From soap operas to the big screen, we take a look at celebrities who kickstarted their acting careers in daytime drama after Daniel Brocklebank is the latest to make the jump.
Daniel Brocklebank has played characters in soap favourites Emmerdale and now Coronation Street, but he has also starred in multi award-winning movie Shakespeare in Love and in new film, Soft Lad.Margot Robbie joined Australia's longest-running soap Neighbours in 2008 as Donna Freedman, but made her big screen debut in Richard Curtis's romantic comedy-drama film About Time and co-starred in Martin Scorsese's biopic The Wolf of Wall Street.Liam Hemsworth joined the Neighbours cast playing Josh Taylor, before moving to the US and landing his first major film role in The Last Song in 2010. After a short stint playing Peter Beale on Eastenders, Ben Hardy was cast as Angel in X Men: ApocalypseShe played killer Beth Jordache in Brookside, but Anna Friel went on to US success playing the lead in comedy Pushing Daises and starred in movie, Land of the Lost. She sprang to fame aged 18 as Tiffany Mitchell in Eastenders, but went on to play secretary to the Prime Minister in 2003 movie Love Actually. Keira Knightley clinched a cameo role in The Bill before going on to become one of the most successful actresses of her generation. Academy-award nominated actor Jude Law started his acting career as a teenage runaway on the British soap opera Families. Actress and national treasure Joanna Lumley once starred in Coronation Street as Elaine Perkins, Ken Barlow's girlfriend, but is currently filming for the much-anticipated Absolutely Fabulous movie!Ryan Kwanten played Summer Bay lifeguard Vinnie Patterson in iconic Australian soap Home and Away, but is now starring in HBO's hit series True Blood. She played Zoe Slater in Eastenders, but went onto secure the lead role in the US remake of The Bionic Woman. Melissa George played Angel Parrish in Home and Away, but went on to star in Triangle and in 2005 film adaptation of The Amityville Horror.
