Stars who worked "ordinary" jobs after leaving showbiz

Betty Hutton -- cook in a convent.

Bobby Sherman became a paramedic.

We could do an entire thread of former soap stars who worked "ordinary" jobs after leaving acting

Not to mention child actors and porn stars.

Ken "Eddie Haskell" Osmond joined the LAPD.

Janice Rule became a therapist.

John Kerr became a lawyer.

Plenty of actors ran for office, Cynthia Nixon being the latest.

Nothing crazy but...

I worked with Willie Olsen from Little House on the Prairie - Jonathan Gilbert, who is also Sara Gilbert's and Shit bra's brother.

He was a bartender in NYC while getting his series 7. That's where I met him. Eventually he became a stockbroker and did very very well.

Gene Tierney became a counter clerk or sales associate in today's terms but not so much because she needed a job but as mental health therapy.

:vvvv

Several former child actors became lawyers like Jeff Cohen, Staci Kenan, and Josh Saviano. Lara Jill Miller worked as a lawyer for awhile. IIRC, she hated it and then started doing voice work for cartoons.

Former child actor Mike Vitar from The Sandlot and one of the Mighty Ducks movie is a firefighter.

Jamie Walters who was on the short lived show 90s show The Heights and also played Donna's abusive boyfriend on 90210 is a paramedic and firefighter.

I also recall some former child star from the 70s became a veterinarian.

[quote] I also recall some former child star from the 70s became a veterinarian.

That is the actress who played Dee on "What's Happening"

[quote] I worked with Willie Olsen from Little House on the Prairie - Jonathan Gilbert, who is also Sara Gilbert's and Shit bra's brother. He was a bartender in NYC while getting his series 7. That's where I met him. Eventually he became a stockbroker and did very very well.

Melissa Gilbert writes in her book that Jonathan just walked out of the house one day, and never came back - cut off all contact with his family

She has not spoken to him since that day he walked out, and it has been like over 30 years.

Kristy McNichol taught acting at private high schools and was rumored to have attended beauty school and worked as a hairdresser for awhile.

Peter Ostrum who played Charlie in the original chocolate factory movie also became a veterinarian. The boy who played Augustus Gloop, Michael Bollner, grew into a tax accountant. Mike Teevee, Paris Themmen, has worked in casting, photography, and the travel industry. Veruca Salt, Julie Dawn Cole, continued acting until 2013. Since then she has become a psychotherapist. Violet Beauregard, Denise Nickerson, continued acting in small parts and voice-over work for some time, but eventually moved on. She passed away in 2019.

Crispin Bonham-Carter gave up acting and became a teacher. Christian in Clueless (Justin Walker) owns a restaurant. Nikki Blonksy from the original Hairspray became a cosmetologist.

That guy from Cosby show bagged groceries.

[quote]Nikki Blonksy from the original Hairspray became a cosmetologist.

Fuck you. I was the one in the original Hairspray.

Chad Allen is a psychologist in Maine studying for his PhD.

Mitchell Anderson (Dougie Howser) now owns a restaurant in Atlanta

Margaret Elliot did have that brief department store gig.

R18 Damn, he is still a fuck’n hottie. Now a super smart fuck’n hottie with a PhD. Way to go Chad.

Some of us never left showbiz!

Here's Veronica Lake's interview with Dick Cavett, after her autobiography came out) . Some say she's drunk, I don't know (she was dead from cirrhosis 2 years later).

You can tell she'd be difficult to work with. Probably why she started doing TV and theater.

Read her Wiki bio. It sounds like she always did exactly what she wanted to.

Shelley Smith, who was a model and appeared on many TV shows in the 1970s and 1980s, left it behind to get a degree in psychology. She's operated a fertility clinic/egg donation service for decades.

Didn't know that about Chad. Good for him.

Actress/singer Gloria Jean became a receptionist

Dana Plato became a armed robber. Remember the video store incident?

R12 Alison Arngrim said in an interview quite some time ago (at least 10 years ago) that Jonathan was in contact with her on occasion. She said he traveled abroad a lot and when he had last contacted her, he was doing a play in LA.

He's still sexy as hell, but i think we should set up a Go Fund Me to buy Chad Allen a toupee that actually fits.

Michael Burns, who did lots of TV and movie work as a child and young man went on to be a History Professor and successful gentleman farmer.

What about Gail Ogrady?

Who the fuck is Maggie MacNamara? Obviously not a big star.

Anissa Jones "Buffy" from Family Affair worked at a donut shop before she was old enough to have access to her money.

Mike Lookinland "Bobby Brady" makes kitchen countertops.

Fawn Hall used to be a manager at Book Soup on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood.

Constance McCashin (best known as "Laura" from Knots Landing) is now a social worker and therapist.

SMART OR FAILURES for leaving the biz and doing a "ordinary job".. ?

i wonder what the percentage is of those who WILLINGLY left it and those who COULDN'T get work and would do anything if given the chance to go back into the biz..

R33 Mike Looklinland worked as a camera operator when that Everwood show filmed in Utah.

R13 - I thought Kristy MacNichol worked at a Home Depot or something like that? She definitely did go into more maintstream ordinary jobs after Empty Nest.

[quote] Some of us never left showbiz!

That’s right!

Danica McKellar - Winnie Cooper in the Wonder Years - became a math professor

Seems most of these are child stars. Here are some more:

Dana Plato from Different Strokes worked in a dry cleaners.

Gary Coleman, also from DS, was a security guard among other things.

Missy Gold from Benson (big sister of Tracy from Growing Pains) became a psychologist, I believe.

Pissy Gold (big sister to Missy) became a surgical shaver after Missy left Benson.

I heard that Gary Coleman bought and managed an apartment building in the Alphabet City of New York. I know there was some fuss about a guy there totally hooked on internet porn. Hell, there were even some ridiculous rumors of monsters living there at one point!

Danica mckeller has written several books about math geared toward middle school and high school girls but is not a professor. She resumed her acting career after college and is currently a hallmark movie queen.

I became a man.

r32, she's best known for being in a movie called The Moon is Blue. She received an Oscar nomination for it

Mark Goddard from Lost In Space became a special education teacher.

Angela Cartwright became a photographer and ran her own boutique for awhile. She recently did a cameo in the new Lost In Space on Netflix.

Michael Schoeffling owns a woodworking shop

Danny Lloyd from The Shining is a community college science professor. Rumor has it that on the first day of class, he says to the students that if they bring up The Shining, he’ll automatically fail them.

R36 even if they could not get work I think they made a wise choice. The actors who wind up really nuts are the ones who stick around Hollywood for years even when it's clear things aren't working out. And that doesn't just go for acting. So many people wind up screwed in the head by staying in a high stress job that they don't handle well.

Meghan Markle from Suits became a Royal duchess

Shes lost that job too R51.

Robert “Wortham” Krimmer (Rev. Andrew Carpenter on One Life To Live) went back to finish the law degree he interrupted when he got into the ACT theater school. Became an environmental law attorney.

Robby Benson - College Professor

[quote]I thought Kristy MacNichol worked at a Home Depot or something like that? She definitely did go into more maintstream ordinary jobs after Empty Nest.

I hadn't heard about that. I've just heard about the acting teacher and hairdresser rumors. Another rumor is that rental condo investments are a reason she was able to leave acting.

Still gorgeous ( those eyes )

Kim Darby was an acting teacher at UCLA's extension program.

Jay North (TV's Dennis the Menace) works for the Florida Department of Corrections. His mother invested his earnings wisely, so he has actually done quite well financially.

Bobby Sherman, mentioned above, certainly has had a varied life. Singer, actor, lover of Sal Mineo, to paramedic, police officer and happily married heterosexual.

Will Smith’s kids are becoming something else. With Mom and Dad’s help.

Kelly McGillis has owned restaurants and bars. She also worked at a drug rehab facility and I believe she was a counselor there.

MacKenzie Phillips has worked at a rehab facility for the past several years.

MacKenzie Phillips has worked in rehab for most of her life...

She hadn’t worked in them she’s been a patient in them!

[quote]Fawn Hall used to be a manager at Book Soup on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood.

Fawn Hall was in showbiz?

If you dated Rob Lowe in the 80s, you're in showbiz baby!

Brazilian hottie Bruno Campos, formerly of Nip/Tuck, Princess & the frog, et al, now a NY attorney

Imagine if the lawyer defending you in a serious case was the doctor with no dick on Nip/Tuck.

How did he lose his dick?

R68 IIRC, it was explained that his character was a product of incest and that he was born without a penis as a result. The doctor's detective sister Kit also had some kind of facial deformity due to the incest. I'll admit I love the scene of Quentin and Kit in Spain or Portugal(can't remember which country) making fun of potential victims' plastic surgery work.

Wayne Rogers of M*A*S*H became a financial advisor.

I loved that Marla Gibbs kept working as an airline phone agent all through the first year of "The Jeffersons," even when it was a big hit. That was working an ordinary job while IN showbiz.

I know it's borderline "stardom" -- but Kate Linder, who has appeared on Young & the Restless since 1982, is still a flight attendant on United as well. She is also good friends with DL fave Brendad Ickson.

Teddy Dunn who played Duncan on Veronica Mars is now a lawyer in NYC.

Bobby Sherman did more than become a paramedic.

[quote]He officially became a technical Reserve Police Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1990s, a position he still held as of 2017. He was later promoted to Captain in the Los Angeles Police Department.

[quote]For more than a decade he served as a medical training officer at the Los Angeles Police Academy, instructing thousands of police officers in first aid and CPR. He was named LAPD's Reserve Officer of the Year in 1999.

[quote]Sherman also became a Reserve Deputy Sheriff in 1999 with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

In his spare time, he also built a 1/5 scale model of Disneyland's Main Street in his backyard.

Ilan Mitchell-Smith, from "Weird Science," became a literature professor.

Oliver Barrett, from "Cocoon" and "The Neverending Story," became a photographer.

The wonderful Nina Foch taught acting for years at USC. Some of her classes are available on YouTube. She continued to act very sporadically though.

Jane Withers, after many years as a film actress, became the iconic "Josephine the Plumber" in those Comet cleanser TV ads.

Matt Keeslar from Scream 3 and those Dune TV movies is a registered nurse now.

Olympic medalist Lloyd Eisler, who won Skating with Celebrities and married Kristy Swanson, now works at Lowe’s and bags groceries at Wegman’s in New Jersey.

Barry Gordon received his Juris Doctor in poli sci from Loyola and went on to run for office a few times, coming close but never winning. He also taught courses at Cali State off and on, but he still took acting jobs during this time, so maybe this doesn't quite count.

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Erika Badu is now a Midwife/ Doula.

Leelee Sobtreiyrfcdeski is a dominatrix now

Andrew Shue started a frau central website called CafeMom.

[quote]Jane Withers, after many years as a film actress, became the iconic "Josephine the Plumber" in those Comet cleanser TV ads.

While a plumber is definitely an "ordinary job," playing one in a commercial is definitely still showbiz.

Matthew Keesler on why he left California for Portland Community College:

"Last May I realized that we would run out of money in ten weeks. I had been struggling as an actor in Los Angeles while my wife taught piano lessons. My son was about to start preschool. Although I happened upon success earlier in my career, I hadn’t worked in over a year. We had stretched our budget to its limit. My wife and I cobbled together a plan: we would sell our house and bunk up with my in-laws while I churned through the prerequisites for nursing school.

I enrolled at Portland State, but because my parents-in-law lived in Oregon and we were coming from California, I was considered a non-resident. The tuition floored me. I would have to borrow huge loans. If I were not accepted into nursing school, I would have to find a job and start repaying those loans immediately. Having recently clawed our way out from under the debt of owning a house, incurring a new mountain of debt chilled me. I ditched that plan and enrolled at Portland Community College.

The safety net of Community College caught me before I hit bottom. Without the low cost and guaranteed admission at PCC, I would have had to take a minimum-wage job to support my family. Getting into a private school was impossible. Although I had attended the Juilliard School of Drama, my grades weren’t stellar, and my old acting teachers wouldn’t remember my name, let alone write me a good recommendation. Being a recent transplant from California also decreased my eligibility for scholarships. I needed an inexpensive education that would help me land a job. I needed a place to start over. Portland Community College offered me the opportunity to improve my academic record and work toward a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing. Because PCC is allied with Oregon Health and Sciences University, OHSU will accept my nursing school credits. The possibility of earning an affordable four-year degree cannot be underestimated. As hospitals strive to fill positions with the best candidates, and nurses take on an increasingly important role in health care, the BSN has become a crucial element in securing a job after graduation. Enrolling in community college is giving me the chance to enter the work force with the training I need to succeed.

As the demand for specialized knowledge in the workplace escalates, the need for a four year degree likewise increases. Community colleges offer an education to those students who are willing to work hard despite past failures or hardships. By offering a Baccalaureate degree to students, community colleges would be acknowledging the current need for degrees beyond the associate’s level. They would also be enriching the community by turning out graduates more qualified to concentrate on and become experts in a particular field. Although I my monetary resources had dwindled to zero, I had the initiative to strike out on a path to self-actualization. Luckily, my community college met me half way."

Well, at least he's doing something useful

We'll miss you.

Keeslar is a physician’s assistant now.

Charlie Korsmo

Christopher Atkins is ugly

Keeslar was and is gorgeous -And he was a very good actor. He should be very proud of what he has accomplished with his life in the medical field. He made some hard decisions that have made life better for himself and his family. The piece quoted above about the value of community colleges reflects the experiences of a lot of people.

The only negative in reading about Matt's recent life is the confirmation that he is, alas, straight. Sigh...

I'm not sure being a male nurse is confirmation that a guy is straight.....

Um. How about him talking about his wife and kids? Does that count?

John Travolta has a wife and kids

I find this thread fascinating

Peter Wingfield, Methos from Highlander, became an anesthesiologist and now practices in San Diego.

Fair enough, [R96], but Travolta had gay rumors surrounding him long before he married. Keeslar married in 2005, after his career was basically over. I know, it doesn't prove anything. I'd much rather claim Keeslar as gay than Travolta. But in this case

Denise Darcel was a French performer I'd never heard of until she played Solange in the Long Beach production of "Follies". She was a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas.

I remember Boy George had a booth at some London flea market during a low point in his career. He also worked as a DJ.

Thank God for nostalgia tours!

I never saw the appeal of Christopher Atkins - weird facial wrinkles at a very young age, don't even know what to call them. Maybe "cheek jowels?"

Dennis Cole, married to Jaclyn Smith for 3 years., became a realtor in Florida.

Hervé "ze plane, ze plane" Villechaize from Fantasy Island bought a motel in Century City and turned it into a residential space where other little people could live while overcoming addictions or career issues. They were called Stay Free Mini Pads.

You R104 are the reason I come here less and less.

[quote]R32 Who the fuck is Maggie MacNamara? Obviously not a big star.

She was nominated for an Oscar, but made just a handful of films.

Eventually committed suicide.

[quote]R58 invested his earnings wisely

I thought this said EARRINGS!

Michael Bergin is a realtor.

Leah Lail, from the Pamela Anderson series, "V.I.P." is also a realtor. She and Michael Bergin specialize in "luxury real estate."

Peter Weller still acts occasionally but he completed a Master of Arts degree in Roman and Renaissance Art and occasionally taught courses in ancient history. Later on he got his PhD in Italian Renaissance Art history.

Dorothy Malone became a realtor in Dallas at some point after she moved there in the 1970s. She still did some acting for a while, but I seem to recall an obituary said she was still an active realtor until just before she died.

It’s interesting how some people move on and settle into new jobs, and then you have someone like Brendad Ickson who still calls herself an actress, even though she hasn’t worked since 1986.

Imagine having Robocop as your professor.

Peter Weller never stopped acting and still directs lots of TV shows.

Ronald Reagan became a spokesman for General Electric

Stephen Geoffreys from 1985's FRIGHT NIGHT became a gay porn actor.

Gorgeous German teen actor Thomas Haustein made a big splash in 1981 playing Christiane F.'s heroin-addicted boyfriend Detlev in CHRISTIANE F opposite Natja Brunckhorst and David Bowie. Then dropped off the face of the earth.

In a 00's interview in Vice where they tracked him down, it turned out he had become a counselor for drug-addicted teens in Berlin. Go figure.

John Friedrich was a 70's actor in lots of popular television shows, and starring roles in films like The Wanderers, Thank God It's Friday, The Thorn Birds, Almost Summer, Fast Walking and opposite John Travolta in Boy In The Plastic Bubble. He worked with big names and directors and really seemed to have a big career laid out before him, then it all seemed to just stop. His last film was a 1981 horror movie with then-unknowns Rachel Ward and Daryl Hannah. Then *poof!* Gone.

He got married, had a daughter, and ran a real estate company.

It's interesting to think about at what point does one decide, "Enough!" And stop all that and attempt a different, normal life.

Sasha Mitchell, former Calvin Klein model and Step by Step costar, is a welder in Los Angeles.

Didnt know Staci Keanan is a lawyer now. I just assumed she was working behind the scenes in show business.

R120 I didn't know it until a couple of years back when I saw it mentioned on a legal blog. The only former child actor from Step by Step who still acts is Christine Lakin.Christopher Castile who played the nerdy brother Mark is an adjunct professor at Biola University and also teaches history at a high school. Not much is known on Angela Watson, Brandon Call, and Josh Byrne.

Brandon Call’s disappearance from Hollywood has a lot of unanswered questions.

I always wondered why it was never explained why Josh Byne was given the Judy Winslow treatment on Step by Step.

France Nuyen became a psychologist.

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Carol Potter, "Mom" who was frequently seen serving coffee on 90210 became a MFCC. She now has grey hair.

After he finished his two-year degree, Matt Keeslar transferred to Reed College and got a bachelor's in biology, then trained as a physician assistant at OHSU School of Medicine with a specialty in urology. In addition to his clinical practice, he teaches at OHSU.

That means he gets to see a lot of peen!

Marcia Cross became a qualified clinical psychologist between Melrose Place and Desperate Housewives.

Lisa Jakob and Mara Wilson, child actresses from Mrs Doubtfire, both became writers which is a not uncommon thing, TBH. Which vaguely literate actress doesn't have a memoir out?

It must be incredibly difficult for someone that needs a massive amount of attention.. to become a typist.

Quite a few guys who were in the nude off-Broadway show "Party" and "Naked Boys Singing" went into real estate. One of them is a couples therapist.

She’s not a STAR, but Haviland Morris (“Sixteen Candles”) is now a real estate agent in Manhattan. She does very well for herself.

"Legendary Hollywood actress" Beverly Garland and her husband built and ran a hotel in LA, and called it The Beverly Garland. It’s now known as The Garland, and is run by their son.

Every failed actor and actress thinks they can waltz into real estate, and because stupid people go gaga over celebrities, they usually do pretty well.

I once worked for a large sales promotion company with a large travel component that hired only very attractive people to serve as tour guides. They weren't hired for their smarts. The ones who didn't wind up marrying clients all went into real estate.

Interesting thread except for a couple idiots, one who thinks "male nurse = gay" (it doesn't) and another who thinks "married with kids = proof of not being gay!" (also: it doesn't).

r137, probably 80% of male nurses are gay. Sorry if you can't handle that. This thread would be interesting without people like you who need to dump on people for no reason

I'm one of the posters [R137] is calling an idiot, because he misread what I said about being married with kids. I pointed out that the actor in question didn't acquire the wife and kids until after his acting career was over -When it would no longer be a career boost to be perceived as straight (if he actually were gay). In other words, he had a wife and kids because he wanted a wife and kids, not because he needed a beard. Sorry folks, not every hot young actor is gay. Even ending up on a casting couch in search of a job doesn't make you gay, Brad.

Yeah, I want to fantasize about these hot guys as much as the next DLer, but I'm a show biz professional, and I've known a helluva lot of straight actors in my time. Hell, my straight roommate in college was a nurse for years before he went back to medical school and became a doctor. The actor doesn't have to "prove" to anyone that he's straight. How do you want him to prove he's not gay? By being a homophobic jerk?

Danny Pintauro is now a vet tech at an animal shelter in Austin. He previously sold Tupperware, worked retail at the Gap, and managed a restaurant.

Is becoming a hooker an "ordinary" job?

Asking for a friend.

Frances Farmer worked as a Reservations Clerk at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco before she was talked into making a "comeback"......or "return" to show business by her crooked husband.....here they are discussing how things are going a year after she hit the trail.

Can you imagine the condition of the reservation files?

"[R137], probably 80% of male nurses are gay."

In my experience, it's not even 20%. And that's in critical care, where most of the male nurses end up.

There seem to be different reasons for leaving acting and show business. Matt Keeslar just couldn't make ends meet, with a wife and family, so he had to go do something else. But some actors (Greta Garbo comes to mind) just get very tired of it. Sometimes they return, but more often, they don't.

It was pretty shocking for me to hear Maggie Smith say, the theater is a grind, on that Dames show.

But it is a grind, even for a big star. And movies are worse.

[quote]Danny Pintauro is now a vet tech at an animal shelter in Austin. He previously sold Tupperware, worked retail at the Gap, and managed a restaurant.

Wow, that Stanford degree really opened doors.

r144, I knew a lot of male nurses and only one I met was straight (or at least he claimed to be)

Joe Dallesandro became a property manager.

Didn't Barbara Payton work as a call girl?

On an old Partridge Family reuinion Suzanne Crough was shown at work being the general manager of a Famous Footwear. At the time of her death it was reported that she was the general manager of an Office Max.

Barbara Payton worked as a shampoo girl in salons and I believe she worked in a laundromat. And then as a prostitute.

Sean Young had some trouble with the bottle in the aughts. At one point she said she was taking computer classes. But she cleaned up her act, remarried her ex and works steadily now.

[quote]Sorry folks, not every hot young actor is gay.

This is Datalounge BLASPHEMY!

Haviland Morris should’ve had a better career. She’s a great comedic actress and beautiful.

Couldn’t Matt Keesler have gotten a regular gig on series television playing Jennifer Love Hewitt’s husband or something?

R155 Keeslar probably tried to get a regular TV gig. He was a regular short lived show for ABC Family two years prior to leaving Hollywood. In that essay he wrote about going to nursing school, he mentioned that he and his wife had bought a house in LA and they had a child. His acting jobs probably weren't high paying and his agent and manager probably got a cut of each paycheck.

Keeslar still seems to take the occasional acting job:

R121 Brandon Call was last seen working at his parents gas station in San Diego. That was over a decade ago though. Pictures from that around time showed him not aging very well.

Angela Watson apparently became a big fundie and opened an foundation to keep child actors from being taken advantage of. Her parents snatched most of the money she earned as an actor.

Josh Byrne was supposedly fired because he was getting fat. Someone found his Myspace page and he put on even more weight and was doing renaissance fairs.

2 tv guest spots in the last 10 years r157.

R158, a couple of years back on Reddit there was a former child star who anonymously posted about what it was like to work on the set of a successful family sitcom in the 90’s. Apparently there were a lot of child predators, and he and another boy his age on set were molested by a producer. They eventually gathered the nerve to tell the female star of the show and her response was “Well, you wanted to be in show business...”

Some Reddit sleuths were able to deduct that it was most likely Josh Byrne. If so, that would explain the weight gain. It was probably emotional eating and trying to look less appealing to his predator.

R160 I'm guessing this was the reddit thread.

I searched around again and it looks like this was the Step by Step thread

Awesome clip of Frances Farmer upthread. She still looked good and that voice. She was very bright and triumphed over her trials and tribulations through sheer will. She acted in theater until her death.

Hmmmm.....no "probably" about an agent and manager getting part of income earned.

That's how agents and managers get paid. They get/negotiate jobs and they get paid via percentages of money earned.

Well you rang.

Last I heard, Matthew Fox of Party of Five and Lost was trying to become a realtor.

R166, he starred on two long-running hits. Does he need the money that bad? Did he drink it all away?

^ He seems to have turned into a violent drunk and those types are never good with money. He got shut out from Hollywood. People may not remember now, but when Lost was running, it seemed like he would easily transition to movies a la George Clooney and Will Smith to become a permanent A-lister. The thing is, it wasn't him carrying the show, and it would have succeeded anyway with another actor in the role.

Matthew Fox must have pissed off some important people because his career tanked very quickly after Lost went off the air.

He was the right age to segue into some bland cop/crime show but he really pretty much vanished. If no one will give you a gig after being a lead on a hot show, then you've fucked up.

What's the show in R161's link? I'm guessing Malcolm in the Middle (which is a shame, cuz I was a fan)

David Lee Roth was/is a paramedic.

Andrea Naschak was plucked out of porno (aka porn actress April Rayne) by director Joel Hershman to appear as the bawdy, trouble-making stripper Sabra in the 1992 comedy HOLD ME! THRILL ME! KISS ME! She's amazing in the role, is central to all the film's best moments, and practically steals the show opposite Sean Young, Adrienne Shelly, Max Parrish and Timothy Leary.

The film is also criminally underrated. Have you seen it?

It's an amazingly over-the-top performance by Naschak. And it was her ONE real film role. She left porn after that and seemed to never pursue serious acting.

R172 I remember this film. It is underrated. I loved the grandmother.

And yes, "Sabra" really steals the show. The whole cast is hysterical.

"I know I seem a little bit on the kinky side, but deep down I'm a sensitive and vulnerable girl. Don't let my dildoes, vibrators and handcuffs fool you."

R170 Yes, people believe it was Malcolm In The Middle and Erik Per Sullivan. IIRC, later on someone else on reddit said she was friends with Erik Per Sullivan and lost touch with him and later heard he was in rehab.

I also remember some rumor about Brandon Call from Step by Step being a drug addict.

If the post linked in r162 is about Step by Step, that kid is accusing Patrick Duffy of molesting his TV daughters.

I can't believe that. It has to be a different show.

R169 Matthew Fox admitted years ago that he argued constantly with the producers of Party of Five regarding storylines. I also recall rumors that he was difficult on the set of Lost. Maybe, some producers have heard that shit and refuse to give him work.

Not really an ordinary job, but Heather Donahue from The Blair Witch Project retired from acting and became a medical marijuana grower.

Did the Blair Witch actors make a shit-ton of money from that movie like the filmmakers did?

R176, why can’t you believe it? The post has been all but confirmed to be about Step by Step. Did anyone expect a Stephen Collins to be a lech? I don’t see why Patrick Duffy of all people is exempt.

"Did the Blair Witch actors make a shit-ton of money from that movie like the filmmakers did?"

no. the movie was sold to a distributor who sunk considerable more money into it re: marketing. so they made most of that money. the directors/actors received a fraction. they were just psyched to sell it (they didnt think it was going to be as big as it was) so they didnt negotiate for any of the box office receipts.

R181 If you have time for slashes and parentheses, you have time for capitalization.

I heard Aimee Mann was cleaning houses in Portland several years back.

It's not quite the same, but Darlene Love worked as a maid, sometime after her first success.

"After she parted ways with The Blossoms, Love went through some rough patches. For a while, to make ends meet, she cleaned houses — while secretly still driving her car from the glory-days, which she was loathe to give up. She parked it down the street, so employers wouldn't see. "They can't have a maid cleaning their house that has a Mercedes!" Love quips.

Eventually, Love was coaxed back into the music business by a serendipitous sign. "A wonderful thing happened while I was cleaning this one lady's bathroom," she recalls. "My record came on the radio." It was Darlene Love's 1963 song, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)." "I just looked up and I said, 'Okay, I hear ya, I'm outta here.' Not that I think anything's wrong with that kind of work, but I was given this gift and I wanted to use it." ...

Good grief, that link in R162 to the Reddit piece about the alleged former child actor revealing some awful shit about working on a sitcom in the 90s sounds like total made up bull shit.

Their excuse that "well, it was the 90s and stuff like this just happened" is such twaddle. Film and television sets, especially big union studio are pretty strict about minors and parents/guardians being around at all times.

Now, did incidents happen? I'm sure they did but the Reddit post sounds like fantasy pedo porn involving child actors sexually frolicking with adults on a sound stage at Sony or Warners. It's farfetched.

Oh, and the parents of this alleged abuse victim also stole all their money, something else that has been difficult to do for many years since child actors have the bulk of their income put into trust until they are adults.

Reddit is proof that any nut can show up and make crazy claims and a bunch of nutters will show up in support.

Lyle Waggoner had his own lucrative trailer business.

Dolores Hart and June Haver became nuns.

You are partially right R187. Haver only lasted for around 8 months as a nun and met and married Fred MacMurray about a year after leaving the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth.

Jaye Davidson (The Crying Game) left actingk did some modeling and iis now a celebrity stylist in Paris.

^ Sorry for all the typos! My old tablet is fading rapidly. I could barely read what I wrote to even make corrections.

Angela Cartwright (Lost in Space, TV show) has been a photographer for over 30 years.

Meeno Peluce (Voyagers!) became a teacher and a photographer.

Ben Murphy of Alias Smith and Jones became a tennis pro. Still alive and playing tennis at age 78.

'70s teen heartthrob Radames Pera of "Kung Fu" and "Little House on the Prairie" designs and installs sound equipment for rich clients.

And he thinks Melissa Sue Anderson was indeed the Little Cunt on the Prairie, though he puts it more nicely.

I really hope my crush Linwood Boomer was not a little pedo on the prairie when he worked on “Malcolm in the Middle”

Michael Burns, cutie from "Wagon Train" (also a deranged sniper on one "Hawaii 5-O"), became a History Professor at Mt. Holyoke.

R185 is Suzanne “Well, you wanted to be famous” Somers

FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT some of these stars like darlene love and aimee mann couldn't get work singing somewhere ANYWHERE and had to resort to working cleaning houses? really?

Ben Murphy didn't give up acting R193. He retired from acting in 2010. I don't know if he ever thought, but he did compete in tennis while still acting.

*taught

June Haver left the convent to marry Fred MacMurray? That's changing your mind with a vengeance.

I guess if THIS tried to become a nun, anything is possible.

Well, Dolores Hart had been co-starring opposite Elvis (!) and still remains a nun.

[R201} said, "June Haver left the convent to marry Fred MacMurray? That's changing your mind with a vengeance."

Not really. No one with any interest in sex would become a nun in the first place -And marrying Fred MacMurray is further proof.

It’s truly mind-boggling how many potential classic movies of the 30s and 40s were sunk by casting the sexual void that is Fred MacMurray. It really bums me out.

??? Fred MacMurray wasn't a pretty boy but he definitely gave off sexual sparks with his co-stars especially Colbert and Stanwyke in those sex comedies and thrillers at Paramount in the early 40s.

MacMurray wasn't pretty, but he was handsome. He's great with Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity" (bad guy) and "Remember the Night" (good guy, as usual), also wonderful playing another bad guy in "The Apartment", "Alice Adams" with Katharine Hepburn, among some other fine performances.

[quote]FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT some of these stars like darlene love and aimee mann couldn't get work singing somewhere ANYWHERE and had to resort to working cleaning houses? really?

There's footage of Aimee Mann working as a house cleaner on youtube.

R208.... oh, i'm no doubting that mann and love did do that work, i'm just saying i find it hard to believe that neither could find any singing work? anywhere?...

you guys know there's a difference between acting and real life, right?

I was thinking that about that clip R210 and think the poster was actually fucking with us. The joke is "I think Amiee Mann is cleaning my house?!"

A lot of former child actors form/join rock bands.

[quote]Ronald Reagan became a spokesman for General Electric

Nancy Davis married a TV spokesman but continued to give blow jobs whenever she thought it might benefit her

[quote]Keeslar probably tried to get a regular TV gig. He was a regular short lived show for ABC Family two years prior to leaving Hollywood. In that essay he wrote about going to nursing school, he mentioned that he and his wife had bought a house in LA and they had a child. His acting jobs probably weren't high paying and his agent and manager probably got a cut of each paycheck.

On a recent "In Bed with Nick and Meagan" podcast, Whoppi Goldberg said it was the late Elizabeth Taylor who advised her to get a "gift" from the producers every time she worked. Elizabeth explained to Whoopi that every one else gets a cut when an actor works - the actor's agent gets 5%, the manager gets 10%, the attorney gets about 10%, and so on and so on.

Whoopi and Megan also agreed even the most successful actors work only sporadically. Whoopi said that by taking Taylor's advice, she had ensured she got something all her own from each acting job, and she had a beautiful collection of "gifts" that reminded her of every job she'd had since she'd become successful.

Dolores Hart became a nun.

[quote]She made ten films in five years, playing opposite Stephen Boyd, Montgomery Clift, George Hamilton, and Robert Wagner, having made her movie debut with Elvis Presley in Loving You. Wikipedia

Wayne Rogers (Trapper John, MASH) became a successful stock trader.

R214, what kind of gifts? Is that code for something?

Wasn’t Jonathan ‘qwerty’ Taylor-Thomas working as an English teacher for a little while? Think it was just a taster career/side hustle.

Sara Tanaka, who is best known as Margaret Yang in one of my favorite movies Rushmore, is a cardiologist. Prior to becoming a physician she also appeared in Old School, Race the Sun, and Imaginary Heroes.

Maggie McNamara was in an episode of The Twilight Zone. Her character was that of an actress who returns to her home town and learns she may be the cause of a tragedy there.

Angela Lansbury does interracial gangbang granny porn. Miss Kay Lenz is a whore down on 7th Avenue. Jason Ritter became a vegan chef.

R181, I genuinely thought that the stars of The Blair Witch Project made millions, but no, it was just a couple of hundred grand each. How does that work? Who got the bulk of the money? Seriously, something's not right there; it grossed $248.6 million but it's original budget was a couple of grand!

*I* became the POTU$

Danielle Spencer - Roger's little sister, Dee, on What's Happening - is a veterinarian.

[quote]A lot of former child actors form/join rock bands.

"!3 Reasons Why" star Dylan Minnette and Braeden Lemasters, who were both child actors, have a successful band called Wallets.

Dorothy Green who played the mother of the Brooks sisters on Young & Restless in the 70;s, became a realtor and executive with Coldwell Banker. My cousin rented an apartment from one of the properties she owned in LA in the 80's and said Dorothy Green was very aware people wanted 'Mrs. Brooks' to try to find their homes.