#20. Vanessa Marquez
Vanessa Marquez was at the top of her career during the ‘90s as the nurse Wendy Goldman in the successful TV series ER. Everything ended dramatically for the actress when she claimed that George Clooney decided to fire her from the show after she talked about the harassment that happened to her in the backstage.
According to the actress, Clooney helped to blacklist her for life. The actor denied the accusations and said that he was only an actor that was playing a role in the series and he had nothing to do with her career. After ER, Marquez didn’t appear in many programs or TV shows and her life ended tragically when police shot her after she threatened him with a firearm. Marquez was only 49 years old.
#19. Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson is well-known because of his talent acting and directing career. But Braveheart star wasn’t always considered for movies and in a moment during his career, he was blacklisted. Everything started when Gibson was arrested in 2006 after driving under the influence and while he was arresting his anti-semantic declarations to the police turned him into a persona non-grata.
Everyone was so shocked and angry with Gibson that between 2006 and 2010 he only appeared in the film Edge Of Darkness. But Gibson was again under media attention in 2010 when he was recorded during a phone call to his ex Oksana Grigorieva insulted her. After that incident, Gibson’s talent agency fire him. It seems that in recent years, Hollywood has forgiven Gibson and nowadays he has played more roles.
#18. Tara Subkoff
The American actress Tara Subkoff was making her own space in Hollywood back in the 90s when she starred in films like As Good As It Gets, The Last Days Of Disco, All Over Me and The Cell. SUbkoff was making a great job in minor roles when she was offered to have a role in Harvey Weinstein’s film at a party.
According to the actress, the producer tried to hit on her and she rejected him. After that incident, the actress declared that she became blacklisted in Hollywood for life. Rumors started to say that Subkoff was a difficult person to work with and the actress couldn’t find another job. Nowadays, Subkoff is the co-founder of Imitation Of Christ, an art collective-turned-fashion line and she seems very happy with it.
#17. Mira Sorvino
Nowadays the name of producer Harvey Weinstein is on every newspaper and many harassment cases come to the light after the women that worked with him denounced him. According to many actresses, everything went very difficult in their careers after being close to him, like the case of the American actress Mira Sorvino.
Sorvino was on the top of her career, she even had won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Mighty Aphrodite. According to the actress, Weinstein tried many times to have something with her but she constantly refused him. After those incidents, Sorvino felt that she became part of Hollywood’s blacklist. In light of the facts, we can’t deny that many women suffered from Weinstein’s treatments.
#16. Charlie Sheen
Back in the past, Charlie Sheen was considered one of the best comedians and actors of all time. Everyone loved Sheen, especially because of his role as Charlie Harper in the CBS sitcom Two And A Half Man. Besides, Sheen became the highest-paid TV actors but we think he entered Hollywood’s blacklist after his resignation to the TV series.
According to the show’s producer, Chuck Lorre, Sheen wanted a 50% raise, saying that according to the success of the series he was underpaid. Everything ended in a scandal and nowadays Sheen has become the “bad guy” from Hollywood and not many producers want to work with him.
#15. Stacey Dash
Stacey Dash rose to fame when she became Dionne in the film Clueless. Dash also appeared in films like Moving and Renaissance Man. According to the actress, she has been blacklisted from Hollywood because of her political views and beliefs. In the past few years, Dash has been under media attention because of her conservative views.
In Dash’s words, she has been persecuted in Hollywood and her agents have dropped her. Some of the polemic Dash’s declarations were about the use of transgender’s bathrooms or the right to keep and bear arms. Dash has declared that she feels good because she believes in part of God’s plans.
#14. Ashley Judd
American actress Ashley Judd has been part of many films during the ‘90s, like Ruby In Paradise, Heat, A Time To Kill and Where The Heart Is. Nowadays, Judd has been working in minor roles and according to the actress, she has been blacklisted in Hollywood because, like many other actresses, she rejected Harvey Weinstein.
In December 2017, the actress talked about this and alleged that Weinstein blacklisted her. The accusation was confirmed by the director Peter Jackson that said that while he was casting Judd for a role in the Lord Of The Rings, Weinstein told him that the actress was a nightmare to work with and he should avoid her at all costs.
#13. Brendan Fraser
Actor Brendan Fraser is well-known for his role as Rick O’Connell in The Mummy franchise. Fraser also appeared in movies like George Of The Jungle, Looney Tunes: Back In Action and Journey To The Center Of The Earth. The actor declared that he has been blacklisted in Hollywood after an altercation he had with the former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president, Phillip Berk.
In 2003, Fraser declared that Berk sexually assaulted him at a lunch with him. Fraser went through a very hard moment, especially because after his denunciation, none called him for a role and also he divorced from his wife. According to the actor, his accusations made everyone believed he was a hard person to work. Luckily times have changed!
#12. Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan was a very famous actress from the 90s, as she starred in films like The Doom Generation, Scream and Going All The Way. McGowan is most remembered for her roles as Paige Matthews in the TV series Charmed from 2001 to 2006. Nowadays, McGowan is a popular feminist activist and her personal life has helped her to become one.
In 1997, McGowan alleged sexual harassment from Harvey Weinstein and arranged a settlement for $100,000. According to the actress, those were other times that many people didn’t believe in women they denounced important men of sexual harassment. Also, McGowan was supported by the filmmaker Robert Rodriguez that added that the actress became part of Hollywood’s blacklist for orders of Weinstein.
#11. Thora Birch
Thora Birch was an promising young actress from the ‘90s, especially after her performance in American Beauty or as Enid in the cult hit Ghost World for which she earned a Golden Globe Award nomination. Birch was on the top of her acting career when suddenly her presence started to fade away.
For the actress, her entrance to Hollywood’s blacklist is related to her bad behavior as she declared one: “I pissed a lot of people off over a long period of time”. Nowadays, the actress declared that she feels better and wants to come back to acting. Also, Birch’s father is no longer her manager and as the actress declared is better for both of them.
#10. Isaiah Washington
Isaiah Washinton was part of many Spike Lee films, like Crooklyn, Clockers and Girl 6 but Washington is mostly remembered for his role as Dr. Preston Burke in the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. The actor had a prominent future but he was fired from the TV series after he insulted his co-star, the actor T.R. Knight about his sexuality.
That was not going to be the last time the actor did something like that and in the 2007 Golden Globe, he made more homophobic comments. In some interviews, Washington declared that his career ended that year and nowadays he’s part of B-list movies.
#9. Jim Caviezel
We already have talked about Mel Gibson and his entrance to Hollywood’s blacklist for his says but he also was very criticized for his film The Passion Of The Christ, that he worked as the director. Not only Gibson was judged during 2004 but the main actor, Jim Caviezel because some people thought the movie was very anti-Semitic.
Caviezel once declared that he had talked to Gibson and that the director warned him about the controversy that the movie was going to generate. But the young actor was totally agree with it, he even declared that Jesus has always been a controversial character. For his performance in Gibson’s film, Caviezel thinks he is part of the blacklist.
#8. Katherine Heigl
American actress Katherine Heigl was once considered to be one of the best actresses in Hollywood. What did it happen to her fame and leading roles? The Knocked Up and 27 Dresses star is known for being a person very difficult to work with. At least it was many people declared on sets films.
According to the personas that worked with her on the set of Life As We Know It, Heigl is a very demanding person that has problems with the wardrobe, the food, the script… Literally everything! Not only the actress is the problem but also his mother Nancy Heigl, who is her manager. Some people don’t know who has the most annoying humor if the actress or her mother!
#7. Tippi Hedren
Nowadays, times have changed and women are freer to talk about bad experiences with directors or fellow during a shooting. Tippi Hedren is an American actress that once was Alfred Hitchcock’s leading lady after he discovered her by watching her in a TV commercial. Hedren was part of films like The Birds and Marnie.
According to the actress her acting career ended and she entered Hollywood’s blacklist after rejected Hitchcock several times. It seemed the director was quite obsessed with Hedren and he tried to have a romance with her but she refused it. For Hedren, it was even worse as she couldn’t work in other movies because she had an exclusive contract with Hitchcock. Nowadays, the actress said that her acting career was ruined but not her life.
#6. Sondra Locke
Sandra Locke was a prominent actress in Hollywood back to the ‘70s, she was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. Also, she became famous for being the partner of the actor and director Clint Eastwood back to that time.
The romance didn’t end well and Eastwood broke up with the actress and according to her sayings, she became blacklisted. The breakup didn’t end there and she demanded Eastwood for the rejections of more than 30 projects she had in Warner Bros, saying that the actor didn’t fulfill his pact to her. In the end, both of them reached a settlement and Locke’s career could resurrect a little.
#5. Mo’Nique
American actress Mo’Nique reached to the top of her career in 2009 when she performed the abusive mother Mary Lee Johnston in the film Precious. For the film, Mo’Nique won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. It seemed that Mo’Nique was going to become one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood but her appearances abruptly ended. What did it happen?
The actress declared that she was “blackballed” from Hollywood and that was confirmed to her by Lee Daniels. Mo’Nique alleged to The Hollywood Reporter that she had been blacklisted because “she didn’t play the game”. Soon after, Daniels confirmed the accusations of the actress and said that the way that Mo’Nique worked in Precious wasn’t the way they expect too thus he believed what was best was to go on separate ways from the actress.
#4. Mike Myers
Mike Myers is one of the most loved actors in Hollywood, he is well-known for his roles in movies like Wayne’s World, Austin Powers and Shrek. Myers is also known for his performance on Saturday Night Live. Myers’ recent work was a small role in the film Bohemian Rapsody.
But Myers hasn’t been an easy person to work with. Since the time he starred Wayne’s World, his demands were extremely bizarre and punctilious. After the release of the film The Love Guru in 2008, Myers didn’t appear in films for almost 4 years and according to some rumors, none wanted to hire him because of her ego and egoism.
#3. Winona Ryder
American actress Winona Ryder was the face of the ‘90s as she starred in films like Beetlejuice, Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Dracula and Little Women. It seemed that the actress had a prominent future in Hollywood but in 2001 she was the protagonist of a stealing accident at Sacks Fifth Avenue store and she entered Hollywood’s blacklist for a few years.
Ryder was arrested for shoplifting charges and she was accused to robe more than $5,500 in clothes from the store. During the trial, Ryder was accused of using unprescribed drugs. Ryder had to do community service. During the time of the incident, T-shirts with the inscription “Free Winona” were released. In 2002, Ryder gave an interview with W magazine and explained that she was going through a hard and depressive moment in her life during 2001. Ryder even posed with “Free Winona” T-shirt! Nowadays, Ryder is part of the successful Netflix series Strange Things.
#2. Shannen Doherty
Back in the ‘80s, Shannen Doherty was considered one of the most promising actresses of Hollywood. Doherty is most-remembered for her roles in TV series like Little House On The Prairie, Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Beverly Hills, 90210. During the ‘90s, Doherty won a “bad-girl” reputation, even People Magazine called the badest girl in Hollywood of the nineties.
It’s said that Doherty used to arrive very late to shooting and that she was always in bad humor. Also, once she fought with her co-star Jennie Garth, although Doherty denied everything. Fans wanted Doherty out of the show and director Aaron Spelling gave her another chance in his TV series Charmed but everything ended with Doherty’s resignation. Nowadays, it seems that people “have forgiven” her and she has been part of Dancing With The Stars.
#1. Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Grey was at the top of her career in the ‘80s when she starred the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with the actor Matthew Broderick, whom she had a romance that ended in scandal when they suffered a car crash after being in a secret vacation and the persons of the other car died. But Grey became international fame after being in the role of Baby Houseman in the film Dirty Dancing in the company of the actor Patrick Swayze.
According to the actress, she had been blacklisted from Hollywood since her nose job in 1989, as Grey declared at that time: “I entered into the operation room being famous and I left it being none”. We hardly if that was true, but after being the co-star of Swayze, Grey didn’t have important roles in films. In 2010, she became famous again by winning Dancing With The Stars.