearby behind some curtains. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/9/814109.jpg)
![Jimmy Buffett, the Margaritaville singer, briefly appears in Jurassic World. As dinosaurs run wild through the resort and people flee, Buffett tries to save two margaritas. Jurassic World producer Frank Marshall often gives Buffett, his longtime friend and collaborator, cameo roles in his movies-this was Buffett's third cameo in a Marshall movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/4/814114.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD The 46th President of the United States was a guest star on Parks and Recreation. It was in 2012, and he played himself (as vice president), meeting Leslie Knope. An article about the cameo described Biden as politics' go-to source of comedy. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/7/814107.jpg)
![Casino Royale features Sir Richard Branson as a traveller who gets stopped by airport security. DIA TAYLO ass The filmmakers did it as a favor to Sir Richard, in return for supplying the production team with a plane in Prague. And, hilariously, British Airways edited out the cameo from all versions of the movie shown on their flights. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/7/814117.jpg)
![EDGAR WRIGHT MAKES A BLURRY APPEARANCE IN HOT FUZZ. CRACKED.COM Wright can briefly be seen pushing a ladder in front of Sergeant Angel. Не chose to cameo as a shelf-stacker because that was his actual job when he was younger.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/7/814127.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD The Comedy Central show Workaholics had cameos from The Black Keys. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney played two guys involved in a small claims court case that had to do with, uh, the sale of a hovercraft. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/1/814121.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD Completing a celebrity rite of passage, Ed Sheeran cameo'd on The Simpsons. It was in a 2018 episode, Haw-Haw Land, and he played Brendan, a musician that Lisa soon falls for. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/9/814129.jpg)
![Chris Brown THE О.С. CRACKED.COM Before his parallel careers in music and domestic battery, he had a three-episode stint on The О.С. as Will Tutt, Kaitlin's good guy boyfriend.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/8/814128.jpg)
![TAIKA WAITITI PLAYED KORG IN THOR: RAGNOROK. CRACKED COM The director provided the voice and mocap for everyone's favorite rock creature. Не based his performance on New Zealand's super nice Polynesian bouncers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/9/814119.jpg)
![COMEDY NERD Turns out, Alex Trebek had a cameo on Cheers! - he was in a 1990 episode. In What Is ... Cliff Clavin?, Trebek winds up going to Cheers to get a drink and, among other things, is propositioned by Carla Tortelli. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/6/814126.jpg)
![PETER JACKSON CAMEOS IN ALL OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIES. CRACKED.COM Jackson appeared as a villager in The Fellowship of the Ring, a Rohirrim Warrior in The Two Towers, and a Corsair killed by Legolas in Return of the King.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/3/814123.jpg)
![MICHAEL BAY PLAYED A SCIENTIST IN ARMAGGEDON. CRACKED.COM Bay makes an appearance as a background NASA scientist that's helping Bruce Willis destroy a meteor.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/4/814124.jpg)
![Lance Armstrong DODGEBALL LOS LAS UT CRACKED.COM Armstrong gave the (also bad, in retrospect!) Vince Vaughn a pep talk about not giving up, but later admitted to having aided his own underdog story with an illegal doping scheme.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/0/814120.jpg)
![CLINT EASTWOOD'S OLD TV SHOW PLAYS IN JERSEY BOYS. CRACKED.COM The director's younger self can be seen in the movie while an episode of Rawhide plays on TV. That was my way of having a Hitchcock moment without actually having to do anything, said Eastwood.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/2/814122.jpg)
![David Hasselhoff GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 CRACKED.COM After he drunkenly berated his daughter, and after creating a reality show with the explicit goal of forcing his daughters to be famous, and despite slowly turning into the 8-foot surfboard version of himself from the SpongeBob movie, they gave him a bit part where he briefly plays Ego -- Starlord's awful father.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/1/814101.jpg)
![FRANCIS FORD-COPPOLA PLAYED A DIRECTOR IN APOCALYPSE NOW. CRACKED.COM Coppola appears as a TV news director yelling at Willard to not look at the camera as he's moving through a war-torn coastal village.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/5/814125.jpg)