These ten actors followed remarkably different paths after their teenage popularity peaked. Some deliberately left Hollywood, others reinvented themselves, and several continue working away from the biggest headlines.


These ten actors followed remarkably different paths after their teenage popularity peaked. Some deliberately left Hollywood, others reinvented themselves, and several continue working away from the biggest headlines.

While you might not have thought about them in decades, at the time they were everything — the heartthrobs, the “It” girls, and the Hollywood wild cards whose love lives we followed like a serialized TV show.