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Top 10 Famous 90s Stars Who Dropped Off the Map


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down our picks for the top 10 famous 90
stars who dropped off the map excuse me
but I think a modicum of gratitude would
not be out of line here
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this list we’re looking at famous stars
from the 1990s who have done nothing or
very little of note since their peak
and/or in the early 21st century
we’ll be ranking our picks based on how
popular they were in their heyday and
their lack of significant work in recent
years did your father ever teach you
never send a boy to do a man’s job
number 10 Edward Furlong furlong began
his acting career playing John Connor in
this is often considered one of the
greatest action movies of all time and
grossed over 500 million dollars at the
box office in 1991
that’s a hard feat to top and Edward
Furlong never did he subsequently
starred in a few independent movies
before regaining national attention in
1998 alongside Edward Norton in American
History X God man please tell me a joke
and then he just sort of disappeared he
mostly starred in a string of
direct-to-video movies in the 2000s and
suffered from legal issues and drug
addiction in 2011 he appeared as a meth
producer in the Green Hornet which was
his first somewhat notable role since
the late 90s a god grown man wearing a
mask is a little bit scarier than a guy
wearing a suit number nine Pharaoh’s a
Feroz Abbas had a respectable career in
the mid 90s one of her first major roles
was as Nancy downs in the cult classic
the craft and she followed this up with
a number of notable movies she appeared
alongside Marlon Brando in the island of
dr. Moreau the Afro mentioned furlong
and Norton in American History X and
Adam Sandler in the waterboy and by the
way I hope you like what I did yeah
lawn-moah her prosperous career looked
to continue in the new decade as she
portrayed sapphire in almost famous
but bulk star soon fizzled out she
starred in a number of unremarkable
movies throughout the 2000s and 2010’s
though she more recently resurfaced in
several episodes of ray Donovan number
eight leelee sobieski leelee sobieski
was a major teen star in the late 90s
she appeared as Sarah Hotchner in the
1998 hit deep impact and followed this
up with roles and never been kissed and
Eyes Wide Shut she was also cast in the
titular role of the 1999 miniseries Joan
of Arc earning Emmy and Golden Globe
nominations because they need someone to
believe in
up next was a whole lot of nothing
before she retired for movies in the
early 2010’s to focus on her children
she currently paints abstract art under
her married name Leigh Leigh Kimmel I
want to be a novelist I want to be we
can flautist I want to be a Potter I’m
gonna be a painter I’m gonna be an
architect and I go to Northwestern
number seven Andrew Keegan actually I
just came by to chat we don’t chat
Andrew Keegan appeared in a few movies
throughout the 1990s including Camp
Nowhere and ten Things I Hate About You
but his main claim to fame was his work
in television he starred as Jack Kelly
for 17 episodes of Thunder alley Reed
Isley for eight episodes of party of
five and Wilson West for 22 episodes in
seventh heaven Reverend Camden well glad
you called he then starred in numerous
direct-to-video and short films
throughout the 2000s before creating a
spiritual Center in Venice Beach called
full circle in 2014 while Keegan has
described full circle as a quote
nondenominational spiritual community
center others have called it a cult
however full circle disbanded in June
2007
number six christina ricci your work is
pure a land under dramatized you like
any sense of structure character are the
Aristotelian unities Christina Ricci was
popular for the majority of the 90s she
became a child star by appearing as
Wednesday Addams in the Addams Family
franchise she transitioned from child
star to teen icon by appearing in
numerous movies as a teenager most
notably 1995’s Casper it’s a little late
for that debt as a young adult
she found significant box-office success
with Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow and
critical acclaim with the romantic
comedy the opposite of sex which earned
her a Golden Globe nomination what is
your problem
while she has been steadily working in
film and television since the early
2000s her popularity has significantly
waned and she isn’t as much of a
household name as she once was number 5
Joe Pesci well for kids they’re the
parents gotta be Joe Pesci was
everywhere in the 90s he showed up in
family movies like home alone and its
sequel he showed up in adult comedies
like my cousin Vinnie he appeared in
hard-hitting dramas like Oliver Stone’s
JFK and we can’t forget action
blockbusters like Lethal Weapon 3 he
also frequently collaborated with Martin
Scorsese appearing as tough guys in
Goodfellas and Casino the guy did it all
and then he retired at the height of his
fame
since Lethal Weapon 4 in 1998 Pesci has
only been credited in three movies where
the fourth Scorsese’s the Irishman set
for a 2019 release date number 4 Wesley
Snipes and let this be a lesson to
everyone always pay your taxes Snipes
was one of the biggest blockbuster stars
of the 90s appearing in many notable
movies like white men can’t jump
passenger 57 demolition man and blade
you can frost a message for me you tell
him it’s open season on horse
chuckles his star continued to rise
throughout the early parts of the 2000s
before he was charged with conspiring to
defraud the country and attempting to
attain false tax refunds in 2008 Snipes
was sentenced to three years in prison
for failing to file income tax returns
he was released from prison in 2013
although he has so far failed to
recapture his glory days of old number
three
Bridget Fonda he promised me twice
Bridget Fonda is the granddaughter of
Hollywood legend Henry Fonda and the
daughter of Peter Fonda and like her
family before her she made quite a name
for herself in the movies throughout the
1990s she appeared in a number of
notable films including the Godfather
Part 3 single white female and Quentin
Tarantino’s often overlooked Jackie
Brown I never really got to know him but
I knew enough to know that I wasn’t
missing much so she also found success
on television earning an Emmy nomination
for her work in the HBO film in the
gloaming
however despite a Golden Globe nod for
mm ones no ordinary baby she’s basically
dropped off the face of the earth
retiring after her most recent credit in
the hallmark movie Snow Queen which was
released in 2002 number 2 Rachael Leigh
Cook Rachel Leigh Cook made a splash in
the entertainment world at the very tail
end of the 1990s her breakout role came
in 1999 when she played Laney Boggs in
the surprise hit she is all that can I
get you something she followed this up
with a few appearances in the hit teen
drama Dawson’s Creek before successfully
entering the new millennium with a voice
role in Batman Beyond return of the
Joker and the lead role in josie and the
pussycats like he’s really gonna call
the cops
since that time she’s appeared in
countless directed DVD movies and while
she has starred in a few television
programs she isn’t even close to the
star that she was in the late 90s and
early 2000s had an instant renkins death
this is my fault
number one Jonathan Taylor Thomas jtt
had the world in the palm of his hand at
10
Thomas was cast as Randy Taylor on home
improvement oh yeah Prince no one ever
died in a prancing accident this sitcom
would make Thomas a household name as he
appeared in near
180 episodes of the show over seven
years after a few years on TV Thomas
made his film debut in 1994 by voicing
young Simba in the Lion King
my daddy showed me the whole kingdom and
I’m gonna rule it all the kid had a huge
career but in 1998 he seemingly lost
interest in showbiz and left
home-improvement to attend school he all
but disappeared around 2006 and wasn’t
seen or heard from for almost a decade
though he did appear in four episodes of
Tim Allen’s 2013 sitcom Last Man
Standing you know a lot of the times
that many child ends up being the funny
one because he wants the attention do
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