As you know, popularity can be very fleeting. Today you are on all the covers of the world, and tomorrow your name is already forgotten. These actresses had to understand this firsthand, but they managed to pull themselves together and restart their careers.
The name of this actress was not sought to be remembered before – for everyone she was just Stifler’s mother. Jennifer Coolidge became famous for the 1999 comedy film American Pie, where she played the spectacular and seductive mother of one of the main characters. But this film also became her curse. She never went beyond the framework of stupid comedies, new memorable characters did not appear in her filmography, and the years go by.
So Jennifer would have been remembered only for one role, if not for the meeting with the director and creator of the series “White Lotus” Mike White. He invited Coolidge to play the role of Tanya McQuoid, in which she seems to have invested all her unspent acting energy. As soon as the series was released, this image of Coolidge was already called iconic. She is again adored by the audience, and critics appreciated the triumphant return. The actress has already taken home the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award.
Of course, you remember how, in the image of Buffy, Sarah Michelle Gellar exterminated vampires in the popular TV series of the early noughties. But what happened to her then? In between the filming of the series, Gellar managed to play in several popular films, such as the cult Cruel Intentions, but then her filmography looked quite sad – no major projects, no interesting roles, so the actress was rarely remembered and talked about.
Gellar got her second professional chance thanks to the series Wolf Pack, which was released on the Paramount+ streaming service on January 26, 2023. The actress acted as an executive producer and played one of the main roles. According to the plot, Gellar again deals with otherworldly forces – she investigates the crimes of werewolves.
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan started with cute children’s roles, then became the main “bad girl” in the noughties, and then disappeared from the radar altogether. Lohan’s turbulent youth brought many problems: arrests for drunk driving, visits to a rehabilitation center due to alcohol and drug problems. All this put an end to the career of the actress – in the midst of scandals, many studios stopped working with her. Lindsay did not manage to restart her career properly for a long time, she even switched to other professions, for example, opening beach clubs in Greece.
But in 2019, the actress was lucky. She was able to record and release her third studio album, and then get a role in the Netflix romantic comedy “An Unforgettable Christmas”. Critics called the film itself formulaic, but Lohan was praised in the reviews, so the return of the actress to the screens was a success.