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.

滬江英語：如今，埃迪·雷德梅尼是好萊塢的一線明星、紅毯上最熱門的年輕演員、出演了音樂劇《悲慘世界》的當(dāng)紅小生；但是他也曾有過困難的時候。他曾從很小很小的事情做起——為針織公司做模特。這家針織公司在Fackbook上發(fā)布了一組埃迪穿著針織毛衣的照片，那時他22歲。即使是穿著普通的針織毛衣，埃迪依舊那么迷人~~