22 Actors Who Should Have Been Movie Stars But Basically Disappeared

It seems like the realm of movie stars is roped off to everyone except 12 people all named Chris and/or Jennifer, which is bizarre because there are so many amazing actors out there. We’ve all flipped to some random indie movie on IFC and thought, “Damn, that guy who played that guy is going places,” only to pull up their IMDb and find out that, in the intervening decade, they’ve only done an Imagine Dragons video and a guest spot on Bones.

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For Redditor phantom_avenger, it was Rooney Mara. “Going all the way back to The Social Network, she was very incredible for a character who only appears in a few scenes and really stands out in the moments she confronts Mark Zuckerberg,” they told r/Movies. “Then she went on to star in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which earned her an Oscar nod, and then made other appearances in movies like Her, Carol, etc. I really thought she was on her way to becoming one of Hollywood’s A-listers, but I haven’t seen her in anything mainstream for a long time.”

They next asked, “What actor or actress did you expect would have a big career, but then disappeared?” and their fellow Redditors provided all kinds of famous disappearing acts.