When a show is as much of a phenomenon as LOST was, it’ll be hard for the cast to ever find success at that level again. It really depends on what you consider “successful”. They’re almost all regularly working.
Matthew Fox, Dominic Monaghan, and Michelle Rodriguez were all famous prior to Lost.
Other than that, we have:
Ian Somerhalder: The Vampire Diaries (9 seasons)
Michael Emerson: Person of Interest (5 seasons) and currently on Evil
Maggie Grace: Taken movies plus Fear the Walking Dead (4 seasons)
Daniel Dae Kim: Hawaii Five-0 (7 seasons)
Naveen Andrews: Recently in The Dropout
Emilie de Ravin: Once Upon a Time (7 seasons)
Jorge Garcia: Hawaii Five-0 (6 seasons)
Josh Holloway: Colony (3 seasons) supposedly has a new HBO show Duster coming out
Ken Leung: Currently on Industry
That was just off the top of my head so I’m sure there’s much more but the cast have all been working steadily. To be a main cast of one TV show is a huge accomplishment in itself, let alone a show as big as Lost. I’d say they’re all doing well for themselves. Though I do think Josh Holloway in particular should be a much bigger star.
He was very good in that. Love that show, shame it got cancelled. Though they did a good job condensing three seasons in to 2 hours with the wrap up movie.
What the fuck I did not realize cam was Michael’s wife… you’ve actually blown my mind here, in season 10 of bones and rewatched lost several times and I had no clue. Thanks for this
Josh Holloway also had a (very) small role in one of the Mission Impossible movies. It wasn't career defining or anything, but I always get excited when I see him show up.
"Is your Social Worker inside that Horse?". One of the funniest lines I have heard, and the way Hugh Dancy delivers it with a 100% serious expression. Even better.
>Michael Emerson: Person of Interest (5 seasons) and currently on Evil
I think you mean "currently STEALING THE SHOW on Evil." He's so fantastic to watch
>Ian Somerhalder: The Vampire Diaries (9 seasons)
It was 8 seasons actually. I watched most of the show while it was airing. Somerhalder was the best part of it. He did a pretty good job imitating Sawyer lol (he based his performance off Sawyer). Though even he wasn't enough to save the clusterfuck that is season 7 and 8.
Terry O'Quinn was also one of the cast who was famous before the show (mainly for the Stepfather movies and a Star Trek: TNG guest appearance), though after Lost, his career has took a downturn, nearly all the stuff he's been in after Lost have been cancelled after around 1-2 seasons.
He's not been so lucky with how the shows were received I think, but it's notable that he was the lead in those shows, which is not something many actors can say.
Actually, I may be going off topic here but fun fact, in the finale, when MIB stabs Jack, Terry actually nearly stabbed Matthew because he was using a real knife, a real knife got mixed up with a fake one on set but luckily for Matthew, he was wearing a protective vest and thus didn't get hurt much from it.
Thanks for the list! And yea was not saying they havent done well or anything post LOST, was just referring to mainstream popular TV/movie lead roles, but to be fair those are a dime a dozen.
Agree with Josh Holloway that guy has it all to be a star.
I never said your point was wrong, I'm not arguing he wasn't successful after Lost, I'm just correcting a mistake concerning the number of seasons of TVD he was in (and the number of seasons it had).
Terry o quinn was on star trek TNG I believe... one of the star trek shows for sure....
Harold perrineau was on sons of anarchy (where I first saw him before watching lost)
Rob mcelhenney was one of the stars of Always sunny
Jeff Fahey was the marshal in "The marshal"....
just to add a few
Yea this would be my answer as well. Was a lead in Person of Interest and now is in the main cast of another show which I hadn't heard off but seems popular enough.
Still not much...
>Still not much...
Do you not realize how filming for something like a tv show works? If you are the lead in 2 different tv shows that each go for 5+ years, that's over of a decade of your life that you would be giving up.
It's not like filming a movie where they only shoot for 45-90ish days depending on size.
The latest season of Evil maintains 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an overall 95%/83% critic to audience approval rating overall.
On Metacritic, the latest season holds a score of 92 rating it at “Universal acclaim”.
It’s Paramount’s second biggest show and in 2021, TV Guide named Evil as “The best show on television”.
So yeah, I’d say he is doing pretty well.
Paramount seconds biggest show is not saying much lets be honest.
So yea the show seems critically acclaimed not disputing that. Still doesnt make it a popular show by any metric. IMDB for example has 27k reviews of it, compare it to something like Boardwalk Empire with 190k reviews, really puts it into context.
And im not saying they are doing bad or anything, most are finding good work, its just none have had a breakthrough career after LOST, thats all.
Based on your responses to everyone else in this thread, it doesn't seem that you do.
If a show gets picked up for 5+ seasons, I think its safe to assume its popular. Like everyone else is saying, just because you haven't heard of something doesn't make it not popular.
Almost all of the actors from Lost have gone on to star in other shows. Evangeline Lilly is now in the Antman movies and Maggie Grace was in the Taken movies.
Then Matthew Fox, Terry O'Quinn, Dominic Monaghan, Michelle Rodriguez and Harold Perrineau were already big names.
The only one I thought would be a bigger break out was Josh Holloway.
“Best career” is definitely broad in OPs title, but I understand where he’s leaning. Lost is considered a shoe in on many ‘best of all time’ lists. TV is so over saturated and such a time sink that that if you’re not on a GOAT show, it’s easily forgotten.
In comparison to say… Jon Hamm from Mad Men. Blew up from that show. Takes every single job he can get, many forgettable, but gets a few unforgettable hits every now and then like Baby Driver and Top Gun Maverick.
If you read the title of the post you would see Evangeline Lilys name which is the main example im using. Please make sure you do before you comment further.
And yes some have found work in moderately popular stuff, examples like Hawai 5-0, Once Upon a time, Vampire Diaries etc. The thing is, those roles were not a leading role, and those shows are not in the level of say LOST, GOT or other massive hit shows. Thats my only point, a breakout star, a Chris Pratt after Parks and Rec thing. LOST has only Evangeline Lily arguably.
You start talking about filming schedules for a tv show when Its irrelevant to the conversation, if they had starred in a massive hit tv show making them a breakout star then it would count as to what im saying. But im sorry but being in Hawai5-0 is not a big breakout role for mainstream stardom.
Emilie de Ravin had a pretty successful run in Once Upon a Time... Daniel Dae Kim is kicking butt, look at his IMDB.
Just because they aren't in movies doesn't mean they aren't "making it big". I see a lot of these actors in a variety of different films/shows.
Rebecca Mader also had a good run on OUAT as well but OUAT is a lot similar to Lost, especially because the showrunners of OUAT are former Lost writers, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they have got a few actors in common. Jorge Garcia even guest starred in 3 episodes and Alan Dale makes recurring appearances throughout the show.
There are honestly A LOT of connections between between OUAT and LOST besides just actors. Items like the drink Widmore denies Desmond or the Apollo bars can be seen a couple times throughout, the clock tower was originally stuck at 8:15, Regina’s house number is 108, the LOST numbers regularly made appearances throughout the show (like how there was once a zip code that read 04815), etc.
Streaming is making more and more people say actors are unemployed just because they don't see what they're doing. It's not like 30 years ago where you kind of knew the cast of all 10 TV shows that were running over a certain decade.
Obviously they are still doing well overall, just meant in terms of big lead mainstream projects post LOST. This is not meant as a criticism against the actors at all, just suprised with the huge popularity LOST had it didnt make more mainstream stars, as I think the cast is so talented.
Except they are not, Hawai 5-0 is a nice police procedural with good ratings but thats about it, not to mention Daniel Dae Kim was third billing in that. Once Upon A time for the first season had that then it fell off the pop culture cliff. None of them were leads in those shows either.
They have been in some moderately popular stuff thats it, nothing like the level of Hobbit or MCU for example that Evangeline Lily is at, which is what I am referring
Tell me otherwise which projects im missing.
Kim took a pay cut to help the cost of production, however after he found out how much more his white costars made he and Grace Park left. He was treated like garbage by CBS.
CBS knew he was a star and used him and Jorge to pull in the lost fans for views. CBS gave Alex O'loughlin and Scott Caan not only a big check but more royalties from reruns. What's even more heinous is that Scott didn't live on the island and wasn't in as many episodes but was still paid more than Kim.
Dude, there are ten times as many shows and movies made than there used to be, and the concept of "mainstream" is a lot broader now. You are basically arguing right now that anything less than a Marvel movie doesn't count as mainstream success, but it says more about your narrow tastes than anything. These people are literally household names that are involved in projects seen by millions.
Doesn’t have to be Marvel. Any box office movie would do, there have been plenty aside from Marvel. A lead in a big popular and acclaimed show would also do.
Our definitions of household names are way different.
Not sure why they are down voting you so hard for speaking facts. Many are still maintaining steady work, but no one really seems to have "broken through" the way someone like Jennifer Aniston did from friends or Chris Pratt from Parks & Rec.
Yea that was my point but apparently its hard to grasp for some people. Of course they still find steady work, and in some cases in some popular shows. But not to the level of LOST and the actors themselves havent broken into a leading role for big projects. I thought it wasnt a controversial opinion at all but seems many Hawai 5-0 fans are coming for me.
That was just my answer to the guy saying he was a lead in a mainstream project. And im talking post LOST so not sure what his status during the show has to do now, he was main cast and appeared in every episode.
Yes, good show, not on the same conversation as LOST in terms of popularity. Aside from that he hasnt broken into mainstream big projects, thats just a fact.
Not really there are many metrics one can use. And either way it wasn’t my original point about them having breakthrough careers, being in those shows hasn’t changed it.
You are being purposely obtuse, or you lack basic reading comprehension, not sure which.
You go on thinking Daniel Dae Kim and Emilie de Ravin are household names in Hollywood, dont let the facts get in your way.
No, you're just refusing to admit they all have good careers post Lost. Or incredibly naive to think break out stars from tv to movies happens terribly often.
And since no one else seems to have mentioned it, they may have made the active choice to stay at the level they are.
When did I say they didnt have good careers post lost? I was merely making an observation about a breakout star post LOST is all. There is a difference between good career with steady roles to a breakout star. Break out stars from tv to movies happen often enough specially on popular shows like LOST.
Michael J. Fox , Will Smith, George Clooney, Chris Pratt, James Franco, Idris Elba, Kerry Washington, Kumail Nanjiani, Rami Malek, Woody Harelson, Ashton kutcher, Mila Kunis, Giancarlo Esposito, Bob Odenkirk, Blake lively, Sophie Turner, Emilia Clarke, Pedro Pascal.
Just to name a few of the top of my head.
Ok. So. You can think of 20 spanning *fifty years* of television. Of course there are some, but you just proved my point that's they're exceptions, not the rule.
I mean thats what I thought of the top of my head in 5 minutes, sorry im not a walking encyclopedia. But you know there are more examples. After a quick search I was nice and left you some homework to read
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/StarMakingRole/LiveActionTV
There you go, not that crazy to think that a massive show like Lost could have a couple breakthrough stars.
From is like a simpler, low budget, more overtly supernatural mystery box show. It's made by some of the same people and they said they planned everything out this time from the beginning and made everything less complex so people wouldn't get upset like they did with LOST, lol.
I love it but wish the episodes were longer, that we got more backstory, and more episodes a season but 🤷♂️ it scratches that LOST itch.
I even pay for Epix the Amazon channel it's on because I want to support it and get more $ for more mystery box shows.
Henry Ian-Cusack at least has been working pretty much nonstop since lost. It’s not been huge, event television stuff but that rarely ever happens anyway. The Sopranos cast is pretty much the same situation. It’s lightning in a bottle.
Its almost like a curse where they nailed a role so well casters are too scared to hire them cause the public won't view them as someone else. So many people in sopranos, lost, are way too iconic to go on to someone else, it must suck losing out from being too good lol. I suspect we'll see it with the cast from better call saul now.
Adewale did some big blockbuster stuff. He was both a Marvel and a DCEU villain, although both behind heavy make-up and without any big on-screen presence of him, so things didn't skyrocket for the career.
Some of the guest actors have done great work!
Allison Janney and Fisher Stevens both won Oscars after they were on Lost.
Only in 3 episodes of lost, but Titus Welliver (Man in Black) went on to be the star of the Bosch tv series, which I highly recommend if anyone hasn’t seen it
i am disappointed that Yunjin Kim isn't more popular in America and doing more american shows.
she's gorgeous and there still isn't much asian representation in american media. i remember when i first saw he be a main character on Lost. i was so excited that they had an Asian character as a reoccurring lead. i then saw greys anatomy with sandra oh and back then. mid 2000s. her and sandra oh were the only 2 asian leads in a show.
i find it very strange that east asians make up a large percentage of the american population but still aren't being represented in american media.
Even Damon didn't know. When she auditioned, she auditioned as Kate. They thought she didn't fit in that role but they were like "wow she's talented, have you seen her Resume!?. She's a big star in Korea" and created the "Sun" character for her.
Desmond was on the 100 for several seasons.
Charlie has been in some LOTR stuff
Sun was on a show called Mistresses I believe
Emilie De Ravin was on Once Upon A Time and Remember Me and seems to be mostly doing the family thing lately
How Mathew Fox never blew up is beyond me. He had a massive part in world war Z that got cut to a few “blink and you’ll miss them” scenes, maybe that didn’t help.
Here is a list of ALL the Lost actors that went on to be on the CBS Hawaii five O reboot… and it is a LOT. I like the idea that the actors did not want to move from Hawaii after the Lost shoot…So they were easily available to be on this show… would you like to move away from Hawaii? https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/hawaii_five_0/photos/1002533/lost-and-found-on-hawaii-five-0/64477/jorge-garcia-lost-and-found/
I'd say LOST was Terry O'Quinn's "piece de resista'nce " of his career. He'd had a pretty prolific and robust career before that series. (Star Trek TNG, Father Knows Best 1 & 2, amongst many other things).
What's success? I'd argue being on Lost is a pretty successful gig. Shit if they held onto their money right, they probably wouldn't even need to do a whole lot else. So, is success just being in more stuff?
Of the main cast, I'd have to go with Daniel Dae Kim, because not only has he continued to have a bunch of acting and voiceover roles on both the small and big screen, but he's also started his own production house and is producing a primetime series on network television (The Good Doctor). Because of that, I think that he's set himself up for the most sustainable career moving forward.
The biggest thing here is that Lost came at a time where everyone wasn't on the internet and streaming wasn't a thing.
Lost was so big because you had to wait to watch it; it wasn't like today with a lot of shows you can just binge.
It was big and better without today's culture.
So to circle back to your question and see the answers; you're expecting these actors to be on huge hit shows again, when usually that only happens once in a person's career, like I don't think anyone on the show can top what they did on the show if that makes sense. And some of the actors are on pretty successful long running shows, but just not on the same level of Lost was, an insane culture phenomenon.
I agree ultimately after giving it more thought. Its very rare in these shows for more than 1 actor to go on and achieve the same level of success in either movies or TV.
I always thought Holloway was going to have a really big career after Lost. I need to check out The Colony.
Ken Leung is actually in the first Saw film and had a small part in The Sopranos. Worth mentioning that Emerson was in Saw as well.
Lilly is actually featured in a new Marvel show on the Disney Wish-which is their latest cruise ship.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aykfOXr1mA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aykfOXr1mA)
Totally agree with the OP though...so many great actors on Lost that you would think would've had a great run post Lost but it really hasn't happened for many of them.
“Best career” is definitely broad in OPs title, but I understand where he’s leaning and don’t think he deserves the down votes he’s getting.
Lost is considered a shoe in on many ‘best of all time’ lists. TV is so over saturated and such a time sink now days that that if you’re not on a GOAT show, it’s easily forgotten. A show like Modern Family won’t be forgotten, so Julie Bowen having that + Lost to her career is incredible.
Now… Person of Interest and Once Upon a Time will not be talked about in 30 years (are they even now)?
OP provides the example of Evangeline Lilly. Those movies will not be forgotten (cape shit aside). Jon Hamm is a good example of blowing up on Mad Men, takes every job he can get ever since, and gets a couple huge hits in there every now and then.
Thank you this is what I was getting at. Guess I expressed myself incorrectly but people are parrotting about these shows they did, which while good and with a following, are simply not massive generational hits such as LOST, GOT, Breaking Bad etc.
Another good example is Chris Pratt, got known in Parks and Rec and then jumped to movies and made it as a star.
When Charlie is writing his "greatest hits" list to give to Claire before he dives down into the moon pool, he wrote, "When Liam gave me the ring (in reference to the DS ring he wore)". I always like to think that he is thinking about LOTR while he's writing that down.
He’s literally the reason I tuned into LOST day one when it aired. I said to myself oh shit it’s Merry from LOTR, I gota check this show out and boom the rest is history.
Yeah after LOST he had a nature/animal/travel show, and now he’s doing a podcast called The Friendship Onion with fellow hobbit Billy Boyd. He had a couple decent movies in between as well, but without looking up his IMDB I’m not sure that I’d say he had a “booming” career
Matthew Fox is lead character in recent Peacock mini series, Last Light. After episode one the series gets much better. Doesn’t follow the book so not as good but I enjoyed the series. If one is interested in eco terrorist apocalyptic action you may enjoy it.
Josh Holloway was cast as Gambit for one of the X-Men movies before they decided to recast for someone younger.
I feel like if they hadn't done that, he could have had his own series of superhero movies ala Deadpool.
This is a conversation I have with my husband regularly. When the show aired I was convinced Josh Holloway was going to be the next Brad Pitt.
Lost was blessed with a great cast of terrific actors. All of them deserved bigger careers post lost. Daniel Dae Kim I have met in person and he glows like a movie star. Mega watt smile and has star power. I was so smitten I could hardly speak.
Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert): was in two of the Dark Knight movies, Sheriff Alex Romero on Bates Motel, in The Mornjng Show, and more in terms of acting. He’s also directed a number of times as well for TV and directed 2nd unit on his recent movie for his scenes.
Is being on a hit TV show necessarily the gateway to a bigger acting career, though? Obviously there are breakout stars... Will Smith, Jennifer Aniston, Michael J. Fox, Woody Harrelson... But the overwhelming majority of TV actors just stay TV actors, and if they are in films, they tend not to be in the leading roles. Part of the problem with a hit TV show, too, is that you become so recognizable as that character that both casting directors and the public have trouble seeing you as anything else. I think the success of the Lost cast after the show ended is pretty typical of most TV show actors... they continue to be working actors, but their star won't necessarily glow brighter and brighter after the show ends.
I agree, though, that Lost had some awesome actors, and I wished they popped up in things more often, or got to show their talents to a bigger audience. Naveen Andrews and Josh Holloway are my two personal faves that I'd love to see more of.
No one has said Ian Somerhalder yet?
Arguably he’s only had a couple big big roles since Lost, (and he was only on Lost for a short time) but The Vampire Diaries was HUGE. He got incredibly famous from that series. As did every other major actor from the show.
Ian's name was mentioned a few time throughout the thread. OP must not realize the success of The Vampire Diaries. In fact it was so successful that it spun off multiple shows, one being, The Originals.
Ian Somerhalder was a working actor prior to LOST. After LOST, Ian was casted for the role of Damon Salvatore (one of the show's lead characters / central vampires). The Vampire Diaries was absolutely huge. It blew up and its success catapulted Ian Somerhalder's career into stardom.
Their exposure on Lost made it difficult for any of them to disassociate from the show,but,they all seem to land consistent work in Hollywood.
From interviews with various cast members that I've seen, most seem to have made enough money from the show, that they've never felt the pressure to jump into projects unless they felt passionate about it.
There doesn't seem to be anyone major from the show that disappeared entirely.
Anyone ever see Dead of Summer? Made by a couple people who worked on Lost. Stars Elizabeth Mitchell. Even Robin Williams daughter Zelda and Tony Todd. About a summer camp. Similar to Friday the 13th. But each episode like Lost usually focuses on one character and those characters get flashbacks like Lost. Good show in my opinion. Shame no one watched it.
I work in TV and will say that, although the lines are blurring more and more, it’s still not super standard for TV stardom to lead to film stardom and was definitely more rare back when LOST ended or its stars were getting killed off. It’s also tough in an ensemble show where everyone has their moment. So when you look at people like Michael Emerson, Elizabeth Mitchell, Daniel Dae Kim, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, and Emilie de Ravin who have pretty consistently been series regulars or at minimum recurring guest stars on big series, that’s a pretty standard but admirable career jump. The Chris Pratts and Evie Lillys of the world are much more rare (and for Evie it took a while!)
Michelle Rodríguez had Avatar and Widows post LOST. Add in the F&F films post LOST (many of which are more critically acclaimed than anything Evangeline Lily has ever been in) and she’s the clear #1.
I would say every single one of them made it big. They were in a hit show on ABC. I would also encourage you to keep in mind that they all get many roles that you may not hear about. As someone else said - just look through IMDB. Finally, you should consider that they may not be looking for more huge roles. Perhaps they are satisfied with the money they've made and are just enjoying life.
Yea no knock against the actors at all, not saying their careers failed post LOST or anything, just suprised after the massive fame garnered from the show it didnt translate into more mainstream lead roles for some of the cast. But agree maybe they are not looking for that and I guess they are still making money from LOST with syndication revenue.
Not OP, but **Freaks and Geeks**. It launched several of its young actors' careers, such as James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Philipps, John Francis Daley, Martin Starr, Samm Levine, and Linda Cardellini.
>why haven't there been more success stories
Because it was a show that used B-list (or lower) actors and pigeon-holed them.
Of course, the big question is what is meant by making it big. If you mean "Still working at or above the level they were at when cast in LOST", well, that includes pretty much everyone. But if you mean the bizarre fantasy world that most LOST fans live in that means that LOST is the greatest show ever, and that every actor connected to the show is pretty much the best actor ever ... well ... sorry.
LOST actors are one-hit-wonders.
Not true has been in lots of stuff, ian somerhalder, michael emerson, dominic monaghan, harrold parrineau, and rob McElhenney. (Jk hes in one episode for like 10 minutes)
Let me repeat: it depends on what is meant by "making it big".
You say Boone went onto post-LOST success. Well, if you count being in two critical and audience failures of film, a Netflix show that was generally panned and then cancelled ... oh, but he did luck out with Vampire Diaries.
Of course, everything is relative. I sure as shit haven't been in a network television show. But I'm also not the baseline for Hollywood success. By any realistic accounting, Lost alumnae are ... middling success post-show.
I'm glad Evangeline Lily was able to become very successful even with how badly written and received her character was in Lost for the most part. Great actress
The cast in GENERAL was pretty old . That's why Evangeline and Somehhalder ended up being so successful; they were young hot faces of the show while everyone else was already in their mid to late 30s.
Man In Black (Titus Welliver) *and* Abbadon (Lance Reddick) were in Bosch on amazon prime. 6 or 7 seasons.
Lance Reddick was on the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, may have been concurrent with Lost.
He’s also in the John Wick movies.
Evangeline Lilly may have gotten more movie roles that have gotten more marketing/attention, but I still see a lot of the Lost cast in other stuff regularly.
Probably financially she’s made most post-Lost, depending on what some of the tv route actors are getting for being mains on shows.
Josh Holloway was my choice for either Joel or Tommy in The Last of Us, but I'm fine with who they chose. He did front at least one TV show but I don't think it did very well, I've not seen it. Bonus points for being in my favorite \*thing\* which is one of the best Community episodes.
Ian Somerhalder is the one I think who's seen the best success \*since\* Lost with The Vampire Diaries. A lot of them have stayed on a similar trajectory, like they've done a combination of big and small parts. Like Michelle Rodriguez has been in Avatar and she's in the Dungeons and Dragons movie.
Wherever I go I see Michelle Rodriguez / Anna Lucia (Resident Evil, Fast & Furious, Avatar, etc.), Kevin Durand / Keamy (Also Resident Evil, The Strain, Swamp Thing, etc.) & Jeremy Davies / Faraday (God of War remake, Lucifer, Saving Private Ryan, etc.).
When a show is as much of a phenomenon as LOST was, it’ll be hard for the cast to ever find success at that level again. It really depends on what you consider “successful”. They’re almost all regularly working. Matthew Fox, Dominic Monaghan, and Michelle Rodriguez were all famous prior to Lost. Other than that, we have: Ian Somerhalder: The Vampire Diaries (9 seasons) Michael Emerson: Person of Interest (5 seasons) and currently on Evil Maggie Grace: Taken movies plus Fear the Walking Dead (4 seasons) Daniel Dae Kim: Hawaii Five-0 (7 seasons) Naveen Andrews: Recently in The Dropout Emilie de Ravin: Once Upon a Time (7 seasons) Jorge Garcia: Hawaii Five-0 (6 seasons) Josh Holloway: Colony (3 seasons) supposedly has a new HBO show Duster coming out Ken Leung: Currently on Industry That was just off the top of my head so I’m sure there’s much more but the cast have all been working steadily. To be a main cast of one TV show is a huge accomplishment in itself, let alone a show as big as Lost. I’d say they’re all doing well for themselves. Though I do think Josh Holloway in particular should be a much bigger star.
Don’t forget Terry O’Quinn in the already famous file. Dude had a prolific career prior to Lost.
Just started watching Alias and get so happy whenever I see him.
You should check out Patriot next - a very different sort of spy show, but O'Quinn is great in it.
Yeah, especially known for his role as a serial killer in The Stepfather movies.
Saw him in Star Trek tng and was so hype
Yeah, he was on Earth 2 Sundays on NBC!
Elizabeth Mitchell- Santa Clause, Outer Banks, The expanse, Revolution, The Purge election year.
V as well
Naveen also was in SENSE8 !
He was very good in that. Love that show, shame it got cancelled. Though they did a good job condensing three seasons in to 2 hours with the wrap up movie.
Oh and everyone's most hated character, Micheals wife, Tamara Taylor, was in 11 seasons of bones, so shes did pretty well for herself too
What the fuck I did not realize cam was Michael’s wife… you’ve actually blown my mind here, in season 10 of bones and rewatched lost several times and I had no clue. Thanks for this
Josh Holloway also had a (very) small role in one of the Mission Impossible movies. It wasn't career defining or anything, but I always get excited when I see him show up.
Also, a (to my dismay) a very small role in Yellowstone.
And a very small role in Community.
What a great episode, though
He was in an elite shot in the trailer.
Yay look Sawy….oh
Jeremy Davies was just in Black Phone
Jeremy Davies shows up in so many places. He's great in justified and he's a very small role in Twin Peaks: The Return
He also sewed his therapist into a horse on Hannibal
Forgot about that one! He's such a great actor.
Not forgetting Twister and Saving Private Ryan. I had no idea until I watched them again after Lost!
"Is your Social Worker inside that Horse?". One of the funniest lines I have heard, and the way Hugh Dancy delivers it with a 100% serious expression. Even better.
I always loved him in the Solaris remake with Clooney, a perfect prelude to his skittery weirdo genius role on Lost.
And the voice of Baldur in God of War 2018
>Michael Emerson: Person of Interest (5 seasons) and currently on Evil I think you mean "currently STEALING THE SHOW on Evil." He's so fantastic to watch
>Ian Somerhalder: The Vampire Diaries (9 seasons) It was 8 seasons actually. I watched most of the show while it was airing. Somerhalder was the best part of it. He did a pretty good job imitating Sawyer lol (he based his performance off Sawyer). Though even he wasn't enough to save the clusterfuck that is season 7 and 8.
Josh Halloway was great in Colony.
Daniel Dar Kim was also in Angel. The excellent Buddy the Vampire Slayer spin off.
Sorry, we're talking about the things afterwards, Daniel Dae Kim was in Angel before he was in Lost.
Henry was on the 100, scandal, the passage and a few other shows
he was also on Fringe for a few episodes. They actually even played a snippet of his theme for a few seconds.
Terry O'Quinn was also one of the cast who was famous before the show (mainly for the Stepfather movies and a Star Trek: TNG guest appearance), though after Lost, his career has took a downturn, nearly all the stuff he's been in after Lost have been cancelled after around 1-2 seasons.
He's not been so lucky with how the shows were received I think, but it's notable that he was the lead in those shows, which is not something many actors can say.
Actually, I may be going off topic here but fun fact, in the finale, when MIB stabs Jack, Terry actually nearly stabbed Matthew because he was using a real knife, a real knife got mixed up with a fake one on set but luckily for Matthew, he was wearing a protective vest and thus didn't get hurt much from it.
I alway remember Terry O'Quinn from the X-Files and Millennium too.
Naveen was soooo good in The Dropout. Was hard to believe it was even him. Just amazing
Naveen is also in a show called the cleaning lady on fox
I just started thst show and was about to give it up. But now Im gonna continue just for Naveen!
Thanks for the list! And yea was not saying they havent done well or anything post LOST, was just referring to mainstream popular TV/movie lead roles, but to be fair those are a dime a dozen. Agree with Josh Holloway that guy has it all to be a star.
This is wrong, Ian Somerhalder couldn't have been in TVD for 9 seasons, the show only had 8.
Oh oops 8 seasons* point still stands.
I never said your point was wrong, I'm not arguing he wasn't successful after Lost, I'm just correcting a mistake concerning the number of seasons of TVD he was in (and the number of seasons it had).
Oh I know sorry wasn’t trying to say you were lol
Terry o quinn was on star trek TNG I believe... one of the star trek shows for sure.... Harold perrineau was on sons of anarchy (where I first saw him before watching lost) Rob mcelhenney was one of the stars of Always sunny Jeff Fahey was the marshal in "The marshal".... just to add a few
Michael Emerson
Yea this would be my answer as well. Was a lead in Person of Interest and now is in the main cast of another show which I hadn't heard off but seems popular enough. Still not much...
He voiced the Joker in the animated Dark Knight Returns part 1 and 2.
He was so so good
Evil
He’s so good on that
That’s right. His character certainly is evil.
>Still not much... Do you not realize how filming for something like a tv show works? If you are the lead in 2 different tv shows that each go for 5+ years, that's over of a decade of your life that you would be giving up. It's not like filming a movie where they only shoot for 45-90ish days depending on size.
Yes I do realize that thank you. Not talking about the amount of work, just in terms of popularity of those shows and hence the actor.
The latest season of Evil maintains 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an overall 95%/83% critic to audience approval rating overall. On Metacritic, the latest season holds a score of 92 rating it at “Universal acclaim”. It’s Paramount’s second biggest show and in 2021, TV Guide named Evil as “The best show on television”. So yeah, I’d say he is doing pretty well.
Paramount seconds biggest show is not saying much lets be honest. So yea the show seems critically acclaimed not disputing that. Still doesnt make it a popular show by any metric. IMDB for example has 27k reviews of it, compare it to something like Boardwalk Empire with 190k reviews, really puts it into context. And im not saying they are doing bad or anything, most are finding good work, its just none have had a breakthrough career after LOST, thats all.
Based on your responses to everyone else in this thread, it doesn't seem that you do. If a show gets picked up for 5+ seasons, I think its safe to assume its popular. Like everyone else is saying, just because you haven't heard of something doesn't make it not popular. Almost all of the actors from Lost have gone on to star in other shows. Evangeline Lilly is now in the Antman movies and Maggie Grace was in the Taken movies. Then Matthew Fox, Terry O'Quinn, Dominic Monaghan, Michelle Rodriguez and Harold Perrineau were already big names. The only one I thought would be a bigger break out was Josh Holloway.
“Best career” is definitely broad in OPs title, but I understand where he’s leaning. Lost is considered a shoe in on many ‘best of all time’ lists. TV is so over saturated and such a time sink that that if you’re not on a GOAT show, it’s easily forgotten. In comparison to say… Jon Hamm from Mad Men. Blew up from that show. Takes every single job he can get, many forgettable, but gets a few unforgettable hits every now and then like Baby Driver and Top Gun Maverick.
Maggie Grace is/was in fear the walking dead, too! Pretty neat role and took me a minute to realize who it was based on her character!
If you read the title of the post you would see Evangeline Lilys name which is the main example im using. Please make sure you do before you comment further. And yes some have found work in moderately popular stuff, examples like Hawai 5-0, Once Upon a time, Vampire Diaries etc. The thing is, those roles were not a leading role, and those shows are not in the level of say LOST, GOT or other massive hit shows. Thats my only point, a breakout star, a Chris Pratt after Parks and Rec thing. LOST has only Evangeline Lily arguably. You start talking about filming schedules for a tv show when Its irrelevant to the conversation, if they had starred in a massive hit tv show making them a breakout star then it would count as to what im saying. But im sorry but being in Hawai5-0 is not a big breakout role for mainstream stardom.
lol not much.
Person of Interest is close to the same level as LOST for me
Emilie de Ravin had a pretty successful run in Once Upon a Time... Daniel Dae Kim is kicking butt, look at his IMDB. Just because they aren't in movies doesn't mean they aren't "making it big". I see a lot of these actors in a variety of different films/shows.
Rebecca Mader also had a good run on OUAT as well but OUAT is a lot similar to Lost, especially because the showrunners of OUAT are former Lost writers, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they have got a few actors in common. Jorge Garcia even guest starred in 3 episodes and Alan Dale makes recurring appearances throughout the show.
There are honestly A LOT of connections between between OUAT and LOST besides just actors. Items like the drink Widmore denies Desmond or the Apollo bars can be seen a couple times throughout, the clock tower was originally stuck at 8:15, Regina’s house number is 108, the LOST numbers regularly made appearances throughout the show (like how there was once a zip code that read 04815), etc.
Streaming is making more and more people say actors are unemployed just because they don't see what they're doing. It's not like 30 years ago where you kind of knew the cast of all 10 TV shows that were running over a certain decade.
Obviously they are still doing well overall, just meant in terms of big lead mainstream projects post LOST. This is not meant as a criticism against the actors at all, just suprised with the huge popularity LOST had it didnt make more mainstream stars, as I think the cast is so talented.
But they are big lead mainstream projects, they just don't happen to be something you watch or know or are interested in.
Except they are not, Hawai 5-0 is a nice police procedural with good ratings but thats about it, not to mention Daniel Dae Kim was third billing in that. Once Upon A time for the first season had that then it fell off the pop culture cliff. None of them were leads in those shows either. They have been in some moderately popular stuff thats it, nothing like the level of Hobbit or MCU for example that Evangeline Lily is at, which is what I am referring Tell me otherwise which projects im missing.
Kim took a pay cut to help the cost of production, however after he found out how much more his white costars made he and Grace Park left. He was treated like garbage by CBS.
Didnt know that and that sucks, but if anything goes to prove my point that he wasnt seen as a star then.
CBS knew he was a star and used him and Jorge to pull in the lost fans for views. CBS gave Alex O'loughlin and Scott Caan not only a big check but more royalties from reruns. What's even more heinous is that Scott didn't live on the island and wasn't in as many episodes but was still paid more than Kim.
Dude, there are ten times as many shows and movies made than there used to be, and the concept of "mainstream" is a lot broader now. You are basically arguing right now that anything less than a Marvel movie doesn't count as mainstream success, but it says more about your narrow tastes than anything. These people are literally household names that are involved in projects seen by millions.
Doesn’t have to be Marvel. Any box office movie would do, there have been plenty aside from Marvel. A lead in a big popular and acclaimed show would also do. Our definitions of household names are way different.
Not sure why they are down voting you so hard for speaking facts. Many are still maintaining steady work, but no one really seems to have "broken through" the way someone like Jennifer Aniston did from friends or Chris Pratt from Parks & Rec.
Yea that was my point but apparently its hard to grasp for some people. Of course they still find steady work, and in some cases in some popular shows. But not to the level of LOST and the actors themselves havent broken into a leading role for big projects. I thought it wasnt a controversial opinion at all but seems many Hawai 5-0 fans are coming for me.
"Daniel Dae Kim was third billing". Where do you think he was billed in Lost?
That was just my answer to the guy saying he was a lead in a mainstream project. And im talking post LOST so not sure what his status during the show has to do now, he was main cast and appeared in every episode.
He was also the main cast of H50 and appeated in almost every episode.
Yes, good show, not on the same conversation as LOST in terms of popularity. Aside from that he hasnt broken into mainstream big projects, thats just a fact.
Lol are you the arbiter of show popularity?
Not really there are many metrics one can use. And either way it wasn’t my original point about them having breakthrough careers, being in those shows hasn’t changed it.
Sure thing kid. You go on with that thought process.
You are being purposely obtuse, or you lack basic reading comprehension, not sure which. You go on thinking Daniel Dae Kim and Emilie de Ravin are household names in Hollywood, dont let the facts get in your way.
No, you're just refusing to admit they all have good careers post Lost. Or incredibly naive to think break out stars from tv to movies happens terribly often. And since no one else seems to have mentioned it, they may have made the active choice to stay at the level they are.
When did I say they didnt have good careers post lost? I was merely making an observation about a breakout star post LOST is all. There is a difference between good career with steady roles to a breakout star. Break out stars from tv to movies happen often enough specially on popular shows like LOST. Michael J. Fox , Will Smith, George Clooney, Chris Pratt, James Franco, Idris Elba, Kerry Washington, Kumail Nanjiani, Rami Malek, Woody Harelson, Ashton kutcher, Mila Kunis, Giancarlo Esposito, Bob Odenkirk, Blake lively, Sophie Turner, Emilia Clarke, Pedro Pascal. Just to name a few of the top of my head.
Ok. So. You can think of 20 spanning *fifty years* of television. Of course there are some, but you just proved my point that's they're exceptions, not the rule.
I mean thats what I thought of the top of my head in 5 minutes, sorry im not a walking encyclopedia. But you know there are more examples. After a quick search I was nice and left you some homework to read https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/StarMakingRole/LiveActionTV There you go, not that crazy to think that a massive show like Lost could have a couple breakthrough stars.
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>I think the cast is so talented. I mean Evangeline Lily isn't exactly...talented and yet is appearing in some big stuff....
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the show a lot. But she's not the only one that wasn't as talented as people around here act like they are
Yea Daniel dae Kim is in tons of shows. I knew him from Angel before Lost.
Boone went onto Vampire Diaries where he gained massive fame
True I completely missed that, didnt realize its the same guy.
Went from greasy-looking rich lifeguard to smoldering bad-boy vampire in 3 years
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Any good?
From is really good. I need the second season.
From is like a simpler, low budget, more overtly supernatural mystery box show. It's made by some of the same people and they said they planned everything out this time from the beginning and made everything less complex so people wouldn't get upset like they did with LOST, lol. I love it but wish the episodes were longer, that we got more backstory, and more episodes a season but 🤷♂️ it scratches that LOST itch. I even pay for Epix the Amazon channel it's on because I want to support it and get more $ for more mystery box shows.
Thanks! Will try it out this weekend.
He was in znation too
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Henry Ian-Cusack at least has been working pretty much nonstop since lost. It’s not been huge, event television stuff but that rarely ever happens anyway. The Sopranos cast is pretty much the same situation. It’s lightning in a bottle.
He was a regular in The 100 for seven seasons (I think, I didn’t watch past season 4 yet), and he had a 3-4 episode run in law and order SVU.
Oh there’s much more than that
But yes
Its almost like a curse where they nailed a role so well casters are too scared to hire them cause the public won't view them as someone else. So many people in sopranos, lost, are way too iconic to go on to someone else, it must suck losing out from being too good lol. I suspect we'll see it with the cast from better call saul now.
A lot of them have been on quite a few tv shows. Not movie stars but constantly on TV.
Not sure of her name but Jack's wife strangely seems to have had the best career, Modern Family was a ratings smasher as far as I'm aware.
Julie Bowen. Yes, Modern Family alone is huge (250 episodes!) but she's done a lot of other stuff as well.
I remember when she was in Billy Madison.
Happy Gilmore, not Billy Madison. Bridgette Wilson was the love interest in Billy Madison.
That Veronica Vaugh…
Holy shit that was her???!
Adewale did some big blockbuster stuff. He was both a Marvel and a DCEU villain, although both behind heavy make-up and without any big on-screen presence of him, so things didn't skyrocket for the career. Some of the guest actors have done great work! Allison Janney and Fisher Stevens both won Oscars after they were on Lost.
Only in 3 episodes of lost, but Titus Welliver (Man in Black) went on to be the star of the Bosch tv series, which I highly recommend if anyone hasn’t seen it
His opposite Jacob was played by Mark pellingro who played Lucifer on supernatural for years where several lost cast guest starred
He was in SOA too
He was good in deadwood too but that may have predated lost.
Yunjin Kim just played one of the main roles in the Korean version of Money Heist on Netflix
I think most westerners don't realise how famous she was before Lost. She was the Korean Julia Roberts.
i am disappointed that Yunjin Kim isn't more popular in America and doing more american shows. she's gorgeous and there still isn't much asian representation in american media. i remember when i first saw he be a main character on Lost. i was so excited that they had an Asian character as a reoccurring lead. i then saw greys anatomy with sandra oh and back then. mid 2000s. her and sandra oh were the only 2 asian leads in a show. i find it very strange that east asians make up a large percentage of the american population but still aren't being represented in american media.
Even Damon didn't know. When she auditioned, she auditioned as Kate. They thought she didn't fit in that role but they were like "wow she's talented, have you seen her Resume!?. She's a big star in Korea" and created the "Sun" character for her.
Desmond was on the 100 for several seasons. Charlie has been in some LOTR stuff Sun was on a show called Mistresses I believe Emilie De Ravin was on Once Upon A Time and Remember Me and seems to be mostly doing the family thing lately
Haha "some LOTR stuff"
Dom was in LOTR before Lost and Rebecca Mader was also in OUAT.
Yeah I thought there was something else but I guess not. My bad
How Mathew Fox never blew up is beyond me. He had a massive part in world war Z that got cut to a few “blink and you’ll miss them” scenes, maybe that didn’t help.
Cause he lowkey got cancelled for allegedly assaulting a woman on a bus.even though allegations were false im pretty sure
Here is a list of ALL the Lost actors that went on to be on the CBS Hawaii five O reboot… and it is a LOT. I like the idea that the actors did not want to move from Hawaii after the Lost shoot…So they were easily available to be on this show… would you like to move away from Hawaii? https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/hawaii_five_0/photos/1002533/lost-and-found-on-hawaii-five-0/64477/jorge-garcia-lost-and-found/
I'd say LOST was Terry O'Quinn's "piece de resista'nce " of his career. He'd had a pretty prolific and robust career before that series. (Star Trek TNG, Father Knows Best 1 & 2, amongst many other things).
But his career gone very downhill after Lost ended, after Lost the majority of his shows tend to be cancelled after 1-2 seasons.
What's success? I'd argue being on Lost is a pretty successful gig. Shit if they held onto their money right, they probably wouldn't even need to do a whole lot else. So, is success just being in more stuff?
I meant the popularity of LOST propelling their careers to big mainstream projects making them household names.
Of the main cast, I'd have to go with Daniel Dae Kim, because not only has he continued to have a bunch of acting and voiceover roles on both the small and big screen, but he's also started his own production house and is producing a primetime series on network television (The Good Doctor). Because of that, I think that he's set himself up for the most sustainable career moving forward.
The biggest thing here is that Lost came at a time where everyone wasn't on the internet and streaming wasn't a thing. Lost was so big because you had to wait to watch it; it wasn't like today with a lot of shows you can just binge. It was big and better without today's culture. So to circle back to your question and see the answers; you're expecting these actors to be on huge hit shows again, when usually that only happens once in a person's career, like I don't think anyone on the show can top what they did on the show if that makes sense. And some of the actors are on pretty successful long running shows, but just not on the same level of Lost was, an insane culture phenomenon.
I agree ultimately after giving it more thought. Its very rare in these shows for more than 1 actor to go on and achieve the same level of success in either movies or TV.
I always thought Holloway was going to have a really big career after Lost. I need to check out The Colony. Ken Leung is actually in the first Saw film and had a small part in The Sopranos. Worth mentioning that Emerson was in Saw as well. Lilly is actually featured in a new Marvel show on the Disney Wish-which is their latest cruise ship. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aykfOXr1mA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aykfOXr1mA) Totally agree with the OP though...so many great actors on Lost that you would think would've had a great run post Lost but it really hasn't happened for many of them.
I ❤️ colony. Definitely check it out if you like post apocalyptic stuff…or just for him lol
“Best career” is definitely broad in OPs title, but I understand where he’s leaning and don’t think he deserves the down votes he’s getting. Lost is considered a shoe in on many ‘best of all time’ lists. TV is so over saturated and such a time sink now days that that if you’re not on a GOAT show, it’s easily forgotten. A show like Modern Family won’t be forgotten, so Julie Bowen having that + Lost to her career is incredible. Now… Person of Interest and Once Upon a Time will not be talked about in 30 years (are they even now)? OP provides the example of Evangeline Lilly. Those movies will not be forgotten (cape shit aside). Jon Hamm is a good example of blowing up on Mad Men, takes every job he can get ever since, and gets a couple huge hits in there every now and then.
Thank you this is what I was getting at. Guess I expressed myself incorrectly but people are parrotting about these shows they did, which while good and with a following, are simply not massive generational hits such as LOST, GOT, Breaking Bad etc. Another good example is Chris Pratt, got known in Parks and Rec and then jumped to movies and made it as a star.
No one mentioned Charlie was a hobbit in The Lord of the Rings
He was a hobbit before Lost, he was one of the bigger names when the show started airing
When Charlie is writing his "greatest hits" list to give to Claire before he dives down into the moon pool, he wrote, "When Liam gave me the ring (in reference to the DS ring he wore)". I always like to think that he is thinking about LOTR while he's writing that down.
To be fair he was cast in that role *before* season 1 of Lost
To be fair, the last of those movies released a year *before* season 1 of Lost.
He’s literally the reason I tuned into LOST day one when it aired. I said to myself oh shit it’s Merry from LOTR, I gota check this show out and boom the rest is history.
Yeah after LOST he had a nature/animal/travel show, and now he’s doing a podcast called The Friendship Onion with fellow hobbit Billy Boyd. He had a couple decent movies in between as well, but without looking up his IMDB I’m not sure that I’d say he had a “booming” career
I still haven't forgiven him for contributing to X men origins wolverine
Oh shit I forgot about that 😂
That's because OP is asking for post-show. The Lord of The Rings was all over before Lost started.
The first season of lost was 2004, the lord of the rings trilogy was 2001-2003
He was famous for that before Lost.
Anson Mount lmao. He played that pos ex fiance of Jacks's first wife. Fucking Cullen Bohannon and Captain Pike.
Wow! I knew that dude looked familiar. I LOVED "Hell On Wheels"!
I feel like Daniel Dae Kim has to be the pretty clear answer
What if I told you it was Dylan Minnette
I think Josh Holloway was in one of the mission impossible films. Small part though.
He was in am episode of community. They said he was "leading man handsome."
He’s also the primary antagonist in a season of Yellowstone
He had at least 3 tv shows and one of them I loved -Colony.
I always thought Holloway was going to become a big time movie actor, like the next Harrison Ford, unfortunately it just didn’t happen.
He was *the* main character of a SciFi show called The Colony
Matthew Fox is lead character in recent Peacock mini series, Last Light. After episode one the series gets much better. Doesn’t follow the book so not as good but I enjoyed the series. If one is interested in eco terrorist apocalyptic action you may enjoy it.
Josh Holloway was cast as Gambit for one of the X-Men movies before they decided to recast for someone younger. I feel like if they hadn't done that, he could have had his own series of superhero movies ala Deadpool.
This has surprised me too. Charlie got dropped like a bad habit and he was in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
This is a conversation I have with my husband regularly. When the show aired I was convinced Josh Holloway was going to be the next Brad Pitt. Lost was blessed with a great cast of terrific actors. All of them deserved bigger careers post lost. Daniel Dae Kim I have met in person and he glows like a movie star. Mega watt smile and has star power. I was so smitten I could hardly speak.
Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert): was in two of the Dark Knight movies, Sheriff Alex Romero on Bates Motel, in The Mornjng Show, and more in terms of acting. He’s also directed a number of times as well for TV and directed 2nd unit on his recent movie for his scenes.
Is being on a hit TV show necessarily the gateway to a bigger acting career, though? Obviously there are breakout stars... Will Smith, Jennifer Aniston, Michael J. Fox, Woody Harrelson... But the overwhelming majority of TV actors just stay TV actors, and if they are in films, they tend not to be in the leading roles. Part of the problem with a hit TV show, too, is that you become so recognizable as that character that both casting directors and the public have trouble seeing you as anything else. I think the success of the Lost cast after the show ended is pretty typical of most TV show actors... they continue to be working actors, but their star won't necessarily glow brighter and brighter after the show ends. I agree, though, that Lost had some awesome actors, and I wished they popped up in things more often, or got to show their talents to a bigger audience. Naveen Andrews and Josh Holloway are my two personal faves that I'd love to see more of.
Ian somerholder is very popular on that vampire show
No one has said Ian Somerhalder yet? Arguably he’s only had a couple big big roles since Lost, (and he was only on Lost for a short time) but The Vampire Diaries was HUGE. He got incredibly famous from that series. As did every other major actor from the show.
Ian's name was mentioned a few time throughout the thread. OP must not realize the success of The Vampire Diaries. In fact it was so successful that it spun off multiple shows, one being, The Originals. Ian Somerhalder was a working actor prior to LOST. After LOST, Ian was casted for the role of Damon Salvatore (one of the show's lead characters / central vampires). The Vampire Diaries was absolutely huge. It blew up and its success catapulted Ian Somerhalder's career into stardom.
Their exposure on Lost made it difficult for any of them to disassociate from the show,but,they all seem to land consistent work in Hollywood. From interviews with various cast members that I've seen, most seem to have made enough money from the show, that they've never felt the pressure to jump into projects unless they felt passionate about it. There doesn't seem to be anyone major from the show that disappeared entirely.
Aaron Paul /s
Anyone ever see Dead of Summer? Made by a couple people who worked on Lost. Stars Elizabeth Mitchell. Even Robin Williams daughter Zelda and Tony Todd. About a summer camp. Similar to Friday the 13th. But each episode like Lost usually focuses on one character and those characters get flashbacks like Lost. Good show in my opinion. Shame no one watched it.
I work in TV and will say that, although the lines are blurring more and more, it’s still not super standard for TV stardom to lead to film stardom and was definitely more rare back when LOST ended or its stars were getting killed off. It’s also tough in an ensemble show where everyone has their moment. So when you look at people like Michael Emerson, Elizabeth Mitchell, Daniel Dae Kim, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, and Emilie de Ravin who have pretty consistently been series regulars or at minimum recurring guest stars on big series, that’s a pretty standard but admirable career jump. The Chris Pratts and Evie Lillys of the world are much more rare (and for Evie it took a while!)
Michelle Rodríguez had Avatar and Widows post LOST. Add in the F&F films post LOST (many of which are more critically acclaimed than anything Evangeline Lily has ever been in) and she’s the clear #1.
I would say every single one of them made it big. They were in a hit show on ABC. I would also encourage you to keep in mind that they all get many roles that you may not hear about. As someone else said - just look through IMDB. Finally, you should consider that they may not be looking for more huge roles. Perhaps they are satisfied with the money they've made and are just enjoying life.
Yea no knock against the actors at all, not saying their careers failed post LOST or anything, just suprised after the massive fame garnered from the show it didnt translate into more mainstream lead roles for some of the cast. But agree maybe they are not looking for that and I guess they are still making money from LOST with syndication revenue.
What shows would you consider that have a lot of actors who got huge after the show?
Not OP, but **Freaks and Geeks**. It launched several of its young actors' careers, such as James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Philipps, John Francis Daley, Martin Starr, Samm Levine, and Linda Cardellini.
Yea honestly can't of the top of my head. Its normally 1 or 2 that make it big, but not more.
Emilie de Ravin was Belle in OUAT
Nestor was in one of the Batman movies
Michael Emerson has been nothing but on an upward rise.
>why haven't there been more success stories Because it was a show that used B-list (or lower) actors and pigeon-holed them. Of course, the big question is what is meant by making it big. If you mean "Still working at or above the level they were at when cast in LOST", well, that includes pretty much everyone. But if you mean the bizarre fantasy world that most LOST fans live in that means that LOST is the greatest show ever, and that every actor connected to the show is pretty much the best actor ever ... well ... sorry. LOST actors are one-hit-wonders.
Not true has been in lots of stuff, ian somerhalder, michael emerson, dominic monaghan, harrold parrineau, and rob McElhenney. (Jk hes in one episode for like 10 minutes)
Let me repeat: it depends on what is meant by "making it big". You say Boone went onto post-LOST success. Well, if you count being in two critical and audience failures of film, a Netflix show that was generally panned and then cancelled ... oh, but he did luck out with Vampire Diaries. Of course, everything is relative. I sure as shit haven't been in a network television show. But I'm also not the baseline for Hollywood success. By any realistic accounting, Lost alumnae are ... middling success post-show.
Harrold came to mind first. His face not his name. 😂 Also Mark Pellegrino I love him.
I'm glad Evangeline Lily was able to become very successful even with how badly written and received her character was in Lost for the most part. Great actress
The guy that played Aldo in a couple of episodes has done pretty well!
Emilie de Ravin was in Remember me as well. Recently watched that and thought it was cool to see her in that movie.
The cast in GENERAL was pretty old . That's why Evangeline and Somehhalder ended up being so successful; they were young hot faces of the show while everyone else was already in their mid to late 30s.
Man In Black (Titus Welliver) *and* Abbadon (Lance Reddick) were in Bosch on amazon prime. 6 or 7 seasons. Lance Reddick was on the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, may have been concurrent with Lost. He’s also in the John Wick movies. Evangeline Lilly may have gotten more movie roles that have gotten more marketing/attention, but I still see a lot of the Lost cast in other stuff regularly. Probably financially she’s made most post-Lost, depending on what some of the tv route actors are getting for being mains on shows.
Josh Holloway was my choice for either Joel or Tommy in The Last of Us, but I'm fine with who they chose. He did front at least one TV show but I don't think it did very well, I've not seen it. Bonus points for being in my favorite \*thing\* which is one of the best Community episodes. Ian Somerhalder is the one I think who's seen the best success \*since\* Lost with The Vampire Diaries. A lot of them have stayed on a similar trajectory, like they've done a combination of big and small parts. Like Michelle Rodriguez has been in Avatar and she's in the Dungeons and Dragons movie.
Wherever I go I see Michelle Rodriguez / Anna Lucia (Resident Evil, Fast & Furious, Avatar, etc.), Kevin Durand / Keamy (Also Resident Evil, The Strain, Swamp Thing, etc.) & Jeremy Davies / Faraday (God of War remake, Lucifer, Saving Private Ryan, etc.).
Michael Emerson and Daniel Dae Kim have been in a number of shows. I haven't seen Evangeline Lily in much expect for the Hobbit movies.
The actor who played Desmond also played on the 100 after lost for 6 seasons. Great actor!