Why did Jennifer Tilly's career go straight down the shitter?

She’s actually a very good actress! But I think she was typecast.

When she was married to Sam Simon, she attempted to discourage him from getting involved with "The Simpson," then when they divorced, she insisted on a cut of what he was getting from the show.

Got a lot of money from that divorce. Money he never would've had had he listened to her.

Simpsons*

Meg Tilly is a much better actress.

It was always the same character.

No she isn’t, r4. Meg Tilly is an embarrassment.

Isn't she a professional poker player now?

She's a little long in the tooth for her sex kitten roles.

Nobody could take her seriously as an actress anymore after killer doll sex.

She has a fuck ton of money from her ex Sam Simon (The Simpsons). She has fun travelling all over the world. Her twitter feed is lighthearted and interesting. I want to hate her, but I can't. I hear she's a really lovely person too. Bitch.

She looks like Ms. Swan these days.

Well, she couldn't go on playing the wee voiced sexpot forever. And that was really the only type of role she was good at. She's like Melanie Griffith; she couldn't go on playing the wee voiced sex pot, either.

I remember her on Hill Street Blues. She played Gina Sgrignoli, the wee voiced, sexpot wife of an obese mobster called Paul the Wall. After his death she got all his money. I can't remember exactly how, but Henry Goldblum saved her life in some kind of sting operation, which causes her to fall in love with him and worship him and lavish expensive gifts and pussy on him. They flaunt their affair and it pisses people off, understandably. Together they were as annoying as fuck. But her character's exit from the show was very satisfying. She's in a restaurant with lover man Henry, along with Faye and Harry (both insanely jealous of the relationship) when a hit man abruptly shows up, slams into their table and pumps several bullets into her belly. A fitting end to the life of the slutty mob girl.

I always liked her. I wish she would get more work.

At least she escapes in Bound.

I’d call Tilly amusing and fun to watch. Not a good actress. Her nomination was a joke.

Most actors and actresses do not have long careers.

She discusses her Oscar nomination here.

I thought she gave a major comic performance in "Bullets Over Broadway".

Loved, loved, loved Jennifer in Bullets Over Broadway. Funniest movie ever. Tilly was hysterical.

I actually her voiceover work in the animated Home on the Range opposite Judi Dench and Roseanne (?!) of all people. What a random trio that was.

She’d rather play poker than earn an honest living play-acting for the cameras.

Sorry -- I loved Agnes of God. Nothing J. Tilly does will ever beat that.

R21, that's not a bad life -- getting paid to play poker, attend film fests, and travel. Can my career go straight down the shitter so I can do the same?

Meg Tilly also got a lot of money from her divorce in 2002 from movie executive John Calley who was thirty years her senior (she married him in 1995).

Frankly, most film actresses careers go straight down the shitter after the age of 40 or for most 35. Jennifer Tilly had the option of becoming a character actress and I could see her playing blowzy Shelley Winters mid-career type roles today. Unfortunately, Hollywood isn't producing a lot of good roles for middle-aged women, even supporting ones. She would have to go to cable or Netflix for those.

She's done alot of the Chucky movies. Once you hit a certain age for WOMEN in Hollywood. You not wanted. Harder to get roles. I think alot just say f***k it.

Meg Tilly wins because she got to fuck Colin Firth in his prime

She looks good for 61.