Amanda Bynes was always on Nickelodeon in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Before getting her own show called “The Amanda Show,” the child actor was on the sketch comedy show “All That.” Some of her crazy characters, like Courtney and Judge Trudy, may be remembered by millennials. Bynes made people laugh for years with her natural style of comedy. Bynes went on to star in a number of popular movies after her time on “The Amanda Show,” including “Big Fat Liar,” “What a Girl Wants,” “She’s the Man,” and “Hairspray.”
Despite having a successful career, Bynes had to deal with a lot of problems with her mental health and drug use. The Hollywood Reporter also said that she was arrested for driving under the influence. Bynes was put under the care of a guardian for 9 years, which will end in 2022. As her mental health and drug use got worse, Bynes decided to stop acting. But why did she quit all of a sudden after being in the movie “Easy A” in 2010?
Amanda Bynes didn’t like her performance
Amanda Bynes shared an update about her acting career on Twitter in 2010 (via Entertainment Weekly). She wrote on Twitter, “Being an actress isn’t as much fun as it might look.” She wrote about why she did what she did, “If I no longer enjoy doing something, I stop doing it. I’ve stopped acting because I no longer enjoy it. I know that 24 is a young age to retire, but you heard it here first.”
Bynes’s last role was as Marianne in “Easy A,” a romantic comedy starring Emma Stone. The former Nickelodeon star felt bad about herself, which made her decide to give up. She told Paper Magazine in 2018: “I couldn’t stand how I looked in that movie, and I didn’t like how I acted in it. After seeing it, I was sure that I needed to stop acting.” Bynes’s whole world shook when she saw herself on screen, and it changed the way her career went after that. She told him, “When I saw that, I was high on marijuana, but for some reason, it really started to get to me. I don’t know if it was caused by drugs or what, but it changed my brain in a way that it doesn’t change other people’s. It completely changed the way I saw things.”
Amanda Bynes pursued other passions
Amanda Bynes had a hard time finding happiness after she stopped acting. She said to the magazine Paper, “I just didn’t have a reason to live. I had worked all my life, but now I wasn’t doing anything.” She said that she spent most of her time getting high. After having trouble with drugs, she decided to follow her interest in fashion and started going to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in 2014. Kathi Gilbert, who is the assistant dean of admissions, says that the school’s students loved the actor. She told Paper that, “Her teachers like her a lot. Love her. She is smart and takes part in class. She is a great student.” Page Six says that Bynes graduated in 2019, even though she had some problems with her mental health while she was there.
In October 2022, Bynes used Instagram Story (via Page Six) to talk about what she was up to. She wrote, “I’m going to beauty school to be a manicurist!” Bynes seems to be working hard to improve her skills in the beauty industry, but she hasn’t given up on her love of art. Parade says that the star released two rap singles that year called “Diamonds” and “Fairfax.”
