Jennifer Garner

She went from earning $150 a week as an understudy to staring in her own TV show, while you were probably wasting your time at college. Not bad for one of the stars of Dude, Where’s My Car. Garner also had small roles on TV’s Felicity (Keri Russell), and in the big-budget flop Pearl Harbor Kate Beckinsale. But she’s probably best known for playing agent Sydney Bristow on Alias (Melissa George). The show had a successful five-year run, and showed Hollywood that the cute girls-next-door can also save the day. Her butt-kicking on the small screen helped earn her the role of Elektra in 2005′s Daredevil Ellen Pompeo movie, where she met the future father of her child, Ben Affleck. The film also spawned the Elektra Natassia Malthe movie.

The funny side of Garner can be seen in every girlfriend’s favorite movie, 13 Going on 30. If you like the date-movie version of Jennifer Garner, you’re in luck, as she can be seen next in the movie The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), which is about a man haunted by the spirits of his exes. After that, Jen will star in the Ricky Gervais comedy The Invention of Lying (2009). Apparently she is a huge fan of Ricky Gervais’ comedy.