Before They Were Famous

ZENDAYA Before They Were Famous - Before she locked down a major role in Spiderman: Homecoming, and transitioned from Disney Star to fashion icon, solo artist and hollywood star...find out the rest of the story about her life and career before fame here.

Yaya Han was always a creative and artistic person who loved to draw. She found out about Anime Expo from a local anime group that she was a part of, and after seeing pictures of people in costume, decided she wanted to join them. So began her cosplaying hobby.

Before we get into this After They Were Famous I just want to let it be known that Tom Cruise is my fav action hero of them all but I have a job to do here and we are gonna be going over some of his Risky Busniness post fame. There was the Oprah couch jump, actually his whole love affair with Katie Holmes was a little questionable with many stating the star had interviewed three young starlets for the “gig”. Next up there was his public lecture on prescription drugs and went toe to toe against Brooke Shields and Matt Lauer. Next up we have the Church of Scientology and Tom Cruise's heavy involvement.

METRO BOOMIN Before They Were Famous -- Producer Metro Boomin has collaborated with rappers like Future, Drake, 21 Savage, Gucci Mane, Young Thug, and Kanye West, just to name a few. But while he grew up in St. Louis idolizing Nelly, his aspirations to get into the hip hip game himself were curbed by his mother's aspirations for him to get a proper education at Morehouse. Watch his life story here on Before They Were Famous.

Maisie Williams was raised by her single mother in Clutton, Sommerset. She was known as being a boisterous, energetic young girl that would prefer to run around and play with the boys, rather than get stuck doing conventionally girly things. She had a passion for dance and enrolled in Susan Hill’s School of Dance, where she was advised to take a trip to Paris to attend a talent show. She came away from this with a new agent and an audition for a role in Nanny McPhee 2. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned. This almost held her back from auditioning for Game of Thrones, and eventually becoming Arya Stark.

AFTER They Were Famous Gucci Mane. After #FreeGuwop would go viral on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and inspire many a mixtape and shoutout from the hip hop community. Gucci Mane wasn't all that upset spending his mid thirties in prison, that sentence in itself was a blessing because the prosacuters were pushing for 20 to 30 years. Find out how his life changed after his time in prison on After They Were Famous.

French Montana grew up in Morocco and was 13 when his family moved to the Bronx. Life there wasn’t easy for any of them, and it was made even more difficult when French’s father abandoned them 2 years later. With no means to support themselves, French turned to drug dealing, and just as he began gaining momentum in his rap career he was shot in the head. Sheesh, not quite the American dream his family had hoped for. But don’t worry, it didn't slow him down for getting his career off the ground although I do blame that bullet for his decision to date a Kardashian.

The Olympics were an event pulled out of the history books at the turn of the century, meant to bring the nations of the world together in a spirit of healthy competition and camaraderie. But at a grand event like this emotions are bound to run high, and soon the Olympics would be the centre of political statements, doping scandals, biding bribes, riots and terrorist attacks.

Before Marina Joyce gained a loyal following with her make-up tutorials, bubbly personality and obsession with cats. Find out more in this video:

Mos Def and his 11 siblings were raised by their teen parents in a rough part of Brooklyn in the middle of the crack-infested 80’s. If that wasn’t enough to worry about, Mos Def’s small stature and geeky personality made him the target of bullying, so to stay out of trouble’s way he found refuge in acting, music, and the arts. Soon he was getting into top acting schools and flown to LA for TV shows, but the multi-talented child star was growing up quick, and set off to become a rapper.