While numerous people nurse the dream of becoming actors and shining on movie screens, but very few can achieve superstardom, and fewer of them can manage to sustain it. As fame is fleeting, many stars who light up the screens often disappear from the screens. Today, we look at a few actresses from the 90s who shot to fame but soon disappeared from the big screen!
Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba became a heartthrob of the millions in the last decade. However, she gave up her career after her marriage and childbirth. The actress chose family over her career. Now she hardly dazzles our screen with her luminous appearances and instead focuses on her own company, which produces environmentally friendly skincare products and other goods. With her company’s evaluation standing at $ 1 billion, she has succeeded in her alternative career. She was also on the 2014 cover of Forbes!
Elizabeth Hurley
English actress, Elizabeth Hurley, is one of the few actresses who still stay relevant even after disappearing from the screens in early 2000. Her last notable outing was in early 2000 with Brendan Fraser in the film Bedazzled with Brendan Fraser. Hurley now stars in TV series and dabbles in charity work, and has her own swimwear company to invest her time and money.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt courted success like no one else with the film I know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, in the 1990s. She also starred in the 2001 comedy film Heartbreakers, and actress Sigourney Weaver playing con artist duo. But after several big-screen failures, Hewitt made a switch to TV series such as The Ghost Whisperer, which continued to capture our screens from 2005 to 2010.
Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff began started her career early in the TV series Lizzie McGuire. She was excellent in the role of the protagonist role. Her spectacular success led her to be the heartthrob of the millennium. Well, it was the golden period of her career, but we have known it all along, that fame is fickle, and as she started to shift her focus on independent cinema projects. Today the mother of two is now appearing in various TV series. She has her fingers in several pies, also in the business of producing children’s goods.
Tara Reid
Tara Reid was the ultimate star of the late 1990s and early 2000s, she was the teen comedy American Pie, but the star of the nineties suddenly did the disappearing act on us, like many of her counterparts. She was one of the most promising careers ahead of her. However, the actress has recently announced that she has several projects in the pipeline that can give her career afresh reprieve. Her film and TV projects may get her back on the screen and out her back to the path of former glory.
Carmen Electra
The early 2000s saw Carmen Electra rise to sudden fame and was on the covers of several magazines and even in advertising commercials for various brands. She was a part of many films, as many as 581 films. But some of her films fizzled out, and she soon stopped receiving film offers.
However, she now uses her time to work on various charities to help children recover from violence and those suffering from brain tumors. She still has many followers on Instagram who likes to catch up with the star’s shenanigans on a one and one basis. She still looks incredibly fit and beautiful. So, we hope she would come back to films soon!
So, these were the nineties actresses, who had it all, fame, money, and a huge fan base, but fame has a strange way of working, and it shows how these actresses career spanned out?
Other actresses deserve honorable mentions such as Ali Later, Denise Richards, Shannon Elizabeth, and many more. Of these actresses who went into oblivion, we know only about active social media. It would be a dream come true to watch them entertain us all over again! Won’t you love to know what your favorite actors are up to now? Tell us now about your favorite stars who went missing suddenly and if you know where they are now!
