Though initially unenthusiastic about acting, he returned from service, auditioned for a Broadway play, and was offered a role.

Traveling to Chicago, Atkins auditioned for Red Foley, who was leaving his star position on WLS-AM's National Barn Dance to join the Grand Ole Opry.

Barrymore's career began when she was auditioned for a dog food commercial at 11 months old.

In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast in the female lead role in Romance on the High Seas.

He auditioned for the part of Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the television show St.

It was Ball, according to numerous radio historians, who suggested Arden for Our Miss Brooks after Shirley Booth auditioned for but failed to land the role and Ball – committed at the time to My Favorite Husband – could not.

Pitt auditioned for the role of J. D.

Moore modeled anonymously on the covers of a number of record albums and auditioned for the role of the older daughter of Danny Thomas for his long-running TV show, but was turned down.

Variety reported that Cruz had originally auditioned for the role of the film within a film's star, Claudia, which eventually went to Nicole Kidman.

Another Sex habitué, Johnny Rotten, auditioned for and won the job.

Robert Picardo initially auditioned for Neelix.

Several " tall, slim, black actors " auditioned for Worf before Michael Dorn came along, walking into the audition in character and not smiling ( Indeed, Michael Dorn found the seriousness of the role, especially during the audition, at first to be uncomfortable, since he considers himself a comedian at heart ).

Kate Mulgrew, who had previously auditioned for the role, was brought in.

Actresses Erin Gray and Chelsea Field also auditioned for the role.

LeVar Burton auditioned for the role in 1986.

Two weeks later, she auditioned for a part in An Invasion of Privacy, a television film starring Valerie Harper, Carol Kane and Jeff Daniels.

Multiple actors in Hollywood auditioned for the film, intrigued by the opportunity.

" A few painful years of struggle " followed for Sondheim, during which he continually auditioned songs, living in his father's dining room to save money ; he also spent time in Hollywood writing for the television series Topper.

At the age of 15, she auditioned for the role of Kelly Kapowski on the television show Saved by the Bell, which was highly publicized and received a great deal of fanfare from the same magazine that discovered her.

Emilio Estevez originally auditioned for the role of John Bender.

Green and Duchovny were both convinced it was a good script, so he auditioned for the lead.

Gillian Anderson auditioned for the role of Dana Scully in 1993.

After more than 60 actresses had been auditioned, the first choice to play the role was Elizabeth Shepherd.

In 1987, she auditioned for a role in a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family on The Tracey Ullman Show.

Originally, James L. Brooks was interested in directing the film according to actress Leslie Mann who auditioned for a role but was not cast.

She continued to gain experience with minor television appearances, and after she auditioned unsuccessfully for the role of Liesl in the film version of The Sound of Music, Ransohoff gave Tate walk-on roles in two motion pictures in which he was producer: The Americanization of Emily and The Sandpiper.

The following actors also auditioned for the role of William Riker ; they have all appeared at least once on Star Trek: TNG or a Star Trek series that followed it:

Both Malice and Easy Cure auditioned several vocalists before Smith finally assumed the role of Easy Cure's frontman in September 1977.

He auditioned for a role in The Tracey Ullman Show and his first meeting underwhelmed Tracey Ullman and the other producers.

In 1956, Burr auditioned for the role of District Attorney Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason, a new courtroom drama based on the highly successful novels written and created by Erle Stanley Gardner that was to air on CBS.

Smith originally auditioned for the role of Bart but Pietila believed her voice was too high.

He auditioned for the role of David Addison Jr. of the television series Moonlighting ( 1985 – 89 ), competing against 3, 000 other actors for the position.

Cher auditioned for the part, while Warren Beatty begged Natalie Wood to play the role.

For the central role of Elliott, he auditioned hundreds of boys before Robert Fisk suggested Henry Thomas for the role.

In his Junior year, O ' Connell auditioned for the TV pilot Sliders ( also filmed in Canada ).

In 1980, he auditioned for and won the role of Jane Wyman's playboy grandson and henchman, Lance Cumson, for the pilot of a new series entitled The Vintage Years.

Unknown to him, Crane and Kauffman had remembered him from when he auditioned for an earlier pilot of theirs ; they had written the part of Ross with Schwimmer in mind to play him.

Later that year, she auditioned for several television pilot roles in Los Angeles and was discovered by producers of Everybody Loves Raymond.

Narvy had originally auditioned for Billy and was called back to audition for Skull, as, according to Narvy, the actor who played " Punk # 1 " in the pilot was thought to look too intimidating to play a comedic character.

They then decided to take the next step and auditioned for a lead role in a children's telemovie pilot called " Earth Patrol " starring Spike Milligan.

In 1996, Ripley auditioned for Granada Television's Cold Feet, a television pilot about the romances of three couples living in Manchester.