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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.