Receive an email a day with our articles:If you lived in the '90s, you knew someone who adored Devon Sawa (if it wasn't you): With just a couple of roles, the Canadian actor managed to put teen audiences in his pocket and grab headlines in teen magazines with headlines like "Devon talks about his loves and his kisses" or "Is Devon the ideal boyfriend? We investigated him".Sawa shared covers and folders with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt or Jonathan Brandis, but suddenly he disappeared from public life.What happened to him?How do you live your life when you hit the ceiling at 18?Devon Edward Sawa was born on September 7, 1978 in Vancouver, the son of a homemaker and a mechanic.But he was destined for great things: he debuted on television at the age of eleven and four years later he was already filming on the set of a film destined to mark the children of the 90s: 'Casper'.According to her director, Brad Silberling, he needed someone who would elicit a genuine reaction from Christina Ricci, and as soon as she saw him on set, he blushed: she had totally hit the mark.It was Steven Spielberg himself who recommended him for 'Little Giants', the movie based on a McDonald's ad (seriously) where he had to appear to be ten years old in his teens.He came out surprisingly well and became America's new darling in movies like "Girlfriends Forever," but that childhood was short-lived: the heartthrob teen traits were about to be exploited in movies like "Young Explorers."Although everyone kept remembering him for "Will you stay with me?", the famous phrase from 'Casper', Sawa tried from doing horror comedies (the very appreciable 'The devil put his hand') to starring in the first part of a saga which is given less importance than it is ('Final Destination').But he couldn't shake the teenage actor label, so he did what anyone in his situation would do: become Eminem.To change his life and be considered an adult actor, Sawa thought of two ways to renew his career: the first, starring in 'Stan', Eminem's video clip with lyrics like "A friend committed suicide because of some bitch who didn't love him ".The second, to start accepting roles of characters who smoked marijuana to distance themselves from Casper.Little by little, seeing that his career did not take off again, he began to drink.And that is never good.Between 2004 and 2009, where he appeared in four forgettable movies, the actor took refuge in alcohol until he decided to take charge of his life: he returned to Vancouver, stopped drinking and met Dawni Sahanovitch, a Canadian film producer with whom he embarked on a trip to Southeast Asia, where he seriously considered quitting acting and going into the real estate business.In fact, in Vancouver he renovated his own home himself.A plan B does no harm to anyone.The couple married in 2013, right around the time of the last season of 'Nikita', where he was a main character, and his appearance in 'A resurrection', a film that cost 5 million and barely raised 10,000 dollars.Between 2016 and 2019 he only starred in the series 'Somewhere between' and two episodes of 'Hawaii Five-0'.But if there's one thing Hollywood likes, it's a redemption story.Devon Sawa may never be the star he was in the 90s, but at 44, he has done something almost impossible, and without needing to smoke marijuana or become Eminem: reinvent himself.His appearance in 'Hacks', where he plays a younger man who sleeps with Deborah Vance, returned him to the headlines and to the memory of everyone who wondered, in a remote place of his brain, where he had gone for almost Two decades.Of course, for 'Hacks' he did something that he has not had to do for years: an audition that he just wanted to leave as soon as possible and that he describes as "a horrible experience".It's what you're faced with when he stops being Casper.But 'Hacks' is not his only lifeline: Sawa appears in 'Chucky' as a secondary and, although his 6 and 8-year-old children do not finish enjoying what he does and he is no longer an essential character in Hollywood, he loves it. is clear."I'm a happy guy. I really, really am."In the end, he stayed with us.Share What happened to Devon Sawa, the 90s teen idol who wanted to change his life and found himself along the wayMore Sites You'll LikeSee more articlesSee more videosMore Sites You'll LikeSee more articlesSee more videos