Imagine being a Hollywood star and feeling like you had the world in the palm of your
hand, and then imagine walking away from it on your own terms.
It’s hard to imagine that someone would do that right?
Well believe it or not there are people out there who willingly chose to leave their Hollywood
life behind and today on top 10 beyond the screen, i’m dishing out a list of them for
you.
I’m your host joce, come say hi to us on our social media, our links are down below.
And make sure you hangout until the end of today’s video to catch the bloopers and
comment shoutouts.
But for now let’s get into it.
10) Starting off our countdown at number 10 is Frankie Muniz.
Most people remember him as Malcolm from the hit TV series Malcolm in The Middle.
It was one of the biggest shows on television during its time and it set the young actor
up for a successful future in Hollywood.
He was just 14 years old when he first took on the role in the 6 year running sitcom,
and even though his career continued to flourish, he randomly vanished from the public eye.
After he decided to step away from acting, he went on to work as a professional race
car driver which caused him to suffer from some pretty serious injuries.
He’s had a fair amount of mini strokes and concussions now suffers from memory loss,
which he has openly talked about in interviews.
As of 2019, he is running an Olive Oil shop in Arizona with his wife, Paige Price.
They live normal lives and Frankie is more than happy with that.
He did appear in a film called The Black String in 2018 so people thought he might be back
in Hollywood, but he says he just books some roles because he enjoys it.
It’s not his career path anymore and he’s happy running a business with his lady.
He does run a really funny twitter page though if you want a laugh.
9) Up next at number 9 is Danny Lloyd.
If you’ve seen the iconic 1980 horror film The Shining, then you would know Danny Lloyd
for playing the little boy, Danny Torrence.
He took on the role at 5 years old and played the son of the main character, Jack Torrence.
Which for a kid would be a dream come true because the movie has gone down in history.
But as the young actor started to grow up, he decided to grow away from Hollywood's limelight
and live a normal life instead.
He did an interview with The Sun and admitted that the money from the Shining helped put
him through college, but he ended up working at Walmart for a while and even did some pig
farming.
He’s no 47 years old and is working as a science teacher in Kentucky.
When talking about his choice to leave his acting career he said: there’s a feeling
I didn’t like the movie and I wanted nothing to do with acting.
But really the truth is I kept trying for several years and I stopped at about 14 with
almost no success.
Fans were hoping they would see him in the new sequel, Doctor Sleep, but he decided to
sit this one out but says he will be watching it.
8) Moving on to number 8 we have Brittany Ashton Holmes.
Maybe her real name doesn’t ring a bell but her character name will; she’s Darla
from the 90s hit movie: The Little Rascals.
She won everyone’s heart back in 1994 but then disappeared from Hollywood and people
have wondered what happened to her after finding huge success so early in life and then ditching
it.
She was only 5 years old when she cast in the movie and she had no idea that it would
turn into a household name.
After the movie she went on to appear in McDonald’s commercial and even appeared in one of the
episodes of Ellen.
Brittany stuck with acting for 2 years, booking roles in TV movies but nothing quite like
The Little Rascals.
But when it came to her teenage years, she stayed away from the spotlight and enjoyed
living like any other normal teenage girl.
She graduated from high school in California and went to college to study political science.
When Myspace was a thing, her bio caption was: I was an actress when I was a little
girl and did this movie called The Little Rascals.
It’s like, really embarrassing to watch and I don’t want to act anymore.
The 30 year old gal is currently working full time at DJ Hiclipse, which is a music app
company.
But fans were thrilled to see her join the rest of the cast for a Little Rascals reunion
photoshoot in 2014.
7) Next up at number 7 we have Jeff Cohen, also known as Chunk from the The Goonies.
The actor doesn’t have to do the Truffle Shuffle anymore.
He was a child actor when he starred as the pudgy character in the classic 80’s film
and that’s part of the reason why he says acting never worked out for him.
After the film he continued to pursue acting for 6 years, up until 1991.
But as he grew older he says that the competition got stronger and his chubby look wasn’t
booking him any roles.
So by the time he reached his teenage years he was already living a normal life and enjoying
it.
He went to the University of California, Berkeley to study law and later became an entertainment
lawyer in Los Angeles.
He is currently working as a lawyer, which all began after he started his own law firm
back in 2002 called: Cohen & Gardner.
He also writes for The Huffington Post which is pretty fricken cool.
6) Sliding into number 6 is Rick Moranis.
He’s a Canadian actor who was well known for his big Hollywood movies like Ghostbusters,
Little Shop of Horrors and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
During the 80’s he was taking over the movie scene one step at a time but sadly in 1991
his wife passed away from breast cancer and that’s when he decided to retire from acting.
He continued to act in the following years but revealed that it was too difficult for
him to be a single father of his 2 kids as well as pursue an acting career.
Not to mention, he was still trying to heal from the loss of his wife.
It wasn’t until 1997 that he completely stepped away from the spotlight.
In later years he did return to do some voice acting here and there.
Fans thought they might see him in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, but he turned down the
offer to reprise his role.
The former actor is now 66 years old and keeps a low profile.
When speaking about his decision to leave acting he said: I was working with really
interesting people, wonderful people.
I went from that to being at home with a couple of little kids, which is a very different
lifestyle.
But it was important to me.
I have absolutely no regrets whatsoever.
My life is wonderful.
Awww, as long as he’s happy right?
5) Half way through the list at number 5 is Karyn Parsons; the actress is best known as
Hilary Banks from the hit TV series: the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
From 1990-1996, Karyn played the eldest Banks sibling who was basically the poster child
of the 90s.
But after the years of Fresh Prince were over, her name started to fade out.
She opened up to Vice in a recent interview and said that it was hard to book acting roles
after that and that people didn’t care about her time on the show.
She said: not that I expected people to know who I was, but even when I’d try to tell
casting directors what I’d done before, they would have no idea.
I started feeling really stupid trying to get them to know what Fresh Prince was and
who I was on it.
It was embarrassing.
Since the series ended in 1996, she’s been able to book 8 roles and none that have put
her back on the map.
She decided to focus on writing and in 2005 she founded the non-profit organization called
Sweet Blackberry, which aims at educating children about African American history.
She also has her own book called How High the Moon.
She works full time on her organization which has grown from a passion project into a thriving
organization with a series of animated short films that are available on DVD and Netflix.
4)Here we are at number 4 is Erik Per Sullivan.
Another Malcolm in The Middle star, Erik played Dewey, the youngest brother of the bunch.
He was definitely the cutest member of the Wilkerson family and he was only 14 years
old when the series wrapped in 2006.
He is now 27 years old which is super weird to me to think that we’re the same age.
He’s definitely not the cheeky little boy he was all those years ago, he’s a young
man now who has kept pretty quiet ever since he left his acting career behind.
His last ever acting job was in 2010 and from there he decided to focus on his studies.
He’s been living a quiet and normal life ever since.
Fans did get their hopes up when they saw a picture he posted on his instagram with
his former co-star and brother on the show, Justin Berfield.
The two of them were sitting behind the scenes of a movie that Justin was producing.
It was cool to see them again, but Erik still remains behind the camera.
He’s not really anywhere near it at all.
3) In third place is Angus T Jones.
He was one of the cutest child stars of all time when he was starring on the TV series:
Two and A Half Men.
He quickly rose to fame for his role as Jake Harper and he spent over a decade working
alongside Charlie Sheen.
From the outside looking in, he had his entire future set up at that point.
I mean he was kid playing a lead role on one of the biggest shows on TV- that’s literally
every actors dream.
In 2010, he broke the record as the highest paid child TV actor in history.
When he was just 17 years old, he signed a 7.8 million dollar contract for another 2
seasons of the show, which means he was making 300 thousand dollars an episode.
But the show started to get a bad reputation and it was because Charlie Sheens addiction
got out of control and he flew off the handle bars, and was fired from the show in 2011.
Angus continued working on the show but as his character grew older he didn’t agree
with some of the things he was scripted to do, like romantic scenes, or scenes with illegal
substances.
In 2012 he shifted his focus towards religion and God and realized the show contradicted
everything he believed in.
He ended up leaving and went online to try and get fans to stop watching it, calling
the show filth.
From that point on he attended the University of Colorado and studied Environmental Studies,
but then changed his major to Jewish Studies.
2) In spot number 2 is Mara Wilson.
She is best remembered for playing Matilda in the 1996 film titled after her character.
Kids were quick to fall in love with her character and the magical powers that came with it.
In fact, we are STILL talking about Matilda to this day, and I am still wishing I could
make pancakes like she does.
Earlier this year there was a trending game called The Matilda Challenge which had people
making videos of them dancing around a room and pretending to make objects move.
Just like her iconic scene from the movie.
The challenge went viral that Mara even reacted to them in a video interview.
Ara wilson But regardless of how much fun we thought her character was, Mara felt differently
about her whole experience.
In one of her 2012 she wrote about it and said she didn’t enjoy the acting experience
which is why she left shortly after.
After leaving Hollywood she went on to live a normal life and found a passion for writing.
She released a novel in 2016 called: Where Am I now?
True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame.
We haven’t seen her on the big screen in a long time, but she continues to work on
screenplays and novels.
And if you want to hear what she’s up to now, from her perspective, just read her book.
1)Taking over the number one spot is Jack Gleeson, this one is especially painful for
all the Game of Throne fans.
Jack took on the role of evil King Joffrey for 3 years but decided to walk away from
it, and acting, all together.
Instead of pursuing an acting career he decided to move back home and attended Trinity College
in Dublin where he studied philosophy and theology.
There wasn’t any bad blood between him and the show, he just didn’t like the idea of
fame and everything that came with it.
During an interview he said he hated celebrity culture.
The 27 year old is enjoying his normal life now and founded his own theatre company called
Collapsing Horse Theatre Company, which is based in Dublin.
Still plenty of time to make a return to Hollywood though, you never know.
And he has Game of Thrones on his resume forever now, which is pretty sweet.
Okay you guys, there is our list for today.
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