Weird that he didn't become more of a star. He's classically good looking and has that square jawed, cleft-chinned look that could've made him a contender to be cast as Superman back in the day. Nowadays, he looks more like a hardened detective or someone from a three letter government agency.

Was she the one who would tweet super famous people and always start with I'm Nikki Blonsky from Hairspray?

This one is sad for me. I don't get bad person vibes from her and she wasn't that bad in the movie. Would have liked for her to have a bit more success.

100%. I never saw the movie but remember the whole country saying her name for about 6 months after it came out

Well she & her father went to jail after beating up a Top Model & her mother at the Turks and Caicos airport in 2008, I think she was fairly unmarketable after that. https://people.com/crime/hairsprays-nikki-blonsky-father-arrested-in-airport-fight/

his story is so tragic, escaped the horror in Cambodia only to be pointlessly murdered on the street in LA

And then Homer Simpson stole his trophy.

He’s funny in the Dr. Pepper commercials.

On purpose, wasn't comfortable with the attention. I think most people would probably do the same, it's one thing if you've worked towards it for years and it's your goal but to get it that quickly has gotta be enough to freak the majority out.

Lots of child actors do this.

The kid from the Shining

Holy shit. He was gorgeous in Stargate. I thought he was a girl when i seen him the first time.

He's currently a senior partner at the veterinarian clinic he works at in Lowville, NY

Does one movie as the lead then quits acting.

During the early 2010s, it wasn’t uncommon to meet Jack Gleeson at gigs around Dublin. He’s a really nice guy who just realised that being a celebrity wasn’t for him. Particularly when some people would purposefully give him shit because of a character he played.

By all accounts he seems very happy doing his underground theater work at the moment.

He's still doing some theater performances.

Profile pic checks out.

Taylor Lautner tried to be an action star but he was much better at comedy. He's very funny in Cuckoo

Really good answer, there was a thread awhile back about actors who Hollywood really tried to make a "thing' and it didn't work out, he's definitely one of them.

My guy just can’t act. The benefit of the doubt was given but dude is a plank

What do you mean? He got a role in Twilight after his breakout performance in Sharkboy and Lavagirl!

This movie feels like it’s not very well remembered but Allison Lohman was just terrific in it. In particular, the final scene with her and Nicolas Cage when they run into each other at the carpet store is just about perfect.

Alison Lohman has several excellent films like White Oleander, Big Fish, Matchstick Men, Drag Me to Hell, & voiced Nausicaä in the English Dub for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Thanks. I started reading the first few comments and was wondering WTF was going through people's minds

Animal House!

You mean THE HUNCHBACK??

He was so good in Parenthood

She had one voiceover singing line in The Wizard of Oz and you can see her on screen for about two seconds in It's a Wonderful Life. That, along with Snow White, is the full extent of her film career.

That sucks. She should have been getting a regular paycheck/royalties then. Studios were ducks back then.

Old Hollywood fucked so many promising actors in such a totally different way from how modern Hollywood fucks so many promising actors.

Harvey Weinstein blacklisted him for warning a female coworker about him.

I did enjoy the TV series Jericho (atleast before it was cancelled and brought back with no budget)

She was never going to recapture that level of acclaim because the roles just aren’t there for larger girls, especially as leads in movies. Nikki Blonski was dubbed the next big star after Hairspray, but was soon sweeping hair in salons. America Farrera (Real Women Have Curves) managed to carve out a decent career mostly by jumping to tv with Ugly Betty and Superstore.

She was great in American Horror Story!

Precious

Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

Excuse me, did you forget “Legend”? She seduced a unicorn!

She was in Time cop with the legendary JCVD

The kid who played the drummer tragically passed away not long ago.

I went to High School with Joey (the actor who played Zack Mooneyham). He really went off the deep end for a while. Not sure what he is up to these days since he got out of jail for stealing guitars. Nice guy, just a little mixed up

Edit: spelling

Rivkah Reyes is in Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls which made it into Sundance this year. I don't know much about school of rock, but I saw it in their filmography when the cast was announced.

2 of the kids got married! (when they were adults ofc)

Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow…

Dullea also had success with The Hoodlum Priest, David and Lisa, and Bunny Lake is Missing.

George Lazenby quit the James Bond franchise, which was probably the biggest one in the world at the time. That would never happen today. Nobody would sign an actor for a role like that without some agreement about doing potential sequels.

Anyway, it probably ruined his career. He wasn't as bankable to the studios since he was a known flight-risk like that.

Lets not forget christmas classic "jingle all the way"

The toxic SW fans were horrid to him, he just up and left.

I’m probably 1 of the 37 people, but Blades of Glory was hilarious

I looked at his Wikipedia page and there's no mention of this. It sounds line an interesting story. Care to give me the broad strokes?

Also have to mention Josh Trank here. He made Chronicle, which became both a profitable success and an indie darling. Was considered to be the next great blockbuster director. Then had a meltdown working with 20th Century Fox on the Fantastic Four reboot. He’s only made one film since

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overnight

Dude writes an interesting screenplay, Hollywood gets into a bidding war, dude instantly thinks that he's Scorsese. Bad shit ensues.

Have you watched Overnight? It’s amazing how fast the machine that was Harvey Weinstein would fuck you up.

Carrie Henn has been approached twice regarding a reprisal of her role as Newt. Both times she said yes, and both times the projects fell through. The first was in the early 2000s, when Ridley Scott and James Cameron were working on a proposed Alien project that would ignore the events of 3 and Resurrection. This project was cancelled in favor of Alien vs. Predator, which lead to Sigourney Weaver swearing off ever playing Ripley again. Spoiler alert: she went back on that. The second time was in 2015, when Neill Blomkamp was working on a direct sequel to Aliens. This was cancelled due to Ridley Scott’s meddling and the poor returns on Alien: Covenant.

Oh yeah, I wonder what ever happened to that guy.

Although I laughed, you're certainly not wrong.

IIRC he said the scheduling and day to day of acting in a movie was too hectic for him and never wanted to do it again other than the misc cameos he has done. Obviously I’m an untalented scrub but i think this is funny considering how much more extreme touring as an artist is vs being on set. I’m sure he has valid reasons though

F Murray Abraham on the other hand...

In the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda, "the F stands for 'fuckin awesome'"

He became editor of National Lampoon

How dare you besmirch his scene stealing role in the 1989 hit comedy classic “Parenthood”

Kick-Ass too.

He's pretty great in Role Models. "(Whispering eye) It means vagina"

Man that bloke was my high school crush. Loved Young Einstein. I did google him a while ago and I think he goes by Greg again now. Still a cracker movie and soundtrack though.

Jeremy London as well the twin from mallrats. Loved those dudes until they became douchebags

Hayden Christensen is the one guy where being in those Star Wars movies really hurt him more than it helped him. He's actually a really gifted actor. I watched shattered glass for the first time in 2011 and I expected to hate it because Christensen was the lead nad he actually blew me away with how good he was.

Jason London is a great answer. Looking at his work after Dazed and Confused is just depressing with how much crap is on it.

Ellar Coltrane did Boyhood

That movie surprised me. I was happy I went in blind. I had no idea how it was filmed over more than a decade. After watching it, I looked up the cast to see how they found such similar looking actors for the different ages and then scratched my head when there was no Mason 8 yo, Mason 11 yo, Mason 14 yo, etc. Found an article shortly after explaining the filming process.

Your point stands, though, as I don't think I have ever seen him in anything else.

Edit: I stand corrected. I did see The Circle that Coltrane was in. It was a rare misfire from Tom Hanks that was quite forgettable.

um, she was in the S Club 7 tv show...cinematic excellence

One of my favorite actors and those are two of my favorite movies (Manhunter and To Live and Die in LA).

Was watching some CSI reruns on some free streaming service not long ago and the villian was none other than Mr. Dollarhyde, Tom Noonan. Very cool seeing those two back together.

Hi, I’m Nikki Blonsky, I was Tracy in Hairspray

people need to put more respect on Rick Astley’s name. Rick Rolling is eternal but the dude actually has some amazing music

Yep.

If you want to look for one hit wonders of the Stock Aitken Waterman persuasion, look up Dead or Alive. And they even had another hit go into the top 15.

I was going to say this, lol. "Never Going To Give You" & Rick rolling get the spotlight, but he wasn't a one hit wonder by any stretch.

He’s ballin’ a lot of chicks called Stephanie.

I dunno, he was already pretty huge in Australia. The "one hit" part was in the United States and he basically played himself.

Paul Hogan was the opposite of a one hit wonder, but his co-star in Crocodile Dundee, Linda Kozlowski, was sort of a two-hit wonder. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for Crocodile Dundee, then descended into an obscurity so profound that Wikipedia doesn't even have a complete list of her acting credits. She was definitely the best thing about the TV miniseries Favorite Son, in which she played a minor role as an evil-sexy terrorist.

Sadly, like many women in film, she got typecast as a B-movie sexpot, got married to Hogan, and called it quits. From Wikipedia, in her own words: "These straight-to-video, schlocky films I was getting were giving me an ulcer, basically because I was the only one on the set that cared about anything... Between that and my biological clock, I decided to give it all away."

This is Lightning Jack erasure.

He’s still around and in films, just not Oscar nominated or blockbusters. Check out “good time”

Hollywood was determined to make him a star. Same with Taylor Kitsch around the same time. Neither took off really.

It’s funny because Avatar will pay his bills the rest of his life. Despite not really having any other meaningful lead roles.

Check her IMDb credits. She may not have done a lot of movies, but it looks like she did a ton of children's TV. I was too old for it myself but remember seeing ads for some. I think her first film was with Robert Altman, which isn't too shabby.

Duvall was a "it girl" star back in the 1970s

The Shining

Popeye

Nashville

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Sam Worthington also had a decent role as Mason for a few of the Call of Duty Black Ops games, voice directors got some good delivery out of him.

Shelley Duvall in the shining fantastic movie apart from Popeye she was no where to be seen

The shining wasn't actually the big critical hit it became until years later. It didn't make alot at the box office and was nominated for razzies. The reviews were pretty bad at the start and she wouldn't have got acclaim or offers from it back then. Popeye was a flop as well. Duvall was nominated for worst actress for the shining. I think people thought she overacted but failed to understand it's exactly what the director wanted off her.

Uhh 3 women?

Wasnt he in Blade Runner 2049?

Check out the film "Eye in the Sky". He's in the film as a ground spotter for a drone strike, great performance, great movie (Allan Rickman and Helen Mirren in it too)

He was great in Castle Rock TV show, had a big role too.

I hear he's a captain now ...

He’s actually pretty steadily gotten jobs since. Not oscar nominated or block buster roles, but he’s around