Elisha Cuthbert Returns After 4-Year Hiatus for New
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- Elisha Cuthbert ended a four-year onscreen hiatus by joining the cast of Prime Video's romantic drama series "Every Year After" as Sue Florek, with all eight episodes now available to stream.
- Cuthbert explained on Today that she "didn't want to be on set" after the birth of her second child, having worked through the first four years of her first child's life and finding it "really hard to separate that mom from the working person I was."
- Cuthbert said she chose to stay home full-time with her children and enjoyed "every minute," but now that both kids are in school full time she feels she has "the space and the energy and the heart" to act again.
- "Every Year After" is based on Carley Fortune's "Every Summer After" book series and was developed for TV by Amy B. Harris and Leila Gerstein, starring Sadie Soverall as Percy and Matt Cornett as Sam.
- Cuthbert's last screen credits were 2022's "The Cellar" and "Bandit," following earlier notable roles in "The Girl Next Door" (2004), "House of Wax" (2005), "24" (2001–2010), "Happy Endings" (2011–2013), and "The Ranch" (2016–2020).
Why it matters: Cuthbert's four-year absence shows the real tradeoff working actors face between long set hours and early parenthood, and her return now that both children are in school full time signals a deliberate, conditions-based reentry to the industry rather than a career exit.
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