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Inside Rick Moranis’ Quiet Life Away from Hollywood After Wife’s Death
Rick Moranis stepped away from Hollywood to raise his kids after his wife's death but is now making his big-screen comeback in Spaceballs 2
Moranis got his start on the influential Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV in 1980, before landing his breakout movie performance as the demonically possessed Louis Tully in 1984’s Ghostbusters. Notable appearances in Spaceballs and Little Shop of Horrors followed throughout the 1980s before Moranis landed his most iconic role as loveable scientist Wayne Szalinski in Disney’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids movies. Many may not know that Moranis released two well-received albums – 2005’s Grammy-nominated alternative country record The Agoraphobic Cowboy and a semi-autobiographical musical, My Mother’s Brisket & Other Love Songs, in 2013 – during his acting break, too.
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