Celebrity News: Furlong the Latest Child Star Gone Bad?
It seems the celebrity gossip columns have a brand new target this week after it was revealed that another former child star has fallen foul of the law.
Edward Furlong, who shot to fame in 1991 thanks to his central performance as a teenage John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, was arrested in Los Angeles after allegedly violating a restraining order taken out against him by his estranged wife Rachael Kneeland.
While the actor has never really achieved the level of success he enjoyed in his feature debut, he has scored a series of critical hits including 1998s American History X and the Steve Buscemi-directed 2000 prison drama Animal Factory. However, Furlong had recently made his return to blockbuster fare with a role in The Green Hornet, having walked the red carpet for its premiere only a few days before his arrest, but it remains to be seen if these latest accusations will have any impact on his career.
Of course, it isn’t the first time that a child actor has grown up into something of a hell raiser and wound up in trouble with the law. In fact there are a slew of Hollywood starlets that started out with a promising future but quickly ended up splashed across the celebrity news pages for all the wrong reasons – here are just a few of them.
She is certainly a favourite of most celebrity blogs and tabloid newspapers across the globe, but long before the drink-driving charges, car crashes and stints in rehab clinics, Lohan was a rising star that looked like she could make a real impact on Hollywood. After solid performances in wholesome Disney hits The Parent Trap and Freaky Friday, some would say the teen actress peaked with 2004s Mean Girls. However, while she did go on to make one or two impressive appearances on film as an adult, her career has been sadly tainted by an infamous party lifestyle.
While his career had actually started earlier, with a host of TV appearances, Culkin became a household name in the late 80s and early 90s thanks to his lead role in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. His career stalled a little after the disappointing Richie Rich in 1994, but it gave the actor a chance to grow up a little out of the spotlight before returning in 2003s Party Monster. Unfortunately, that’s also exactly what he had become by that point, clocking up a divorce and a reputation.
Perhaps not as well known a name to modern audiences, Driscoll’s story is perhaps the most tragic of all. Scooping an Academy Award for Outstanding Juvenile Actor in 1949 at the age of just 13, his credits include Disney features like Treasure Island and Peter Pan to name just a few, but his legacy is unfortunately for his mistakes in later life. Severe acne in his teens damaged his career irrevocably and arrests for drug possession, forgery and theft led him to rehab and finally an early death. His body was found in an abandoned New York building in 1968, but was not identified until a year and a half later.
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