9. Eric Roberts - From Early Oscar Nominee To B-Movie Star...With Occasional Exceptions
Eric Roberts' career began pretty well, with him scooping an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in one of his very first film roles, the entertaining 1985 thriller Runaway Train. Roberts has never been able to return to the same level of greatness, though, and has spent the majority of his career floating around in the B-movie, TV-movie and even the straight-to-DVD market, with him being cast every so often in a high-profile film, such as A Guide to Recognising Your Saints and most memorably, The Dark Knight as Salvatore Maroni. It's as though every few years, someone remembers that Roberts is a good actor and decides to do something with him; otherwise he's resigned to making dreck like "Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft". Take a gander at his
current filmography, which has over 50 projects awaiting release; how the Hell does the guy do it!?