{"id":2489079,"date":"2026-07-05T16:08:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2489079"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:08:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:08:48","slug":"five-celebrities-you-didnt-know-were-in-breaking-bad-before-they-were-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/five-celebrities-you-didnt-know-were-in-breaking-bad-before-they-were-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"Five celebrities you didn’t know were in Breaking Bad before they were famous"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Any major TV fan will have the same experience at some point when you\u2019re rewatching one of the iconic shows of the late 2000s and early 2010s and have gone: \u201cWhat is that\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether it be Michael B Jordan appearing in The Sopranos<\/a> at 11 years old, Kaley Cuoco doing a two episode stint on Prison Break, or Pedro Pascal playing a vampire in one single episode of Buffy, there are so many iconic celebrities who get their start appearing on TV<\/a> shows you\u2019ve watched and probably didn\u2019t realise.<\/p>\n

Breaking Bad<\/a> is not exactly jam-packed with celebrity<\/a> names due to Vince Gilligan loving casting lesser known names, but he did actually cast some pretty big names who appeared in the series before going on to become famous faces. And no, we aren\u2019t talking about the obvious ones like Aaron Paul or Jesse Plemons.<\/p>\n

Caleb Landry Jones \u2013 Louis Corbett<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Caleb Landry Jones as ‘Louis’ (AMC)<\/p><\/div>\n

Landry Jones is still a relatively young actor at 36, but at just 19-years-old he played Walter White Jr\u2019s friend Louis in a recurring role on the series.<\/p>\n

Whilst his role in the show was tiny however, he has gone on to have a very successful career off the back of this with supporting roles in X-Men: First Class, two Oscar<\/a> winning films Get Out and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri as well as an Oscar nominated film The Florida Project.<\/p>\n

Add to that a similarly small cameo appearance in No Country For Old Men and he has one of the most sneakily impressive resumes in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Bill Burr \u2013 Patrick Kuby<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Bill Burr as Kuby in Breaking Bad (AMC)<\/p><\/div>\n

Bill Burr appeared in the latter seasons of the show in a supporting role, starring in five episodes as Patrick Kuby.<\/p>\n

For those who don\u2019t remember Kuby (understandably so, he has hair in the role) he was one of Saul Goodman\u2019s henchmen alongside the perhaps slightly more memorable Huell.<\/p>\n

Since then Burr has become one of the most popular stand-up comics in America, also appearing in The Mandalorian, The King of Staten Island, and is set to have a supporting role in the upcoming Social Network sequel The Social Reckoning.<\/p>\n

Speaking about his role on the show, Burr revealed that he was actually a big fan of the series who managed to get a role in it, saying in an interview with GQ<\/a>: \u201cI was the biggest geek for the show, as anybody sitting at home watching it, so to get to be on the show I felt like I got sucked into my TV. It was really surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor Dearden \u2013 Sad Faced Girl (no really, that\u2019s how she\u2019s credited)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Taylor Dearden as ‘Sad Faced Girl’ (AMC)<\/p><\/div>\n

If you\u2019re wondering, wait\u2026 she looks pretty familiar\u2026 there are two real options. Either, you are a fan of The Pitt and recognise Dearden from that or you have a better sense of who is related to who than I do because she\u2019s Bryan Cranston\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n

Whilst her fame is quite newfound Dearden is a standout star on The Pitt, one of the most popular shows of the last few years.<\/p>\n

Dearden\u2019s role on Breaking Bad was not simply a nepo baby hire however, as Bryan Cranston has stated that she wanted to audition properly and not just be given the role because of his status on the series.<\/p>\n

He told Vulture<\/a> that he went to the producers and explained the situation and said \u2018if she\u2019s the best one hire her\u2019.<\/p>\n

Krysten Ritter \u2013 Jane Margolis<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Krysten Ritter as Jane Margolis (AMC)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many may remember Krysten Ritter\u2019s role as Jane on the show, with a memorable short stint as Jesse\u2019s girlfriend who ends up asphyxiating because of Walt.<\/p>\n

Ritter went on to star as Jessica Jones in the Netflix Marvel<\/a> TV shows, going on to reprise her role recently in the second season of Daredevil: Born Again, with her set to return in the upcoming third season.<\/p>\n

She also appeared in El Camino, the Breaking Bad film that followed Jesse after the show\u2019s finale, in a vision alongside Jesse.<\/p>\n

Speaking about her role on the show, she recounted watching her first episode on the series, saying: \u201cThat was the coolest f***ing thing I had ever done. I was just so proud to be in something cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale Dickey \u2013 Spooge\u2019s Lady (again, that\u2019s what she\u2019s credited as, promise)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Dale Dickey as ‘Spooge’s Lady’ (AMC)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dale Dickey is the type of character actor who, no matter if you know her well or not, when you see her in a TV show or film you smile and go \u2018oh she\u2019s in this.\u2019<\/p>\n

Dickey appeared in two episodes as a methhead, part of a couple who rob Skinny Pete at knifepoint in season two.<\/p>\n

The actor went on to receive widespread critical acclaim for her role in Winter\u2019s Bone, but her fame has taken another step in recent weeks due to her role in Widow\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n

The Apple TV+ horror-comedy has grown into a sleeper hit for the streamer, with Dickey playing Rosemary, the slightly aloof (slightly incompetent) employee at the mayor\u2019s office in a fairly major role of the show.<\/p>\n

Breaking Bad is available to stream on Netflix in the UK and US.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.ladbible.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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