{"id":18037,"date":"2014-04-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=18037"},"modified":"2015-11-03T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T16:02:47","slug":"7-actors-you-didnt-know-used-to-be-male-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/7-actors-you-didnt-know-used-to-be-male-models\/","title":{"rendered":"7 actors you didn\u2019t know used to be male models"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a bit of a link between the male modelling<\/a> industry and the world of acting. While you\u2019re not doing the same thing, there are a lot of similarities between the two professions, and a lot of the skills are shared.<\/p>\n

Being comfortable (or being able to look comfortable in front the camera) is a vital skill whether you\u2019re working in the male modelling industry or as an actor. If you look awkward and nervous, your career will be going nowhere fast.<\/p>\n

Lots of the best male actors about today started out their working lives in the modelling world. It\u2019s a great place to start, and can easy you into the cult of celebrity slightly more easily than acting does. There\u2019s only a very few models who you\u2019re likely to know by name (unless you\u2019re a big fan of fashion, or in the industry yourself), but you can probably name hundreds of actors, and probably know a fair bit about their personal life as well.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re thinking about trying to break into the world of acting, male modelling can be a great, and fairly natural place to start. With both careers being relatively unstable until you become more experienced and in demand, it can be a good idea to try your hand at a few different things. Unless you\u2019re getting really steady work you might want a second job as well.<\/p>\n

So who used to be in the male modelling game? It\u2019s not quite a case of you name them, they did it, but to be honest it\u2019s not all that far off either. Without further ado, we\u2019d like to present some actors who you probably didn\u2019t know used to be models.<\/p>\n

1. Ian Somerhalder<\/h2>\n

You may know him from: Lost<\/p>\n

Ian Somerhalder played Boone in the long running series, as well as Damon in The Vampire Diaries. Just one look at the man\u2019s cheek bones and we should have known that he was a Versace model in his teenage years. In his acting roles he seems to get all the pretty girls, and when he was a model he got to travel the globe. Not bad for a day job!<\/p>\n

2. Josh Holloway<\/h2>\n

You may know him from: Lost as well<\/p>\n

Attractive bunch that Lost crowd! After dropping out of university, Holloway turned to acting for a bit. Picking up work with Dolce & Gabbana and Donna Karen, Josh eventually got an on screen break and it all went from there. His acting and modelling careers overlapped somewhat, and he became the face of Davidoff\u2019s Cool Water whilst still appearing on the hit TV series.<\/p>\n

3. Channing Tatum<\/h2>\n

You may know him from: 21 Jump Street, Magic Mike<\/p>\n

Modelling isn\u2019t Channing Tatum\u2019s most notorious former career, but it\u2019s certainly put him in good stead for his later acting. Tatum is one of those chaps who worked as a few different things before finally settling on a career, and it\u2019s not at all unusual to do so. If you\u2019re not sure what you want to do, there\u2019s nothing wrong with trying out a few options.<\/p>\n

4. James Marsden<\/h2>\n

You may know him from: Anchorman 2<\/p>\n

The best thing to describe James Marsden\u2019s modelling career is this video https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HLMiaSi4jsI. We thank you Ellen DeGeneres and your phenomenal research team.<\/p>\n

5. Alex Pettyfer<\/h2>\n

You may know him from: Magic Mike, I Am Number Four<\/p>\n

Before young Alex was tearing up a storm in action movies such as Stormbreaker, he worked as a child model for Ralph Lauren as well as a face of Burberry. Busy, busy Alex.<\/p>\n

6 and 7. Pretty much all the Supermen<\/h2>\n

Tom Welling (Smallville\u2019s Clark) used to be a model and Brandon Routh (one of our newer Supermen from 2006\u2019s Superman Returns) was both a model and a bartender in a former life. I suppose it makes sense; Superman is an attractive alien chap so he should probably be played by some of the most attractive male modelling chaps<\/a> around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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