Hollywood A-Listers Who Got Their Big Break in Horror Films

Tony Goldwyn

He's now the president on Scandal, but Tony Goldwyn once played one of Jason Voorhees's unfortunate victims in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986). Goldwyn portrayed Darren Robinson, a camp supervisor at Camp Crystal Lake who meets a gruesome end at the hands of the killer. The sixth installment in the Friday the 13th series received decent reviews compare to its other sequels.

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