Ahmed Best
You really do have to feel sorry for Ahmed Best imagine his excitement of stepping into George Lucas' Star Wars world only to become one of cinema's most hated characters.
So FemaleFirst went on the hunt to find out what happened to Ahmed Best after his role as Jar Jar Binks.
The American actor was discovered by director George Lucas when he was part of the chorus line of musical Stomp and invited him to try out for the role of Jar Jar Binks in the return of Star Wars The Phantom Menace in 1999.
The Phantom Menace was the year's most successful movie at the box office grossing $924 million at the end of it's theatrical run however the reception that the new character of Jar Jar Binks, a clumsy Gungan, exiled from his home but taken in by Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, received was not too positive and Best won a Best Supporting Actor Razzie award.
Despite this lack of popularity it would be a role that Best would reprise in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones in 2002 and again in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith in 2005.
Despite roles in The Stockholm Syndrome and Open Window, as well as some TV work that includes Alias, he has never left behind the role of Jar Jar Binks returning to the character for The Colbert Report and Robot Chicken: Star Wars.
More recently Best has turned his hand to directing and producing with television show This Can't Be My Life, a show in which he has also acted.
He is currently filming Mother and Child alongside Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington which is expected to be released in 2010.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw