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Retired and Loving Life! Stars Who Stepped Away From Hollywood and Couldn’t Be Happier


Some of the biggest stars in Hollywood retired from acting in favor of other pursuits bringing them joy, including Daniel Day Lewis, Gene Hackman and more.

The star of 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High enjoyed slowing down after 1994’s Princess Caraboo to raise a family with husband Kevin Kline, then start her own NYC boutique, Blue Tree. “It was something I had to do,” confessed the three-time Oscar winner, 66, about his decision to stop acting after 2017’s Phantom Thread and “explore the world in a different way.” Still, he added, “I won’t know which way [I’ll] go. When a tour of the play Love Letters, with pal Ryan O’Neal, ended in 2017, Ali, 84, settled back into her quiet life in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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