Days of Their Lives: Eight Surprising Celebrity Soap Stars


James Franco explains his November 2009–January 2010 turn on General Hospital as part of a “meta-documentary” (i.e., an elaborate prank), but we know better—soap operas are an embarrassing, but necessary, rite of passage for most Tinseltown A-listers. From Brad Pitt to Meg Ryan to Leo DiCaprio, many stars get their big break on soaps, and even if they’ve forgotten, IMDB hasn’t.

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Leonardo DiCaprio

He starred in the highest-grossing film of all time (Titanic) and is Martin Scorsese’s film muse, but DiCaprio got his big break as Mason Capwell, the darkly sardonic attorney on Santa Barbara (1990).

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