Josh Lucas started acting in films and TV shows when he was still a 19-year-old teenager after he relocated to Hollywood following his graduation from high school. The American actor was featured as a guest star on a number of TV sitcoms during his 20’s, such as Fox’s True Colors and Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, the family drama Life Goes On, and CBS’s Jake and the Fatman.
Lucas entered the international stage after his performances in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and the character Glenn Talbot in Hulk. He enjoyed further global recognition in a string of leading roles in films like Glory Road, Poseidon, and Stealth. Nevertheless, none of those films managed to transform him into a true icon on the big screen. Josh Lucas currently stars in the police procedural, The Mysteries of Laura.
Mike Vogel
Before he started performing for Hollywood films, Mike Vogel was a model for Levi’s. Later on, he caught the eye of talent scouts and was cast in the TV series Grounded for Life for recurring roles between 2001 and 2004. He made his film debut in Grind. The American actor and former model landed his next role as Heath in the TV remake of Wuthering Heights, which aired on MTV just a month after Grind's release, in September 2003.
Mike Vogel’s biggest hit as an actor was with the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003, which garnered high box office ratings. Vogel is certainly an actor on the rise, but will he shine even more or become an unfortunate addition to the long list of Hollywood busts? He currently stars on NBC’s new military drama series, The Brave.
Kerri Green
After a bunch of teen dramas, the American actress enjoyed a breakthrough in her career after she was chosen to play the role of a cheerleader who became an adventurer, Andrea "Andy" Carmichael, in the 1985 movie The Goonies. Green achieved even more global praise after she starred in the film Lucas, in 1986, as the focal point of a love triangle between Corey Haim and Charlie Sheen’s characters.
Her next film though, Three for the Road, ended poorly even though she co-starred with Charlie Sheen and Alan Ruck. Kerri Green made an appearance in an episode of Heat of the Night, two episodes of the television sitcom Mad About You and worked on an indie-film called Blue Flame.
Joey Lauren Adams
Joey Lauren Adams made her film debut in 1997, for a minor role in the horror movie, Exorcist II: The Heretic. The American actress then rose to stardom in a major role in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, portraying the character Simone. In the same year, she was cast in the Saturday Night Live spinoff film, Coneheads, as Connie Conehead's friend.
A couple of years later, Joey Lauren Adams starred in Mallrats, which was written and directed by Kevin Smith. Following the film's production, Adams and Smith started a relationship, and this became the inspiration for the former’s next movie, Chasing Amy. Adams became somewhat of an indie-film hit for her work in Chasing Amy, but sadly, it proved to be the end of the road for her career as a Hollywood star.
Hayden Christensen
Hayden Christensen started acting when he was still a 12-year-old boy. A t 13 he gained attention for a small role in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, landing him gigs in Goosebumps, The Virgin Suicides, and Are You Afraid of the Dark?. His part in Life as House earned him a Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations, as well as the National Board of Review's Award for Breakthrough Performance of the Year.
As the lead character and protagonist Anakin Skywalker, in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, he got Best Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Revelation Award. Sadly though, Anakin’s dull dialogue and awkward vibe with the character Amidala, played by Natalie Portman, wasn’t enough to propel his career outside the fantasy world of Star Wars.