For some reason I've been thinking a lot about LOST lately--thinking about it enough that I rewatched the pilot a few nights ago. I got to thinking: how have all of the actors fared in their post-LOST careers? Despite it's trials and tribulations, did acting on LOST give a sense of purpose, just like Jack felt with the Island? Is it time yet for a career revitalizing LOST reboot?

Normally these questions are relegated to some very simple slide show listicle. However, we don't have to settle for that! We've got data! We can perform a far more interesting analysis than googling "Matthew Fox."

The Data¶

I scraped all of this data from IMDB, following the process below:

Get each actor that appears on the main page for LOST in IMDB (the top 15 actors by episode appearances). Go to each actor's page and grab the list of movies/tv they have been in. Go to each of those movie/tv pages and grab the title, score, and year info.

Additional Notes¶

Minor Roles: To eliminate minor roles, I only counted roles where that actor appeared on the main cast list for that movie/tv. For example: Jorge Garcia was in two episodes of How I Met Your Mother, but doesn't appear on the main HIMYM IMDB cast page.

Year info: For TV shows, the year included is the year that TV show premiered. It's not the year in which an actor might have appeared on the show. For example: everyone who appeared in LOST will have a year of 2004, regardless of when they actually started on the show. Actors this impacts:

Michael Emerson (first appeared 2006)

Elizabeth Mitchell (2006)

Ken Leung (2008)

Language: I'll use actors to refer to both actors and actresses throughout this exploration. I'll use the term media to refer to the general collection of TV or Movies.