Tia Carrere isn't the only star to have all but vanished from our screens since the early-'90s heyday of Wayne's World. Mike Myers' star may have burned longer and brighter, but these days it has also faded into obscurity.

Myers was all over Hollywood into the early 2000s thanks to Wayne's World and then Austin Powers – so where did he go?

The Canadian comedian and actor came to prominence when he joined Saturday Night Live in 1989, staying with the show for 121 episodes over six years (and returning intermittently since – most recently for its 40th anniversary in 2015).

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Released in 1992, Wayne's World was Myers's first movie appearance – although not the debut of Wayne Campbell, who Myers created on the Canadian music show City Limits in the early '80s and who had featured in various SNL sketches.

Wayne's World became something of a '90s phenomenon (don't even pretend you can't quote at least half a dozen lines without thinking about it) and spawned the 1993 sequel Wayne's World 2.

Not content with one hit franchise, he moved on in 1997 to Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, launching an incredibly successful, three-part series that co-starred Beyoncé and Michael Caine among others and made over $670 million. In hindsight, we can't really account for just how popular the scatological idiot spy became, but what can you do?

There was actually a third and even more popular film series waiting to arrive in 2001. We're talking about Shrek, of course, but thanks to it being animated and Myers putting on a Scottish accent, it's easy to forget that he was the star.

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In the live-action world, Myers' shtick was wearing thin. Universal Pictures sued him for backing out of a movie that he himself had written for them, and the settlement for that court case – his critically-despised take on Dr Seuss's beloved The Cat in the Hat, made in payment for Universal – scored him a handful of Razzie nominations.

He didn't end up winning that time, but then there was the we-can't-believe-they-made-it, racially questionable nonsense of 2008's The Love Guru, which ended his unlikely stretch as a Hollywood leading man.

Beyond a small role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, over the last decade he's mainly stuck to Saturday Night Live guest spots and appearances as himself in documentaries (including Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, which he also directed). In 2016 he published a non-fiction book called Canada (no surprises for guessing what it's about) and he had a sort of cameo as a mask in Baby Driver.

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Then, out of the blue, he played the fictional host of the 2017 revival of The Gong Show – and left us utterly bemused.

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Myers is coming back to movies in 2018, in the Margot Robbie-starring thriller Terminal and the troubled Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (which kind of brings his movie career full circle).

Will this mark a rise in fortunes for Myers? Who can say, but either way, you should probably accept that there will never be another Austin Powers film.

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