![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-starred-in-huge-hollywood-movie-with-zac-efron-but-i-quit-fame-to-be-a-hair-stylist-and-i-love-it/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/efron-op.jpg&description=CUTTING EDGE I starred in huge Hollywood movie with Zac Efron but I quit fame to be a hair stylist and I love it A FAMOUS actress who starred in one of the most popular movie musicals of all time now works a very normal job. Nikki Blonksy, 34, shot to fame after singing her heart out as Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 movie version of Hairspray. 5 Nicole Blonsky with Zac Efron in the 2007 movie Hairspray Credit: Alamy 5 Nikki at The Hollywood Show in LA in California last year Credit: Getty She starred alongside an A-list ensemble - including John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, James Marsden, and Amanda Bynes. And producers were insistent on casting an unknown actress for the lead role of Tracy Turnblad. Nikki was 18 at the time and working in an ice cream shop in New York when she auditioned - and landed the mega role. She won the Critics Choice award for Best Young Performer and a prestigious Golden Globe nomination. Hairspray became the tenth highest grossing musical film in US cinema history - behind Grease, Chicago, and Mamma Mia. But Nikki appeared to have a hard time securing other roles after her success in Hairspray. In the four years after the film's release in 2007, she only had two film credits to her name. She also starred in a popular ABC TV series called Huge, which only ran for one season. And in 2011, Nikki got her cosmetology license, and started working as a hairstylist and make-up artist in her hometown of Great Neck, New York. Taking to Twitter, she confirmed "it's true" she was working as a make-up artist to help pay her bills - but she said would never "lose sight of her dreams". In an interview with Out magazine in 2017, Nikki said it wasn't her choice to step away from Hollywood. 'I did not take a conscious step out of Hollywood and so long as I'm alive, I never will,' she said. 'Singing and acting has been my dream since I was three. 'It kind of feels like the industry left me.' In 2020, Nikki came out as gay as she celeb){kind=link}
A FAMOUS actress who starred in one of the most popular movie musicals of all time now works a very normal job.
Nikki Blonksy, 34, shot to fame after singing her heart out as Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 movie version of Hairspray.
She starred alongside an A-list ensemble – including John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, James Marsden, and Amanda Bynes.
And producers were insistent on casting an unknown actress for the lead role of Tracy Turnblad.
Nikki was 18 at the time and working in an ice cream shop in New York when she auditioned – and landed the mega role.