Fall 2012’s Returning Favorite TV Stars… Before They Were Stars
Parks and Recreation’s Amy Poehler, NCIS’s Mark Harmon, and Homeland’s Claire Danes are all fan favorites with TV shows starting up again this fall. But while you undoubtedly know them from their current television projects, Snakkle wants to put you to the test to see just how well you recognize these famous faces from before they were stars. Check out the gallery we’ve assembled and see how many you get right! By Danielle TurchianoEvery teenager who grew up identifying with Angela Chase has to feel some kind of vindication now that her portrayer Claire Danes has returned to television as an adult actor in one of the strongest, most mature roles available for women working in the medium today. On Homeland, Danes gets to use a combination of her book smarts and street smarts and, yes, her innate intuition, to bring down the bad guys. Though the second season starts out slowly (after her electroshock therapy, Danes’s Carrie legitimately doesn’t remember the Isa connection and just wants to forget the rest of her Brody “mistake”), but it takes no time at all for her spark to come back, solidifying just how good she really is at this job.