Celebs are worldly people by occupation, but some are more well traveled than others. Take a look at some of your favorite actors and actresses who started out their lives very far away from Hollywood.

It’s better to have lost and loved than never to have loved a brilliant, genre-bending, beautifully written show at all. Joss Whedon’s scifi-Western Firefly lasted less than a season on Fox, but its impact has far outlived the series. The cast reunited briefly in 2005 for the movie Serenity, but for devoted fans—like us—there just wasn’t enough of what was, for a time, the smartest, most original show on television.

Entering its seventh season, Castle is a fast and funny crime dramedy with a will they/won’t they center and a successful book franchise. Put down that copy of Heat Rises, because Snakkle did some sleuthing and found out what the stars of Castle were up to before they were famous!