16. FREDDIE PRINZE, JR.
Acting, you can say, has always been in Freddie Prinze, Jr.’s blood. His dad was actor-comedian Freddie Prinze from the 70s. The brilliant entertainer died by suicide in 1977, when he was only one year old. And after the urging of your grandfather, he started to act when he was a teenager — in hopes to not only walk in his father’s shoes but also grow out of them and lace up his own.
And he did.
His movies were blockbuster hits in the 90s and 2000s. Girls clamored for the laid-back actor’s attention, while he genre-bounced from kid films to horror, comedy to romance, and from cartoons to action films. But he also had other interests.
He stepped away from acting, just a bit. to become a producer and director at the World Wide Wrestling entertainment company.
Now, he is focusing on cooking; authoring the “Back to the Kitchen: 75 Delicious Real Recipes (and True Stories) from a Food-Obsessed Actor” book. For kicks, he has a podcast called the Prinze and Wolf Podcast and a YouTube channel called Gegghead. He really is just having fun, living in Jordans that his dad never got to rock.