Courtney Henggeler, who recently ended a six-season run as Amanda LaRusso, the wife of Karate Kid Danny LaRusso, in the Netflix series “Cobra Kai” is getting out of the acting business.
“After 20-plus years of fighting the good fight in the acting business, I hung up my gloves on Friday,” Henggeler said in a Substack post. “I called my agents and told them I was tapping out. I no longer wanted to be a cog in the wheel of the machine.”
Her career until “Cobra Kai” was filled with single appearances on several hit TV series, including “House,” “Criminal Minds,” “Mom,” “Bones,” and “Jane the Virgin.”
“Nailed it.
“Or a recurring guest-star that never seemed to recur. … Whatever the opposite of nailing it is.”
She said she considers herself lucky to have landed on a hit series, but says the idea of returning to “the grind” had lost its appeal.
“We survived off the crumbs,” she said. “We filled our cup with the possibility; our mugs with delusion. Our plates were empty, but a golden goose hung over our heads. Today might be the day. Today might be the day I reach the golden goose. Twenty-plus years of this. I’m hungry.”
