X-Filed

Before he was Walter White, Bryan Cranston was a guest star on The X-Files.

So were Ryan Reynolds, Jack Black, Lucy Liu and Shia LaBeouf, each one just another face in the monster-of-the-week. Nobody watching knew what came next.

X-Filed is your field guide to 170 guest stars who passed through the series: who they played, which episodes to rewatch, and how their careers took off, or didn't.

Every actor is classified by where their career stood the day they showed up:

• Before Fame: unknown then, famous later
• Rising: known then, stardom still ahead
• After Fame: established, no breakout to follow

Inside:

• 170 A-Z actor entries, each with episodes, roles and a short career paragraph
• A "You may know them as" line to answer "where do I know them from?"
• An episode-by-episode index of guest stars
• An index of names, surname first, with page numbers

Settle every "where do I know that actor from?" debate, and your next rewatch will never be the same.

An unofficial, independent fan work. Not authorized, sponsored or endorsed by Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Ten Thirteen Productions, Chris Carter or any person named in it.