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Famous Actors Who Chose Family Over Their Careers
Famous Actors Who Chose Family Over Their Careers
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Home or Hollywood, that's the choice
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that countless actors face. And while
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most try to balance work with their
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family, a small handful gave it all up
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for love.
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Fans around the world rejoiced when it
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was revealed that Rick Moranis would be
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reprising his iconic role of Dark Helmet
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in Spaceballs 2.
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>> We asked, "What do the fans want?"
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But instead, we're making this movie.
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>> It was one thing that Mel Brooks' iconic
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Star Wars spoof was getting a sequel in
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the first place, but the fact that
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Moranis would be appearing in it, that
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was a whole 'nother kind of exciting.
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For decades, Moranis has been enjoying a
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kind of unofficial retirement. He hadn't
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appeared in a single live-action film
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and performed only sporadic voice work
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and the occasional television
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appearance. Perhaps most notably,
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Moranis declined to appear in any of the
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three modern Ghostbusters movies, and he
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didn't even voice his own titular
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character in the 2009 animated series
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Bob and Doug, despite having co-created
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the show. It seems that Moranis just
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doesn't do anything he isn't interested
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in doing, and he doesn't feel beholden
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to anyone to make cameos or reprise
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characters just for the sake of doing
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so. Moranis first stepped away from
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Hollywood partly for creative reasons,
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as he'd been losing faith in the quality
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of his film work. It certainly didn't
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help that he had become increasingly
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unable to rewrite the characters he
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played, but most of his retirement also
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had to do with the death of his wife,
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Anne, which left him as a single father.
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Moranis initially took off time from
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acting to grieve and spend more time
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with his kids. After that, he found he
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didn't miss Hollywood as much as he
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thought he would. And so, he decided to
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leave the life of show biz for good.
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Mostly.
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The 1980s weren't lacking in so-called
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it girls. Even so, Phoebe Cates managed
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to be one of the most it of them all,
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thanks almost entirely to her roles in
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the
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Gremlins films.
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>> They're inside.
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All of them?
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>> Cates cemented herself as a centerpiece
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of tween girl sleepovers for years to
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come by starring in the cult hit Drop
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Dead Fred. But after barely stopping to
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take a break between 1982 and 1994, she
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all but dropped off the face of the
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earth. In the days before the internet
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and constant access to celebrity news
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and gossip, people had no idea what had
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happened to her. It was known that she
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had married actor Kevin Kline and that
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the couple had welcomed two children
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together. With Kate still in her early
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30s, nobody could have guessed that she
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had already stepped away from acting to
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focus on her family. Yet, that's exactly
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what she did. Aside from one or two
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sparse roles, at least one of which she
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took as a favor, Gates has appeared in
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pretty much nothing since 1994.
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Instead, she spent the last 30 years as
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a wife, mother, and businesswoman.
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Younger film fans might not realize that
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Demi Moore ever scaled back her acting
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career. She's been firing on all
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cylinders in recent years and her more
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recent efforts have been counted among
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her finest, most notably her
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Oscar-nominated performance in 2024's
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acclaimed body horror masterpiece The
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Substance.
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>> I'd like
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to order.
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>> At one point though, Moore did step back
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from what had been a very busy career
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and it was all because she had three
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daughters to raise, Tallulah, Scout, and
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Rumer Willis, her three kids with her
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ex-husband Bruce Willis. Moore told
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Glamour in 2024 that a perfect storm of
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decisions and events caused her to
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re-evaluate her career in the late '90s.
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She said, "My mother died, my marriage
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ended, and I stepped back from work to
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be with my kids. And there was a moment
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I realized that my own success, which
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had been a real driving thrust, a real
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motivation, wasn't enough. I had to
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reconnect with what moved me. Why was I
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really doing this?" While Moore worked
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steadily throughout the 2000s and
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beyond, this was a far cry from her
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previous pace. She had starred in a
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whopping nine films across 1995, 1996,
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and 1997.
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After of stuck cranking out forgettable
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rom-coms and mindless action movies like
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so many other stars of her day, Sandra
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Bullock turned things around in a big
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way. In the 2000s, she began to appear
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in more highly acclaimed films,
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including a 2004 turn in best picture
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winner Crash. Bullock eventually became
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a two-time best actress nominee, taking
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home the prize for her role in the
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sports biopic The Blind Side. She stayed
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busy throughout the 2000s and 2010s,
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too, balancing blockbuster
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crowd-pleasers with more new ones and
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character-driven work. However, 2022
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brought the news that we might not see
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Bullock on screen for a while. This held
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true for a time, as she made no
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on-screen appearances between that year
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and 2026. As Bullock told ET Online, "I
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just want to be 24/7 with my babies and
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my family. That's where I'm going to be
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for a while." Of course, she never said
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she was outright retiring, and she
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eventually took her first role in four
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years in the 2026 movie Practical Magic
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2. Her third film with Keanu Reeves
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after Speed and The Lake House is also
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said to be in the works, though there's
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been no word about the timeline for its
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production or release.
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After cranking out some of the most
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iconic teen horror movies and rom-coms
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of the late '90s, Freddie Prinze Jr.,
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alongside his wife and fellow teen star
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Sarah Michelle Gellar, starred in the
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enormously popular 2002 Scooby-Doo film.
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By that point, however, they both had
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enough money in the bank to scale back
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on their careers and shift focus to
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family life. They both did so after
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Scooby-Doo, although Prinze Jr.'s
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retirement was more total than Gellar's.
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>> I'm so over this damsel in distress
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nonsense.
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>> Even still, Prinze Jr. never fully went
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away after his heyday. He took on
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sporadic animated voice roles and made a
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few appearances on TV, but he certainly
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didn't maintain the trajectory he'd been
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on at the beginning of his career. And
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this was due in large part to putting
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his family first.
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After a few minor roles in the late
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'90s, Eva Mendes's career skyrocketed
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thanks to breakthrough performances in
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Training Day, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Once
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Upon a Time in Mexico. She then spent
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the 2000s as one of Hollywood's most
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in-demand leading ladies, appearing in
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films of many genres, and starring
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opposite just about every major actor of
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the era. In 2011, Mendes added Ryan
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Gosling to that list as they filmed The
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Place Beyond the Pines together. Gosling
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and Mendes began dating during the
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production, and by 2014, they were
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parents. Mendes immediately side lined
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her own acting career to focus on their
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child, who was joined by another two
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years later. In 2024, she looked back on
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the decision to become a full-time mom,
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telling Today, "It was like a
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no-brainer." As far as Gosling's
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decision to keep acting while Mendes
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stayed home, she said, "It was almost a
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non-verbal agreement, and it was like,
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'Okay, he's going to work, and I'm going
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to work. I'm just going to work here.'"
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Aside from the animated series Bluey,
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Mendes hasn't had a single screen credit
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since 2014. That being said, she hasn't
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completely sworn off her old career.
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Mendes has said that she would agree to
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return to acting under one condition:
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that the content be kid-focused and
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family-friendly. If nothing else, this
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would certainly explain the whole Bluey
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thing. Maybe her kids are fans.
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Cameron Diaz had zero acting experience
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when she was cast in her debut role in
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The Mask, having landed the part
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entirely through an agent's
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recommendation. Although her previous
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work as a model probably didn't hurt.
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>> Who cares?
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>> But Diaz took the job seriously and
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began acting classes after being cast,
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clearly not content to just fumble her
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way through the movie while looking hot.
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That work paid off, and Diaz shifted
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from modeling to full-time acting, going
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on to star in some of the biggest films
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of the '90s and 2000s in movies like
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Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, Any
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Given Sunday, and Gangs of New York.
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Diaz more than proved her acting chops,
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and she got to work with some of
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Hollywood's most acclaimed filmmakers
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along the way. Then in 2017, having
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worked nearly non-stop for 20 years,
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Diaz announced that she was taking a
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break from acting. This was due in no
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small part to how much traveling was
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involved in her work. It was also around
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this time that she started splitting her
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efforts among other endeavors, including
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writing books and engaging in
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entrepreneurial work. The break also
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coincided with the birth of Diaz's first
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child with her husband, Benji Madden, at
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which point she announced that the
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hiatus had become a retirement. That
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said, Diaz has since returned to acting
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with several new projects in the works,
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leaving the years between 2014 and 2025
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as a decade-long gap in her resume.
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On the surface, it might not seem too
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impressive that Cary Grant stopped
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acting once he had a daughter. After
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all, he was already 62 at the time and
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had a full career of more than 70 films
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behind him. But in the 1960s, it wasn't
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the norm for a man to become a full-time
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parent. That kind of thing was typically
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considered the domain of mothers. Yet,
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Grant was determined to give his
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daughter, Jennifer, a better childhood
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than he'd had. As Jennifer told The
8:40
Guardian in 2023, "Given the pain of my
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father's upbringing, which forced him to
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push down a lot of it, he could have
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self-immolated, right? But it motivated
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him. And I think he wanted to be sure
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not to repeat the pattern. So, the
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pendulum swung the other way. All the
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neglect he suffered meant he made sure
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that was not my life." Unfortunately,
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Grant's age at the time of her birth
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meant that Jennifer didn't have a dad
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for as long as she would have liked.
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Grant passed away when Jennifer was only
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20, and he never got to meet his
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grandchildren, one of whom Jennifer
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named after her father. Naturally, this
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has led to a few amusing moments along
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the way. As Jennifer tells it,
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"Occasionally, a teacher will say to my
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son, 'Oh, Cary Grant, your mother must
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have loved that actor.' And he'll say,
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'That was my grandfather.'"
