2. Hugh Jackman

You might know him as the ferocious, ass-kicking, clawed mutant from the “X-Men,” but Hugh Jackman had a rather friendly appearance before he became a famous actor.

The Tony Award-winning Australian celebrity used to work as a clown in the early stages of his career.

Perhaps his own words explain the best: “I am really bad at magic. In fact, I used to be a clown at kid’s parties.”

“I was Coco the Clown and I had no magic tricks and I remember a six-year-old standing up at a party saying ‘Mummy this clown is terrible, he doesn’t know any tricks’ and he was right.” Good thing he became an actor, then.