Hugh Jackman once worked as a clown, reportedly making about $50.00 per show.

Samuel L. Jackson was once expelled from Morehouse College for a civil rights demonstration in which he and other students held hostage members of the Morehouse board of trustees. He then moved to L.A. and worked in social services for two years before returning to Morehouse to major in drama.

Mick Jagger used to be a porter in a mental hospital. As a child, he also had a summer job selling ice cream from a refrigerated trolley.

As a teenager, Edgerrin James worked a grueling jab harvesting watermelons and loading them into trailers.

Al Jardine of the Beach Boys worked as a bus boy for his first job.

Jesus was once a carpenter. :-)

Scarlett Johansson appeared uncredited in a 1993 Conan O'Brien skit at the age of 8. She also had a role in Home Alone 3 in 1997.

Don Johnson appeared as a contestant on "The Dating Game" in the late 1960s.

Jolie admitted in an interview that when she was younger she wanted to be a funeral director.

Jolie appeared in music videos for Korn, Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, and The Rolling Stones.

Tomy Lee Jones was once roommates with Al Gore at Harvard.

Director Spike Jonze once worked in a surf shop in Maryland. He also co-founded Dirt Magazine.

Before finding fame, Ashley Judd graduated from the University of Kentucky, Lexington with a degree in French.

Ashley Judd used to clean the Judd family tour bus for a few dollars a day.