16 'Fresh Prince' Actors Who Ended Up Becoming Huge Stars Later On

America's Next Top Model host Tyra Banks was already a model and had worked all over Europe when she appeared as Will's childhood friend and former girlfriend from West Philadelphia, Jackie. Four years later, she made history as the first black woman on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, and officially became the supermodel we know today.

With her first album All Hail The Queen released two years earlier, Queen Latifah was already a star in the music scene. The Queen made not one, but two appearances on Fresh Prince in 1991, as bossy actress Marissa Redman, and later as Will's less-than-perfect-match blind date Dee Dee.

An immensely respected actor with a sense of humor (remember him as Captain Planet?), Cheadle had a few film roles before showing up in Bel-Air as Will's friend from the old neighborhood Ice Tray. His acting career picked up in 1995 with Devil In A Blue Dress, and the rest is history.

Supermodel Campbell was just about to hit her career apex when she showed up on Fresh Prince, being declared "the reigning megamodel" by Interview just a few months earlier before making an appearance as Geoffrey's blind date.

At the time she played the bossy sister of Jazz with a big crush on Will, Vivica Fox was taking small television roles all over. Later, she'd hit it big in Hollywood by co-starring as Smith's girlfriend in blockbuster film Independence Day.

The now-famous actor and voice of half The Simpsons characters has a pretty good sense of humor about his minor role before he hit it big in Hollywood.

Just a year before Clueless came out, Dash played a pop superstar who wanted nothing more than a casual fling with Will, who fell harder than he expected.

D-List and awards-show host Kathy Griffin was stirring up controversy even in early her appearance as a muck-raking reporter dishing on the stories of Uncle Phil's country upbringing.

Williams already had two careers under her belt before dipping her toe in television. The former Miss America had put scandal behind her to become a successful singer, but her turn on Fresh Prince as a pregnant woman Will helps give birth was the start of her third act as a TV star.

As he was just coming off In Living Color, it would take a couple more years for Rock to hit Hollywood and establish himself as a king of comedy. He did double duty on Fresh Prince playing a famous star... and his younger sister Will's forced to take on a date.

This is the last one anyone would guess, but before Gilmore Girls and well before Heroes, Milo was studying at UCLA and landed a speaking part as a hard-partying guest.

Long had been in Boyz In The Hood and on soap opera Guiding Light before appearing as Will's girlfriend on Fresh Prince. But it was only afterwards that she started making regular film appearances, and she now stars on NCIS.

The woman who plays Foxy Brown had an entire career in '70s blaxploitation films before showing up as Uncle Phil's college girlfriend. But her second wave of fame, kicked off with Jackie Brown and regular television roles on The L Word, was still a few years away.

Already an old pro after starring on The Cosby Show, Raven had an appearance as Will's potential step-sister that was only the start of a long television career to come.

Two years before breaking through as brother on Everyone Loves Raymond, Garret showed up as a heavy threatening Will at work.

You may not recognize her face, but her voice is famous. Cree Summer played Will's sweet girlfriend on Fresh Prince, but later she would become the voice of numerous cartoon and video game characters including Elmyra from Tiny Toons and Pinky And The Brain, and several characters in Mass Effect, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the Final Fantasy series.

We all know the show launched Smith to Hollywood fame, but it's nice to spot some unexpected faces among the Fresh Prince's friends and family.