Actors who were going to be The Next Big Thing—then fell off the face of the earth

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Anonymous wrote:Gwyneth Paltrow. She is nothing but self-promoting GOOP and not acting at all.
Sadly, she did not fall off the face of the earth totally, just off the acting world.

Are you forgetting the Marvel movies?

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Anonymous wrote:Michael Vartan. I loved him in Alias and his career since then has drizzled away to nothing.

Yessss, he was in his horrible show on E about not Scientology but it got cancelled.

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Anonymous wrote:Gwyneth Paltrow. She is nothing but self-promoting GOOP and not acting at all.
Sadly, she did not fall off the face of the earth totally, just off the acting world.

Are you forgetting the Marvel movies?

She was also the mom in that really funny Netflix series (the candidate?).. and she was in a bunch of Wes Anderson movies. She’s had a respectable career appearing in stuff that tickles her fancy like a guest spot on glee. I think she works as much as she wants and probably turns down a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Alicia Vikander

Looks like she's still busy. She's Swedish so we may not get as much of her as they do over there.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2539953/

She's still boring as all get out. Her best role was that of a robot. She nailed it.

Agreed. Also she is not Swedish, she's Dutch!

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Anonymous wrote:Jonathan Taylor Thomas. He purposefully left acting.

Now this is a good one.

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Michael Pitt

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Haley Joel Osment was huge as a child star. He’s worked since then but not on such a grand scale.

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Anonymous wrote:Mara Wilson
Mira Sorvino

Didn't Mara Wilson decode to leave? I don't think that is what op was talking about

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Anonymous wrote:Mini Driver She is still out there working. But I thought she would have had a bigger career.

Maybe she choose this? She is a single mum btw

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Anonymous wrote:Alicia Vikander

Looks like she's still busy. She's Swedish so we may not get as much of her as they do over there.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2539953/

She's still boring as all get out. Her best role was that of a robot. She nailed it.

Agreed. Also she is not Swedish, she's Dutch!

Dp. I'm sure you all are the life of the party!

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Anonymous wrote:Edward Furlong

Drugs and death will stop your career

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Hayden Christensen

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Anonymous wrote:the kid who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Anonymous wrote:the kid who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Someone else got it earlier in the thread. As a kid I thought he was such a good actor and was surprised he didn’t become the next Macaulay Culkin or Ryan Gosling. He quit acting for many years, then won an Oscar for his first role in decades as an adult, which is so cool.

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Calista Flockhart