10 Stars Who Left Hollywood To Find Regular Jobs

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Imagine the following scenario: Someone offers you an opportunity to quit your job right now so you can become a huge Hollywood star who gets paid millions to act in movies everyone likes. Chances are you would do it in a heartbeat.

However, for some people Hollywood just wasn’t that big of a deal, apparently.

Here we have 10 people who did exactly the opposite of our unlikely scenario above.

These 10 celebrities decided to leave stardom behind and pursue happiness in other places. Some of the people on our list managed to excel at their non-Hollywood careers, while others are still having some troubles finding their true calling.

Let’s see how many of these celebrities you can recognize.

1. Geena Davis

“Whatever happened to Geena Davis? She used to be in movies and she’s not in movies anymore…”, Stewie asked Chris in one of the classic Family Guy episodes, and this was 11 years ago. It was as if they predicted Geena’s career move. Of course, She didn’t stop acting completely, but she did kind of ditch the whole busy Hollywood career thing to pursue other things in her life.

Geena is a woman of many talents. Aside from acting, she is also a pretty successful writer, producer, model, and even an athlete. Currently though, Geena’s most important role is the one of a full time social activist.

The former actress decided to found the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which focuses on increasing the presence of women in the media.