Hollywood is no stranger to waving off some of its most prominent stars. No matter how popular they might have been once upon time or how much money they might have made for the illustrious city of stars, some of its actors ultimately turn into long-forgotten has-beens, going from memorable to MIA. And it's sad, but such is the life of a celebrity. Sometimes, social statuses simply run out of breath.

As fun as the celebrity life might seem, it's pretty much a 24/7 job no matter how one spins it, and the second a star takes a break or opts for a little downtime, they risk losing recognition. (Really, it's no wonder some celebs like the Kardashians and Taylor Swift seem to be "on" all the time—they're legit working.)

Sadly though, not everyone has that sort of endurance. And as a result, they fall to the wayside and get washed out to the proverbial sea. The question is, though, where exactly do they go? So, let's pour one out for the forgotten, let's light a candle for the castaways, and let's bid adieu to the obsolete (whew—harsh bro).

Keep reading to check out 20 Hollywood Has-Beens Who Are Now MIA.

20 Lindsay Lohan

When Lindsay Lohan broke out into the celebrity circle in Disney's remake of The Parent Trap, she was only 12-years-old. Still, she easily won over audiences, quickly becoming a go-to star for the House of Mouse (see: Freaky Friday, Herbie: Fully Loaded) and then graduated to the PG-13 crowd with the classic teen comedy Mean Girls opposite Rachel McAdams and Tina Fey. Sadly, though, some legal issues got in the way of her budding career, and her career ultimately took a backseat to personal issues.

So, where has she been since? After working in some straight-to-streaming and made-for-TV movies that failed to become successes, Lohan has made the attempt to reclaim her notoriety by creating a video game app based on her persona, opening up a nightclub in Greece, and creating a lifestyle site. Really, the most notable work she has coming up is the sequel to her 2000 movie Life-Size opposite Tyra Banks. It'll debut on Freeform.

Is there hope for a full-fledged comeback with Lohan? Sure. Anything is possible. But considering that the biggest news to hit the airwaves was in 2007 when a group of teenagers robbed her house (this story later inspired the Sofia Coppola movie The Bling Ring with Emma Watson), there's really no way to tell for sure.

19 Nicolas Cage

In case people weren't already aware, Nicolas Cage is an Academy Award-winning actor (seriously). He won the award for his portrayal of an alcoholic in 1996's Leaving Las Vegas, and a lot of other roles in his career have actually gone down as being pretty memorable. He was nominated again for an Academy Award in the Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman movie Adaptation., and he's starred in some fan-favorite movies like The Rock, Raising Arizona, and Moonstruck. Unfortunately, though, his personality seems to have gotten the better of him in recent years, and he's been taking on rules that are... questionable, to say the least.

What's more is that Cage has allowed his performances to essentially go off the rails (one might even say his style is uncaged—eh?). In movies like The Wicker Man, Drive Angry, and the two Ghost Rider movies, he showcased just how unhinged he can become. And that's just referring to the movies that people have actually seen. Recently, he's gravitated towards smaller-budget movies, taking on roles that are more or less forgettable.

So, yeah, he's working. But in what? Surely nothing we've probably seen or would want to see (and The Croods 2 doesn't count, because it's just his voice, OK?).

18 Owen Wilson

It's a major bummer when someone who is super likable no longer feels as relevant as they used to be. Sure, every story needs to end, but it's still unfortunate. Take Owen Wilson, for example. He used to be the go-to guy for comedies (see: Marley and Me, The Wedding Crashers, Starsky & Hutch) and he was always positioned as the "regular guy" that most audience members could relate to. And even though his career is by no means dead in the water, it's just not up the same standards as it used to be.

He's no longer someone that studios can count on to put butts in seats, so to speak.

Where did all start going south? In the 2010s, Wilson started distancing himself from lead roles in more mainstream movies (for the most part). In fact, he started tackling roles from more prestige filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson and Wes Anderson. In fact, speaking of Wes Anderson, he and Wilson used to be roommates back in college, and Wilson has actually written screenplays for some Anderson's most memorable movies, like The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore.

That said, given the fact that he's attached to the sequel Shanghai Dawn proves that he might be getting a little desperate. Maybe it's time he just abandons trying to be the "it guy" for good and just focuses on smaller-scale projects.

17 Halle Berry

Halle Berry is an Academy Award-winning actress (Monster's Ball). She was a hit A-list star who was part of the X-Men universe and even played a Bond girl in a 007 movie. So, by all accounts, she should be doing just fine, no? Her career should be just as strong as it used to be, if not stronger. Right? Well, no. Sadly, Berry's career hasn't been able to maintain a sturdy footing over the years, and she's been more or less forgotten over the years.

To be honest, the beginning of the end probably came about around the time she starred in the critical and financial disaster Catwoman. She was taking on roles after her Oscar win that just weren't landing the way she hoped they might have. Aside from X-Men 2, she starred in the scarily bad Gothika and the painfully lackluster Die Another Day, only to start taking on roles in movies that pretty much no one saw (see: Perfect Stranger, Dark Tide, and The Call). There were some opportunities to make a climb back to fame when she worked with the Wachowski Siblings on Cloud Atlas opposite Tom Hanks, but that one crashed and burned as well.

Really, the closest she's come to the mainstream was in a supporting role in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, but that's not really saying much.

16 Adam Sandler

Is Adam Sandler still working? Oh yes. The guy won't quit. That said, working isn't necessarily synonymous with success, and he's proven that time and time again with the bulk of his filmography in recent years (well—in earlier years as well, to be perfectly honest).

In the '90s, Sandler was everywhere. And audiences were happy that he was everywhere. In comedy classics like Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy, Sandler seemed to know exactly how to work his comedic magic. He was charming, goofy, and always seemed to know how to go over the top, without pushing his format too far. As it so happened, unfortunately, that sense of comedic control went out the window—taking an overall sense of dignity along with it.

He's pretty much just been throwing mediocre movies at the wall and hoping the majority of them might stick.

Sadly, nothing has stuck since 2002 when he tried his hands at playing a more dramatic role in Punch-Drunk Love (which is weird, but amazing, by the way—so, definitely check it out). Sadly, there's nothing memorably—or even particularly likable—about most of the work he's put out since then. And it's all the more frustrating because his fans know that he has so much more potential than he's willing to show.

15 Alicia Silverstone

There was a brief blip in time when Alicia Silverstone was everywhere. It was in the early-to-mid '90s, and it all kicked off with the classic teen comedy Clueless (which is actually a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, in case you didn't already know). In fact, she and the movie were so popular that no only were fashion trends copying the fashion trends from the movie, people started borrowing its lingo. If you were ever wondering where "as if" or "my bad" stemmed from, it's Clueless.

Apart from Clueless, Silverstone also fought alongside Batman in Batman and Robin and starred in the stuck-in-time comedy Blast from the Past. Unfortunately, the success didn't last very long. Aside from voicing the titular character in the animated series Braceface, she all but disappeared from Hollywood, taking on small supporting roles that essentially no one bothered seeing. And it's a bummer, because Silverstone has always had a super likable presence and vibe. It'd have been interesting to see where her career would have taken her had she not essentially dropped off the map.

Though she pops up here and there, Silverstone's heyday is long gone, and as Emma Roberts says in Scream 4, her "ingenue days... they're over."

14 Angelina Jolie

Not so long ago, Angelina Jolie was an actress that every movie studio wanted. Having starred as Lara Croft in the live-action adaptation of Tomb Raider, kicking marital butt alongside ex-husband Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and even winning an Academy Award for her role in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie's "it" status lost its strength over the years. By no means erased from Hollywood (she's still got the Kung Fu Panda and Maleficent franchises to work with), audiences just aren't quite as interested in Jolie as they used to be.

Some movies that certainly didn't help her career were The Tourist with Johnny Depp, By the Sea with Brad Pitt, and the animated adaptation of Beowulf. Audiences just didn't seem to care, and critics weren't exactly pro-Jolie either.

Now, she has positioned herself as a director, as well as an actor, so she's been keeping busy behind the scenes.

But there's no denying that she is definitely a has-been in terms of pulling in mega box-office numbers. That's a torch she ultimately had to pass to other celebs.

But don't worry, if you're a super Jolie fan, she's not going away anytime soon. She's just not as in-demand as she once was.

13 Brendan Fraser

In the early '90s, Brendan Fraser was the star of screwball comedies like Airheads and Encino Man, then later in the decade and in the early 2000s, he was all wrapped up in The Mummy series (get it?). He had made some questionable career choices in that time (namely with the ever-perplexing Monkeybone and the unfortunate Looney Tunes: Back in Action), but he was definitely the kind of actor to which audiences were happy to cling.

Sadly, the spotlight eventually went out over Fraser, and the rest is history.

Once some of his blockbuster-hopefuls ended up failing at the box office, everything quickly went downhill for the actor. And as beloved as he might have been only a few years prior, he began taking career-killing roles like Furry Vengeance and... well, Furry Vengeance was really the nail in the coffin.

Sadly, Fraser opened up about how he was essentially blacklisted from Hollywood after attempting to open up about he had been sexually assaulted by an unnamed, but powerful, Hollywood executive. So, maybe there will be justice for Fraser in the end and he can rekindle his career after all—that is, assuming his side of the story ever manages to reach the masses.

12 Eddie Murphy

There comes a time in every person's life when they have to stop and reflect on the life they're living, the choices they're making, and the the mistakes they're unwilling to learn from. Judging by his career, it doesn't seem as though Eddie Murphy has had that moment. In his heyday, Murphy was unstoppable. Blowing Hollywood out of the water with movies like Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, and The Nutty Professor, he hit the ground running and never stopped—well, not until the mid-2000s. And, to be more specific, not until Norbit.

Murphy was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Dreamgirls just a year prior to Norbit, but that didn't change anything. Not for the better, at least.

Year after year, he churned out mess after mess, and is currently in the process of trying to clean up his own mess, taking on sequels to movies that were hits back in the '80s.

Maybe Triplets and Beverly Hills Cop 4 will be returns to form. And maybe they won't. Maybe they'll just be a reminder that Murphy had his time, and that it's time to pass the torch off to someone else. Time will have to tell.

11 Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts once starred in a comedy titled America's Sweethearts, and there's never been a more fitting title for someone of her celebrity stature. Roberts was a queen of Hollywood once upon a time, and the kind that audiences flocked to on the regular. A prime example of the likable and non-Hollywood girl next door, she found her fame in movies like Pretty Woman, My Best Friend's Wedding, and Notting Hill, and there really seemed like there was no way she could possibly slow down.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what it did.

Has her career become a train wreck of epic proportions.? No. Not in the slightest. But does the name "Julia Roberts" even come close to being as relevant as it was during her heyday? No, ma'am. After her Oscar win for Erin Brockovich in 2000, Roberts started taking on significantly less memorable roles, and though she certainly retained her star power to some degree, it's never been quite as strong as it once was. Not by a long shot.

Now, her career revolves around mostly starring in supporting roles or roles in movies that no one even bothers seeing in the first place—which is bummer, considering her obvious talent.

10 Julia Stiles

Julie Stiles should still be a household name. However, since that isn't the case, unfortunately, let's get creative. To borrow inspiration from Julia Stiles' monologue from the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You (which is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, don'tchya know),

let's break down how crappy it was that her career isn't quite as strong as it deserves to be (or even used to be).

I hate how you're not famous, and the way you died in Bourne. I hate how no one saw you when you starred as Katherine Thorn. I hate how you've been sidelined, and the way you're MIA. I hate that you don't take more gripping roles like State and Main. I hated you in Blue. I hated you in Hits. I hated you in Jan—even more than I'll admit(s). I hate the way  you're not around, and how you waste your lucky chance. But most of all, I hate how I don't hate you at all—and for that, thank Save the Last Dance.

Now, if that doesn't sum up Julia Stiles' career, and the frustration revolving around how she's not famous anymore, but should be, well—*throws hands in the air*—what will?

9 Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson certainly had his chance in Hollywood, but he blew it. Following some questionable behavior, the world more or less turned its back on the former Mad Max, and his attempt to climb back to the top has not be easy. That said, he's most certainly trying.

In the '80s or '90s, Gibson was a booty-kicking BA, and his career was unstoppable. Aside from the aforementioned Mad Max, he was really propelled into the mainstream with the action/comedy Lethal Weapon, only to prove to audiences that he was more than "hunk" and "muscle" in movies like Hamlet, The Man Without a Face, and Braveheart. In fact, he really did manage to secure himself into Hollywood as a lot of people's favorite actors, well into the 2000s with The Patriot and Signs—but that's when things started to taking a turn for the worse. His public image started deteriorating, and—poof!—it may as well have disappeared.

He's made something of a comeback—especially in terms of directing—but that doesn't change the fact that the Mel Gibson audiences used to love is not the Mel Gibson that is currently on the clock in Hollywood. It may as well be someone else entirely.

8 Megan Fox

Megan Fox found her fame in Transformers back in 2007, and ever since, her career has unfortunately transformed into something far less impressive than how it started. And now, you're probably thinking, "But she starred in the live-action adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and that was the greatest movie that ever existed!" Here's the thing, though...

It wasn't.

After Transformers, Fox blew up (figuratively speaking).

She was everywhere, it seemed. Sadly, though, being everywhere ultimately got her nowhere, and Fox eventually ended up in the Land of Forgotten Has-Beens. She's put out a few solid movies up until now (namely and only the under-appreciated horror-comedy Jennifer's Body), and all the fame she started accruing in the late 2010s didn't end up counting for much in the long run.

Now, she still has time to turn things around, but it's anyone's guess as to how exactly she'll pull that off. Surely there's a performance in her that doesn't have something to do with giant, computerized creatures might give her a shot at fame yet again, no? A betting man might advise against betting in her favor, but this is Hollywood, and in La La Land, less likely things have happened.

7 Orlando Bloom

There was once a time when anyone might have been willing to let Orlando Bloom be their personal bodyguard. He obviously wouldn't have taken the job, considering the fact that he was an A-list actor making more money than you could shake a fist at, but still, given the roles he was taking, he would have seemed like a solid fit. With the Lord of the Rings trilogy, he was a bow bae as the Elf Legolas, and then, in Pirates of the Caribbean, he was the swashbuckling pirate wannabe Will Turner.

As it so happens, every captain must go down with his ship, and Bloom's ship ultimately sunk not long after the Pirates series wrote him out of the movies. In fact, what's interesting about Bloom's career is that it started to tank while he was in his prime—which is odd. At first, in between the Pirates series he was putting out work that showcased his talent in movies like Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven and—well, actually, that was about it; the others weren't so great, to be perfectly honest. From there, it was unmemorable flick after unmemorable flick.

Even when he tried to recapture the magic of those movies by starring in the Hobbit trilogy and one of the Pirates sequels, they just felt like wasted opportunities.

6 Katherine Heigl

Most people grow up having been warned not to bite the hand that feeds (read: most people, not all people). When Katherine Heigl was in her prime, she really tried. Her early career was kickstarted with the made-for-TV movie Wish Upon a Star, but she really came into her own when she was cast in the popular television series Grey's Anatomy. At the height of her career, she climbed the peak with the Judd Apatow comedy Knocked Up. Sadly, though, that's precisely when everything started falling apart.

After criticizing Grey's Anatomy and ultimately leaving the show for supposed greener pastures, her career took an abrupt nosedive.

She started taking roles in subpar movies like The Ugly Truth, Killers, and New Year's Eve. And from there, it hasn't gotten much better. If anything, those roles were at least getting wide releases, meaning more people had an opportunity to actually see her in them. Nowadays, however, that's hardly the case.

With mostly made-for-TV movies on her current resume, Heigl's been keeping busy with work that is properly subpar. But at least she has a fun movie like The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature in the works. That counts for something. Right?

5 Sam Neil

Jurassic Park is easily everyone on this planet's all-time favorite movie, hands down, right? Like, there's no question, yeah? Maybe? OK, well, regardless of that, it's universally beloved, and it turned out to be a major game-changer in movie-making, what with the groundbreaking visual effects. (Let's give Steven Spielberg a round of applause.) So, with that being the case, it would make sense that its cast would be just as famous and revered as the dinosaurs, no? Now, the main cast was hardly kicked to the curb, but it's unfortunate that its main star, Sam Neil, hasn't blown up as much as he deserved to.

Already a respected actor, his post-Jurassic Park career only landed him in some horror movies like Event Horizon and In the Mouth of Madness, but nothing especially groundbreaking. To be fair, he did a hell of a job in Peaky Blinders and he starred in easily the best movie of 2016, Hunt for the Wilderpeople (it's from the director of Thor: Ragnarok, so if you liked the comedy in that movie, you're going to seriously love the comedy in this one), but those are hardly what you might call blowout successes.

In short, it's not Neil's fault, it's our fault. We can do better because he deserves better. So, go buy all of Sam Neil's movies on Amazon right now and show that you support him.

Go!

4 Vince Vaughn

Where did you run off to, Vince Vaughn?

In the 2000s, audiences couldn't avoid Vince Vaughn if they tried. They could leave town, hop on a boat to Guadalupe, and spend their days living underwater in a SCUBA suit without any connection to the outside world, and they still couldn't avoid the dude. He was everywhere.

In the '90s, he made a name for himself for college students who couldn't get enough of late-night repeat viewings of Swingers (or the remake of Psycho, assuming anyone actually gave it a chance), but in the 2000s, he really broke out into the mainstream. There was Old School, Starsky & Hutch, Dodgeball, Anchorman, Wedding Crashers... he really was everywhere. But then things started to cool down.

Maybe audiences were burnt out, maybe Vaughn stopped picking movies that did his style of acting justice—who's to say?

Recently, he's been taking  on some smaller roles (even getting some acclaim for his performance in Brawl in Cell Block 99, but he's really just been MIA in the mainstream mostly.

There's always a shot at a comeback (maybe in the long-rumored Old School Dos, anyone?), but it's tough to say. Maybe he's worn out his welcome after all.

3 Helen Hunt

There's a really weird trend in Hollywood that whenever someone wins an Academy Award, they tend to lose their career. You'd think that the opposite would the be case, but such is cosmic irony, eh? The win some, you lose some (or in this case, you win one, you lose everything). There are obviously exceptions to this rule, but not always. And for Helen Hunt, she wasn't one of the exceptions.

After finding success as one of the two stars in the sitcom Mad About You, Hunt went on to star in some fairly big hits. She starred in Twister (where she fights a tornado), Pay It Forward (where she fights the bottle), and What Women Want (where she should have fought her co-star Mel Gibson). And in between those movies, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, proving that she was a force to be reckoned with (not unlike that tornado). Sadly, though, the mainstream didn't take too kindly to her career for some reason, and she pretty much disappeared.

She does have a shot at making a comeback in the revival of Mad About You, but there's always a chance that her career simply peaked with no such chance at a comeback. Maybe, as the movie in which she won her Oscar posits, this is As Good as it Gets.

2 Kate Hudson

Anyone growing up in the '90s wanted to be Kate Hudson's character in Almost Famous. Free-spirited, a lover of life, and a little dangerous, Penny Lane was a soul-searching artist with a serious case of wanderlust. And, in fact, she was so likable and well-performed that Hudson earned herself an Academy Award nomination for the role.

After the success of Almost Famous, Hudson essentially became the go-to girl for romantic comedies, starring in movies like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Alex & Emma, and Fool's Gold. Hell, she even snuck in a fairly effective horror movie with The Skeleton Key. Sadly, though, the success didn't last forever, and her career started to slow down significantly.

Nowadays, the most recognized performance that modern audiences would likely know her from is probably the short-lived role she had on Glee.

Otherwise, she mostly just takes on forgettable supporting roles in movies like Deepwater Horizon and Mother's Day.

Now, she can settle on the cards she's been dealt and take the career that's been handed to her, or... she can stop for a moment and ask herself: "What would Penny Lane do?" (Short answer: she would probably just pack her bags and move to Morocco.)

1 Jim Carrey

How ya doing, Jim?

When Jim Carrey began his career as an actor, he was taking supporting (and decidedly strange) roles as an alien, a vampire, and Death itself in movies like Earth Girls Are Easy, Once Bitten, and High Strung, respectivelyFrom there, however, it was as though someone opened up a bag of fame gas, sprayed the contents all over Jim Carrey, and watched as the side effects took over, making him a multi-millionaire in the process.

He was in the first two Ace Ventura movies, The Mask, Dumber & Dumber, Liar Liar, The Truman Show, Man on the Moon, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Bruce Almighty (the list keeps going, but it's exhausting). For years, the man never never slowed down, and then it kind of just... stopped. Not completely, but for the most part. The momentum was over. He dedicated more of his time to art than acting, and nowhere near the juggernaut he used to be.

Now, maybe that's a good thing. Maybe the dude needed a break. Maybe the downtime gave him some necessary perspective on life. Or maybe everything he does is just part of one big act, and no really knows the real Jim Carrey at all. Who's to say?