25 actors you forgot were on ‘The Office’

The Office fans who flat-out refused to continue the series once Steve Carell’s Michael Scott left missed out on Joan Cusack being revealed as Erin’s biological mother in the series finale.

Regarding the characters Michael Imperioli has played, one has to wonder which one had it worse: Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, who had to deal with the dangers of being in a crime family, or Sensei Billy, the karate instructor to the overzealous Dwight Schrute.

Before he was a resident of the American Horror Story anthology series, Evan Peters was Michael Scott’s nephew who sucked at his job.

The reason many might overlook Anna Camp’s appearance in The Office is that she’s in one of the most crucial episodes where Jim and Pam finally get married as the latter’s sister.

Ken Jeong took a chance on a dream when he left the medical field to pursue comedy, and it paid off, but before he was starring in The Hangover movies and making insane guesses on The Masked Singer (it’s never going to be Obama), he was part of Michael Scott’s improv class.

Only the biggest fans of both The Office and Gotham know that the young Bruce Wayne played Robert California’s son in one of the series’ classic Halloween episodes.

One of the most awkward moments in The Office was when Pam accidentally breastfed the wrong newborn. The other baby belonged to the future star of The Big Bang Theory and Night Court , Melissa Rauch. Fun fact! Jenna Fischer’s husband was also in that episode as the breastfeeding consultant.

There were plenty of people vying for Michael Scott’s position, including Will Arnett’s Fred Henry.

People don’t know they need to witness Saturday Night Live alum Tim Meadows and Steve Carell singing the Chili’s jingle about baby back ribs until they see it.

If The Office had continued into a 10th season, perhaps fans would’ve gotten to know Dakota Johnson’s character more, as she was a new accountant who took over for Kevin when he was let go from Dunder Mifflin at the end of the series.

Anyone with a younger sibling fully understood the point of Josh Groban’s character as he played Andy Bernard’s baby brother, who was the star of the family.

The late Patrice O’Neal was and will forever be a titan of stand-up comedy, but he was also an actor, appearing in Arrested Development, Chris Rock’s Head of State, and in a few episodes of The Office, where he played one of the warehouse workers.

The only way people forget about Amy Adams as the infamous “Purse Girl” who wins Jim Halpert’s heart for a second is because they confuse her with her celebrity twin, Isla Fisher.

It’s always cool when a sitcom icon appears on another classic series, and that happened when Ray Romano sabotaged his own job interview on The Office.

Bob Odenkirk tried out for the role of Michael Scott, so it was cute that they eventually brought him back to play a Michael Scott-like character elsewhere.

Georgia Engel was an icon of the small screen, appearing in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Hot in Cleveland. She also had a quick role in The Office as a nice senior citizen who hired Erin to help her. Erin wasn’t really all that helpful, but still.

A year before Thomas Middleditch debuted as the lead in Silicon Valley on HBO, he was Dwight Shrute’s brother who made good money in the herbal wellness farming industry.

Dan Castellaneta isn’t an actor that a lot of people can recognize. That is because his biggest role is none other than Homer J. Simpson on, what else, The Simpsons. He played the head of a company that the sales team was trying to win over.

The same year Yvette Nicole Brown’s run on Nickelodeon’s Drake & Josh was coming to an end, she appeared as a Staples employee opposite Rainn Wilson’s Dwight. This would be two years before she landed her big sitcom hit, Community.

Randall Park appeared as Jim in an attempt to confuse and enrage Dwight. 

Timothy Olyphant’s good looks were put to good use as Dunder Mifflin’s salesman foe turned friend.

Only two years after ER left the air, Maura Tierney was back on NBC as Robert California’s wife.

The delivery kid in the “Launch Party” could’ve been anyone, but it was future Glee star Kevin McHale.

There were a lot of big names who guest-starred as potential replacements for Michael Scott, but the most surprising was likely Jim Carrey.

The comedian brought that deadpan delivery when she appeared as the mother of a young girl who hit and bullied Andy Bernard.