People Share 35 Celebrities That Just Disappeared From The Spotlight, But They Are Not Forgotten

Sometimes we find that celebrities just drop off the face of the planet and we don't really see them again.

Daphnie

• Published in Film & TV
• December 4, 2022

Celebrities typically stay in the limelight a lot and we usually keep up with them pretty well as they're almost always in view and always on the internet. However, there are some times when celebrities really haven't been seen by us or the paparazzi in what seems like forever.

This could be because the celebrity just doesn't want to be in the image of people, it could be that they just want to stay to themselves, or they might just be out of view to us but still doing stuff as normal. Basically, we've seen a few different celebrities that kind of have just not been seen in a while whether that be in movies, television, the internet, or songs.

When celebrities disappear from the internet or media most people think it's because they've done something wrong but we think a lot of these celebrities simply just wanted some time to themselves or they were tired of being in the limelight all the time. It's important to remember that celebrities are real people and some might not have wanted the fame.

Now with all this being said, we've gathered 35 celebrities that people brought up when asked what celebrities have disappeared out of nowhere. Let's dive in and check out what celebrities people added to this list.

1. Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis. After his wife died, he dropped everything so that he could focus on raising his children. I respect that.

2. Enya

Enya - she literally made amazing music, made a fortune then swerved the limelight to live peacefully in her castle. Iconic.

3. Brendan Fraser

Brendan Fraser for a while, but now he’s back

4. Gotye

Gotye. Dude made a single song and just became somebody we used to know.

5. Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz. Just up and retired for the quiet life.

6. Leelee Sobeski

Leelee sobeski she was popular in the 90's and early 2000's.

7. Judge Reinhold

Judge Reinhold. Dude was in pretty much everything once upon a time,now you never see him in anything.

8. Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles, she did all those movies in the mid 2000s and gone...

9. Erik Per Sullivan

Dewey from Malcom In The Middle (Erik Per Sullivan)

10. Shelly Miscavige

Shelly Miscavige disappeared without a public trace, that entire cult is crazy.

11. JTT

JTT - Jonathon Taylor Thomas... Where he at?

12. Mara Wilson

That one girl that played Matilda (Mara Wilson)

13. Eliza Dushku

Eliza Dushku. Apparently she reported harassment and was dropped from the show soon after and hasn’t worked since.

14. Jet Li

15. Jason Lee

16. Nelly Furtado

17. John Hutcherson

Josh Hutcherson. Maybe he didn't completely disappear because of his role as Pita in The Hunger Games. But, he was such a sweetheart/heart-throb. Wish his face appeared more frequently in the industry...

18. LMFAO

Group ‘Lmfao’

19. Josh Hartnett

Josh Hartnett. He was really big after Pearl Harbor.

20 . Seann William Scott

What ever happened to Seann William Scott?!

21. Renee Zellweger

Renee Zellweger totally fell off the face of the Earth until she returned with a different face.

22. Meg Ryan

23. Mena Suvari

Mena Suvari. The girl from the American Pie and American Beauty movies…and Teenage Dirtbag video.

24. Thora Birch

Will always be Thora Birch for me

25. Steve Guttenberg

26. Chris Tucker

27. Melissa Joan Heart

Melissa Joan Heart, hope she's good.

28. Justin Long

Justin Long, was everywhere for a minute and after 2014 just kinda ...

29. Richard Simmons

30. Hayden Panettiere

31. Orlando Bloom

32. Frankie Muniz

33. Billy Zane

Billy Zane.

He was in everything.... Then he just.... Went.

34. Duffy

35. Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson. He seemed to abruptly disappear from the public with retirement

Well, that's quite a list... After reading about these celebrities and seeing them we definitely agree that they have disappeared from the limelight but we can't blame them.

Some people had personal stuff they needed to take care of, some wanted a slower life, and others just weren't happy with being famous anymore.

Daphnie