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Barry Sanders Walked Away From the NFL at His Peak — He Refused to Sell Out

Walter Payton Hid His Cancer From the World — He Played Through Pain His Whole Career

Tom Felton Battled Alcohol Addiction After Harry Potter — He Got Sober and Came Back

Rupert Grint Battled Anxiety Through Harry Potter — He Walked Away and Became a Dad

Paul Anderson Got Sober — He Played Arthur Shelby While Rebuilding His Life

Helen McCrory Kept Her Cancer Secret on Peaky Blinders — She Played Polly Until the End

Mindy Kaling Was the Only Woman in The Office Writers' Room — She Built Her Own Empire

Rainn Wilson Auditioned for Michael Scott — He Lost the Lead and Got Dwight Instead

Alan Ritchson Trains Like a Beast at 41 — He Says It Saved His Mental Health

Alan Ritchson Was Aquaman on Smallville at 22 — He Refused to Stay Typecast

Alan Ritchson Took Reacher Knowing the Fanbase Could Destroy Him

Alan Ritchson Built His Own Show to Help Struggling Men Find a Way Back

Alan Ritchson Spent Years Being Told He Didn't Fit Hollywood — Reacher Proved Them Wrong

Alan Ritchson Was Told He'd Never Be a Leading Man — He Was 6'2" of Pure Hollywood "Wrong Type"

Anya Taylor-Joy Was Bullied for Her Looks — She Won an Emmy Anyway#shorts

Christian Serratos Battled Anxiety on Walking Dead Set — She Refused to Hide It#shorts

Maya Hawke Was Mocked for Famous Parents — She Earned Juilliard on Her Own#shorts

Barry Keoghan Grew Up in 13 Foster Homes — He Became a BAFTA-Winning Lead#shorts

Paul Mescal Was a Hurling Player With No Acting Plan — He Got an Oscar Nomination at 26#shorts

Nathalie Emmanuel Was Told She'd Never Make It Out of British TV#shorts

Victoria Pedretti Auditioned for Years Before Haunting of Hill House Found Her#shorts

Penn Badgley Hated Being a Heartthrob — He Quietly Rebuilt His Whole Identity#shorts

Mikey Madison Was a Tiny Indie Actress — Anora Made Her an Oscar Winner at 25#shorts

Margaret Qualley Was a Rising Ballerina — She Walked Away From the Dream at 16#shorts

Steve Toussaint Was a Background Actor for 30 Years — Then Came the Sea Snake #shorts

Eve Best Almost Quit Acting Twice — Then Came the Sea Snake's Wife

Fabien Frankel Was a Drama School Reject — He Built His Way Back to Knighthood on Screen

Rhys Ifans Battled Decades of Hard Living — He Cleaned Up and Came Back as Otto Hightower

Paddy Considine Was Diagnosed With Asperger's at 36 — He Used It to Become a Master Actor

Matt Smith Was Going to Be a Pro Footballer — A Back Injury Sent Him Into Acting

Emily Carey Started Acting at 9 to Help Her Family — They Were Quietly Struggling at Home #shorts

Olivia Cooke Was Diagnosed With Hand Tremors and Anxiety — She Refused to Let It Stop Her

Emma D'Arcy Walked Away From a Stable Career — They Bet Everything on Acting

Milly Alcock Grew Up Working Class in Sydney — Now She Plays the Heir to the Iron Throne

Mickey Rourke Threw Away a $50 Million Career to Become a Boxer — Then Rebuilt Himself From Nothing

Jeremy Renner Was Crushed by a Snowplow and Died Twice — He Walked Back to Set Within a Year

Wesley Snipes Went Prison for 3 Years at the Peak of His Career He Came Back & Refused to Disappear

Pierce Brosnan Was an Orphan in Irish Schools That Beat Him — He Became James Bond

Joe Manganiello Was Diagnosed With Cancer at 26 — He Beat It and Built the Body of a Superhero

Matt LeBlanc Had Just $11 to His Name Before Friends — He Bet It All on One More Audition

Courteney Cox Was Told She'd Never Be the Star — She Outlasted Every Doubt