11 Actors Who Survived Career Suicide Twice

By Padraig Cotter /

9. Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman will forever have a place in the hearts of filmgoers because of Pulp Fiction, but she has a bad habit of signing on for crap following a triumph. She put the brakes on a potentially huge career after Pulp thanks to the one-two punch of Batman & Robin and The Avengers; they were awful, and sadly she was awful in them. She went through a dry spell in her career following this, but when Tarantino came along with Kill Bill she looked set to come back in a huge way; yet for some inexplicable reason she followed them up with muck like Paycheck and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Again it looked like she€™d squandered her chance, but in recent years she€™s been doing excellent work in character roles like Nymphomaniac and The Slap, and Tarantino will no doubt call on her services again sometime soon.