Cape Town - 2014 has been a very lucrative year for film studios in Hollywood.
With so many movies that were box office hits, these films also introduced us to talented new faces along the way. So, it comes as no surprise that the unknown faces that appeared in these films have now become Hollywood royalty.
Here are seven previously unknown faces that you are sure to recognise due to their stellar performances in well known films that made them overnight stars.
1 Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
2 Nicola Peltz - Transformers: Age of Extinction
3 Ansel Elgort - The Fault in Our Stars
4 Dylan O'Brien - The Maze Runner
5 Corey Stoll - This Is Where I Leave You
6 Jack O'Connell - 300: Rise of an Empire
7 Chadwick Boseman - James Brown: Get On Up