With time running at the pace of a hadron collider, it’s easy to get lost in the timeline of things. From the events to people who were a quintessential part of our past lives, things look very different from today’s perspective.
A good example of that is the celebrities we used to admire back in the day. My fellow millennials will remember The OC craze back in the ’00s and Gotye, a guy who released the decade-defining song “Somebody That I Used to Know” back in 2011. And then disappeared from the radar…
In fact, there are so many famous people who inspired us all in the past that we don’t hear much of, or at all, these days. “What celebrity disappeared out of nowhere?” somebody asked on the Ask Reddit subreddit, and it soon turned into a nostalgic thread that requires some detective work.
Scroll down for the best responses below, and share what forgotten celebs you remember in the comment section!
#1
Rick Moranis. After his wife died, he dropped everything so that he could focus on raising his children. I respect that.
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#2
Enya – she literally made amazing music, made a fortune then swerved the limelight to live peacefully in her castle. Iconic.
Image source: kerplunk1994, R Carter
#3
Brendan Fraser for a while, but now he’s back
Image source: ninja20, Montclair Film
#4
Gotye. Dude made a single song and just became somebody we used to know.
Image source: ImANuckleChut, Eva Rinaldi
#5
Cameron Diaz. Just up and retired for the quiet life.
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#6
Leelee sobeski she was popular in the 90’s and early 2000’s.
Image source: sunflowershere, David Shankbone
#7
Judge Reinhold. Dude was in pretty much everything once upon a time,now you never see him in anything.
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#8
Julia Stiles, she did all those movies in the mid 2000s and gone…
Image source: eblade23, David Shankbone
#9
Dewey from Malcom In The Middle (Erik Per Sullivan)
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#10
Shelly Miscavige disappeared without a public trace, that entire cult is crazy.
Image source: GetWreckedDJ, imdb.com
#11
JTT – Jonathon Taylor Thomas… Where he at?
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#12
that one girl that played Matilda (Mara Wilson)
Image source: Shyjuan, Gage Skidmore
#13
Eliza Dushku. Apparently she reported harassment and was dropped from the show soon after and hasn’t worked since.
Image source: boomdidiboomboom, David Shankbone
#14
Jet Li
Image source: kaiguy42069, Robert Scoble
#15
Jason Lee (My name is earl)
Image source: MidnightSun77, sagindie from Hollywood
#16
Nelly Furtado
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#17
Josh Hutcherson. Maybe he didn’t completely disappear because of his role as Pita in The Hunger Games. But, he was such a sweetheart/heart-throb. Wish his face appeared more frequently in the industry…
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#18
Group ‘Lmfao’
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#19
Josh Hartnett. He was really big after Pearl Harbor.
Image source: Young_Old_Grandma, Gage Skidmore
#20
What ever happened to Seann William Scott?!
Image source: Moongiraffe01, Eva Rinaldi
#21
Renee Zellweger totally fell off the face of the Earth until she returned with a different face.
Image source: PurpleDragonDix, Siebbi
#22
Meg Ryan
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#23
Mena Suvari. The girl from the American Pie and American Beauty movies…and Teenage Dirtbag video.
Image source: July_Sandwich, Eva Rinaldi
#24
Will always be Thora Birch for me
Image source: Marsupial292, zack_wolk – Tom Green
#25
Steve Guttenberg
Image source: Usual_Quiet_6552, Rob DiCaterino
#26
Chris Tucker
Image source: bobpetersen55, Gage Skidmore
#27
Melissa Joan Heart, hope she’s good.
Image source: Physical_Shallot_957, Greg2600
#28
Justin Long, was everywhere for a minute and after 2014 just kinda …
Image source: stuffedcloyster, Daniel Benavides
#29
Richard Simmons
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#30
Hayden Panettiere
Image source: SammehPls, Tabercil
#31
Orlando Bloom
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#32
Billy Zane.
He was in everything…. Then he just…. Went.
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#33
Frankie Muniz
Image source: anon, Paula R. Lively
#34
Duffy.
#35
Jack Nicholson. He seemed to abruptly disappear from the public with retirement
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