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.

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.

The character Walter Skinner was played by actor Mitch Pileggi, who had unsuccessfully auditioned for the roles of two or three other characters on The X-Files before getting the part.

Kam Fong Chun, an 18-year veteran of the Honolulu Police Department, auditioned for the part of the lead villain Wo Fat, but Freeman cast him in the part of Chin Ho Kelly instead.

Sean Young had previously auditioned for the part, while Debra Winger turned it down.

Two other players auditioned and considered during the band's formation were former The Move and ELO founder Roy Wood and the aforementioned guitarist / singer Trevor Rabin, who would go on to be part of a reformed Yes in 1983.

In 1945, he auditioned for a bit part voicing one of the animals in the new Disney feature film Song of the South ( 1946 ), based on the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris.

She auditioned for George Cukor's stock theater company, and although he was not very impressed, he gave Davis her first paid acting assignment anyway — a one-week stint playing the part of a chorus girl in the play Broadway.

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

Around 6000 actors auditioned worldwide for the part: Quan was cast after his brother auditioned for the role.

At thirteen she also auditioned for Ballet Concierto and becomes part of the dance company.

Director Frank Lloyd was casting for the part of high society flapper Janet Oglethorpe, and more than fifty women, most with previous screen experience, auditioned.

When the Calgary Stampede brought in The Rockettes from New York as part of the 1964 grandstand show, they auditioned local youth to participate as the " Calgary Kidettes ".

Jennifer Jason Leigh had auditioned for the part, but later decided not to do the movie after she read the script because she felt it was sexist.

About 60 actresses auditioned for the part before Moore was signed.

Cattrall was unwilling to be the third actress to play Saavik ( a part she had originally auditioned for ), but accepted the role when she became a different character.

Kate Winslet auditioned for the part of Juliet, winning the role over 175 other girls.

Helena Bonham Carter auditioned for the part, but it was ultimately decided it would be better to cast an American actress.

O ' Halloran and Anderson both auditioned for the role of Dante Hicks ( as Anderson's part of Randal Graves from the film had already been filled by future SNL performer Jim Breuer ).

After acting in Hair for nine months, she auditioned for a part in Woody Allen's production of Play It Again, Sam.

* Patricia Heaton, Megan Mullally, and Rosie O ' Donnell also auditioned for the part, and when it was offered to Louis-Dreyfus she wasn't sure if she should accept.

Christopher auditioned for the part of Superman / Clark Kent in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and was chosen by the casting director.

West auditioned for " just about every part ", landing the roles of the Professor and Doctor Zoidberg.