The stars that turned their backs to Hollywood (and some that came back)

Actress Cate Blanchett said she wanted to stop playing other things, joining the long line of the great Hollywood stars who gave up red carpets for a different lifestyle.

The 55-year-old is seen as one of the most talented and funniest actresses in the film, but in recent years she has stated several times that she wants to separate from the big screen.

“My family rolls my eyes every time I say it, but I mean that. I seriously gave up acting,” she told Radio Times in a new interview. “(There are) a lot of things I want to do with my life.”

Talking about her experience of a celebrity, she added, “When you go to a talk show, or even here, and then see the sound things you said, pulled out and the italic, sound really loud. I’m not that person.

“I have more sense on the move – long to be comfortable with the idea of ​​taking pictures.”

Her remarks echoed with the comments given by the BBC Radio 4 of this natural life last year, when she said she “absolutely loved” acting, but also said it would be “great” to give up and talk about her passion for nature and preservation.

Blanchett is best known for appearing in movies such as Tár, notes about scandal and Elizabeth: The Golden Age and won an Oscar for his appearances in Blue Jasmine and Aviator.

She would not be the first successful actor to transfer his career a little later in his life. Here are 10 other actors who have withdrawn from acting (including a few who have returned):

The American actress was one of the biggest Hollywood stars in the 90s and 00s after debut at the age of 21 as opposed to Jim Carey in Mask more than 30 years ago.

Initially, he found fame for his naked performances in romcoms such as my best friend’s wedding, and comedies, including something about Maria, Diaz continued to prove her dramatic acting boilers in films like John Malkovich and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs from New York.

But she took a break from Hollywood after her turn as Mrs. Hannigan at Remake Annie of 2014, confirming her “pension” in 2018. “I’m free (like)” I’m a mom, I’m my wife, I live my life ” – she was so beautiful. “

She said that the decade she had retired from acting was the “best 10 years” of her life. But in the end, she persuaded to return to the screens earlier this year because of a spy thriller in action with actor Jamie Foxx.

The Oscar star, which is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation, is obviously withdrawn in 2017, but this is not the first time he has moved away from the spotlight.

The Day-Lewis, which holds British and Irish citizenship, has won incredible rewards for the three best actor for her role in my left leg, will be Blood and Lincoln.

Known for leaving the long shares between the roles, in the 1990s-Lewis he entered into what he called “semi-stain” and became a trainee of shoes in Florence, Italy.

Martin Scorsese and his offer of role in New York.

A statement published through the 2017 star agent, when he was 60, said he “would no longer work as an actor.”

Again, however, this turned out to be not permanent. Day-Lewis will soon star in Anemona, a debut feature film by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. Daniel and Ronan wrote a scenario that “explores the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers and family ties dynamics.”

Whether it is a one -off due to a family relationship or the start of a big return to the movie, it remains to be seen.

Nicholson is one of only three actors (including Day-Lewis, above) who won three awards of the Academy of Acting. The two Nicholson were for the best actor (one flew over the cuckoo nest and as well as he gets) and the other for the best side actor (dear conditions).

Other famous roles of legendary stars include Easy Rider, The Shining, The DePled, a few good people, Batman and The Departed.

Although he never officially announced that he was giving up or retiring, he said earlier Brought his withdrawal from the spotlight The desire not to “be outside” anymore.

His last film role was in 2010 Romc how you know.

But just last week, The director of the movie James L Brooks said to Hollywood reporter: “I wouldn’t be surprised when Jacka works again. I mean, it was a time, but I don’t know. Maybe that could be right. I think he reads scripts, I think.”

The legendary Swedish Siren Greta Garbo display stated in 1941 at a mature age of 36 to take a “temporary” pension.

It turned out to be permanent. The star of Camille and Queen Christina never appeared on film again.

Always a reluctant celebrity, actress actress has never played a Hollywood game, refusing to interviews and avoid premiere of film premiere and other public appearances.

The Enigmatic Star, whose known line is “and I want to be alone” from the Grand Hotel -and somewhat mirrored her desire in real life, as well as on the screen, she only managed to increase her mysticism by deviation from the spotlight.

However, she later explained in the interview, “I never said,” I want to be alone. “I only said,” I want to be, let alone!

One of the few quiet film stars who successfully moved on to “Talkies”, Garbo moved from Hollywood to New York, where she lived until her death in 1990 at the age of 84.

Synonymous for James Bond, the late Scottish stars, first found fame through modeling and body building before landing on several small roles of theater and TV.

He did not make his film debut at Road in 1957, but playing the secret service agent 007 in Dr., not a few years later, gave him a great breakthrough. He continued to star in five further films about Bond, including Russia with love and Goldfinger.

Connery appeared in numerous other films during his long career, including Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, a man who would be King opposite Sir Michael Caine, untouchable (for which he won an Oscar) and a hunt for Red October. But he would be married forever at 007.

In 2005, however, he said it was “Bored with idiots“Adding that there was a” constant gap between people who know how to make movies and people who illuminate movies. “

This declaration followed several years after acting in the league of extraordinary gentlemen, which many concluded that he was one of the main reasons for retirement.

A poorly received comic book was supposed to be his performance on the final screen.

Kids of the 80s and 90s: You know. This guy was a huge star at the time, comic backbone of popular films like Ghostbuster, Honey and SHEM The Kids and The Musical Little Shop of Horrors (Suddenly, Seymour anyone?).

But then it seemed disappearing from the face of the earth. So what happened?

He began to reduce his job after his wife died of cancer in 1991 to focus on raising his children, and his last trip on the big screen was a 1997 Honey continuation, we reduced each other.

“I am a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage the raising of my children and traveling involved in films,” he told USA Today in 2005.

“So, I rested a little. And a little rest turned into a longer rest, and then I found that it really didn’t miss me.”

However, he was still doing the job, and Moranis was ready to return to honey, I reduced the children, which unfortunately went.

Unfortunately we lost this acting legend earlier this year, Together with her second wife, Betsy Arakawa, but the star has not seen herself on the screen for years after withdrawing from the profession to her heart’s advice – deciding for a quiet life in Novi Mexico.

Hackman shot fame in Bonnie and Clyde in the late 1960s and was rarely out of work – in movies like French Connection, Mississippi Burning and Superman.

He decided to give in to acting in a political satire welcome to Mooseport in 2004.

Explaining his decision, he told Reuters that he did not want to risk going out on a sour note.

“The job is very stressful for me. The compromises you have to shoot in the movies are just part of the beast,” he said, “and that reached a point where I just didn’t feel like I wanted to do it more.”

The Fonda, from the famous family dynasty, is another star who stopped at the height of his glory.

In the main roles in hits in the 80s and 90s such as Scandal (O affair Profumo), singles of Cameron Crowe, godfather III. Part III and single white women (everyone wanted to copy that Elfin crop, not just Jennifer Jason Leigh). And then … nothing.

The fund never formally withdrawn, it seemed to be withdrawn. Her last appearance on the big screen was in the entire Shebang in 2001.

When asked by a reporter in 2023, whether she would return to acting at some point, she replied: “I don’t think so, it’s too nice to be civilian.“Fer enough!

Fondina Aunt Jane also stopped acting in 1990, explaining later in fashion that “She no longer had fun.”

But later she came out of retirement because of the Monster of the movie Romc.

“It was just a sense of the gut, why the hell was 15 years, and I wanted to act again.”

Another star we unfortunately lost in the last yearShelley Duval was best known for her roles in a movie like Shining, Annie Hall and Nashville.

Her step back from the spotlight was not just her choice. The film roles began to decrease in the 90s and then decided to return to Texas after her brother was diagnosed with cancer.

A year before her death, she told People magazine: “It’s the longest Saturday I have ever taken, but that was for really important reasons – to get in touch with my family again.”

Duvall returned to acting in a horror film, 2023 The Forest Hills.

“Acting again – it’s so fun. It enriches her life,” People said.

“(Jessica Tandy) won an Oscar when she was 80. I can still win,” she joked. Unfortunately, she didn’t get the opportunity.

Who could forget the most dwelling star of the 2024 season, the winner of the Oscar and all, everywhere all of a sudden actor Ke Huy Quan?

He first found fame as a children’s actor in the 80s, when he landed in the role of short circles in Indiana Jones Steven Spielberg and the Doom Temple, before taking another major role in childhood adventure.

Several TV roles followed, but then the works were mostly dried, and he was settled to work behind the scenes as coordinator and assistant director Kascader.

“It’s always hard to make a transition from a baby actor to an adult actor,” ” Said the telegraph. “But when you’re Asian, then it’s 100 times harder.”

He was reluctant to give up – just because of the lack of opportunity – and last year before he took Punt on an inventive, outside the wall film, everything, everywhere, suddenly, where his role was won by Oscar and once again became Hollywood dear.

Additional reporting Steven McIntosh