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Stars who got their start on a soap opera: some of today's hottest actors and actresses once paid their dues in daytime television dramas. And we have the funny photographs to prove it!(informer)(Brief article)

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JOSH DUHAMEL Before Josh appeared in Win a Date With Tad Hamilton and as Danny McCoy on TV's Las Vegas, he spent three years as ladies' man Leo du Pres on ABC's All My Children. Somehow, he seems better suited to spend bedtime hours with.

MARCIA CROSS Marcia appeared as Kate on ABC's One Life to Live in the '80s, prior to joining Melrose Place and Desperate Housewives. A soap vet, she's also been on Another World and Knots Landing!

SHEMAR MOORE The Criminal Minds hottie joined CBS's The Young and the Restless in t994 as former bad boy Malcolm Winters. For eight years, viewers saw Shemar bare his bod, and for his efforts, he won a Daytime Emmy.

ANNE HECHE She played good/evil twins on NBC's Another World so convincingly, she won a Castrate Emmy. Deja vu: She was romantically linked to an AW costar, as she now with Men in Trees' James Tupper.

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