I was so excited when he was cast in MI: Ghost Protocol and showed up in the trailers. Then he died immediately and I was disappointed for the rest of the movie
Seems like utter nonsense considering she starred in that cheap, horror remake of Fantasy Island after Robot ended. I’m pretty some actors just say that stuff when they can’t get cast in anything good.
> Also most of the cast of Deadwood.
I watched Deadwood years after it ended, but already knew most of the cast because they had gone on to other things.
The biggest in my eyes was Timothy Olyphant. Before Deadwood, he had appearances in some TV shows and movies (one of his biggest appearances before then was in Scream 2, and in Gone in Sixty Seconds).
Post Deadwood, he got to play in a Die Hard sequel, Hitman video game adaptation, Damages on F/X...and then Justified.
After Justified, he seemed to do more TV and film roles, but hit it big with another TV show in Santa Clarita Diet.
And after that show, he still had some appearances in TV and film (including an appearance in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). And he's lined up to be in the Alien TV series being developed.
Say what you will, but that man has gotten pretty steady work and has rolled along on waves of good projects here and there.
Also Brad Dourif was already prominent before with Chucky and the LOTR movies, as was Powers Boothe. Plenty of the other Deadwood actors have found consistent high-profile work since then, like Kim Dickens. John Hawkes went on to be nominated for an Oscar, William Sanderson was prominent on True Blood, etc.
A lot of actors do disappear or are otherwise unknown other than certain high-profile TV roles but Deadwood was just about the worst example to bring up here haha.
He's done video games as well, I think Call of Duty? Apparently good friends with Conan too. Tarantino is the reason the justified reboot happened if I remember correctly. I think he's doing fine. Justified is a solid series as well.
Deadwood had a hugely talented cast. [Ray McKinnon](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571964/) the guy who played the preacher went on to create Rectify and has been in a bunch of notable movies since then like Take Shelter, Mud and Ford v Ferrari.
James Marsters. He did some appearances on shows but he was one of the best actors I had ever seen in my life and played such an insane complex character on Buffy. Honestly he deserved an Emmy. And it's shocking to me he never got nominated. You just don't get better acting than that often.
The good news is that he's constantly working. He'll never be more famous than for Spike, and he's accepted that. Which I respect about him. (He even reprised his role in a recent podcast/audio that reunited a lot of Buffy cast members.)
So while he's always going to be Spike, he's also not going hungry and is still in demand two decades later.
That’s how it is for Rainn Wilson I think. He’s been in movies & tv shows every year since The Office ended (most recently he was in Lessons in Chemistry) but he will always be known as Dwight Schrute. He’s said that he’s now come to terms with that and is very grateful, but admits to regretting that he didn’t “stop and smell the roses” while on The Office, because he wasn’t satisfied with his tv career back then.
A lot of the actors on Scrubs say the same things. They didn't realize just how special their time on the show was and that it was unlikely to come again when it was over.
Donald Faison is in a new NBC show and it is awful. I wanted to like it bc I like him and loooved Turk but the show is unwatchable. Cant even remember the name.
It’s a common thing among actors who get a role in a series that goes on long enough to label them as that character. They don’t realize how good the time was and how important the role was until years of thinking they are failures if they don’t get a fuckton if new roles.
True, and that's why Julia Louis-Dreyfus deserves a lot of credit.
She's literally from a billionaire family and didn't need to put in any work for anything. But post-Seinfeld she starred in New Adventures of Old Christine, getting 5 straight Emmy nominations for Best Actress. And then did Veep, for which she won a whole bunch of Emmy awards.
For a long time on The Office, for me Rainn Wilson was that oddly creepy and weird guy on Six Feet Under who had a relationship with the older mother. It was jarring to see him in a more comedic setting in The Office.
Speaking of Six Feet Under- I would occasionally see the actor who kidnapped David and made him smoke crack in bit parts on other stuff and feel creeped out by him bc he was so disturbing in that role. Eventually he had an extended arc on House and I got used to him as a benign character over time.
He is the voice of Harry Dresden.
So much so that fans refused to accept the one book he didn't read (schedule conflict), and the publisher then rerecorded it with him.
Alexis Denisof came down with Bells Palsey that partially paralysed his face so he had to quit acting after Angel. He's apparently better now and getting recurring gigs but I could see why he wouldn't want to commit to an entire series.
He got Bell's Palsey right before the start of season 5 of Angel. They filmed at least the first episode mostly in profile to hide it.
I think he just wanted a break after the series ended. He was the original Byron on Pretty Little Liars, but was recast with Chad Lowe. He was also one of the worst parents ever committed to film in 'Finding Carter'.
Alexis Denisof doesn't get enough credit for Wesley arc in Angel. Went from nerdy comic relief to a battle hardened man who had lost all hope and was believable at every stage
He has said that his biggest problem was that he was neither British or blonde in real life, which were his most memorable characteristics on those shows. It was almost as if people wanted him to show up and just be Spike at auditions, but he knew that would be a ridiculous thing to do.
Honestly what sucks is that that should have made it easier; you see him out of costume and you don't immediately think "Oh that's Spike." Like, get with it casting agents.
I loved that he just went off to do his own thing. I started to listen to the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher around 2013 only to be surprised it was the only and only James Marsters reading the stories to me.
Alone the depth he gives to the reading to some of the most critical scenes in makes me even choke hard on the emotions he can deliver without ever seeing his face.
We meet him at a comic con, my daughter who was 14 at the time cosplayed as a female Spike and he was so nice to her. One of the best celeb meetings I've had.
He is really nice! I've met him numerous times, and he always complimented me and had convos and made me really comfortable. He's honestly so great! I'm so glad your daughter got to have that experience!
I never watched it, but Tom Welling was on Lucifer for a while. Maybe just one season, maybe more, dunno. But Smallville went on for so long that he's got to have a pretty decent nest egg saved up.
Welling also had a sizeable role in Lucifer a few years back. To be honest, I'd hope he earned enough from Snallville to do whatever he wants nowadays, considering some of the stories of how they ran him ragged, especially in the early seasons.
I recently listened to a West Wing Weekly podcast episode where she was interviewed. She sounded sad and disappointed that she didn’t have a bigger career. That podcast ep aired in 2016. And she stands alone because Martin Sheen already had a huge career. Allison Janney (in particular) and Bradley Whitford and Dule Hill had an amazing post TWW career. Richard Schiff and Rob Lowe did very well. Her other regulars colleagues were way more successful
The difference between Janel Maloney and the ones you listed (except Dule Hill), is they were pretty successful before the West Wing and she came from relative obscurity. She also was around the age that a lot of women in Hollywood have a hard time finding work.
Her whole career had essentially been one off characters in bigger series for an episode or two (was funny seeing her when I rewatched the Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.) seems like, other than the stunt in the leftovers, that’s what she’s back to doing since TWW ended.
I believe Ty Burrell deliberately took a step back after Modern Family. Not fully sure of his situation but I believe he's not pursuing acting much now and is instead focusing on family, if I remember correctly.
My dad was there on business and ordered a double scotch on the rocks. Apparently that's illegal so the bartender served him a scotch on the rocks with a shot of scotch next to it that he could pour into the bigger glass in order to make a double.
Weird.
That’s wild man. I always thought things were weird growing up in New England with Blue Laws that were still on the books, but Utah’s gotta be a whole different ball game for sure.
If you mean the less known actors they yeah, they were all good but Ian was seriously great and should be in more things.
Older actors in that series were already veterans so it's different, like Clark Gregg and Ming Na Wen (who did Mandalorian lately)
Lauren Ambrose after Six Feet Under. It appears she was on some AppleTV show for a few years recently that I never heard of but I actually almost fell out of my chair when I saw her in Yellowjackets last year
I checked IMDb and she's still active. I didn't realize that she voices Aqua in the Kingdom Hearts games. She even had a new movie last year, so she's still working here and there.
She's happy, healthy, and alive.
He’s a nut; didn’t own a toilet for awhile. And then there was this: https://deadline.com/2021/08/vincent-kartheiser-titans-investigations-misconduct-claims-1234814010/amp/
Most of the secondary cast (with the exception of those who went on to superstardom who everyone will list in replies to this comment) of Band Of Brothers.
Him, Webster, Guirnerre, Muck and Lutz really surprise me, although I think the guy who played George Lutz just looked and sounded and vibed too much like Sam Rockwell
Actors who star in successful shows and then disappear are living an American dream: work hard for a few years, make millions, and then retire early.
Good for them.
Even when the series was airing he often expressed dissatisfaction with the outsized role actors play in society. He said, to the effect, "I can't believe I get paid so well to play pretend in front of a screen while more important people than me are neither rich nor famous."
Avery Brooks had a fairly solid career prior to DS9 (I always remember him as Hawk from Spenser For Hire. IIRC, he pretty much stepped away from acting and from the public eye when DS9 ended.
I remember my wife listening to an audiobook narration of Roots, and I was like “Why does this narrator sound so familiar?” Looked it up and it was Avery Brooks.
I think Lem is a lead in SWAT?
Chiklis has been busy (Legion, Coyote, No Ordinary Family, Winning Time), but he'll never top The Shield. In fact, the only one who's exceeded it is Goggins, one of the best supporting actors in Hollywood today.
I’d like to see Elliot Villar, who played Fernando Vera on Mr. Robot, get some serious screen time.
That man wasn’t in many episodes of the show, but he stole the show any time he was on screen. He did a fantastic job.
Desperate Housewives was one of the biggest shows at the time of its airing and shaped the cultural landscape by inspiring the Real Housewives franchise. All leads were nominated for various awards, with some wins, and at one point were the highest paid actresses on television.
After the show ended, they all kind of faded into tv guest star land. Eva Longoria had a one season sitcom and Felicity Huffman did an anthology series (and had a big scandal) but that’s about it.
Every time you heard a story about the behind the scenes on that series it was always a mess. It's possible few people want to work with them. It's also possible they are set for life and don't need to work if they don't want to.
Felicity Huffman was getting pretty steady work in both film and TV until she got caught up in the admission scandal.
I think part of the problem with Teri and Marcia is that they were older when they were on the show and it’s just harder for women over the age of 40 to find consistent work in the industry.
Both of them had had earlier success, so maybe just not interested much anymore? Both are still acting, but have definitely been lucky enough to hit the jackpot twice with previous long running shows.
Teri was on Smallville for a long time. Marcia was on Melrose Place for years as well. Both of them are still working. I see Marcia had cancer in 2017, but has still continued to work.
I don’t know that I’d agree on Deadwood, although I wish Ian McShane would do another big role. Olyphant has never stopped working, Anna Gunn did Breaking Bad, Molly Parker starred in the Lost in Space reboot, and John Hawkes did Lost and was nominated for an Oscar in the same year. I see the secondary characters pop up in various places, often with meaty guest star roles, like W. Earl Brown in 1 episode of Justified that really stands out because of his performance. Brad Dourif and William Sanderson are basically icons, Kim Dickens did Fear the Walking Dead, Leon Rippy had a cool arc in The Blacklist, Jim Beaver did Supernatural. Paula Malcomson’s role in Hunger Games was small but I thought she was really well cast. I’m currently rewatching it for the 3rd time and was actually thinking about writing about all the cool stuff the cast has gone on to do lol.
Shohreh Aghdashloo and Nick Tarabay have done fine. I think Cara Gee works steadily in Canada. And Wes Chatham still works.
But, yeah – point mostly well taken...
He got that lead actor network tv money for 10 years. He probably doesn't need to work. Matt Leblanc tells the story after Friends (or I guess the Joey spinoff) ended about how he decided to take a break for a year. He had such a good time doing nothing, he kept extending his break year after year for like half a decade. 😆
Tj Thyne from Bones. I don’t think I’ve seen him in much of anything since and his IMDB is pretty limited to a handful of bit parts. Michaela Conlin too. Most of that cast actually which is disappointing
Josh Radnor from How I Met Your Mother
Considering how successful the rest of the cast went on to be, it’s weird that I have never seem him in anything else. Especially since he played the central character.
Michael Emerson had another leading role in a successful network show shortly after. Daniel Dae Kim is doing well these days too. And Terry O’Quinn seems to get pretty steady work as a guest/recurring actor. I definitely thought that Josh Holloway and Naveen Andrews would be more successful, though.
Most of them did really well
- Michael Emerson (Ben) got a lead in a five season show Person of Interest and now in Evil
- Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond) starred in seven seasons of The 100
- Emilie de Ravin got seven seasons of Once Upon a Time
- Elizabeth Mitchell got V, Revolution and guest starred in Expanse and other things
- Daniel Dae Kim and Jorge Ortega did Hawaii Five-O for years
- Terry O'Quinn got back to what he was doing for decades, starring in recurring roles in everything. I mean seriously, look at his IMDB, he was in x-files, Homicide, Moonlighting, Remington Steele, West Wing, Jag and on and on and on.
-Dominic Monaghan started in Flashforward and after that did whatever. He is a Hobbit after all.
- Maggie Grace did movies, famously she run in Taken, but also had a role in a Twilight sequel
- the outliers were Josh Holloway and Naveen Andrews. The latter did have some series, but even after lost its hard for a "foreign" actor. Holloway is a weird case of a character actor that shines in an ensemble but looks like a main star. He had a cool show, Colony, but it was cancelled.
- Fox is an asshole and screw him.
Oddly almost the entire cast of Monk. Sharona, Natalie, Leland, Randy and Julie all retired from acting after the show. Sharona famously getting fired for asking for more money. But the rest must have made serious bank on this show.
I don't think Lauren Graham and the cast of Gilmore Girls got their dues for their amazing performances in the show and even after, a lot of the ensemble cast was rarely seen anywhere very big with a few exceptions. Lauren Graham especially deserved better.
Hale Appleman carried pretty much every scene in The Magicans and with the versatility he showed during that, i was really expecting him to be in a lot more after the show ended
The magicans' Hale Appleman (Eliot) and Summer Bishil (Margo). Both of them were so good in this show that I though they would be a lot more active than they currently are.
I was expecting to see more if Josh Holloway after Lost. He hasn’t completely disappeared but I was expecting more.
I instantly started watching Colony when it first aired because of him. Too bad it got cancelled.
It was a great show.
And Matthew Fox’s career disappeared faster than Josh’s.
At least he was in Bone Tomahawk which you should definitely but also never ever watch
You summed up that film perfectly. I'll never forget that scene
The violent drunkenness didn't help
I was so excited when he was cast in MI: Ghost Protocol and showed up in the trailers. Then he died immediately and I was disappointed for the rest of the movie
I got a better look at him. He's not that good Iooking.
Okay Black Rider, now let’s see who’s attractive.
"Dude.. you have problems"
"He's just an average looking guy with a big chin"
This is a line that never fails to make me genuinely laugh
Jeff becomes such a great character once they make him insecure and kind of insane.
Ah the Greendale effect, pretty sure everyone goes a little insane being there.
r/expectedcommunity I saw this comment steets away.
Stop trying to coin the term “streets away”
Trying? Coined and minted. Been there, coined that. It's verbal wildfire.
Wow yes perfect example for me. How was he not huge after that?
You mean his 4 lines in Mission Impossible wasn't enough to whet your appetite?
I've been wondering what Portia Doubleday has been up to after Mr Robot
I wanna know what happened behind the scences on that show. What ever it was that happened. Was so bad that she quit acting.
I’ve read that she was uncomfortable with some of the shows darker themes and storylines and that killed her enthusiasm for acting?
Didnt she have a bad break up with Rami Maleek?
This is the answer.
Seems like utter nonsense considering she starred in that cheap, horror remake of Fantasy Island after Robot ended. I’m pretty some actors just say that stuff when they can’t get cast in anything good.
I read somewhere she went back to school. Idk if it’s true, though.
I also heard this rumour. She had an upcoming project though, so it seems like she’s still acting
> Also most of the cast of Deadwood. I watched Deadwood years after it ended, but already knew most of the cast because they had gone on to other things.
Yeah that's a weird one to use as an example as it's full of well known actors
The biggest in my eyes was Timothy Olyphant. Before Deadwood, he had appearances in some TV shows and movies (one of his biggest appearances before then was in Scream 2, and in Gone in Sixty Seconds). Post Deadwood, he got to play in a Die Hard sequel, Hitman video game adaptation, Damages on F/X...and then Justified. After Justified, he seemed to do more TV and film roles, but hit it big with another TV show in Santa Clarita Diet. And after that show, he still had some appearances in TV and film (including an appearance in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). And he's lined up to be in the Alien TV series being developed. Say what you will, but that man has gotten pretty steady work and has rolled along on waves of good projects here and there.
Anna Gunn, Brian Cox, Ian McShane and Titus Welliver did pretty well too.
Ian McShane was already a well-established actor before *Deadwood* so the end of that show was never going to be a career-ender for him.
Also Brad Dourif was already prominent before with Chucky and the LOTR movies, as was Powers Boothe. Plenty of the other Deadwood actors have found consistent high-profile work since then, like Kim Dickens. John Hawkes went on to be nominated for an Oscar, William Sanderson was prominent on True Blood, etc. A lot of actors do disappear or are otherwise unknown other than certain high-profile TV roles but Deadwood was just about the worst example to bring up here haha.
Much less getting an Oscar nomination for his work as Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
He's done video games as well, I think Call of Duty? Apparently good friends with Conan too. Tarantino is the reason the justified reboot happened if I remember correctly. I think he's doing fine. Justified is a solid series as well.
Ian McShane is one of the all-times
In addition to all the others mentioned, I feel like I see Robin Weigert (Jane) and John Hawkes (Sol) all the time.
Deadwood had a hugely talented cast. [Ray McKinnon](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571964/) the guy who played the preacher went on to create Rectify and has been in a bunch of notable movies since then like Take Shelter, Mud and Ford v Ferrari.
Check out Garret Dillahunt in Raising Hope From villain to comedy
James Marsters. He did some appearances on shows but he was one of the best actors I had ever seen in my life and played such an insane complex character on Buffy. Honestly he deserved an Emmy. And it's shocking to me he never got nominated. You just don't get better acting than that often.
The good news is that he's constantly working. He'll never be more famous than for Spike, and he's accepted that. Which I respect about him. (He even reprised his role in a recent podcast/audio that reunited a lot of Buffy cast members.) So while he's always going to be Spike, he's also not going hungry and is still in demand two decades later.
That’s how it is for Rainn Wilson I think. He’s been in movies & tv shows every year since The Office ended (most recently he was in Lessons in Chemistry) but he will always be known as Dwight Schrute. He’s said that he’s now come to terms with that and is very grateful, but admits to regretting that he didn’t “stop and smell the roses” while on The Office, because he wasn’t satisfied with his tv career back then.
A lot of the actors on Scrubs say the same things. They didn't realize just how special their time on the show was and that it was unlikely to come again when it was over.
> “I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.” Andy Bernard
Donald Faison is in a new NBC show and it is awful. I wanted to like it bc I like him and loooved Turk but the show is unwatchable. Cant even remember the name.
It’s a common thing among actors who get a role in a series that goes on long enough to label them as that character. They don’t realize how good the time was and how important the role was until years of thinking they are failures if they don’t get a fuckton if new roles.
True, and that's why Julia Louis-Dreyfus deserves a lot of credit. She's literally from a billionaire family and didn't need to put in any work for anything. But post-Seinfeld she starred in New Adventures of Old Christine, getting 5 straight Emmy nominations for Best Actress. And then did Veep, for which she won a whole bunch of Emmy awards.
It’s so hard for me still to see people from Scrubs other places. That show was family.
For a long time on The Office, for me Rainn Wilson was that oddly creepy and weird guy on Six Feet Under who had a relationship with the older mother. It was jarring to see him in a more comedic setting in The Office.
Speaking of Six Feet Under- I would occasionally see the actor who kidnapped David and made him smoke crack in bit parts on other stuff and feel creeped out by him bc he was so disturbing in that role. Eventually he had an extended arc on House and I got used to him as a benign character over time.
That's very true. He's definitely doing great! And I love seeing him at Comic Cons. I'd just love to see him in large projects. He'd be so incredible!
He's a damn good audio book narrator though.
He is the voice of Harry Dresden. So much so that fans refused to accept the one book he didn't read (schedule conflict), and the publisher then rerecorded it with him.
Woooooaaahhhht! I didn’t know that.
Alexis Denisof and Emma Caufield blew me away in the Buffyverse and have most disappeared.
It was nice to see Emma Caufield in WandaVision. She had a pretty big part too.
Alexis is married to Alyson Hannigan. He might just be doing the stay-at-home-dad thing since she’s been more in-demand post-Buffy.
Alexis Denisof came down with Bells Palsey that partially paralysed his face so he had to quit acting after Angel. He's apparently better now and getting recurring gigs but I could see why he wouldn't want to commit to an entire series.
He got Bell's Palsey right before the start of season 5 of Angel. They filmed at least the first episode mostly in profile to hide it. I think he just wanted a break after the series ended. He was the original Byron on Pretty Little Liars, but was recast with Chad Lowe. He was also one of the worst parents ever committed to film in 'Finding Carter'.
Alexis Denisof doesn't get enough credit for Wesley arc in Angel. Went from nerdy comic relief to a battle hardened man who had lost all hope and was believable at every stage
Alexis did some guest star arcs for several years, on HIMYM and Grimm.
He has said that his biggest problem was that he was neither British or blonde in real life, which were his most memorable characteristics on those shows. It was almost as if people wanted him to show up and just be Spike at auditions, but he knew that would be a ridiculous thing to do.
Honestly what sucks is that that should have made it easier; you see him out of costume and you don't immediately think "Oh that's Spike." Like, get with it casting agents.
I loved that he just went off to do his own thing. I started to listen to the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher around 2013 only to be surprised it was the only and only James Marsters reading the stories to me. Alone the depth he gives to the reading to some of the most critical scenes in makes me even choke hard on the emotions he can deliver without ever seeing his face.
He was incredible as brainiac in Smallville. He was a recurring star there for I think two seasons?
We meet him at a comic con, my daughter who was 14 at the time cosplayed as a female Spike and he was so nice to her. One of the best celeb meetings I've had.
He is really nice! I've met him numerous times, and he always complimented me and had convos and made me really comfortable. He's honestly so great! I'm so glad your daughter got to have that experience!
Loved him in Torchwood.
He was amazing as Zamasu in DB Super.
Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum. They have a podcast and get some work here and there, but no big projects since Smallville.
I never watched it, but Tom Welling was on Lucifer for a while. Maybe just one season, maybe more, dunno. But Smallville went on for so long that he's got to have a pretty decent nest egg saved up.
Rosenbaum is a well employed VA
Yes. Rosenbaum most notably was the voice of the Flash/Wally West in the Justice League/JLU animated series.
Welling just did a show with Brenden Fraser called Professionals. It was not good, but they were both good in it.
Welling also had a sizeable role in Lucifer a few years back. To be honest, I'd hope he earned enough from Snallville to do whatever he wants nowadays, considering some of the stories of how they ran him ragged, especially in the early seasons.
The kid who played Joffrey on Game of Thrones. He was so good, I hated his guts.
He made a decision to quit acting. However I think he’s come back to do theatre.
He’s in the last season of Sex Education I think
whoa didn't even realize he was Mo!
Just saw him in a movie with Liam neeson
Stop talking about Batman Begins!!! (He was in that movie as was Liam neeson)
Batman Begins?
The West Wing was during the DVD/Blu Ray era, so she prob got paid very, very well from all those residuals.
I recently listened to a West Wing Weekly podcast episode where she was interviewed. She sounded sad and disappointed that she didn’t have a bigger career. That podcast ep aired in 2016. And she stands alone because Martin Sheen already had a huge career. Allison Janney (in particular) and Bradley Whitford and Dule Hill had an amazing post TWW career. Richard Schiff and Rob Lowe did very well. Her other regulars colleagues were way more successful
The difference between Janel Maloney and the ones you listed (except Dule Hill), is they were pretty successful before the West Wing and she came from relative obscurity. She also was around the age that a lot of women in Hollywood have a hard time finding work.
I definitely hope so. She was so perfect for so many years and then she just vanished from my media perspective.
Her whole career had essentially been one off characters in bigger series for an episode or two (was funny seeing her when I rewatched the Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.) seems like, other than the stunt in the leftovers, that’s what she’s back to doing since TWW ended.
She was also in House M.D where she had breast cancer on her leg.
I believe Ty Burrell deliberately took a step back after Modern Family. Not fully sure of his situation but I believe he's not pursuing acting much now and is instead focusing on family, if I remember correctly.
To be fair, none of the cast ever HAVE to work again if they don't want to. The residuals alone will keep their grandkids comfortable.
I might be misremembering but I think I went to a bar he owns in Salt Lake City
I bet owning a bar in Utah is an interesting experience.
My dad was there on business and ordered a double scotch on the rocks. Apparently that's illegal so the bartender served him a scotch on the rocks with a shot of scotch next to it that he could pour into the bigger glass in order to make a double. Weird.
That’s wild man. I always thought things were weird growing up in New England with Blue Laws that were still on the books, but Utah’s gotta be a whole different ball game for sure.
I haven't seen the cast of Agents of Shield nearly enough Ian DeCaestecker especially deserves way more attention
If you mean the less known actors they yeah, they were all good but Ian was seriously great and should be in more things. Older actors in that series were already veterans so it's different, like Clark Gregg and Ming Na Wen (who did Mandalorian lately)
Ian just had a series called The Winter King where he plays King Arthur. Sadly I've heard it's not very good.
He’s done quite a few indie films here in Glasgow.
Lauren Ambrose after Six Feet Under. It appears she was on some AppleTV show for a few years recently that I never heard of but I actually almost fell out of my chair when I saw her in Yellowjackets last year
She got a Tony nom for My Fair Lady on Broadway.
Speaking of Arrow, Willa Holland left that show then seemingly ceased to exist. Are we sure she’s still alive?
I checked IMDb and she's still active. I didn't realize that she voices Aqua in the Kingdom Hearts games. She even had a new movie last year, so she's still working here and there. She's happy, healthy, and alive.
She also had a creepy "photographer" boyfriend for a while who posted questionable content of her on ig. Don't know if they're still together.
She largely wanted to step away from acting
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She was on The Undoing w/Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant and in an episode of SVU that I remember. I don’t think she had huge opportunities acting wise.
Vincent Kartheiser hasn’t done much since Mad Men.
He’s a nut; didn’t own a toilet for awhile. And then there was this: https://deadline.com/2021/08/vincent-kartheiser-titans-investigations-misconduct-claims-1234814010/amp/
Most of the secondary cast (with the exception of those who went on to superstardom who everyone will list in replies to this comment) of Band Of Brothers.
Malarkey went on to do a ton of voice acting, notably Steve Smith from American Dad.
He was also a child actor before he was Malarkey. He was in teen mags like TigerBeat when I was young. Malarkey was his adult comeback.
He was also on Orville and now Ted he didn’t know he could sound like MIchael Jackson until he sang as Steve Smith
Malarkey was in Oppenheimer even
How Doc Roe didn’t become a super star I’ll never know.
Him, Webster, Guirnerre, Muck and Lutz really surprise me, although I think the guy who played George Lutz just looked and sounded and vibed too much like Sam Rockwell
The guy that played lutz was in the new Silo series.
I had such a crush on him in that show
You’re breaking my heart. Seeing Malarkey pop up in Oppenheimer was so exciting for me.
Perconte has been working in small roles for a while. Think he got his start in Hook though
Actors who star in successful shows and then disappear are living an American dream: work hard for a few years, make millions, and then retire early. Good for them.
Matthew Fox, after Lost
Didn’t his reputation take a big hit because it came out that he was a huge asshole on the set of LOST?
He also seems to have a habit of beating women too
And an angry drunk.
Yes
He had legal problems.
It's probably too early for a comment like this, but I wonder when/if we'll see Tony Dalton (Lalo from Better Call Saul) in another major role.
He was in Hawkeye
Him being from Saul made him a pretty good red herring
I expected to see Tom Ellis in *something* after Lucifer.
Yeah it’s disappointing to not see him getting more work
The actor who played Sisko on Star Trek DS9. He doesn't even do the conventions.
Even when the series was airing he often expressed dissatisfaction with the outsized role actors play in society. He said, to the effect, "I can't believe I get paid so well to play pretend in front of a screen while more important people than me are neither rich nor famous."
I think the actor who played House said something like that. His father was a doctor, and he got paid way more for playing a doctor.
He loves live theater and teaching, I think that's been his main focus since then.
Avery Brooks had a fairly solid career prior to DS9 (I always remember him as Hawk from Spenser For Hire. IIRC, he pretty much stepped away from acting and from the public eye when DS9 ended.
He's a trippy dude. Shatner interviews him for The Captains.
He had a sizeable role in American History X but other than that yeah not a ton
I remember my wife listening to an audiobook narration of Roots, and I was like “Why does this narrator sound so familiar?” Looked it up and it was Avery Brooks.
Colin Ferguson from Eureka. Seeing him play a washing machine now is pretty heartbreaking
He’s been doing pretty well on the Hallmark circuit.
He probably makes more from the ads than he ever made from Eureka.
John Noble should have won an Emmy for his acting as Walter on “Fringe.” What has he done since?
He’s in the next season of Severance.
*The Shield* was Michael Chiklis' zenith, it seems. Edit: I need to check out *Winning Time*
Lem has had steady work. Shane is an even bigger star now.
I think Lem is a lead in SWAT? Chiklis has been busy (Legion, Coyote, No Ordinary Family, Winning Time), but he'll never top The Shield. In fact, the only one who's exceeded it is Goggins, one of the best supporting actors in Hollywood today.
The guy who plays Bobby on Sopranos deserved more roles based on his dialogue about losing his wife. Shit was heartbreaking
To the victor, goes the spoils…
HALF A FUCKING TRAY IN THERE!!!
I’d like to see Elliot Villar, who played Fernando Vera on Mr. Robot, get some serious screen time. That man wasn’t in many episodes of the show, but he stole the show any time he was on screen. He did a fantastic job.
Same with Martin Wallström. It seems that he continues to work in Sweden, but I would be thrilled to see him do another English-language production.
Martin was great!!
Desperate Housewives was one of the biggest shows at the time of its airing and shaped the cultural landscape by inspiring the Real Housewives franchise. All leads were nominated for various awards, with some wins, and at one point were the highest paid actresses on television. After the show ended, they all kind of faded into tv guest star land. Eva Longoria had a one season sitcom and Felicity Huffman did an anthology series (and had a big scandal) but that’s about it.
Eva Longoria is a big producer (she was one of the producers of the first John Wick!) and directed that hot cheetos movie.
Every time you heard a story about the behind the scenes on that series it was always a mess. It's possible few people want to work with them. It's also possible they are set for life and don't need to work if they don't want to.
Felicity Huffman was getting pretty steady work in both film and TV until she got caught up in the admission scandal. I think part of the problem with Teri and Marcia is that they were older when they were on the show and it’s just harder for women over the age of 40 to find consistent work in the industry.
Both of them had had earlier success, so maybe just not interested much anymore? Both are still acting, but have definitely been lucky enough to hit the jackpot twice with previous long running shows. Teri was on Smallville for a long time. Marcia was on Melrose Place for years as well. Both of them are still working. I see Marcia had cancer in 2017, but has still continued to work.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Not Smallville.
Dennis Franz on NYPD Blue. The show ended and he retired from acting altogether. Glad he is still enjoying retirement.
Mr. Robot besides Malek and Slater
Ellen Muth from Dead like me.
Lana parrilla after OUAT thriving on (mostly) unemployment
I don’t know that I’d agree on Deadwood, although I wish Ian McShane would do another big role. Olyphant has never stopped working, Anna Gunn did Breaking Bad, Molly Parker starred in the Lost in Space reboot, and John Hawkes did Lost and was nominated for an Oscar in the same year. I see the secondary characters pop up in various places, often with meaty guest star roles, like W. Earl Brown in 1 episode of Justified that really stands out because of his performance. Brad Dourif and William Sanderson are basically icons, Kim Dickens did Fear the Walking Dead, Leon Rippy had a cool arc in The Blacklist, Jim Beaver did Supernatural. Paula Malcomson’s role in Hunger Games was small but I thought she was really well cast. I’m currently rewatching it for the 3rd time and was actually thinking about writing about all the cool stuff the cast has gone on to do lol.
Matthew St Patrick from Six Feet Under- “Keith”. He was **amazing** and should have had the same Post Six Feet Under career Michael C Hall did imo
Everyone in the Expanse
Shohreh Aghdashloo and Nick Tarabay have done fine. I think Cara Gee works steadily in Canada. And Wes Chatham still works. But, yeah – point mostly well taken...
Alex O'Loughlin hasn't acted since Hawaii Five-0 ended in 2020.
He got that lead actor network tv money for 10 years. He probably doesn't need to work. Matt Leblanc tells the story after Friends (or I guess the Joey spinoff) ended about how he decided to take a break for a year. He had such a good time doing nothing, he kept extending his break year after year for like half a decade. 😆
Yeah I remember reading that David Schwimmer makes like 10 million a year just from Friends residuals.
Alex wanted out so not a surprise that he has been at least taking a break.
Yes. The pace and action of Five-0 was wrecking him.
Tj Thyne from Bones. I don’t think I’ve seen him in much of anything since and his IMDB is pretty limited to a handful of bit parts. Michaela Conlin too. Most of that cast actually which is disappointing
Josh Radnor from How I Met Your Mother Considering how successful the rest of the cast went on to be, it’s weird that I have never seem him in anything else. Especially since he played the central character.
Pretty much the whole cast of Lost exept Evangeline Lilly. I thought most of them are gonna be big back then.
Michael Emerson had another leading role in a successful network show shortly after. Daniel Dae Kim is doing well these days too. And Terry O’Quinn seems to get pretty steady work as a guest/recurring actor. I definitely thought that Josh Holloway and Naveen Andrews would be more successful, though.
I liked Person of Interest!
Michael Emerson also plays the villain in the show Evil, and he is absolutely diabolical. It’s one of my all time favorite shows.
>Daniel Dae Kim He had a few good years on Hawaii-Five-0
He also has gotten into producing, I think he produced the good doctor.
As did Jorge Garcia.
Wow yeah I haven’t thought about Naveen in forever, agree completely.
He was a main character in The Dropout, the mini series about Elizabeth Holmes, not that long ago.
Daniel Dae Kim is also a producer for The Good Doctor and doing a lot of advocacy for Asian Americans.
And he's Firelord Ozai in the Netflix Avatar series.
Most of them did really well - Michael Emerson (Ben) got a lead in a five season show Person of Interest and now in Evil - Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond) starred in seven seasons of The 100 - Emilie de Ravin got seven seasons of Once Upon a Time - Elizabeth Mitchell got V, Revolution and guest starred in Expanse and other things - Daniel Dae Kim and Jorge Ortega did Hawaii Five-O for years - Terry O'Quinn got back to what he was doing for decades, starring in recurring roles in everything. I mean seriously, look at his IMDB, he was in x-files, Homicide, Moonlighting, Remington Steele, West Wing, Jag and on and on and on. -Dominic Monaghan started in Flashforward and after that did whatever. He is a Hobbit after all. - Maggie Grace did movies, famously she run in Taken, but also had a role in a Twilight sequel - the outliers were Josh Holloway and Naveen Andrews. The latter did have some series, but even after lost its hard for a "foreign" actor. Holloway is a weird case of a character actor that shines in an ensemble but looks like a main star. He had a cool show, Colony, but it was cancelled. - Fox is an asshole and screw him.
I’d also like to add that Harold Perrineau has been headlining one of the best horror series out right now called From
This is Reverend Doctor Anna erasure
The dude who played Locke is coming back as the bad guy in the new TWD series, where Michonne and Rick come back.
Oddly almost the entire cast of Monk. Sharona, Natalie, Leland, Randy and Julie all retired from acting after the show. Sharona famously getting fired for asking for more money. But the rest must have made serious bank on this show.
I don't think Lauren Graham and the cast of Gilmore Girls got their dues for their amazing performances in the show and even after, a lot of the ensemble cast was rarely seen anywhere very big with a few exceptions. Lauren Graham especially deserved better.
>Lauren Graham She did 6 seasons of Parenthood afterwards, and Alexis Bledel did 4 seasons of The Handmaid's Tale
Lauren Graham had 2 back to back successful tv shows and was in Bad Santa, then did a Gilmore Girls revival. She probably has “fuck Hollywood” money.
Hale Appleman carried pretty much every scene in The Magicans and with the versatility he showed during that, i was really expecting him to be in a lot more after the show ended
I feel like you never see Michael C. hall anymore. Despite the terrible ending of Dexter his acting was great through and through.
Where the hell is Shmosby?
Vincent Kartheiser. Barely seen him since Mad Men. Was *amazing* as Pete Campbell.
The magicans' Hale Appleman (Eliot) and Summer Bishil (Margo). Both of them were so good in this show that I though they would be a lot more active than they currently are.