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

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Anonymous wrote:Alicia Silverstone

Yes, she was the golden child after Clueless, but seemed incapable of really capitalizing on this for some reason.

I remember. She followed up Clueless with Batman and Robin, and was given a really hard time about her weight. Hollywood lost interest pretty fast after that. She had a cute show on NBC called Miss Match, which was unfortunately canceled right away.

She’s on a bunch of the diary of a wimpy kid movies my kids watch (as the mom )

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alicia Silverstone

Yes, she was the golden child after Clueless, but seemed incapable of really capitalizing on this for some reason.

I remember. She followed up Clueless with Batman and Robin, and was given a really hard time about her weight. Hollywood lost interest pretty fast after that. She had a cute show on NBC called Miss Match, which was unfortunately canceled right away.

She’s on a bunch of the diary of a wimpy kid movies my kids watch (as the mom )

And the Babysitters Club reboot on Netflix. My daughters think she’s awesome in both that and Clueless.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me see, basically the entire casts of:

The Middle
Modern Family
The Office
Friends

Jennifer Aniston has not fallen off the face of the earth, nor has Steve Carell.

Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow work pretty consistently too. Matt LeBlanc did until not too long ago. I think David Schwimmer does more theater now. He's rich, can do whatever he wants. Matthew Perry for obvious reasons hasn't done much, a shame since he was the biggest talent in the bunch.

None of them need to work. If I had that kind of money I would just be enjoying life. Same with Frasier. Except for Kelsey Grammer most of the other actor’s also disappeared after the show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me see, basically the entire casts of:

The Middle
Modern Family
The Office
Friends

Jennifer Aniston has not fallen off the face of the earth, nor has Steve Carell.

Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow work pretty consistently too. Matt LeBlanc did until not too long ago. I think David Schwimmer does more theater now. He's rich, can do whatever he wants. Matthew Perry for obvious reasons hasn't done much, a shame since he was the biggest talent in the bunch.

None of them need to work. If I had that kind of money I would just be enjoying life. Same with Frasier. Except for Kelsey Grammer most of the other actor’s also disappeared after the show.

$10 mil per year in re-runs alone (each)

[Anonymous]

Chloe sevigny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me see, basically the entire casts of:

The Middle
Modern Family
The Office
Friends

Jennifer Aniston has not fallen off the face of the earth, nor has Steve Carell.

Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow work pretty consistently too. Matt LeBlanc did until not too long ago. I think David Schwimmer does more theater now. He's rich, can do whatever he wants. Matthew Perry for obvious reasons hasn't done much, a shame since he was the biggest talent in the bunch.

None of them need to work. If I had that kind of money I would just be enjoying life. Same with Frasier. Except for Kelsey Grammer most of the other actor’s also disappeared after the show.

Re: Frasier:

"Disappeared"? Nobody disappeared. They've all worked plenty after Frasier ended; a big network show isn't the only form of acting work. Even if none of them had ever done Frasier, they'd still all have careers a lot of jobbing actors would envy:

David Hyde Pierce always was a theater actor and since Frasier ended, has done a boatload of Broadway and other shows, and has been nominated for Tony Awards twice since the end of Frasier. He played Julia Child's husband in an HBOseries, had a recurring character on The Good Wife (a pretty solid hit show) etc. etc.
Jane Leeves spent six seasons as one of the leads on the sitcom Hot in Cleveland. Not a great sitcom but six steady seasons of work is nothing to sneeze at, in this profession.
John Mahoney returned to doing theater and did many stage roles after Frasier, and had many roles including recurring ones on a lot of TV series. (Mahoney died in 2018.)

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Anonymous wrote:Chloe sevigny

Fashion editorials aside, she’s exactly where she always wanted to be - still acting and now directing as well.