10 Actors You Had No Idea Were Still Making Movies
Most likely to be found in your nearest bargain bin.
Breaking through in Hollywood is one of the toughest things for any actor to accomplish, and there's a minute number of people from the thousands of jobbing thespians who actually manage to establish and maintain long-term success.
History has shown that while you won't become a movie star just because you want it to happen, you also can't instantly jump onto the A-list because the studio wants it to happen either. Sam Worthington and Taylor Kitsch are famous recent examples of relative unknowns that were suddenly hot-shotted into leading man status on big-budget blockbusters from out of nowhere, and neither man's career has arguably fully recovered since.
On the flipside of that coin, there are plenty of names that experienced huge success early in their careers thanks to attention-grabbing performances or simply being in the right place at the right time, only to fade into obscurity as the years and decades passed, with many finding their salvation in the era of Peak TV.
Their stars might not burn as bright as they once did, but that doesn't mean that they can't be found all over the place if you trawl long enough through the countless bargain-basement genre movies that can be found everywhere these days.
10. Christian Slater
Obviously, his role on Mr. Robot has seen Christian Slater enjoy something of a career renaissance on the small screen in recent years, but can you genuinely remember the last time you went to the movies and saw him in anything?
Over two decades ago, Slater was primed to become Hollywood's next big thing after starring in movies like Heathers, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, True Romance, Interview with the Vampire and Broken Arrow, but some highly-publicized personal demons saw his mainstream career fizzle out before he'd even turned 30.
While he's remained busy in the years since, appearing in countless straight-to-video genre flicks, popping up in a huge number of TV shows and doing a ton of voiceover work, his last movie to get a major theatrical release was the dire Hot Tub Time Machine 2 in 2015, and even then his brief cameo as a game-show host went uncredited.
However, he's still found the time to make a couple of feature films over the last couple of years, lending support to Glenn Close's critically-acclaimed turn in The Wife, turning up in old buddy Emilio Estevez's ensemble drama The Public and even playing a minor part in Argentinian crime movie The Summit.