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| 7 | * Creator/JessicaAlba became a star in 2005 with ''Film/SinCity'' and ''Film/FantasticFour2005''. However, her career went downhill later in the decade with the BoxOfficeBomb ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' (though it did hurt [[Creator/MikeMyers others]] a lot more). ''Film/{{Machete}}'' was a mild hit, while ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld'' was profitable but became critically reviled. She now does low-budget DirectToVideo films, though her business the Honest Company luckily means she isn't hurting for money. Her biggest acting gig since was starring on ''Series/LAsFinest'', a TV show which lasted two seasons despite terrible reviews. |
| 8 | * ''Film/HappyBirthdayToMe'' arguably killed Melissa Sue Anderson's career. Fresh off the success of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', her starring in a B-grade slasher must not have looked too good on a resume for her career ever since has been filled with nothing but D-list projects at best. Despite this, it later became a CultClassic among slasher aficionados. |
| 9 | * Creator/PamelaAnderson saw her film hopes get killed off when ''Film/BarbWire'' failed. What also hindered her ability to move forward as an actress was her turbulent marriage to Music/MotleyCrue drummer Tommy Lee and the illegal release of their [[HomePornMovie sex tape]]. The ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' star tried regaining esteem on television, but her small screen career also died off with the negative reception of ''Series/{{Stacked}}'' (see Live-Action TV in the main page under Actresses). |
| 10 | * Creator/JulieAndrews suffered a massive blow to her career with the back-to-back failures of ''Star!'' and ''Film/DarlingLili'' - where she tried to play something different from her wholesome Creator/{{Disney}} image. She took some time off after the latter's release, as it coincided with her marriage to Blake Edwards and she inherited his children to raise. She didn't star in another solid hit until ''Theatre/VictorVictoria'', but her momentum was dented again when a botched throat surgery negatively affected her singing voice. A true CareerResurrection finally came in the 2000s with ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' becoming a major success. |
| 11 | * Creator/LucilleBall sunk her film career playing the title role in the musical ''Film/{{Mame}}'', a role which she was universally agreed to be [[QuestionableCasting greatly miscast]]. She spent the rest of her career in television, which luckily worked out fine until ''Life with Lucy'' (see Live-Action TV in the main page under Actresses). |
| 12 | * The critical and box office failures of ''I Dreamed of Africa'' and ''Film/BlessTheChild'' (and to a lesser extent, her bitter divorce from Creator/AlecBaldwin) derailed Creator/KimBasinger's post-[[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] momentum. It didn't help that Basinger, after her [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-winning role in ''Film/LAConfidential'' (which in itself provided a brief CareerResurrection), didn't release another movie for three years. With the exception of 2004's ''Film/{{Cellular}}'', Basinger hasn't had a major, mainstream starring vehicle since, more often appearing in limited released features or supporting roles in things like ''Film/EightMile'', ''Film/TheNiceGuys'', and ''Film/CharlieStCloud''. |
| 13 | ** Basinger's career was originally killed off by a series of critical and [[BoxOfficeBomb box office failures]] (as well as getting sued for backing out of ''Film/BoxingHelena''[[note]]Which in all likelihood, gave studios and producers further incentive to not want to work with her out of fear that she might again abruptly try to walk off the set. Then again, ''Boxing Helena'' ended up bombing so badly that it's generally agreed that backing out of the film did less damage to her career than actually appearing in it would have. It killed the film career of the actress that ended up taking the part, Creator/SherilynFenn, she is listed below[[/note]] and [[SmallNameBigEgo rumors that she was difficult]] to work with [[WagTheDirector elsewhere]]) following her success in 1989's ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'', starting with ''Film/TheMarryingMan'' and finally ending with ''Film/PretAPorter'' as the coup de grace. |
| 14 | ** Basinger's participation in the ''[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades]]'' saga appears to have killed off her film career for good. As of this writing, Basinger [[https://www.looper.com/133115/why-hollywood-wont-cast-kim-basinger-anymore/ hasn't booked]] any more acting roles since that time. And to add insult to injury, in 2017, Basinger was awarded the [[MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Golden Raspberry Award]] for Worst Supporting Actress, for her turn as Elena Lincoln in ''Fifty Shades Darker''. |
| 15 | * Creator/KateBeckinsale burst onto the scene in the early 2000s and became an action star with ''Film/VanHelsing'' and the ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'' franchise, working steadily in Hollywood for the next few years. While she had begun to step away from blockbusters to focus on smaller projects a couple of years before, the 2009 bombs ''Film/{{Whiteout}}'' and ''Everybody's Fine'' killed her momentum. She disappeared from the limelight, not appearing in any films for another three years, and after the bombing of ''Film/TotalRecall2012'', she was doing direct-to-video films and voiceover work. A shot at a comeback came in the form of ''Love & Friendship'' (an adaptation of Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/LadySusan'') in 2016, but a pair of critically savaged bombs afterwards (''Film/TheDisappointmentsRoom'' and ''Underworld: Blood Wars'') quickly destroyed the goodwill she had built. |
| 16 | * Creator/MonicaBellucci was a star in Italian and French films, being brought to Hollywood's attention in things like ''{{Film/Malena}}'', and then getting to be part of ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' and ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist''. The flopping of ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'' and ''Film/ShootEmUp'' saw her staying almost exclusively in European film, with the occasional small Hollywood role, such as ''{{Film/Spectre}}''. |
| 17 | * In 2008, Creator/JulieBenz starred as a co-lead in three films - ''Film/RamboIV'', ''Film/SawV'', and ''Film/PunisherWarZone''. Each one of them received bad reviews from critics, which in the case of the first two films, cast a shadow over their moderate box office results. ''Punisher: War Zone'', however, was a BoxOfficeBomb, which was enough to convince studios not to give her any more leading film roles. Benz instead went back to the frontier of television, where she got her start (as Darla in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''), and where she would continue to find success (most notably as Rita in ''Series/{{Dexter}}''). |
| 18 | * Creator/HalleBerry was a DoubleSubversion. Her role in ''Film/Catwoman2004'' killed interest in the possible ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' spinoff featuring her character Jinx, and was a factor in [[GenreKiller killing the budding sub-genre]] of female-fronted superhero films for over a decade (although ''Film/{{Elektra}}'' deserves some of the credit, too). At the same time, ''Catwoman'' [[BreakTheHaughty humbled her enough]] to graciously accept the MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for Worst Actress]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments in person]], saving her career from a complete meltdown; she almost wasn't in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' because she was demanding a higher salary and a bigger part. However, ''Film/PerfectStranger'' was the death knell for Halle as a leading lady. The birth of her daughter and the nasty custody battle that followed couldn't have done anything to help, as well as simply turning fifty, where meaty lead roles for actresses are almost non-existent. ''Film/CloudAtlas'' seemed like it could have been a CareerResurrection for her, but despite positive reviews, it ended up [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing at the box office]] instead; it didn't help that several actors, Berry included, performed in {{Yellowface}} during the segment "An Orison of Sonmi~451". Berry's filmography since then has consisted primarily of supporting roles in various franchise flicks like ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'', and ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum''. She did get lots of critical acclaim for her directorial debut ''Bruised'', in which she also starred, and has begun producing her own roles. |
| 19 | * Creator/JessicaBiel became popular due to ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' becoming a hit, and while her attempts at stardom were rarely successful with critics, she was comfortably on the B-list during the '00s. Then she made the ''Film/{{Total Recall|2012}}'' remake and ''Playing For Keeps'' in 2012, which both flopped at the box office. After those two movies came out, she has never starred in another major Hollywood film again, instead sticking to independent and direct-to-video films and marrying Music/JustinTimberlake. She's returned to television with ''Series/TheSinner'', and has gained a lot of new popularity from her AdamWesting on ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', where she actually told the writers to go even harder on her than they planned. |
| 20 | * Creator/RachelBilson saw most of the hype she got with ''Series/TheOC'' wither when she starred in the underperforming ''Film/TheLastKiss'' and ''Film/{{Jumper}}'', but it truly dispelled when the 2010 romantic comedy ''Waiting for Forever'' flopped. Although she had another success on TV when ''Series/HartOfDixie'' became a minor hit, she hasn't appeared in any films ever since 2014. |
| 21 | * Creator/AlexisBledel, fresh off ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' ending its run in 2007 and the success of ''Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'' movies, promptly had her film career sunk with the back-to-back failures of ''The Good Guy'' and ''Post Grad'' in 2009. Thankfully, her career in television has remained prosperous with the ''Gilmore Girls'' revival series ''A Year in the Life'' and her MediaNotes/EmmyAward-winning performance in ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale''. |
| 22 | * In 1992, Creator/LorraineBracco was coasting on the hype from her role in the 1990 Creator/MartinScorsese gangster classic ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', which netted her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress that year. Hollywood immediately considered Bracco for numerous high-profile roles, including Selina Kyle/ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} in ''Film/BatmanReturns''. She instead turned that role and several others down for three of 1992's biggest flops – ''Film/RadioFlyer'', ''Film/TracesOfRed'', and ''Film/MedicineMan''. ''Medicine Man'' devolved into a particularly notorious debacle when Bracco [[WagTheDirector flounced onto the Mexican jungle set incessantly grumbling to director]] Creator/JohnMcTiernan about the filming conditions from the local food to the turbulent weather and problems she perceived with the script, with her behavior being enabled by a retinue of assistants. HostilityOnTheSet fomented between the two and leading man Creator/SeanConnery (who despite having complaints about filming conditions as well, was reportedly more sensible and civil when he voiced them). Naturally, [[TroubledProduction the shoot became torturous for cast and crew alike]]. All three films became critically mauled {{Box Office Bom|b}}bs, while Bracco would receive a joint [[MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie]] Worst Actress nomination for her performances in ''Medicine Man'' and ''Traces of Red''. She would later recover some esteem with her role in the Creator/{{HBO}} television series ''Series/TheSopranos'', but her film career remains inert. |
| 23 | * Lucille Bremer was a rising star in TheForties who debuted to much acclaim in ''Film/MeetMeInStLouis''. Unfortunately, her first leading role, ''Yolanda and the Thief'', was a BoxOfficeBomb, mostly because its surrealist fantasy themes were a bit too much for wartime audiences. She shouldered most of the blame and Creator/{{MGM}} lost interest in promoting her. |
| 24 | * Creator/AmandaBynes got famous at a young age for the Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} series ''Series/AllThat'' and ''Series/TheAmandaShow''. After ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' was cancelled, she went on to star in Creator/TheWB sitcom ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'', and also starred appearing in many movies. However, besides ''Film/Hairspray2007'', most of her movies weren't successful critically or financially. ''Film/SydneyWhite'' was the final straw, as it bombed at the box office and got terrible reviews. She never got another leading role after that, only doing a supporting part three years later in ''Film/EasyA'', a supporting role in a Creator/{{Lifetime}} movie, and a guest spot on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' before retiring from acting altogether and suffering a high-profile [[CreatorBreakdown mental breakdown]] in 2013, which resulted in her being put under the conservatorship of her parents. She managed to recover from the breakdown after successful psychiatric treatment and going to fashion school. In a 2017 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apFrsnIZWTQ interview]] (her first major interview in years), she stated that she is planning to return to acting; however, she has no roles booked since then. |
| 25 | * Creator/KateCapshaw initially became known for playing Willie Scott in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', though her performance and character are one of the least-liked parts of the film. She kept working for the next several years before starring in and producing ''The Love Letter'', which tanked critically and commercially. After being in a couple of MadeForTV films, she retired from acting in 2001. Nowadays, she mainly supports her husband and ''Temple of Doom'' director Creator/StevenSpielberg. |
| 26 | * ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' and its accompanying soundtrack steadily brought Music/MariahCarey to her personal lowest point in 2001, which exacerbated her already declining mental health. In fact, Carey suffered a nervous breakdown and was subsequently hospitalized weeks before the film's release. The film was a poorly received disaster that [[BoxOfficeBomb made $5 million despite having a $22 million budget]]. Carey spent some years out of the spotlight before [[CareerResurrection making a comeback]] musically with her 2005 album ''The Emancipation of Mimi''. While her time as a leading lady began and ended with ''Glitter'', she did recover some critical esteem with a supporting role in the 2009 film ''Film/{{Precious}}''. |
| 27 | * Creator/CharismaCarpenter struggled to land any major roles after ''{{Series/Angel}}'' ended its run in 2004. She did score a minor part in ''Film/TheExpendables'', but unfortunately followed up [[Film/TheExpendables2 its sequel]] with a starring role in 2015's ''[[Film/Bound2015 Bound]]''. This {{Mockbuster}} version of ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' appears to have extinguished her film career, as she's been relegated mostly to guest appearances and TV movies ever since. |
| 28 | * Creator/JulieChristie saw her stature as an A-list actress wither away for years after the critical ridicule and financial failure of ''Film/DemonSeed''. She wouldn't recover until TheNineties with an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination for ''Afterglow''. She later got another Oscar nomination for ''Away From Her'' and briefly appeared in ''Film/HarryPotter'', two signs of a relatively healthy career. |
| 29 | * Creator/RachaelLeighCook lost most of her star power with ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats2001''. While the failure of that film was clearly the biggest blow to her career, she was unlucky enough to play supporting roles in two other flops, ''Film/{{Antitrust}}'' and ''Film/TexasRangers'', that same year.[[note]]''Texas Rangers'' had actually been filmed back in 1999, but was [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment only released in 2001]].[[/note]] The only significant roles she's had since then are the voice of Tifa Lockhart in the ''Franchise/CompilationOfFinalFantasyVII'' and ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', playing the female lead in Creator/{{TNT}}'s summer procedural ''Series/Perception2012'', and (since 2016) various Creator/HallmarkChannel movies. |
| 30 | * Creator/SofiaCoppola isn't an actress by trade to begin with and was a last-minute replacement for ''Film/TheGodfatherPartIII'' after Creator/WinonaRyder fell ill. However, her widely criticized performance as Michael Corleone's daughter, plus charges of {{nepotism}} (as [[Creator/FrancisFordCoppola her father]] was the director), ended her acting career. However, she has enjoyed greater success following in her father's footsteps as a director in her own right. |
| 31 | * Creator/JoanCrawford's last notable film was ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane''; while it was a SleeperHit, the attempts to recreate the momentum with ''Film/HushHushSweetCharlotte'' (re-teaming her with rival Creator/BetteDavis) resulted in Joan being dropped halfway through filming because of erratic behavior. For the next decade, she only was able to get work in B-horror movies and guest spots on TV shows. Her reputation for being drunk and difficult to work with likely had something to do with it. She also tried to take over a role intended for her ''daughter'' on a soap opera, and reports described her drunken performance as so bad they would need to patch it together in editing. The final straw, however, arrived in 1970 with ''Film/{{Trog}}'', a British monster movie about a solitary Ice Age caveman (or "troglodyte") discovered by Crawford's anthropologist character and brought into civilization, only to later go on a killing spree. This sci-fi slasher was her last film and its failure, along with further, sporadic guest spots on TV, proved an ignominious end for the legendary star's screen career. |
| 32 | * Creator/ElishaCuthbert got an [[HollywoodHypeMachine "it girl"]] bump from being on ''Series/TwentyFour'' plus films like ''Film/{{The Girl Next Door|2004}}'' and ''Film/{{House of Wax|2005}}'', until the 2007 TorturePorn film ''Film/{{Captivity}}'' flopped. Her work afterwards were primarily bit parts and indie films, with her most notable roles being on the sitcom ''Series/HappyEndings'', and a major role in ''Series/TheRanch''. |
| 33 | * Music/MileyCyrus headlined the 2012 English-language remake of the French teen comedy ''Film/{{LOL}}'', which barely got a theatrical release and minimal promotion. The few that saw it weren't very fond of it, which assured that her ''Series/HannahMontana'' days have long passed. Another movie Cyrus made around the same time, ''Film/SoUndercover'', went straight to DVD in North America on February 2013, after also receiving a very limited theatrical release abroad the past December. She focused on music since then, besides [[Recap/BlackMirrorRachelJackAndAshleyToo a 2019 episode]] of ''Series/BlackMirror'' in what was a dark parody of her most famous TV role. |
| 34 | * Creator/BrooklynDecker, already famous as a model, had much expected of her before she starred in ''Film/{{Battleship}}''. That film, unfortunately, was both a critical and commercial disaster, effectively ending any chance she had at becoming a movie star. Nowadays, she mainly does DirectToVideo films and short-lived TV shows. |
| 35 | * ''Mr. Wrong'', ''The Love Letter'', and ''Goodbye Lover'' managed to derail the film career of Creator/EllenDeGeneres, who, despite already having a successful stand-up career and [[Series/{{Ellen}} a popular sitcom on ABC]], couldn't break into major Hollywood motion pictures. Her only major project worth noting since then is the role of Dory in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' and its sequel, ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''. Her television career remained strong, however, in part thanks to the success of her nationally-syndicated talk show until 2020, when allegations of her show being a hostile workplace filled with racism and sexual harassment were discovered. |
| 36 | * Creator/RebeccaDeMornay, after initially becoming a major star in TheEighties with ''Film/RiskyBusiness'', ''Film/RunawayTrain'', ''Film/TheTripToBountiful'', etc., almost killed her momentum by playing the lead role in ''Film/{{And God Created Woman|1988}}'', a 1988 film by Roger Vadim that shares a title with [[Film/AndGodCreatedWoman one of his old films]] starring Creator/BrigitteBardot, but has almost no similarities beyond that. De Mornay's film wasn't as gainful nor as loved as Bardot's, with De Mornay even getting a [[MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie]] nomination for Worst Actress. She was off the grid for some years before she tried mounting a comeback with ''Film/{{Backdraft}}'' and ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle'', only for that chance to be snuffed for good following the failure of ''Never Talk to Strangers''. Afterwards, she's mostly done television or obscure features. Taking up an executive producer credit on that film probably didn't help. Her co-star Creator/AntonioBanderas luckily moved past that failure after landing roles in ''Film/{{Evita}}'' and ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' immediately afterwards. |
| 37 | * Most of Creator/BoDerek's career as a leading lady outside of her debut in ''Film/Ten1979'' were in {{vanity projec|t}}ts directed by her husband John Derek. The last of these, the awful 1989 film ''Film/GhostsCantDoIt'', well and truly sank her as a lead actress (and proved a CreatorKiller for her husband). She still remains slightly prolific, but mostly in TV and occasional supporting roles in movies. |
| 38 | * Creator/CameronDiaz was very popular in the 1990s and 2000s. However, by the 2010s her spark over viewers began fizzling out when ''Film/TheGreenHornet'', ''Film/{{Gambit}}'', and ''Film/TheCounselor'' failed to enrapture them. This led to her starring in three critically hated films ''in a row'' in 2014: ''Film/{{The Other Woman|2014}}'', ''Film/SexTape'' (which also derailed Creator/JasonSegel's career; see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors), and ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'' (which impacted Quvenzhané Wallis as well; see below). She promptly took a hiatus from acting for eight years, coming out of retirement in 2022 to star in an action-comedy for Creator/{{Netflix}}. |
| 39 | * Music/HilaryDuff, having gained plenty of hype from the success of her hit Disney Channel series ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' and her flourishing pop music career, attempted to bring her golden touch to film, in the early to mid-2000s. Although she had some financial hits (''Film/AgentCodyBanks'', ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen2003'', ''Film/ACinderellaStory'') which were popular with tweens and early teenagers, they weren't very well-received. Soon, even her target demographic's interest began to wane when duds like ''Film/RaiseYourVoice'', ''Film/ThePerfectMan'', and ''Film/MaterialGirls'' failed as badly at the box office as they did with critics. Disney's growing glut of shows and direct-to-TV films, most notably ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', damaged her career further as attention turned towards them instead and away from her work. Duff promptly retreated to TV, where she would spend the next few years in guest parts. She got renewed attention in 2015 as a main cast member on ''Series/{{Younger}}'', and remained onboard that show for its entire run throughout. Eventually, she tried making a comeback in film while on a break between seasons. However, the project she chose, ''Film/TheHauntingOfSharonTate'', was widely reviled in 2019 and was compared unfavorably to [[Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood another film]] about Creator/SharonTate released that year. Duff's portrayal of the doomed actress got her a MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward for Worst Actress, seemingly killing her film career for good. She was able to rebound with ''Series/HowIMetYourFather'' and still has an extremely vocal fanbase who are now adults, so time will tell if she can pull off a comeback in films. |
| 40 | * Creator/FayeDunaway with her infamous performance of the above-mentioned Creator/JoanCrawford in ''Film/MommieDearest''. Prior to that, she was in ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'', and ''Film/{{Network}}''. And after? ''Film/{{Supergirl|1984}}'' and ''Film/DunstonChecksIn''. Dunaway's performance was especially polarizing, earning the acclaim of the notoriously CausticCritic Pauline Kael on one hand but a [[MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie Award]] for Worst Actress on the other. Despite having become a CultClassic since, Dunaway has had [[CreatorBacklash nothing but bad things to say]] about the film and her performance, and in her later years refused to even talk about it. |
| 41 | * Due to a string of Pepsi commercials, Hallie Kate Eisenberg became a big star for a short time. However, her movie career and 15 minutes were killed by ''Film/{{Paulie}}'' and ''Film/BicentennialMan'' underperforming at the box office. After those two movies, she only did two theatrical movies -- ''Beautiful'', which only received a limited release, and ''How To Eat Fried Worms'', which came out seven years after her last wide-release film. After those two movies, she was relegated to TV movies and independent films before vanishing in 2010, just as her brother Creator/{{Jesse|Eisenberg}} was breaking out. |
| 42 | * Thanks to ''Film/{{Tomcats}}'' and ''Film/{{Thir13en Ghosts}}'', Creator/ShannonElizabeth's film career has essentially been reduced to supporting roles, ''Film/AmericanPie'' sequels, and DirectToVideo horror films. Her main income nowadays comes from playing professional poker. |
| 43 | * Sherilyn Fenn saw her career fall after ''Film/BoxingHelena''. She was riding high after ''Series/TwinPeaks'' and a praised film adaptation of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'', but she went back to television for good after ''Boxing Helena'' bombed. |
| 44 | ** ''Boxing Helena'' was also a very near-miss for Creator/KimBasinger, who decided to break her contract to avoid starring in the film. She was sued into bankruptcy but sustained no career damage, and won an MediaNotes/AcademyAward only a few years later, though such success didn't last for long (see above). |
| 45 | * Pamelyn Ferdin, a child star in the '60s and '70s, invoked this by starring in the 1978 slasher ''Film/TheToolboxMurders'', as [[StageMom her mother]] had pushed her into acting and she'd wanted to quit for a while by that point. Burning her "good girl" image to the ground by starring in a sleazy, lurid ExploitationFilm certainly did the job, as she's mostly had only a few small roles since then (most notably voicing Shelley Kelley on the animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Detention}}'') and focused most of her time on animal rights activism. |
| 46 | * Creator/LindaFiorentino made her breakthrough in the 1994 neo-noir ''Film/TheLastSeduction'', to the point where critics said that she deserved an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination. (In fact, the only reason she ''didn't'' get one was that the film's producers premiered the film on {{Creator/HBO}} before releasing it in theaters, thus disqualifying it from any Oscar nominations.) Fiorentino received further fame for playing the female leads in ''Film/MenInBlack'' and ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' respectively. Then it all fell apart in 2000 when her films ''What Planet Are You From?'' and ''Where the Money Is'' both flopped critically and commercially. Her next film ''Liberty Stands Still'' went straight to video, and she didn't do another film for seven years after that. It certainly didn't help when Creator/KevinSmith, in the DVDCommentary for ''Dogma'', talked about [[HostilityOnTheSet how difficult she had been to work with]], to the point where he wished he had cast Creator/JaneaneGarofalo (his second choice for the role) instead. Her being difficult to work with was also rumored as to why she's absent from the ''Men in Black'' sequel, which has a throwaway line explaining her absence from it. (She has only said she was "unavailable" for it.) |
| 47 | * Crista Flanagan's performance in later seasons of ''Series/MadTV1995'' was promising, showing she could potentially be a great comedian despite the series' decline in popularity and quality. Then she made her feature film debut in 2007's ''Epic Movie'', and became the most recurring actress in films made by its directors Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg afterwards. Giving the film industry such an appalling first impression soon doomed her to D-list obscurity and ensured ''[=MADtv=]'' remains her peak in terms of media exposure, for she never had a role in a feature film ever since. She has since taken on bit roles in various web and TV series, most notably ''Series/MadMen''. Flanagan has now moved on to become a Program Director for an acting school, presumably because acting opportunities for her are becoming scarce. |
| 48 | * Creator/BridgetFonda was afflicted by this with ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'' and ''Film/KissOfTheDragon''. After their release in 2001 (which preceded her marriage to film composer Creator/DannyElfman and her suffering grievous injuries from a nearly fatal car accident two years later), Fonda retired from acting to be a full-time wife and mother. |
| 49 | * Creator/ClaireForlani played numerous love interests and supporting roles in several major movies of TheNineties: including ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/TheRock'', and ''Film/MeetJoeBlack''. However, she appeared in many flops beginning in 1999 with ''Film/MysteryMen'' and eventually bottoming out with ''Film/InTheNameOfTheKing: A Dungeon Siege Tale'' in 2007. She's rarely been in a Hollywood film since that last one, mostly sticking to independent fare and TV shows. That said, she found success on TV with recurring roles on ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' and ''Series/NCISLosAngeles''. |
| 50 | * Creator/MeganFox became the latest in a long line of "it girl" [[MsFanservice sex symbols]] due to her role in the ''Film/{{Transformers|FilmSeries}}'' franchise. Her follow-up was the teen horror-comedy ''Film/JennifersBody'' in which she played a demon-possessed AlphaBitch; while the film itself (written and directed by women) was rooted heavily in feminist satire, Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox's marketing campaign for it [[MisaimedMarketing focused almost entirely on Fox's hotness]], alienating its intended audience who wrote it off as a campy sex romp. ''Jennifer's Body'' has since been [[VindicatedByHistory rediscovered]], but at the time, not only did it disappoint at the box office and with the critics, but her performance was singled out as one of the film's bigger problems. After that, she invoked GodwinsLaw in her criticism of ''Transformers'' director Creator/MichaelBay, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor directly resulting in Mikaela dumping Sam before]] [[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon the third film]], and her follow-ups ''Film/{{Jonah Hex|2010}}'' and ''Passion Play'' were disasters. She was largely relegated to supporting roles afterwards, [[TypeCasting often playing]] the "hot chick". She tried to get her career back on track by reuniting with Bay for ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', but while that film was a hit (negative reviews notwithstanding), the sequel ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'' was a BoxOfficeBomb that put both the franchise and Fox's comeback attempt on ice. |
| 51 | * Creator/PamelaFranklin was a popular child star in TheSixties and her critically acclaimed performance as Sandy in ''Literature/ThePrimeOfMissJeanBrodie'' seemed to be her adult StarMakingRole. Sadly, ''The Legend of Hell House'' typecast her as a [[UsefulNotes/ScreamQueens scream queen]]. Her move to America also had her pigeonholed as a television actress, and she primarily did MadeForTVMovie and TV appearances afterwards, before retiring from acting in 1981. |
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| 55 | * Creator/GretaGarbo was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood in TheThirties. Initially, she starred primarily in dramas like ''Film/GrandHotel'' (1932) and ''Film/AnnaKarenina'' (1935), but in 1939 she starred in the Creator/ErnstLubitsch comedy ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}'', which was a big hit. So Creator/{{MGM}} decided to cast Garbo in another comedy, ''Film/TwoFacedWoman'' (1941). The movie was a critically-panned dud, and Garbo retired from acting. Although there were attempts to revive her career (notably, the role of Norma Desmond in ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' was offered to her first, but she rejected it, and subsequently Creator/GloriaSwanson got the role), she never appeared in a movie again and lived as a recluse until her death in 1990. |
| 56 | * Creator/JenniferGarner saw her career take a hit with ''Film/{{Elektra}}''. Not helping matters was ''Series/{{Alias}}'' ending simultaneously. She found herself in supporting roles and very few leading parts, and those that she did headline weren't big enough hits to change her momentum. Though she's had some well-received roles, she has yet to regain the former prominence she had. |
| 57 | * Lorraine Gary quit acting in 1979 after starring on TV and film throughout TheSeventies, most notably starring in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' and [[Film/Jaws2 its sequel]]. She came out of retirement eight years later to reprise her role in ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'', which got unanimously awful reviews and is deemed one of the worst films of all time. Although turning in a profit that was fine, it still is the lowest-grossing ''Jaws'' film. Gary promptly returned to retirement. |
| 58 | * Creator/SarahMichelleGellar struggled to sustain her A-list TeenIdol career after ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' ended. While ''Film/TheGrudge'' and its sequel were hits, ''The Return'' and ''Film/SouthlandTales'' both bombed. Those two films served as the finishing blow that drove her back to television in 2006, with her subsequent work either going DirectToVideo or [[ShortRunInPeru not being released in the US]]. Her television career would be derailed itself after the mixed reception ''Series/{{Ringer}}'' and ''Series/TheCrazyOnes'' got. |
| 59 | * Creator/WhoopiGoldberg's career as an A-list star faded into [[Series/TheHollywoodSquares center square]] and moderator on ''Series/TheView'' gradually, but it can be argued that the catalyst was ''Film/TheodoreRex''. Before that, she starred in ''Film/{{The Color Purple|1985}}'', ''Film/{{Ghost|1990}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', and ''Film/SisterAct''. And after it? Not a whole lot. Whoopi only completed the movie [[ContractualObligationProject because New Line Cinema threatened to sue her if she walked off the film]] – and after seeing Creator/KimBasinger get sued into bankruptcy in the fiasco that was ''Film/BoxingHelena'', she decided she could live with the shame if it meant keeping the lights on. ''Theodore Rex'' was initially intended as a theatrical release but went straight to home video instead, making it the most expensive DirectToVideo movie ever made. That's certainly something to keep in mind if you dare to watch it. |
| 60 | ** Whoopi suffered an earlier career derailment in the late-80s after an attempt to turn her into an action-comedy star led to box-office failures such as ''Fatal Beauty'' and ''Burglar''. An attempt to recreate the success of ''The Color Purple'' with Goldberg in the lead became ''Clara's Heart'', which also did poorly and is mostly best known as the film debut of Creator/NeilPatrickHarris. Her MediaNotes/AcademyAward-winning performance in ''Ghost'' led to a comeback lasting a couple of years. |
| 61 | * Creator/HeatherGraham became famous in TheNineties thanks to ''Series/TwinPeaks'', plus supporting roles in ''Film/BoogieNights'' and ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe''. However, a chain of critically panned flops released between 2001 and 2002 erased her chances of becoming a bigger star. The first, ''Film/SayItIsntSo'', made just $12 million on a $25 million budget and drew disdain for its AudienceAlienatingPremise (about two young lovebirds who discover they might actually be [[BrotherSisterIncest long-lost siblings]]). Her next lead role was in ''Film/FromHell'' opposite Creator/JohnnyDepp; while that film wasn't as hated, Graham drew the brunt of criticism for her "[[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent attempts]]" at an English accent that went all over the place. Graham's first film of 2002, ''Killing Me Softly'', has the dubious honor of being one of a handful of films with a 0% rating on Website/RottenTomatoes. The final straw was ''[[Film/TheGuru2002 The Guru]]'', a movie that bombed so horribly at the box office that she scarcely has been seen in a mainstream film since. Graham mostly sticks to independent films and TV shows nowadays, aside from a minor role in ''Film/TheHangover''. |
| 62 | * Creator/JenniferGrey, with hits like ''Film/RedDawn1984'', ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', and ''Film/DirtyDancing'', rose in TheEighties. But her luck went south quickly when she underwent a rhinoplasty which made her almost unrecognizable to fans and friends alike, reducing her to flops as ''Bloodhounds of Broadway'' and ''Wind'' along with several made-for-TV films and guest appearances. Grey's biggest gig since then was competing on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' in fall 2010 with what was a clear nod to her ''Dirty Dancing'' role, and later being crowned the season's winner. |
| 63 | * Creator/MelanieGriffith had hers with ''Film/CecilBDemented''. In TheEighties, she was a star with films like ''Film/BodyDouble'', ''Film/SomethingWild'', and ''Film/WorkingGirl''. Once TheNineties reached, Griffith's career began faltering when she starred in poorly-received {{Box Office Bomb}}s like ''Literature/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'', ''Film/ShiningThrough'', ''A Stranger Among Us'', ''Film/MilkMoney'', and ''Film/MulhollandFalls''. 2000's ''Cecil B. Demented'' marked the end of her run as a leading lady. |
| 64 | * Creator/AlysonHannigan hasn't healed her film career from the Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg parody ''Date Movie'' in 2006, after which she wouldn't appear in a film (besides a voice role in ''Film/FarceOfThePenguins'') for nearly five years. She, however, was already one of the stars of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' by then, ensuring her television career (with which she found success with ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') would continue unscathed. She went on to host the magic series ''Series/PennAndTellerFoolUs'' from 2016 to 2022, and competed on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' in 2023. |
| 65 | * Creator/JessicaHarper had some success in TheSeventies, with lead roles in the CultClassic ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' and the horror film ''Film/{{Suspiria|1977}}''. TheEighties, however, weren't as good to her, with ''Film/StardustMemories'', one of the biggest commercial flops from Creator/WoodyAllen at the time, followed by ''Film/ShockTreatment'', a standalone sequel to ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' that failed to leave as big a mark as its predecessor. |
| 66 | * Creator/AnneHeche got lots of good press in TheNineties for ''Film/WagTheDog'', ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and ''Film/SixDaysSevenNights'' – which seemed to spell that her first leading role ''{{Film/Volcano}}'''s BoxOfficeBomb status was just a fluke. However, she was unlucky enough to be chosen as Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's infamous ShotForShotRemake of ''{{Film/Psycho}}''. While it didn't damage the careers of others involved (Creator/VinceVaughn, Creator/JulianneMoore, Creator/ViggoMortensen), her other starring role ''Return to Paradise'' was an AcclaimedFlop. Her coming out as LGBT apparently cost her roles - she later confessed she was told that directors didn't want to cast her because of it. Not helping matters was her deteriorating mental health resulting from years of childhood abuse. She never had a lead role in a theatrically released film past the '90s and mostly did indie films and television for the rest of her life. |
| 67 | * Creator/KatherineHeigl got a lot of attention while starring in ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', and got some high-profile film work in movies like ''Film/KnockedUp'' and ''Film/TwentySevenDresses''. She was on her way to becoming a household name before leaving ''Grey's Anatomy'' to pursue more film work, and went on to star in such flops as ''Film/{{Killers}}'', ''Film/NewYearsEve''[[note]]which also helped kill the film career of Creator/AshtonKutcher; see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors[[/note]], ''Film/OneForTheMoney'', and ''Film/TheBigWedding''. Heigl started doing commercial and voiceover work afterwards, and unsuccessfully tried to make a comeback on ''Grey's Anatomy''. In fall 2014, she starred in the TV drama ''Series/StateOfAffairs'', which was dismissed by critics, DOA in the ratings, and canned after one year. She went on to star in the Creator/{{CBS}} drama ''Doubt'', which was canceled after 2 episodes. Her reputation for being very difficult to work with, in no small part thanks to [[StageMom her mother/manager]], has had a ''lot'' to do with the post-''Grey's'' fizzling of her film career. |
| 68 | * The 1970 film version of ''Song of Norway'' might have made Florence Henderson (who had already played Maria in the touring production of ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'') into the next Creator/JulieAndrews. Its critical and box-office failure, especially compared with the runaway success of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', effectively killed her big-screen career as soon as it began; her next appearance in a theatrical film was a literally nameless supporting part in ''Film/ShakesTheClown'' over two decades later. (Her Norwegian co-star, Toralv Maurstad, more predictably went back to making movies in his home country.) |
| 69 | * Creator/NatashaHenstridge became famous by playing a naked alien babe in ''Film/{{Species}}''. She also had success with ''Film/TheWholeNineYards''. However, the failure of ''Film/GhostsOfMars'' derailed her star power for she has done TV and independent films exclusively since then. |
| 70 | * Creator/KatharineHepburn was a rising star in TheThirties but became known for her prickly attitude, tomboyish behavior (in a time when such wasn't nearly as socially accepted), and combative relationship with the press, which earned her the nickname "Katharine of Arrogance". Her unpopular public image caught up with her with a string of box-office disappointments in the latter half of the decade, with TheLastStraw being ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' in 1938. While it's [[VindicatedByHistory now regarded]] as one of her best films, and it did indeed receive praise from critics at the time, it [[AcclaimedFlop bombed at the box office]] and many observers blamed Hepburn for its failure, with the Independent Theatre Owners of America even branding her box-office poison. Afterwards, Creator/RKOPictures started offering her roles in B-movies, leading her to buy out her contract. In the words of film academic Andrew Britton, "No other star has emerged with greater rapidity or with more ecstatic acclaim. No other star, either, has become so unpopular so quickly for so long a time." Fortunately, she rebounded in 1940 with ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', which helped her rebuild her public image by [[AdamWesting playing to her reputation]] as a [[RichBitch stuck-up socialite]] (the film opens with her getting knocked over by Creator/CaryGrant and falling on her ass). |
| 71 | * Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt became famous thanks to ''Series/PartyOfFive'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''. Though the latter film's sequel ''Film/IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' was torn to shreds by critics, it still did decently at the box office. She continued finding success with ''Film/CantHardlyWait'', ''Film/{{Heartbreakers}}'', and the live-action ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' films, but her film career was practically killed off in 2007 when ''Film/ShortcutToHappiness'' flopped. This intended adaptation of the short story ''Literature/TheDevilAndDanielWebster'' co-starring Creator/AlecBaldwin (who also directed) and Creator/AnthonyHopkins had Hewitt play a {{Gender Flip}}ped version of Main/{{Satan}}. It actually finished filming back in 2001 but was plagued with financial and legal issues that left it on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for six years. The finished project, extensively re-cut against Baldwin's wishes in post-production, received a limited release without any fanfare, and got bad reviews from the minuscule number of people who did see it. While Hewitt's male co-stars were able to move past this flop[[note]]Baldwin was already starring on the wildly popular sitcom ''Series/ThirtyRock'' by the time this film was released, and regained esteem as a supporting actor on film with ''Film/BlueJasmine'', ''Film/StillAlice'', and later ''Film/MissionImpossible'' sequels (''Shortcut to Happiness'' remains [[CreatorKiller the only film he has directed, though]]); Hopkins starred as Odin in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld its]] [[Film/ThorRagnarok sequels]] in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, in addition to turning in Oscar-nominated or winning work in ''Film/TheTwoPopes'' and ''Film/TheFather''[[/note]], she hasn't appeared in a major Hollywood film besides making a cameo in ''Film/TropicThunder''. Hewitt retreated to television afterwards, where she's found a tiny measure of success (with starring roles in ''Series/GhostWhisperer'', ''Series/CriminalMinds'', and currently ''Series/NineOneOne''). |
| 72 | * Creator/KatieHolmes has had several ups and downs throughout her screen career. She, having initially garnered some recognition on television for her role as Joey Potter on ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', tried to lengthen her success onto film with a few critical and/or financial hits, including ''Film/TheIceStorm'' (which was her actual screen debut, having filmed it a year before getting her role on ''Dawson's Creek''), ''Film/WonderBoys'', ''Film/{{The Gift|2000}}'', ''Film/PhoneBooth'', and ''Film/PiecesOfApril''. Unfortunately, her first role after ''Dawson's Creek'' ended in 2003 was in 2004's ''First Daughter''. The romantic comedy-drama became a BoxOfficeBomb (budgeted around $30 million, it made slightly more than $10 million in its theatrical run) and was panned by moviegoers. Although she had success the following year with roles in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' and ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'', her performances were widely considered one of the weakest parts in both movies (with her role in ''Batman Begins'' even getting her a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actress [[note]]which possibly explains why they recast her part with Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal for ''Film/TheDarkKnight''[[/note]]). None of her films since besides ''Film/LoganLucky'' in 2017 have been able to grab a similar level of high acclaim, with her starring role opposite Creator/AdamSandler (see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors) in ''Film/JackAndJill'' being a particularly low point. Her performance in it got her another Razzie nomination in the same category before she got nominated for Worst Actress with 2020's ''Film/BrahmsTheBoyII'' and ''The Secret: Dare To Dream''. |
| 73 | * Creator/JulianneHough was hyped as a star in the making after initially emerging as one of the pro dancers on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' then starring in the successful ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' remake, but the failure of ''Film/RockOfAges'' battered her career badly. Her next blockbusters ''Literature/SafeHaven'' and ''Film/DirtyGrandpa'' were hated far more while her only major screen work since has been returning to ''DWTS'', this time as a judge then later as a co-host. She attempted an acting comeback as part of Fox's ''Grease Live!'' in 2016, which premiered without fanfare. |
| 74 | * Creator/BryceDallasHoward, hyped as a rising star by being the daughter of Creator/RonHoward, had much expected of her and made an immediate impression starring in Creator/MNightShyamalan's ''Film/TheVillage2004''. But her stock quickly fell after playing the title role of ''Film/LadyInTheWater'', a critically panned BoxOfficeBomb which came out amid the beginning of the backlash against Shyamalan. She later carved a niche as a character actor with roles in ''Film/TheHelp'' and ''Film/FiftyFifty2011'', but never fully satisfied her hype. However, her role in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' made her more famous than she ever had been before. She's also started to follow in her father's footsteps by carving out a respectable directing career, with an acclaimed documentary (''Dads'') and two well-received episodes of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' under her belt, plus an upcoming remake of ''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator''. |
| 75 | * Creator/OliviaHussey received a lot of hype for her debut in ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet1968'' and was immediately offered roles in major films. As she was only sixteen and extremely agoraphobic, she alienated producers of ''Film/TrueGrit'' and ''Film/AnneOfTheThousandDays'' through youthful nerves. She did maintain critical acclaim with her follow-ups in ''All the Right Noises'' and ''The Summertime Killer'', despite them being smaller indies. However, she killed a lot of momentum by starring in the legendary failure that was the ''Film/LostHorizon'' remake. Not helping matters was her turbulent relationship with Christopher Jones taking a toll on her mental health. She did manage to regain some goodwill with ''Series/JesusOfNazareth'' and ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'' (which became a CultClassic), and managed to be part of the AllStarCast in ''Literature/DeathOnTheNile''. |
| 76 | * Robin Johnson's career was torpedoed by her debut appearance, ''Times Square'', less because of its critical and commercial performance (neither of which were particularly stellar) than because of a three-year exclusive contract with the Robert Stigwood Organization. Her hands were more or less tied for the three years; she couldn't accept any offers to appear in anything, and yet [[ScrewedByTheNetwork RSO wasn't offering her anything]]. Even after her contract expired, she couldn't find any steady work as an actress and eventually just gave up. |
| 77 | * Creator/MillaJovovich's career started with ''Two Moon Junction'', which was a critical disaster but was successful at the box office. She then starred in flops such as ''Film/ReturnToTheBlueLagoon'' and ''Film/{{Kuffs}}''. ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' was a critical success that was VindicatedByHistory, but a box office failure at the time. After that, Jovovich disappeared from movies and focused on her musical career, attaining success with her 1994 art rock album ''The Divine Comedy''. She didn't appear in another movie until 1997's ''Film/TheFifthElement'', which was successful. But alas, she starred in two more flops, ''The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' and ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', though again, the latter became a CultClassic later on. While her career picked up again with the success of the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'', any movie not part of that franchise, like ''Film/NoGoodDeed2002'', ''Film/Ultraviolet2006'', ''Film/APerfectGetaway'', ''Film/TheFourthKind'', and ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers2011'', more often than not flop. She now makes DirectToVideo films. |
| 78 | * Creator/AshleyJudd suffered this in 2004 with ''Twisted'' and ''De-Lovely''. The films' poor critical and commercial receipts signified the end of her headlining days as a leading lady. Though Judd since has focused on modestly-budgeted ensemble and independent features, she's pretty much better known nowadays for her political activism and for being one of many women who came forward to out former employer and disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein as a serial sexual harasser (which in turn led to revelations that Weinstein played a part in her career decline by blackballing her from several major projects, like the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, as revenge for her rejecting his sexual advances). |
| 79 | * Music/VictoriaJustice headlined Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' and appeared to be a star on the rise before ''Film/FunSize''. After that film flopped, the show was cancelled and Nickelodeon severed ties with Justice. The fact that her ''Victorious'' co-star Music/ArianaGrande became more popular than she was only rubbed further salt into the wound. Justice veered towards [[PlayingAgainstType a darker direction]] with ''Series/EyeCandy'', but that show was canned after one season due to low ratings despite positive reviews. Since then, her career has been reduced to low-profile indie films. |
| 80 | * Creator/DianeKeaton was a highly-respected actress with an MediaNotes/AcademyAward and adequate drawing power before ''Because I Said So'' and ''Mama's Boy'' were released in 2007. But after those two movies got abysmal reviews (with the former getting Keaton nominated for a Worst Actress MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward which she lost to the below-mentioned Creator/LindsayLohan) and the latter became a BoxOfficeBomb, she has mostly starred in flops. |
| 81 | * Creator/NicoleKidman saw her career falter with the failures of ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'', ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'', and ''Film/{{Australia}}''. While she did survive those disasters, her next big project, ''Grace of Monaco'', may have finally ended her reign as an A-lister after it suffered a bad TroubledProduction, ultimately skipping theaters altogether and being dumped straight to Creator/{{Lifetime}}. Luckily, she [[CareerResurrection recovered]] quickly with supporting roles in ''Film/Paddington2014'', ''Film/{{Lion}}'' (which got her an [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nomination for Best Supporting Actress), and ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' (which later became her highest-grossing movie). Kidman later won two MediaNotes/{{Emmy Award}}s for acting in and producing ''Series/BigLittleLies'', then got another Oscar nomination for Best Actress playing the aforesaid Creator/LucilleBall in ''Film/BeingTheRicardos''. |
| 82 | * After leaving ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Creator/KristinKreuk saw her potential film career go down the toilet when she headlined ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi'' as the title heroine. It, hated by audiences, critics, and ''Street Fighter'' fans alike, became a notorious BoxOfficeBomb that grossed about $13 million on a $50 million budget and received uniformly negative reviews. Kreuk hasn't appeared in a mainstream film since, promptly returning to television with the CW's ''Series/BeautyAndTheBeast2012''. |
| 83 | * Creator/LisaKudrow managed to parlay the hype she got from ''Series/{{Friends}}'' into a decent film career with successes like ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion'' and ''Film/AnalyzeThis''. Unfortunately, starring opposite Creator/DamonWayans (see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors) in the 2003 {{romantic comedy}} ''Film/MarciX'' has apparently disinclined Hollywood from having her headline a major blockbuster again. While she's kept working on various films like ''Film/EasyA'', ''Film/Neighbors2014'', and ''Film/{{Booksmart}}'', other actors, not her, were often the main audience draw. She has continued finding success on TV with ''Series/TheComeback'', netting a few Emmy nominations. |
| 84 | * Mumta Kulkarni was a rising star in Bollywood during TheNineties, playing the love interest in several large hit films like ''Aashiq Awara'', ''Waqt Hamara Hai''. and ''Krantiveer''. But then she starred in ''China Gate''. By most accounts, she and the director did not get along, and rumor has it the only reason she wasn't fired outright was that a gangster intervened on her behalf. Regardless, the film flopped and her career soon dried up. In recent years, she's been in the news for allegations of drug smuggling, so her career is probably over. |
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| 88 | * After getting an [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nomination for ''Film/{{Chicago}}'', Music/QueenLatifah received many starring and supporting roles through the 2000s. But starting around 2010 with ''Film/ValentinesDay'', her career began to slip as her next films (''Just Wright'', ''Film/TheDilemma'', ''Film/JoyfulNoise'', etc.) were released to far less glowing reception as her prior work. For several years, her only mainstream releases came from reprising her role as Ellie in the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' movies. Besides that, her only high-profile work was hosting her own short-lived talk show. However, she got acclaim for playing Music/BessieSmith in Creator/{{HBO}}'s ''Bessie''. It then won four MediaNotes/{{Emmy Award}}s including one for her as a producer, and she was also nominated for her performance. Later, she had her first mainstream success in years after ''Film/GirlsTrip'' became a SleeperHit in 2017. |
| 89 | * Creator/JenniferLawrence, in [[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/movies/jennifer-lawrence-causeway.html an interview]] with Kyle Buchanan for ''The New York Times'', cited 2016's ''Film/{{Passengers|2016}}'' as the film that ended her run as a Hollywood [[HollywoodHypeMachine "it girl"]] and [[CreatorBacklash made her seriously start questioning her career choices]]. Lawrence's career exploded in the early '10s thanks to both hit franchise blockbusters like ''Film/TheHungerGames'' and ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and acclaimed performances in prestige dramas like ''Film/WintersBone'', ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook'' (which won her an Oscar), and ''Film/AmericanHustle'', but by mid-decade, a combination of declining reviews for her films, a nude photo leak scandal, and (as noted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7aq1bHXuY8 this video]] by ''WebVideo/TheTake'') growing cynicism towards her [[TheLadette lad-ette]] NotLikeOtherGirls public persona took the shine off her career. ''Passengers'' was the tipping point, a role that she said Music/{{Adele}} even warned her not to take, a warning that she felt in hindsight she should've listened to. When the failure of ''Passengers'' was followed up by that of ''Film/Mother2017'', ''Film/RedSparrow'', and ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', Lawrence took a two-year break from acting before returning with ''Film/DontLookUp''. Further roles in ''Film/{{Causeway}}'' and ''Film/NoHardFeelings'' followed. |
| 90 | * Creator/HeatherLocklear lost her chance at becoming a major film star when she appeared in 1989's ''Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing'', a sequel which was criticized for its {{Camp}} tone compared to the darker ''Film/SwampThing1982'' and became a BoxOfficeBomb. Although none of the cast profited from its failure, Locklear received the shortest end of the stick when she won a MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward for her performance in the film. After that flop, her film career was primarily limited to cameos. Fortunately, her television career, where she first discovered success via her lead role in ''Series/{{Dynasty}}'', remained intact with roles in ''Series/MelrosePlace'' and ''Series/SpinCity''. |
| 91 | * Creator/LindsayLohan's career had been in a nosedive shortly after it peaked with ''Film/MeanGirls'', mainly due to her out-of-control personal life and [[ThePrimaDonna diva antics]]. It was after ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe'' bombed at the box office and was ruthlessly savaged by critics and audiences alike that Lohan lost her status as a bankable actress and her roles became limited to television and indies. It's a pretty safe bet that even if her life hadn't fallen apart so badly, it's still not too likely that her career and "it girl" status would've fared much better after the critical and box-office flop of that film. A few years later the indie film ''The Canyons'' killed any semblance of a career she had left, from terrible reviews and accounts that she was impossible to work with, as chronicled in [[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/here-is-what-happens-when-you-cast-lindsay-lohan-in-your-movie.html a scathing feature]] by Stephen Rodrick for ''The New York Times Magazine'', and she hasn't appeared in anything since. In 2014, she managed to get clean and finished community service with her probation officially ended in addition to making her stage debut in ''Theatre/SpeedThePlow'', though critical reception of her role was divisive and it's not enough to revive her career yet. |
| 92 | * The flop of ''Film/BloodRayne'' killed most of the buzz Creator/KristannaLoken had after starring as the T-X in ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines''. Loken's primarily done low-budget DirectToVideo and independent movies ever since, besides a supporting role in the equally unsuccessful ''Film/InTheNameOfTheKing: A Dungeon Siege Tale''. |
| 93 | * Much was expected from Creator/EvaLongoria before ''Film/OverHerDeadBody'', because of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' along with her sex symbol status. Then this film premiered and revealed that although looking sexy was a strong suit of hers, headlining a movie wasn't. Its failure ensured she won't be leading anything for a while. Longoria has rarely appeared in films afterwards, and even then mostly in minor roles in DirectToVideo fare. |
| 94 | * Music/JenniferLopez in ''Film/{{Gigli}}''. Like [[Creator/BenAffleck her spear counterpart]], her career would recover – albeit as a musician – before ''Film/TheBoyNextDoor'' killed her career all over again in 2015. After having a CareerResurrection in 2011 with her song "On the Floor" being a hit and becoming a judge on ''Series/AmericanIdol'', Lopez attempted to revive her film career. Her first attempt, ''Film/WhatToExpectWhenYoureExpecting'' broke even while her second attempt, ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' was a hit at the box office. However, neither of these movies was critically praised. That being said, considering the success of those two movies, she quit ''Series/AmericanIdol'' so she could pursue acting full-time. However, she then did ''Film/{{Parker}}'', which became a BoxOfficeBomb. She ended up returning to ''Series/AmericanIdol'' but tried to revive her film career one last time with ''The Boy Next Door''. Although that movie was modestly successful at the box office, the critics trashed the hell out of it with bad reviews leading to a 10% rating on Website/RottenTomatoes. This prompted her to back out of a film career and stick to TV with ''Series/ShadesOfBlue''. She resumed her film career in 2018 with ''Second Act'', which received mixed reviews although it was better received than ''The Boy Next Door''. Her next film after that, ''Film/{{Hustlers}}'', earned widespread critical acclaim with her performance being lauded by critics as one of her best performances. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her role although [[AwardSnub it was unfortunately overlooked at the Oscars]], so only time will tell if this will result in her doing a full-fledged CareerResurrection. |
| 95 | * Jane March starred opposite Creator/BruceWillis (see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors) in the hated 1994 erotic thriller ''Film/ColorOfNight'', which became one of the year's worst films critically and financially. Willis was fortunately one of the biggest stars in TheNineties and swiftly shrugged off this flop's effect with ''Film/PulpFiction'' the same year, but March's career never truly recovered afterwards. Her next major Hollywood role was playing Jane opposite Creator/CasperVanDien as the titular character in ''Tarzan and the Lost City'', which only forced her career further into its grave. |
| 96 | * ''Film/WhiteFire'' arguably killed British actress Creator/BelindaMayne's potential future as a leading lady. Being in one sleazy, exploitive role after another did not do well for her reputation as an actress, and ''White Fire'' seems to have been the final straw. Since then, she's mostly appeared in minor film roles and on television, most prominently as the titular Chimeron queen in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E3DeltaAndTheBannermen "Delta and the Bannermen"]]. |
| 97 | * Creator/KellyMcGillis was a rising star in the mid-to-late 1980s following the successes of ''Film/{{Witness}}'', ''Film/TopGun'' and ''Film/TheAccused''. But then 1989 saw the release of ''Film/CatChaser'', which led her to become disaffected with Hollywood amidst the film's TroubledProduction and her [[HostilityOnTheSet problematic working relationship]] with Creator/PeterWeller, and eventually went straight-to-video following poor test screenings. [=McGillis=] then went into semi-retirement in UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, taking a few parts for the better part of a decade until she resumed acting full-time. She has since focused on made-for-TV films and independent features with a few mainstream works in between. |
| 98 | * Creator/KristyMcNichol became famous in the mid-to-late 1970s as a child actress in the [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] drama ''Series/{{Family}}'', only for her hype to vanish early in TheEighties. She had some success in 1981 when ''Only When I Laugh'' became a box office hit, while also earning a six-figure salary – unprecedented for a teenager – for starring opposite Creator/DennisQuaid in ''Film/TheNightTheLightsWentOutInGeorgia''. However, her career decline began next year when ''Film/ThePirateMovie'', which co-starred Creator/ChristopherAtkins (see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors), became one of 1982's biggest misfires, with [=McNichol=] receiving a Razzie nomination for her performance. While filming her next film, ''Film/JustTheWayYouAre'', [=McNichol=], who already had a past history of emotional problems, suffered a nervous breakdown that delayed filming for over a year. She continued acting into TheNineties, but her work comprised mostly of television films or shows (notably ''Series/EmptyNest''). Her appearances in theatrical releases were mainly limited to supporting roles before she officially announced her retirement from acting in 2001. She's since claimed her emotional turbulence during her youth were rooted in her closeted homosexuality at the time, also noting that she's been happier and stress-free after coming out. |
| 99 | * Creator/LeightonMeester's hopes of becoming a bankable star after ''Series/GossipGirl'' ended were torpedoed in 2011-12 by a string of three back-to-back flops: ''Film/TheRoommate'', ''Film/MonteCarlo2011'', and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'', the last of which got her nominated for two MediaNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s (Worst Screen Combo with Creator/AdamSandler, and Worst Screen Ensemble). Not helping matters was a lengthy legal battle with her StageMom, whom she had been paying $7500 a month for what she believed to be her brother's medical treatment being her main priority around the same time. ''Film/TheJudge'' in 2014 was TheLastStraw, causing her to return to television, where she's found success with the sitcom ''Series/SingleParents''. |
| 100 | * Creator/BetteMidler was a sensation by the end of TheNineties: via ''Film/RuthlessPeople'', ''Film/DownAndOutInBeverlyHills'', ''Film/{{Beaches}}'', ''Film/HocusPocus'', and ''Film/TheFirstWivesClub''. She also garnered two [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nominations for ''Film/TheRose'' and ''For the Boys'', while not even a flop like ''Film/{{Stella}}'' (which got her a [[MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie]] nomination) could bring her down. But after ''Isn't She Great'' (which got her another Razzie nomination) and ''Film/DrowningMona'' bombed in 2000, none of her starring vehicles hit the big time again until the Creator/DisneyPlus exclusive sequel ''Film/HocusPocus2''. |
| 101 | * Creator/SarahMiles became one of the British New Wave's biggest stars thanks to ''The Servant'' and ''Film/BlowUp'' and earned an Oscar nomination for ''Film/RyansDaughter''. Set to transition from sex symbol to serious actress, She starred in the VanityProject ''Lady Caroline Lamb'', directed by her husband, screenwriter Robert Bolt. ''Lamb'' was an expensive, critically reviled flop that destroyed Miles' reputation. Her career further dissolved through TheSeventies with revelations of bizarre hobbies (she admitted to drinking urine and being a spiritualist, among other things), the dissolution of her marriage to Bolt (though they later reconciled), and the scandals surrounding ''The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing'', where her publicist/lover committed suicide on-set. Today, Miles remains known more for her eccentricities than her dwindling acting roles. |
| 102 | * Creator/HayleyMills was a successful child star for Creator/{{Disney}} in TheSixties. After her Disney contract ended, she moved towards darker roles to shake off her wholesome image. The film ''Deadly Strangers'' drew so much controversy[[note]]which, oddly enough, didn't damage her relationship with Disney one bit[[/note]] that she left the industry for several years. She attempted a comeback on TV in TheEighties with ''Good Morning Miss Bliss'', but that was eventually re-tooled into the more famous ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' (dropping Mills completely). However, she has found more success on the stage. |
| 103 | * Creator/MaikaMonroe got a HollywoodHypeMachine push after her acclaimed lead performances in the 2014 horror films ''Film/ItFollows'' and ''Film/TheGuest'', only for her intended mainstream breakthrough in a big-budget SummerBlockbuster to be as Patricia Whitmore in ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' two years later. Not only did the film flop, but Monroe's casting was particularly controversial, as Creator/MaeWhitman, who played Patricia as a child in the original ''Film/IndependenceDay'', was still a popular working actor, leading to [[ReplacementScrappy backlash against Monroe]] and claims that Patricia was recast purely because the studio wanted a more conventionally attractive leading lady.[[note]]Whether or not this is true depends on who you believe. The film's director Creator/RolandEmmerich said that Whitman [[https://gizmodo.com/why-roland-emmerich-had-to-wait-20-years-to-finally-mak-1776971679 declined]] to reprise her role, but Whitman herself [[https://www.thelist.com/634031/why-mae-whitman-didnt-reprise-her-role-as-the-presidents-daughter-in-independence-day-2/ retweeted]] both Creator/AnnaKendrick criticizing the recasting and an essay that did the same, indicating that she wasn't asked back to begin with.[[/note]] Afterwards, Monroe went back to horror, independent films, and supporting roles, and while she's continued to win acclaim as a UsefulNotes/{{scream queen|s}}, she hasn't starred in any major studio films since. |
| 104 | * Creator/DemiMoore was one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood in the early '90s, owed mainly to her [[StarMakingRole star-making]] turn opposite Creator/PatrickSwayze in ''Film/Ghost1990''. However, her star power faded around the mid-to-late '90s after a string of flops such as the loose film adaptation of ''[[Film/TheScarletLetter1995 The Scarlet Letter]]'', ''Film/{{Striptease}}'', and ''Film/GIJane'' (the latter two films were "Worst Actress" [[MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie]] winners for Moore). In the years following those films, Moore's productivity slowed as she took time off to raise her daughters, only appearing in a few major films, the last such big hit being ''Film/MrBrooks''. She has since found some success acting in independent cinema. |
| 105 | * Music/MandyMoore had a somewhat successful career as a movie star, even though her movies weren't huge hits critically or financially. In 2007, her career in movies was killed by four flops: ''Film/LicenseToWed'' [[note]]which also killed the careers of Creator/JohnKrasinski and Creator/RobinWilliams (see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors)[[/note]], ''Because I Said So'' opposite the aforementioned Diane Keaton, ''Dedication'', and ''Film/SouthlandTales'' opposite the also aforementioned Sarah Michelle Gellar. Moore mainly did guest spots on TV for almost a decade afterwards, besides ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. Fortunately, she [[CareerResurrection rebounded]] impressively with a widely acclaimed role on the Creator/{{NBC}} drama ''Series/ThisIsUs'', where she even impressed the crew enough to also play the older version of her character under makeup rather than a separate actress. |
| 106 | * Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz was acclaimed in the late '00s and early '10s as a child star for her performances in ''Film/KickAss'', ''Film/LetMeIn'', and ''Film/{{Hugo}}'', but her attempts at movie stardom in her teenage years, including ''Film/DarkShadows'', ''Film/Movie43'', ''Film/KickAss2'', ''Film/Carrie2013'', and ''Literature/IfIStay'', got mixed to negative reviews and none of them were very successful at the box office. The last straw was 2016's ''Literature/TheFifthWave'', a critical and financial disappointment that ended her run as a potential leading lady. It didn't help that two of her subsequent films, ''I Love You, Daddy'' and ''Animation/RedShoesAndTheSevenDwarfs'', were mired in controversy, the former for being the passion project of Creator/LouisCK only for his career to be hammered by sexual harassment allegations (which caused the movie to [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment not be released]]), and the latter for an ad campaign that suggested that overweight women weren't beautiful, a campaign that [[CreatorBacklash Moretz herself was critical of]]. After the failure of ''The 5th Wave'', she dropped out of all the projects she'd been attached to (most notably ''Film/TheLittleMermaid2023'') and got pickier with her roles, saying that she'd stretched herself thin by caring more about box-office receipts than the quality of her work. Since then, she's mostly done more low-key and independent films, as well as the TV series ''Series/ThePeripheral2022''. |
| 107 | * Creator/OliviaMunn began and ended her leading lady career with ''The Babymakers'', which became both a critical and a commercial disaster. The distributor had expected Munn's cult appeal to sell the movie to audiences, but not even that could save it. She later gained a comfy supporting role in ''Series/TheNewsroom'', but hasn't been the leading lady in any films since. A turn as Psylocke in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' didn't help matters, as she was reduced to being a SatelliteCharacter. ''Film/OfficeChristmasParty'' was a box office hit, though that was probably because of Munn's more famous [[Creator/JasonBateman co]]-[[Creator/JenniferAniston stars]]. ''Film/ThePredator'' tanking also didn't aid her situation very much. |
| 108 | * ''The Wicker Tree'', the 2011 "spiritual sequel" to ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'', introduced viewers to Brittania Nicol, who played the film's protagonist, Beth Boothby. The film's poor performance in both theaters and with critics led to its obscurity, and Nicol's career was over before it even started. [[OneBookAuthor This is her only on-screen credit]]. |
| 109 | * Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen saw their screen careers fall with ''Film/NewYorkMinute''. The twins' one and only "adult" theatrical outing grossed just $21 million during its box office run, putting an end to their "twin" films. (Mary-Kate did do a few supporting roles in films like ''Film/TheWackness'' and ''Film/{{Beastly}}''.) They remain successful in other ventures as shortly after that movie's release, they both became presidents of their company Dualstar (which continues to see success) and fashion line The Row (which is largely respected amongst their peers). |
| 110 | * Nicole Parker was almost universally regarded by fans of ''Series/MadTV1995'' as a fan favorite, often viewed as one of the few highlights of a comedy sketch show that was otherwise dipping down in quality and popularity. Unfortunately, she, similarly to fellow ''[=MADtv=]'' alum Crista Flanagan, made her feature film debut in the Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg films ''Meet the Spartans'' and ''Disaster Movie'', and like Flanagan, in retrospect this was probably the worst error she could've made in her career. She hasn't landed a role in a feature film ever since besides a relatively little part in ''Film/FunnyPeople'', but it was largely {{fanservice}}. Parker managed to turn her acting career around by playing to her greatest strengths – Broadway performances, although she remains largely in D-list obscurity even after landing the role of Elphaba in the Broadway production of ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''. |
| 111 | * Creator/SarahJessicaParker was at her career zenith after ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' concluded in 2004. She then tried and failed to establish herself on film with some poorly received, although fiscally successful, romantic comedies like ''Film/TheFamilyStone'' and ''Film/FailureToLaunch'', while her biggest hits came by returning as Carrie Bradshaw in the ''Film/SexAndTheCity'' films. Her films after the sequel premiered to steadily worsening reception, with the final straw coming in 2018 following the major failure of ''Here and Now'' – a remake of Creator/AgnesVarda's classic 1962 UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave film ''Film/CleoFrom5To7''. Parker sticks to television afterwards, which continues bringing her successes such as ''Series/{{Divorce}}'' and the ''Sex and the City'' continuation ''Series/AndJustLikeThat'' |
| 112 | * Creator/LoriPetty, following her well-received roles in ''Film/PointBreak1991'', ''Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn'', and ''Film/FreeWilly'', was offered the chance to headline her own major project with ''Film/TankGirl'', a film adaptation of the comic book [[ComicBook/TankGirl of the same name]]. When it got negative critical reviews and bombed quickly at the box office, she has since been stuck making DirectToVideo movies. She did garner positive attention from directing ''Film/ThePokerHouse'', although most of it now is [[RetroactiveRecognition retroactive]] ever since its lead actress Creator/JenniferLawrence became a huge superstar. Petty has regained some footing with ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', though that show's ensemble nature makes it unclear whether she truly made a comeback. |
| 113 | * Creator/MariaPitillo had appeared throughout TheNineties in numerous films, often in a supporting capacity (''Film/{{Chaplin}}'', ''Film/TrueRomance'', ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'', etc.). She was later cast as the female lead in the American adaptation of ''Film/Godzilla1998''. Although it was intended as her breakthrough role to major audiences, the film's primarily negative reception, with Pitillo's performance in particular being criticized as a key reason why the film failed to resonate, instead made it her lead balloon. Her male co-stars Creator/MatthewBroderick and Creator/JeanReno managed to move past its failure, but her career slowly withered away before she retired in 2008. |
| 114 | * Creator/PaulinaPorizkova was well-known in TheEighties as a model and in 1984, at age eighteen, became the first woman from Central Europe to be featured on the cover of ''Magazine/SportsIllustrated''. Numerous cover appearances in ''Magazine/{{Cosmopolitan}}'', ''Elle'', ''Vogue'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', etc. further boosted her profile, spurring studios to try making her into a movie star. Although things seemed to begin well for Porizkova with a supporting role in the Oscar-nominated ''Anna'' with Sally Kirkland, her first lead role in ''Film/HerAlibi'' with Creator/TomSelleck extinguished her chances of becoming a larger celebrity. Selleck recovered fast (with his own Star-Derailing Role coming much later on; see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors), but Porizkova's career onscreen was mostly limited to reality TV afterwards. Her biggest gig since was as a judge on ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel''. |
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| 118 | * Creator/MelissaRauch starred in ''Film/TheBronze'' (which she also co-wrote) after establishing herself as a comedic actress on television with ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. Its failure closed the book on her prospective film career before it could start, with most of her later film roles being minor. She stayed onboard ''The Big Bang Theory'' until its run was finished in 2019, continuing her career in television with a starring role in [[Series/NightCourt2023 the 2023 revival]] of ''Series/NightCourt'' opposite Creator/JohnLarroquette. |
| 119 | * Creator/AlysonReed was set to shift from being a rising star on Broadway to becoming a full-fledged movie star in Hollywood when she nabbed the lead female role in the 1985 film adaptation of the musical ''Film/AChorusLine'' opposite Creator/MichaelDouglas. When it instead became a critical and commercial flop, Reed, unlike Douglas, who was coming off his StarMakingRole in ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' and would find further MediaNotes/AcademyAward-winning success with ''Film/WallStreet'', didn't appear in another film for four years (in the raunchy sex comedy ''Film/SkinDeep''). She promptly returned to the stage, where she found a measure of success (along with a Tony nomination for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1987 revival of ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}''). Reed's screen career post-TheEighties mainly comprised of bit parts on television, though she would later become known to a younger audience when she appeared as Ms. Darbus in ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' and [[Film/HighSchoolMusical2 its]] [[Film/HighSchoolMusical3SeniorYear sequels]]. |
| 120 | * Creator/ChristinaRicci became a star at age 11 when she played Wednesday Addams in the 1991 film adaptation of ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', transitioning successfully from a child actress (with ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' and ''Film/{{Casper}}'') to an adult one (with ''Film/TheIceStorm'', ''Film/TheOppositeOfSex'' and ''Film/{{Monster}}''). Then Ricci starred in ''Film/Cursed2005'', a werewolf slasher film directed by Creator/WesCraven that sadly endured excessive ExecutiveMeddling courtesy of Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany (with Craven later deprived of all creative control). The final result, subjected to a lot of reshoots and re-edited from the original R-rating to a more box-office friendly PG-13 rating, was called one of the worst films of 2005, also becoming a BoxOfficeBomb that didn't recoup its budget. Ricci's films for the next three years (''Film/Penelope2006'', ''Film/BlackSnakeMoan'') were lower-budget films that underperformed as well before she tried mounting a comeback. ''Film/SpeedRacer'' was meant to be the big blockbuster that would reaffirm her as a star, but its box office failure instead proved to be the final straw in 2008. For the next thirteen years, she starred in projects that were rarely, if ever, successful before finally nabbing another high-profile role and an MediaNotes/EmmyAward nomination for her performance in the Creator/{{Showtime}} drama ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}''. [[https://deadline.com/2022/03/christina-ricci-wednesday-netflix-addams-family-series-1234982347/ She returned]] to the ''Addams Family'' universe as a different character in the Creator/{{Netflix}} series ''Series/{{Wednesday}}''. |
| 121 | * Creator/DeniseRichards saw her career momentum plummet when her performance in the 1999 ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' was lambasted as one of its weakest links, while her most prolific role afterwards was in the ill-received slasher flick ''Film/{{Valentine}}'' two years later. Her screen appearances since that film flopped badly have now diminished to reality television like ''Series/TheRealHousewives of Beverly Hills'', or the soap opera ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful''. |
| 122 | * Creator/DaisyRidley [[https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/daisy-ridley-couldnt-get-a-job-after-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-no-one-wants-to-employ-me.html/ suffered a big slap to her career following]] the mixed reception and {{troubled production}} of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' film, ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker''. The UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic kicking in following its release didn't help. |
| 123 | * Music/{{Rihanna}} made her acting debut in 2012's ''Film/{{Battleship}}'', for which she "won" the MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward for Worst Supporting Actress. Aside from a few scant voice roles and cameos, she didn't star in a major film for five years until appearing in ''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets'' and then ''Film/OceansEight''. The former was another infamous bomb while the latter was a slight success, though that probably was because of the bigger actresses in its ensemble cast. She's mostly focused on her music afterwards. |
| 124 | * Creator/MollyRingwald, after ending her professional relationship with Creator/JohnHughes, set out to make a name for herself with duds like ''For Keeps?'' and ''Fresh Horses'', which didn't set the box office on fire. The last straw for her came with ''Betsy's Wedding'' (budget, $26 million, box office, $19.7 million). Ringwald might've pulled off a CareerResurrection if she'd taken some of the offers she was still getting - ''Film/BlueVelvet'', ''Film/PrettyWoman'', ''Film/DaysOfThunder'', ''Film/{{Ghost|1990}}'', ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'', ''Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn'', ''Film/JerryMaguire'', ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'' - but she declined each one of them. She later retreated to France to continue her career but returned to America upon finding no success abroad either. After being in several low-quality films and TV shows, she got a slight reprieve with ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager''. While it got mixed-to-negative reviews, the show was enough of a hit in ratings to last five seasons on Creator/ABCFamily (with Ringwald being part of the main cast for the first four). She later got a recurring role on ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' and starred in the Creator/{{Netflix}} true-crime miniseries ''Series/DahmerMonsterTheJeffreyDahmerStory''. |
| 125 | * Creator/RebeccaRomijn pivoted from a successful modeling career in TheNineties to a potentially good acting one after playing ComicBook/{{Mystique}} in 2000's ''Film/XMen1'', but the consecutive failures of ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'' (which negatively impacted Creator/ChrisKlein as well; see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors) and ''Film/FemmeFatale2002'' dampened her stardom. Romijn hasn't been in any hit films afterwards besides returning for ''X-Men'' sequels, although she has continued acting on television with roles in ''Series/UglyBetty'' and ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds''. |
| 126 | * Music/DianaRoss was afflicted by this with ''Film/TheWiz''. Ross, already an immensely popular singer during TheSixties and TheSeventies, attempted many forays into acting, achieving mild success until taking up the role of Dorothy in the 1978 film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical ''Theatre/TheWiz''. Ross fought for the role despite concerns that she was [[DawsonCasting too old for it]], being in her ''early thirties'' at that time (and in the movie itself she looks even older). Her casting led to some of the most drastic changes in the script, none of which resonated with audiences. The film was a major critical and financial flop with most of the criticism being leveled at her performance, effectively ending her career as an actress. Fortunately, the film's failure barely harmed her immensely successful singing career. |
| 127 | * Creator/ReneRusso was already famous as a model once she started her acting career. Although she made her film debut in 1989's ''Film/MajorLeague'', numerous hits like ''Film/LethalWeapon3'', ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', ''Film/{{Outbreak}}'', ''Film/GetShorty'', ''Film/TinCup'', ''Film/{{Ransom}}'', and ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair1999'' remake released in TheNineties, were what established her as an actress. However, massive flops in the next decade such as ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'', ''Film/{{Showtime}}'', ''Film/BigTrouble'', and the 2005 remake of ''Film/YoursMineAndOurs'', sadly precipitated her career decline. After those duds, Russo took an acting hiatus for five years. She luckily experienced a resurgence starring as Frigga in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] film ''Film/{{Thor}}'' (a role she reprised in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'') while also being praised for her supporting performance in ''Film/{{Nightcrawler}}''. |
| 128 | * Creator/MegRyan had a brief moment where her career was derailed after making ''Against the Ropes'' in 2004, having not appeared in a theatrically released film until 2007's ''In the Land of Women''. Although she's still acting to this day, she has never recovered the A-list status she had in the '90s, beginning in 1989 with ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally''. Before that, Ryan's derailing role was in 2000's ''Hanging Up'', ironically the final film Creator/WalterMatthau, who died shortly thereafter, did (he was its narrator). |
| 129 | * While her career isn't completely derailed thanks to her roles as Uhura in the rebooted ''Franchise/StarTrek'' film franchise and Gamora in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, ''Film/{{Colombiana}}'' failing in 2011 killed any chance of convincing Hollywood to let Creator/ZoeSaldana lead a major motion picture. The projects she's done since were either indie films or supporting roles in major pictures, mostly in the franchises mentioned above. |
| 130 | * Jenny Seagrove worked intermittently on the British screen and stage before attaining her first lead role in ''Film/TheGuardian1990'', a horror film helmed by ''Film/TheExorcist'' director Creator/WilliamFriedkin. ''The Guardian'', though, failed to reach the same heights as Friedkin's past work, with Seagrove's hype dissipating after its box office underperformance and poor critical reviews. Since then, she hasn't had a role in a major project. |
| 131 | * Creator/JeanSeberg saw her Hollywood career wither with the 1969 bomb ''Film/PaintYourWagon'', despite the presence of famous co-stars such as Creator/LeeMarvin and Creator/ClintEastwood in addition to starring in ''Film/{{Airport}}'' the following year. Marvin remained a respected actor while Eastwood gradually rose up into the echelons of Hollywood legend, but Seberg had a rough time in TheSeventies. It didn't help that she was being targeted and smeared by the FBI's COINTELPRO operation around this time because of her support for the Black Panthers, including false rumors that she [[MalignedMixedMarriage had a baby]] with activist Raymond Hewitt. She moved to Europe permanently one year later, where she remained until she died of suicide in 1979. |
| 132 | * Creator/CybillShepherd became a star thanks to ''Film/TheLastPictureShow'' and became a muse, and eventual lover, of director Creator/PeterBogdanovich, which ended his marriage to writer Polly Platt. Bogdanovich subsequently cast Shepherd as the lead in two of his films, ''Daisy Miller'' and ''Film/AtLongLastLove''. Both films were critical and commercial flops and Shepherd garnered immense criticism for her performances, giving her the reputation of a horrible actress whose rise to fame was solely because she was sleeping with a famous film director. Shepherd later retreated to television, where an acclaimed turn on ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' restored her reputation. |
| 133 | * Creator/BrookeShields got acclaim for her work on the film ''Film/PrettyBaby''. She then followed it up with ''Film/{{The Blue Lagoon|1980}}'' and ''Film/EndlessLove'', the former a notoriously TroubledProduction that spent almost two decades in DevelopmentHell and a CreatorKiller for Randal Kleiser, who was never able to match the huge success of ''Film/{{Grease}}'', and the latter being only known for Creator/TomCruise's debut, which got terrible reviews and were box-office disappointments, as well as controversy over her sexualization by her StageMom, considering she was [[NoYay underage at the time]]. However, the 1983 movie ''Sahara'' ended up being the straw that broke the camel's back, as after that film flopped at the box office, she has pretty much been stuck doing independent films, Direct-to-DVD films, and television shows (including a decent run on ''Series/SuddenlySusan'') ever since. Her moving-image career would effectively be ended with the TV series ''Lipstick Jungle'', which was canceled by Creator/{{NBC}} after a disappointing run of 20 episodes, and since then, she largely focused on her family and on Broadway. Today, she is mostly known as a fashion model. |
| 134 | * Creator/ElisabethShue seemingly transitioned successfully from a prolific child/teen actress of TheEighties into a respected adult actress with her [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-nominated role in 1995's ''Film/LeavingLasVegas'', only to lose a lot of her hype years later with 1999's ''[[Film/Molly1999 Molly]]''. This film drew controversy and a lot of ire from disability rights groups due primarily to Shue's performance as an institutionalized, autistic woman. The backlash this movie suffered hurt its reception critically and financially; while Shue still remained active as an actress on film and TV, she never regained the leading lady stature she previously had. |
| 135 | * Music/JessicaSimpson saw her film career killed by ''Blonde Ambition''. Although ''Film/TheDukesOfHazzard'' and ''Film/{{Employee of the Month|2006}}'' flopped with critics, they performed well at the box office and boosted her star power. After this movie bombed, her only major part afterwards was a cameo in ''Film/TheLoveGuru''. |
| 136 | * Creator/LeeleeSobieski was fresh off the momentum from ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'' and ''Film/EyesWideShut'' when she took her first lead acting role, ''Film/TheGlassHouse'', which was a critical and commercial flop (it made only $18 million domestic). Once the next "[[HollywoodHypeMachine It Girl]]", she was reduced to working in lesser roles in films like the remake of ''Film/{{The Wicker Man|2006}}'', ''Film/EightyEightMinutes'', and ''Film/InTheNameOfTheKing: A Dungeon Siege Tale''. Her TV debut in the swiftly-cancelled ''NYC 22'' doesn't look likely to change much in her career direction, either. She eventually quit acting altogether to focus on raising her children and later started a new career as an artist under her married name, Leelee Kimmel. |
| 137 | * Jordin Sparks became famous after winning ''Series/AmericanIdol'', then tried becoming a movie star with ''Film/{{Sparkle}}''. However, it did average business at the box office and was met with mixed reviews. Her next major project was the 2014 Christian apocalyptic thriller ''Film/LeftBehind'' alongside Creator/NicolasCage, which was released amidst his own career decline (see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors). It became a maligned BoxOfficeBomb infamous for its 0% score on the website Website/RottenTomatoes. While her film career has hit a dead end, her music career has luckily gone on without a hitch. Her screen work since has mostly been reality TV, like ''Series/DancingWithTheStars''. |
| 138 | * Creator/HaileeSteinfeld was hyped as a potential star of tomorrow after nabbing an MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination at 13 for her acting debut in the 2010 remake of ''Film/TrueGrit'', soon receiving a number of offers for major projects. She turned them down and took a few years off of acting instead, choosing to return with a new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' in 2013. Unfortunately, that film tanked with Steinfeld getting singled out in its many bad reviews. Over the next two years, a glut of projects featuring her, including ''Film/EndersGame'' (which was made worse by certain remarks the source material's [[Creator/OrsonScottCard author]] said pre-release) and ''Film/BarelyLethal'', were released to critical and audience indifference, while her potential nearly curdled into a "what if" situation had she not taken a break. Luckily, she soon [[CareerResurrection bounced back]] commercially with ''Film/PitchPerfect 2'' (a film that also marked the start of a successful second career for her as a singer) and critically with ''Film/TheEdgeOfSeventeen''. ''Pitch Perfect 3'' was also a financial hit despite not as good reviews as its predecessor, while ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' was widely considered to be a return to form for the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries film series]]. She also voiced Spider-Gwen in the ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManSpiderVerse'' films and portrays Kate Bishop in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse show ''Series/{{Hawkeye|2021}}'', roles she is both set to reprise in future projects. Preceding ''Hawkeye'', she made her television debut playing Creator/EmilyDickinson on the critically acclaimed series ''Series/{{Dickinson}}''. |
| 139 | * Creator/JuliaStiles became a breakout star seemingly overnight thanks to the box office (if not critical) hit of ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou''. However most of the movies she was in that followed, except for ''Film/TheBourneSeries'' and ''Film/SaveTheLastDance'', were critical and/or box office bombs. ''Film/ThePrinceAndMe'' was the last straw as she has stuck to TV shows and independent films since that film bombed, with the exception of more ''Bourne'', ''Film/TheOmen'' remake, and ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook''. She got a lot of good press for her supporting role in the 2019 SleeperHit ''{{Film/Hustlers}}''. |
| 140 | * Creator/SharonStone suffered from this with ''Film/BasicInstinct2'', which was ironically a reprisal of her StarMakingRole. Its financial and critical failure (amplified by Stone "winning" a Worst Actress MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward for her performance in it) marked the end of her run as an A-list leading lady, following other noteworthy flops in the early 2000s like ''Cold Creek Manor'' and ''Film/Catwoman2004''. |
| 141 | * Creator/MenaSuvari, prior to the ''Film/DayOfTheDead2008'' reboot, was an indie queen who made a name for herself starring in a string of popular and well-regarded teen films, including ''Film/AmericanPie'' and the critically praised, MediaNotes/AcademyAward-winning ''Film/AmericanBeauty''. She followed this up with many flops like ''Film/{{Loser}}'' or ''Film/SugarAndSpice''. This culminated with ''Day of the Dead'', which tanked abysmally in the United States and was critically mauled. Besides her widely disregarded work in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' as the voice of Aerith, Suvari's only appeared in bit parts on television and DirectToVideo films afterwards. |
| 142 | * Creator/HilarySwank's career was abruptly halted by the 2007 releases of ''Film/TheReaping'' and ''Film/PSILoveYou''. She tried to regain some of her critical respectability (she had been a two-time Oscar winner with ''Film/BoysDontCry'' and ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'') with the biopic ''Amelia'' and the drama ''Conviction'' over the next two years, but the former was a critical and commercial failure while the latter became an AcclaimedFlop (though she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance). Swank's movies began going DirectToVideo by 2011, as seen with the thriller ''The Resident''. Following a part in the poorly-received ensemble romantic comedy film ''Film/NewYearsEve'', few of her film projects have been announced since. |
| 143 | * Loretta Swit went from being one of Hollywood's top actresses to a notorious blacklist victim after the TV commercial satire film ''Beer'' failed, spending her later years doing small television appearances and cameos. She's done nothing notable since ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' ended, with a 20-year acting drought from 1998 to 2019. |
| 144 | * Creator/RavenSymone became popular with tweens when ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' ended up being a hit. It led Creator/{{Disney}} to hype her up as the next big star, as she started appearing in many of their TV movies, doing music videos for many of their theatrical movies, and doing voice-over work for many of their animated shows. They then tried to turn her into a movie star with ''College Road Trip''. However, the movie got terrible reviews and only did average at the box office, which helped solidify her as just another former Creator/DisneyChannel star. After the movie came out, she never got the lead role in another major film again and only does guest spots on various TV shows and voice work now. Her biggest hit was... a sequel series to her breakout role in ''Series/RavensHome''! |
| 145 | * Creator/LioTipton (formerly Analeigh), first gaining prominence for placing third on Cycle 11 of ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'', was tapped by Hollywood studios to headline romantic comedy films such as ''Film/CrazyStupidLove'', arthouse film ''Film/DamselsInDistress'' (which featured their first lead role), and ''Film/WarmBodies''. Then derailment quickly came with their second lead role in the indie film ''Two Night Stand'', which bombed with critics and audiences alike and fizzled their career before they could go anywhere with it. They tried to bounce back with the ABC romantic comedy series ''Manhattan Love Story'', but it got canceled after only four episodes. |
| 146 | * ''V.I. Warshawski'' seems to be a dividing line in Creator/KathleenTurner's career. Before, she'd been riding the success of ''Film/BodyHeat'' and ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' to critical and commercial success (and award nominations) in films like ''Film/PrizzisHonor'', ''Film/PeggySueGotMarried'', and ''Film/TheWarOfTheRoses''. Along the way, though, her rheumatoid arthritis worsened and she developed a drinking problem and a reputation for being difficult to work with - coupled with weight gain as a result of the condition and turning forty. After ''Warshawski'' [[StillbornFranchise failed to launch a series of movies]] based on the other books in the series, which she expected to star in, Turner was a lead in three more films (''House of Cards'', ''Film/UndercoverBlues'', ''Moonlight and Valentino''), none of which set the screen on fire, then did ''Film/SerialMom'', ''Film/ASimpleWish'', and ''Film/BabyGeniuses''. She then, though, found she preferred the stage, and had a slight comeback there. |
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| 150 | * Creator/NiaVardalos became a huge star when her film ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding'', which she starred and wrote, became a sleeper hit at the box office. However, she then did a sitcom spin-off called ''My Big Fat Greek Life'', which was quickly cancelled due to bad reviews and low ratings. She then tried to follow up her success with ''Connie And Carla'', which flopped at the box office. She then ended up attempting a comeback in 2009 when she starred in ''My Life In Ruins''. However, that ended up flopping at the box office as well. Since then, she's stuck to independent films and TV work. It seems she made the ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' sequels in hopes it would lead to a CareerResurrection for her. They were financially successful but panned by critics. |
| 151 | * Creator/SofiaVergara hit it big with a StarMakingRole in the popular TV series ''Series/ModernFamily''. She soon received tons of offers, mostly in supporting roles, like ''Film/TheSmurfs'', and voice work, like ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth''. She then tried to become a movie star with ''Film/HotPursuit''; unfortunately for her, that movie bombed critically and underperformed financially. She's since stuck to ''Series/ModernFamily'' and has done some independent films, with her only mainstream film since being a small part in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie''. |
| 152 | * Quvenzhané Wallis was a rising star at the beginning of TheNewTens thanks to being the youngest [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nominee for ''Film/BeastsOfTheSouthernWild''. Then she headlined ''Film/Annie2014'', which was a modest box office success but was blasted by critics. She's hardly acted since besides one independent film, a bit part in ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'', and an appearance in a Music/{{Beyonce}} music video. The highest-profile role that she's had since ''Annie'' has been a guest-starring arc on ''Series/{{Blackish}}''. Since Quvenzhané is still young, there's definitely still a chance that she could come back and become a bigger star in the future. But for the time being... |
| 153 | * Creator/MaiaraWalsh got hit by this hard with 2013's ''The Starving Games'', a Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg-made parody of ''Film/TheHungerGames''. Known previously for ''Series/CoryInTheHouse'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', her potential went under following this film's failure. She stuck to TV afterwards, like ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth''. |
| 154 | * Creator/NaomiWatts saw her career get practically destroyed thrice. She barely got started when she had a major setback with ''Film/TankGirl'' alongside Creator/LoriPetty, and spent the rest of TheNineties struggling in Hollywood until she was cast in ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' This led her to have a solid career [[note]]with ''Film/TwentyOneGrams'' and ''Film/TheImpossible'' netting her a couple of UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations for Best Actress, while ''Film/TheRing'', [[Film/TheRingTwo its sequel]], and ''Film/KingKong2005'' became huge box office hits[[/note]] until she headlined five bad movies in a row during the early 2010s: the plain boring psychological horror film called ''Film/DreamHouse'' in 2011, two equally bad animated flicks, two English dubs of the French adult animated sci-fi psychological thriller ''The Prodigies'' and a unofficial animated film adaptation from Mexico of the famous cartoon from the 1960s of the same name called ''WesternAnimation/TopCatTheMovie'' in 2012, the widely critically panned ensemble comedy flick ''Film/Movie43'' and in which she played the Princess of Wales in the epically bad biopic ''Diana'' both released in 2013 which both earned a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward for Worst Actress nomination. However, few critics blamed Watts for Diana's worst excesses and most pitied her for being in it at all. While she got well-reviewed for her work in ''Film/StVincent2014'' as well as ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance'' the following year, her good luck vanished as soon as it came when ''Film/Movie43'', ''Film/TheSeaOfTrees'', ''Film/TheDivergentSeriesInsurgent'', its sequel ''[[Film/TheDivergentSeriesAllegiant Allegiant]]'', and ''Film/ShutIn'' were both reviled critically and/or became huge {{Box Office Bomb}}s both of the latter earned her again [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie]] nomination for Worst Actress, with ''Film/TheBookOfHenry'' being the last nail in the coffin for her film career as it both hugely bombed and was widely critically panned and become a laughing joke or stock due to the film's poor premise and the film's failed attempt being OscarBait derailing her film career. She has since then now done low budget direct-to-DVD flicks and television roles as a result of her box office failures during the late 2010s. |
| 155 | * Creator/RaquelWelch suffered this with ''Film/MyraBreckinridge''. A major sex symbol of TheSixties, she accepted the title role in an adaptation of the critically acclaimed book of the same name with the intention of proving her skill. The film, contrary to expectations, instead became a notorious BoxOfficeBomb and was universally panned, with even the book's author Creator/GoreVidal [[DisownedAdaptation calling it "an awful joke."]] She struggled to regain approval in TheSeventies and nearly pulled off a comeback with the success of ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'', which vanished after the critical and financial failure of ''Film/MotherJugsAndSpeed''. Welch didn't star in a major studio film for twenty years, with her next one being the also unsuccessful ''Film/ChairmanOfTheBoard'' (which additionally snuffed Carrot Top's film career as well; see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors). Aside from minor parts in ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' and ''Film/HowToBeALatinLover'' (which in 2017, was her final film), she never acted in any big projects again before her death in 2023. |
| 156 | * Though ''Welcome to 18'' stars Creator/CourtneyThorneSmith and Creator/MariskaHargitay managed to survive its abysmal box office performance, [=JoAnn=] Willette was limited to TV work afterwards. Her use of an ethnic slur and later pirating the film made things worse, which was soon handled by the film's production company Green Griffin. Many of Willette's scenes were edited out of current home media prints as a result of her racist remark. |
| 157 | * Creator/MaeWest took a hit to her popularity when her film ''Belle of the Nineties'' was hastily censored by Creator/{{Paramount}} to appease the enforcers of the Production Code. She was soon overtaken as screen queen by Creator/ShirleyTemple, and subsequent efforts to rehabilitate her image failed, culminating in a RoleEndingMisdemeanor in which she was fired by Paramount for causing a scandal at Creator/{{NBC}} by appearing alongside Creator/EdgarBergen and Charlie [=McCarthy=]. Her biggest screen success since then was ''My Little Chickadee'', in which Creator/{{Universal}} paired her with fellow washup Creator/WCFields. |
| 158 | * Creator/MaraWilson's movie career died with ''Film/ASimpleWish''. After that one, she only did one more theatrical movie, ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'', before she decided to retire from film acting after no longer finding it fun. Her choice was largely fueled by her being typecast as insufferably precious characters, which caused many to assume she was actually like that in real life. She's since transitioned into writing plays, where she often has to issue warnings about their adult content to people expecting something lighter given her acting career. She came out of retirement in TheNewTens, mostly as a guest voice artist. |
| 159 | * Creator/ReeseWitherspoon lost a lot of career momentum she gained with her Oscar-winning performance as June Carter Cash in ''Film/WalkTheLine'' when she starred in two flops: the 2007 political thriller ''Rendition'', and the 2008 holiday romantic comedy ''Film/FourChristmases''. ''Rendition'' [[BoxOfficeBomb made $27 million on a $27 million budget]] and sharply divided critics, while ''Four Christmases'' was critically panned despite being comparatively more successful at the box office.[[note]]The latter film also presaged the career decline of Creator/VinceVaughn, who would later see his star derailed with ''Film/TheDilemma'' (see StarDerailingRole/FilmActors).[[/note]] Witherspoon wouldn't [[CareerResurrection regain]] the stature she previously had until she starred in 2014's ''Film/{{Wild}}'', which netted her another Oscar nomination (though she didn't win this time). Although her film career was battered again by ''Film/HotPursuit'' (which also damaged the career of the aforementioned Creator/SofiaVergara), she would sustain her career through her work on television (such as ''Series/BigLittleLies'', ''Series/TheMorningShow'', and ''Literature/LittleFiresEverywhere''). |
| 160 | * Creator/PiaZadora lost her stardom after the terrible response to ''Film/TheLonelyLady''. The massive controversy over her Golden Globe win for New Star of the Year, widely assumed to have been the result of her husband {{bribing|YourWayToVictory}} the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (especially after she also won the UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward for Worst New Actress), only soured people that much further on the idea of her as a major star. She only had a few small roles and cameos after this film, though her musical career proved to be slightly more successful. |
| 161 | * Creator/ReneeZellweger was one of the biggest actresses of the late '90s and early-mid '00s, starring in hits like ''Film/JerryMaguire'', ''Film/BridgetJonesDiary'', and ''Film/{{Chicago}}''. She also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 2003's ''Film/ColdMountain''. Until 2007, she was known to be one of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses. Her movies became less financially and critically successful as her career went on, but she was still able to snag some decent parts. Then she made ''Film/{{Case 39}}'', a movie that was delayed twice and, when it was finally released in 2010, received negative reviews and flopped at the box office, opening at #7 in its first week. Zellweger didn't star in another film for five years. A drastic change in her looks in 2014, supposedly due to extensive plastic surgery, to the point she is almost unrecognisable, was most likely the final nail in the coffin. She returned to the screen in 2016 with ''Bridget Jones's Baby'', which got decent reviews and international box office (it disappointed at the US box office), but didn't do much to revive her career. Soon afterwards she picked up a potential comeback role in ''Film/Judy2019'', a biopic of Creator/JudyGarland. Her performance as the star herself won her renewed critical acclaim, eventually culminating with an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward [[CareerResurrection for Best Actress]]. |
| 162 | * Creator/CatherineZetaJones got hit by this in 2012. She first broke out in TheNineties as one of its premier ingénues, establishing herself in her native Britain on television before scoring big in Hollywood with ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro''. Further successes with ''Film/{{Entrapment}}'', ''Film/HighFidelity'', and ''Film/{{Traffic|2000}}'' came next, before she won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for her performance in ''Film/{{Chicago}}''. The nudge her victory provided boosted her career when ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'', ''Film/TheTerminal'', ''Film/OceansTwelve'', ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' and ''Film/{{No Reservations|2007}}'' became hits too. She took a hiatus from acting after that last one, not appearing in a mainstream Hollywood movie for five years after its release. Upon returning to the screen in 2012, she had the rotten luck of starring in three of the year's worst disasters: ''Film/RockOfAges'', ''Lay the Favorite'', and ''Playing For Keeps''. ''Film/SideEffects'' and ''Film/{{Red 2}}'' became moderate successes in the following year, though neither were big enough to revive her career. She hasn't starred in a theatrically released film since ''Dad's Army'' in 2016, but has found some success on television playing Creator/OliviaDeHavilland on the Creator/RyanMurphy-created series ''Series/{{Feud}}''. She then played [[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily Morticia Addams]] on the Creator/{{Netflix}} show ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'', created by Creator/TimBurton. |
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