He is now a Hollywood A-Lister who was the toast of the Oscars and the arguably one of the hottest young actors on the red carpet.

But times used to be very different for Eddie Redmayne, who starred as Marius in this year's blockbuster musical Les Misérables, as these new pictures show.

Even gorgeous Eddie was forced to start small, very small - as the face of knitting company Rowan Yarns.

The knitwear company, who published the snaps on Facebook with the caption: 'Hollywood A-lister found in the Rowan archive!', opted for Eddie to model their unusual designs in 2004, when he was 22.

Eddie is seen wearing a variety of garish jumpers, advertising patterns including Saucer, Brooklyn and Combat, a far cry from his latest modelling campaign which was for designers Burberry.

Unlike some of the Hollywood glitterati Eddie's snaps are not too embarrassing, despite his red hair hiding his chiseled face.

沪江英语：如今，埃迪·雷德梅尼是好莱坞的一线明星、红毯上最热门的年轻演员、出演了音乐剧《悲惨世界》的当红小生；但是他也曾有过困难的时候。他曾从很小很小的事情做起——为针织公司做模特。这家针织公司在Fackbook上发布了一组埃迪穿着针织毛衣的照片，那时他22岁。即使是穿着普通的针织毛衣，埃迪依旧那么迷人~~