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The groundbreaking TV soap opera Another World debuted on NBC 50 years ago this month and remained a pop-culture fixture for 35 years. A lot of now-famous stars cut their acting teeth on the show. Here are just a few:

Morgan Freeman
- Played Dr. Roy Bingham, a dignified architect in fictional Bay City (1982-84)
- Breakout role: Empathetic chauffeur Hoke Colburn, Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- At 76: Johnny Depp's mentor in this spring's sci-fi thriller Transcendence

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Brad Pitt
- Played Chris, a high school basketball player (1987)
- Breakout role: Geena Davis' hunky one-night stand in Thelma & Louise (1991)
- At 50: Producer of — and abolitionist laborer in — acclaimed film 12 Years a Slave

Kyra Sedgwick
- Played murder-for-hire victim Julia Shearer (1982-83)
- Breakout role: Star of blockbuster TV crime series The Closer (2005-12)
- At 48: Alongside Sylvester Stallone in feel-good indie film Reach Me

Kelsey Grammer
- Played emergency-room physician Dr. Canard (1984-85)
- Breakout role: Pompous shrink Frasier Crane in TV sitcom Cheers (1984-93)
- At 59: Human villain Harold Attinger in Transformers: Age of Extinction

William H. Macy
- Played Frank Fisk (1982)
- Breakout role: Hapless would-be wife kidnapper Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo (1996)
- At 64: Patriarch of dysfunctional Gallagher family in TV series Shameless

Lindsay Lohan
- Played mischievous teenager Alexandra "Alli" Fowler (1996-97)
- Breakout role: Separated-at-birth twins Hallie and Annie in The Parent Trap (1998)
- At 27: Star of reality TV show Lindsay, about her post-rehab life

Anne Heche
- Played Vicky and Marley, good-and-evil twins (1987-91)
- Breakout role: Ambivalent fiancée Robin Monroe, Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
- At 44: Roxy, a waitress, in Wild Card, upcoming remake of the 1986 film Heat

Jane Krakowski
- Played Tonya, who figures in investigation of video-dating service (1989)
- Breakout role: Office hottie Elaine Vassal in the TV series Ally McBeal (1997-2002)
- At 45: Helen Stephens, convicted of murdering her boss, TV comedy pilot Dead Boss

Billy Dee Williams
- Played unnamed assistant district attorney (1960s)
- Breakout role: Football great and best-ever friend Gale Sayers in Brian's Song (1971)
- At 77: Voice of his Star Wars character, Lando Calrissian, in The Lego Movie