8 actors who walked away from Hollywood — and never looked back
8 actors who walked away from Hollywood — and never looked back From Grace Kelly to Leelee Sobieski, these eight actors traded Hollywood for a different life. Plenty of actors fade from view over time, but very few choose to. Most spend their careers chasing the next role, the next franchise, the next decade of relevance, never given the chance to walk away on their own terms . So when someone at — or near — the top of their game does exactly that, it tends to linger in the public imagination. Grace Kelly was 26, fresh off an Oscar win and one of the most photographed women in America, when she packed up for Monaco, trading a career of movie hits for palace life. Greta Garbo did her own version decades earlier, walking away at 36 without so much as a press statement and spending the next 49 years politely declining to explain why. More recently, Alison Lohman left one of the more acclaimed runs of the 2000s to raise a family largely out of public view. These are the rare ones: t...
