There is a select group of shows you watch and are inevitably exclaiming at the screen, "Oh look who it is!" or "I recognize them!" Those very shows are often a right of passage of sorts for actors trying to make it in Hollywood, like Law & Order or General Hospital, and Days of Our Lives is definitely among them. The soap opera, which follows the ups and downs of the Horton, Brady, Kiriakis, Hernandez and DiMera families, just rang in its milestone 60th anniversary, and throughout its whopping 15,000 episodes, it has featured some pretty big stars.
Scroll below to see just a few of the epic actors you may have forgotten featured on the show, which is currently airing its 61st season on NBC.
The Dead to Me actress got her start in acting almost as early as it gets, when she was three months old and appeared on the show — in which her mom Nancy Priddy was on at the time — as a baby named Burt Grizell in 1972.
The American Pie star played a character named Ashley for five episodes in 1995.
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