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"  Since our inception 25 year ago, ELLE has featured not only fashion&amp;#039;s most gifted designers, but Hollywood&amp;#039;s brightest talents. We were the first to make Bend It Like Beckham&amp;#039;s spunky Keira Knightley a big-time cover girl\u2014before Pirates of the Caribbean catapulted her to a new stratosphere of fame. And when ELLE gave Britney Spears her inaugural fashion-mag cover, we knew she was destined for pop divadom. Since 1993, we&amp;#039;ve opened our entertainment pages with breakouts on the precipice of stardom. Sometimes they took longer than expected: We shot Adrien Brody for Terrence Malick&amp;#039;s The Thin Red Line before the unpredictable director all but axed the would-be lead from the final cut. Three years later, Brody won the best actor Oscar for The Pianist. In some cases, we&amp;#039;re still waiting. (Any time now, Rena Owen.) Here, we revisit some of the cinematic legends we&amp;#039;re proud to say we spotted first. Click here for a slideshow of the stars you saw first in ELLE "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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