32 Stars You Didn't Realize Were in Disney Channel Original Movies

A popular basketball jock is forced to join his school's bowling team — which consists of quirky outsiders, like Cuoco's Elisa Bowers — and thereby commits himself to helping them win their citywide varsity championship, while also befriending them along the way.

Before solidifying his status as an internet boyfriend following To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Centineo played the jock love interest in How to Build a Better Boy.

Heigl portrayed a quintessential popular girl who unexpectedly (and cosmically) trades places with her bookish sister in this 1996 flick. Chaos and grand moral dilemmas ensue.

America Ferrera portrayed a bubbly dancer in this 2002 one about a dance team learning to work and compromise with a strict new coach.

The Saturday Night Live comedian played a pop star (with frosted tips!) whose life unravels when two teenage fans accidentally switch phones with him.

About a high-school band made up of unlikely friends, Lemonade Mouth saw early acting appearances from Scott, who is starring in movies like Charlie's Angels and Aladdin these days, as well as Kiyoko, who is now a pop singer.

While most people may remember Mischa Barton in this 2002 adaptation of the Madeleine L'Engle book about dolphins, Gilmore Girls alum and Supernatural favorite Jared Padalecki was also in it!

The Modern Family star played reformed mean girl Dylan Schoenfield in 2011's Geek Charming, which also saw an appearance from Riverdale's Morgan.

Years before he was cast in Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming Elvis Presley biopic, Butler was Ashley Tisdale's love interest in this 2011 High School Musical spinoff.

In this one from 1999, a teenage boy — unaware that his birth mother is a mermaid — starts morphing into a merman just after his 13th birthday. César Award-winning actress Kristen Stewart was relegated to playing the disgruntled girl in the white turtleneck in this small water fountain scene.

Did you know that Academy Award-winning Brie Larson once costarred in a movie about real-life drag racing sisters Courtney and Erica Enders? Nope, neither did we.

Yep: the 13 Reasons Why and Riverdale actor got his start in the campy musical sequel. Here, Butler is shown at the premiere in 2015.

A 14-year-old genius who's about to discover a way to defy gravity instead risks it all to win the affections of his crush (Rossum) and help his favorite hockey team win some games.

Jackson, who now portrays Aaron in Grown-ish, once appeared in a rap musical retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac. Here he is at the Let It Shine premiere in 2012.

Oh, and Euphoria's Smith also made an appearance!

Camilla Belle pretty impressively carried this 2000 film about a 13-year-old girl who visits her family's homeland in Hawaii and learns more about their past and her late mother, all the while learning to surf.

Before leading Netflix's Insatiable, Ryan, pictured here at the Radio Rebel premiere, portrayed a high-school radio personality in 2012.

In The Other Me (2000), Andrew Lawrence — yes, brother to Joey and Matthew Lawrence — is a science whiz who accidentally clones himself. Alison Pill portrayed his suspecting sister.

In the midst of starring in Boy Meets World, the now-19-year-old rising actress portrayed a student whose science experiment turns her older sister invisible. Zoinks!

Though he's now praised for his portrayal of Cousin Greg on Succession, a decade ago, Braun was acting alongside Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez in Princess Protection Program. Here he is photographed with costars at a party for the movie.

Though it's widely know that Zendaya and Bella Thorne got their starts in Disney sitcom Shake It Up, the two also appeared in the 2012 original movie Frenemies.

The Ernest Green Story (1993) was inspired by the life of one of the Little Rock Nine students — the first African-Americans to attend a newly integrated school in Little Rock, AR.

This early one from 1988 shows an American girl traveling through Nepal with her family who falls in love with a Nepalese prince and searches for the elusive "City That Never Was."

Tiger Cruise (2004) depicted the real-life moment when military personnel and their families aboard a naval carrier learned of the attacks on Sept. 11.

This tearjerker from 2000 centers around a young boy, played by Muniz, who takes up soapbox racing despite his spina bifida, which forces him to use a wheelchair.

The star of Stephen King's Hulu thriller, 11.22.63, got her start in this fan favorite about a city-dwelling free spirit, played by Hilary Duff, who gets sent to military school.

Kat Dennings starred in this surprisingly dark movie about two kids who join forces with three ghosts — referred to as the Soul Patrol — to help their late grandfather cross over to the other side. (Yikes.) Here she is at a Scream Team photo-call in 2002.

After her brother dies, Roberta (Keaton) must take care of the son she never knew he had. It's important to note that virtually all traces of this 1997 movie have been scrubbed from YouTube, et. al.