15 Actors Who Can’t Find Work (And Why Hollywood Isn’t Hiring Them)

11. Drew Barrymore Just Faded Away

Drew Barrymorewas born into a family of actors, so it seemed that she was destined to land up in Hollywood. Her transition from child actor to adult performer was rather rocky as she struggled with family issues and drug addiction, but she emerged as a young beautiful starlet who looked set to become a leading lady. Between 1995 and 1999 her career took off and Drew was appearing in between two and three movies every year, picking up leading roles in films like Never Been Kissed and Ever After. But since she seems to be on the decline – only doing one or two projects each year, with hardly any leading roles. These days Drew works more behind the scenes as a producer than in front of the camera.

10. Macaulay Culkin “Retired” From Acting At Fourteen

Macaulay started acting at the age of four and at ten his role as Kevin McCallister in the blockbuster film Home Alone made him an overnight sensation all over the world. He continued to work as an actor after this breakout role, landing parts in films like Richie Rich, The Pagemaster, and The Good Son (which earned him an MTV Movie Award nomination in the category for Best Villain) but just four years after Home Alone hit the big screen, Macaulay, then aged just fourteen, retired from acting. He resurfaced almost a decade later, almost unrecognizable, and slowly began acting again, but as you can imagine casting agents are not hammering down his door. Perhaps there’s a feeling like he might be just a little too unstable to work with?

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