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On the surface, making it big in Hollywood is a dream come true right?
The fame, the fortune, and all the other benefits that come with it.
However, being a successful actor is still a job that requires putting in a lot of time
and energy.
And believe it or not, there are some actors out there that made the decision to ghost
Hollywood and its limelight.
Let’s check them out with today’s list of Top 10 Actors Who Disappeared From Hollywood.
10.
Starting off our list at number 10 is Cameron Diaz.
Have you ever wondered what happened to his hilarious and beautiful actress?
At one point in time she was showing up in pretty much every movie that was brought to
the big screen, but then out of nowhere, we just stopped seeing her.
I didn’t realize until recently that she hasn’t actually starred in anything since
2014.
That was her last big year in the industry when we saw her star in The Other Woman, Sex
Tape, and Annie- all in one year, and we haven’t seen her since.
Turns out, last year she started making jokes that she’s retired and so did her friends
and previous co-stars.
In March 2018, her close friend Selma Blair did an interview and said “I would have
liked to do a sequel, but Cameron’s retired from acting.
She’s like, I’m done”.
This had Hollywood, and fans, wondering why the 45 year old actress chose to retire without
telling anyone.
Not that she owes anyone an explanation it just would’ve been nice to have the heads
up.
In 2018 it was confirmed that she has retired from acting and is now living a very low-key
life.
Since seeing her on the big screen, she has tied the knot with Benji Madden and has been
putting privacy above everything else.
She turned her focus to wellness and has released a few books now on health and aging.
9.
At number 9 Chuck Norris; the actor has had a widely successful career which is probably
why it’s been weird to have him missing from the acting industry.
He has been a household name for nearly 50 years, but he recently made the decision to
leave Hollywood without much of an explanation.
Back in 2005, he turned his focus on his martial arts experience and debuted the World Combat
League in the hopes of giving young fighters a chance to shine.
He was still finding time to act, but he took a long break between 2005-2012.
We saw him make a return in The Expendables 2 back in 2012, and then 3 years later in
2015 when he was a voice on a TV series The Goldbergs.
Some fans believed he might have been making his return to acting, but during the 10 years
he only had 2 credits to his name, and we haven’t seen him on screen ever since.
8.
Next up at number 8 is Shelley Duvall, you might remember her for her legendary performance
as Wendy Torrance in The Shining.
She established herself as one of the best actresses of her time with her extraordinary
performances.
However, in 2012 she disappeared out of the public eye and no one knew what the actress
was going through in her personal life.
It wasn’t until 2016 that we got an explanation for her sudden disappearance.
The actress appeared on the Dr.Phil show where she revealed she had been struggling with
mental illness over the years.
In her interview, you can tell that she is mentally unstable because she was discussing
the fear of the Sheriff of Bottingham, which is a fictional character in Robin Hood.
Not only that, but she was also claiming that the late Robin Williams is alive and shape
shifting.
She went on to explain that she has seen him before and that he looks good in some forms
and other forms he doesn’t.
Once the interview was released, Dr Phil was heavily criticized for airing the interview
which was deemed as exploitative of her mental illness.
The interview is very hard to watch because you can see that the actress is really struggling.
7.
Sliding into our number 7 spot is Jack Gleeson.
The young actor played Joffrey in HBO’s Game of Thrones.
His character was one of the most hated characters in television history for being so vile and
repulsive.
He played the character from 2011-2014 but after the boy was killed off the show, Gleeson
decided he wanted to step away from acting.
The actor was always the first one to say that he is nothing like his character, and
left the business saying he didn’t enjoy it as much as he used to.
He was in the prime of his career but went on to tell interviewers that he didn’t want
to be in the spotlight and wanted to go back to school.
He decided to enroll himself at the Trinity College in Dublin to study philosophy and
theology.
During an interview he said, I quote, “I hate celebrity culture”.
So, he returned back home to go to school and is also part of his Dublin-based theatre
company called Collapsing Horse.
6.
In at number is Ariana Richards; the child actor rose to fame with her role in the original
Jurassic Park movie in 1993.
She continued to pursue acting and even reprised her role in 1997 for The Lost World: Jurassic
Park.
Between 1998-2013 she seemed to have taken a break from acting as we didn’t see her
taking on any new roles.
Back in 2013, she showed up in a TV movie called Battledogs which led people to believe
she might be making her way back into Hollywood.
But, she actually left the world of Hollywood behind and we haven’t seen her on a screen
ever since.
Turns out, the actress is now a painter and a very successful one at that.
Her artwork is famously known because she does life-like portraits where people can
order them as special gifts.
*insert images* I’m not going to lie I think it’s a little refreshing for a young woman
to leave Hollywood and still pursue a different form of art, and be successful out of it.
She is only 39 years old, so she still has plenty of time to make her way back if she
really wanted to.
5.
Half way through the list at number 5 is Jack Nicholson.
This man is titled a legend when it comes to acting, which is probably why it’s no
surprise that he can do whatever he pleases to do.
Stepping away from the limelight was one of his decisions that left people wondering why
he just upped and left.
Back when he was doing an interview with The Sun, the actor opened up and said: I’m not
going to work until the day I die, that’s not why I started this.
I mean, I’m not driven.
I WAS driven – but I’m not.
I don’t have to be out there anymore.
In fact, there’s a part of me that never really liked being out there.
Well, I guess it’s as simple as that.
We haven’t seen him acting since 2010 when he took on the role as Charles in How Do You
Know.
Last year, in 2018, it was rumoured that he would be coming out of retirement to star
in the American remake of Toni Erdmann.
Nothing has been confirmed.
4.
Taking the number 4 spot is Jonathan Taylor Thomas, also known as JTT, or the son of Tim
Allen on the hit TV show Home Improvement.
When the young actor left the show, pre-teen hearts were shattered all around the world.
At just 16 years old, the actor decided he wanted to leave the popular television show
in order to live a more normal life.
Many people didn’t understand his choice, but he says it was just something he had to
do.
When speaking on it back in 2013 he said: I’d been going nonstop since I was 8 years
old.
I wanted to go to school, to ravel and have a bit of a break.
An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.
JTT went to Harvard University and studies philosophy and history, and finished his degree
at Columbia University.
When he left Home Improvement, he didn’t completely disappear from Hollywood.
He could be found in a few movies, doing voiceover work, and made some guest appearances on TV
shows.
He couldn’t be found between the years 2006-2013, as he declined being a part of the Home Improvement
Finale.
Which is why fans went crazy when he appeared on Tim Allen’s show Last Man Standing in
2013-2015 But, his appearance was short lived and we haven’t seen him back since.
3.
Alright guys, at number 3 is Lalaine, who you might know as Hilary Duff’s BFF in the
Disney series Lizzie McGuire.
The show skyrocketed the whole cast into fame and it appeared like the world was at their
fingertips.
However, not long after the show stopped airing, Lalaine completely vanished from the public
eye.
She didn’t even appear in the big screen release of The Lizzie McGuire Movie, which
fans were super bummed about.
She did an interview with Huffington Post where she refers to the years after Disney
Channel as dark.
She claims she went nuts and made bad decisions, one of them which had her get arrested for
the felony possession of crystal meth in 2008.
Things got even worse for the young starlet as she was a no-show for her court date appearance.
That’s when the judge issued a $50,000 bench warrant for her arrest.
Last we heard about the case was that she enrolled in the Asian American Drug Abuse
Program.
Her IMDB shows that every few years she booked a some smaller project, but her record remains
with a serious felony charge that she can’t undo.
2.
Here we are at number 2 with Rick Moranis.
The actor was adored for his role as Wayne Szalinski in Honey, I shrunk the kids.
The actor’s career was a massive success, appearing in things like The Flinstones, Brother
Bear, and Gravedale High.
In the 80’s and early 90’s, he was one of the hottest comedy actors around.
Unfortunately, in 1997 his wife at the time passed away after a battle with breast cancer.
The actor says he realized it was too difficult to make movies and raise his two children
without his wife.
He decided to walk away from the spotlight and focused on being a single dad; he didn’t
appear in anything from 1997-2001.
He then continued to do some smaller voiceover work for the next 17 years; he was pretty
much off of Hollywood’s radar.
In 2018 his voice was heard in an episode on the TV series The Goldbergs, but that’s
it.
The actor has opened up about it and said he meant for it to be a short break at first,
but during his break he realized he didn’t miss the industry.
He enjoyed his time off and enjoyed being a dad.
1.
Taking our number 1 spot is Amanda Bynes.
The Nickelodeon star was once in the prime of her career.
She had a successful career which began in 1998 and went all the way until 2010.
Through different TV shows and movies, she had a huge fan base to support her as an actress,
me being one of them.
But the last movie we saw her in was Easy A, all the way back in 2010.
After that, her career came to complete halt and no one knew why.
It wasn’t until she began making headlines and not for good reason.
In 2012 she was arrested for driving drunk and hitting the side of a cop car.
Luckily no one was hurt, only minor paint damage was done to both vehicles.
After that, fans started seeing Amanda get a little out of control.
She began tweeting inappropriate comments about other stars and even called president
Barack Obama and his wife, ugly.
She also pulled a Britney Spears and shaved half of her head, and then filled both her
cheeks with dermal piercings.
She started walking the Hollywood streets in crazy colored wigs, trying to hide her
face from the camera.
In May of 2013, she was once again arrested but this time for possession of marijuana
and reckless endangerment after she threw a bong out of her Manhattan apartment window.
Just two months later, Bynes was placed under involuntarily psychiatric hold after she started
a fire on a stranger’s driveway.
It was made clear that the actress was suffering from some mental issues.
In 2018 she came back to do an interview where she opened up about her past and she said
she hopes to return to the acting industry.
I’m hoping too girl; she was one of my favourites when I was a kid.
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