Sure we’ve suffered through the performances of athletes turned actors, i.e. Shaq in the Disney genie flick Shazaam! That doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of hot college athletes turned actors, however. They’ve got the drive, the bodies, the discipline, and the bodies from playing sports to parlay into the competitive world of acting. Check out CollegeOTR’s Top 5 Hottest College Athletes Turned Actors.

1) Boris Kodjoe played tennis at Virginia Commonwealth University before playing in Starship Troopers 3.

2) Though you probably know him best as an Oscar winner for dramatic roles in movies like The Last King of Scotland, Forrest Whittaker was also awarded a football scholarship to California State Polytechnic University in Pomona.

3) Before he played the Savior himself in The Passion of the Christ, Jim Caviezel played basketball for Bellevue Community College.

4) Gabriel Byrne wanted to be a Catholic priest before attending University College Dublin, where he played soccer, and before taking the role of Dr. Paul Weston on HBO’s In Treatment.

5) William Baldwin was a wrestler at Binghamton University before starring as Patrick Darling VI on Dirty Sexy Money.