For all its glitz and glamor, Hollywood can be cruel and harsh, even at the best of times.
It takes people years to claw their way to the top of show business, but just one flop
later and they can be right back at the bottom.
Just ask any of the unlucky actors on this list, and they’ll probably tell you the
same thing: fame is fleeting.
Here is Screen Rant’s list of 10 Reasons Why These Actors Fell Off The Earth.
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Chris Kattan For years, Chris Kattan was one of the most
important cast members on Saturday Night Live, known for his energetic performances and several
notable characters, including Gay Hitler, and Mr. Peepers.
In 1998, Kattan and castmate Will Ferrell starred as the head-nodding Butabi Brothers
in A Night at the Roxbury, which seemed to signal a promising film career for both of
them.
Alas, it was not to be.
While Ferrell became a major star, Kattan got…
Corky Romano.
When this first solo-starring role came out, critics ripped it to shreds and it bombed
at the box office.
Despite small roles here and there, Kattan’s career has never recovered.
Paul Hogan Paul Hogan rose to fame in America during
a small wave of Australia-mania in the mid-80s.
Already famous as the star of The Paul Hogan Show down under, Hogan made his crossover
with Crocodile Dundee, about an Aussie bushman who comes to New York City.
The movie was a hit, and made an instant star out of Hogan.
Unfortunately, it also tied him to this one signature role, and Hogan couldn’t escape.
When Hogan branched out in films like Almost an Angel and Lightning Jack, nobody noticed.
Though he had one last hurrah in 2001’s Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, we haven’t
seen much of him since.
Shannon Elizabeth Shannon Elizabeth’s beautiful body adorned
the walls of many high school boy’s bedrooms, but she could never really prove that she
had what it takes to be an actress.
She came to fame as Nadia, the sexy Slovakian exchange student in American Pie, and was
soon appearing on magazine covers as the new Hollywood It Girl.
Despite starring roles in Tomcats and Thir13een Ghosts, she was typecast as the “sexy girl”
in nearly everything, and it wasn’t enough to keep her career moving forward.
These days, Elizabeth is still working, but her days as a star are long over.
Wesley Snipes Wesley Snipes could act, and he could kick
ass.
During the 90s, Snipes starred in one hit after another, from Demolition Man to US Marshals.
And in 1998, he found his signature role as Blade, a half-vampire crimefighter based on
the Marvel comic.
But in the 2000s, his shtick was growing old, and movies like The Art of War and Undisputed
failed to bring home the bacon.
His career really ended after a 2006 conviction for tax fraud, which saw him going to jail
for almost three years.
He has since made appearances in The Expendables 3 and Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, but he’s no
longer the star he once was.
Bridget Fonda Bridget Fonda is the third generation of Hollywood
royalty.
Her grandfather, Henry Fonda, starred in many Westerns during the studio era, while her
father defined a generation in the counter-culture classic Easy Rider.
Bridget seemed set to follow in their footsteps with head-turning roles in Single White Female
and Point of No Return.
But as the 90s wore on, her career couldn’t quite keep up with those expectations.
By 2001, she was playing a prostitute in the Jet Li vehicle Kiss of the Dragon.
That was her last major role, and since then she has focussed on raising a family with
composer Danny Elfman.
Tom Green Tom Green wasn’t your average comedian.
Tom Green was weird.
The host of a bizarre MTV prank show with a surrealist twist, Green became an unlikely
celebrity.
He starred in the hit comedy Road Trip, was referenced in an Eminem song and married Drew
Barrymore.
But it all came to an end after Green directed and starred in Freddy Got Fingered, an absurdist
anti-comedy that critics tore to shreds and audiences ignored.
Over the years, Freddy Got Fingered has gained a cult audience, but it hasn’t done much
for his career.
These days, Green hosts a little-seen web series and, no, he’s not married to Drew
Barrymore anymore.
Skeet Ulrich Back in the 90s, Skeet Ulrich seemed destined
for fame and fortune.
Ulrich worked his way up from an off-Broadway theater troupe to Hollywood fame, only to
fade back into obscurity.
After starring in movies like Scream, The Newton Boys and Ang Lee’s Ride with the
Devil, his career just kind of… stalled.
After the failure of Chill Factor, an action film co-starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Ulrich
just couldn’t catch a break.
He had a brief comeback on the cult-favorite TV series Jericho, but it wasn’t enough
to revive his career.
You can find him now playing the father of Jughead Jones on The CW’s Riverdale.
Mischa Barton You remember Marissa, the beautiful-but-troubled
female lead of The OC, the soapy teen drama that pretty much defined the 2000s.
Despite never getting much praise as an actor, Barton became the “It Girl” of the period,
gracing magazine covers and modelling for various brands and designer brands.
But all that fame couldn’t keep her career going.
The years following her much-hyped death on The OC were not kind to Barton, as she starred
in flop after flop, like Closing the Ring and Virgin Territory.
Barton has since moved to television, but her last “role” was on Dancing with the
Stars, which is never a good sign for an actor’s career.
Chris O’Donnell Robin himself.
Chris O’Donnell seemed set for stardom after landing the role of the boy wonder in Joel
Schumacher’s Batman Forever.
As the troubled orphan adopted by Bruce Wayne, O’Donnell certainly looked the part, and
he also starred in more respectable fare, like the Scent of a Woman.
But after Batman & Robin bombed, O’Donnell had a hard time staying relevant.
He starred in movies like The Bachelor and Vertical Limit, but they never seemed to be
a hit.
But you don’t have to be too worried about him.
He’s been a series regular on NCIS: Los Angeles since 2009.
Tara Reid Tara Reid is the original good-girl-gone-bad.
Well, OK, not the original, but one of the first to do it in an age of constant tabloid
television coverage.
Reid first gained success as the good girl Vicky in American Pie.
She soon became a tabloid sensation, dating MTV personality Carson Daly and picking up
starring roles left and right.
After the high-profile failures of Van Wilder, Josie and the Pussycats, and My Boss’s Daughter,
she became a fixture of tabloids for her excessive lifestyle and many relationships.
She’s still around, occasionally doing reality TV shows and appearing in all three Sharknado
films, but she’ll probably never have the same amount of fame as she had after American
Pie.
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