Actors Who Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing But Fizzled Out

Ilan Mitchell-Smith

Ilan Mitchell-Smith is a classically trained ballet dancer and even accepted a scholarship to perform at the School of American Ballet. Later, he landed a role on Weird Science, a teen movie by John Hughes. Today, he's a professor at California State University, Long Beach.

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