Melissa McCarthy

The Mike and Molly star decided that she would switch career paths if she hadn't made it in Hollywood before she turned 30.

Fortunately for her, she secured the part of Sookie St. James in the series Gilmore Girls shortly before her milestone birthday.

McCarthy told Howard Stern in 2019: "[Gilmore Girls] ran for seven years. It was the first time I felt like I could say I was an actress because...I quit my nanny jobs, I quit all the production jobs."