It came as a shock to many this morning to read the news on actress Amanda Bynes. She made an announcement this morning telling the world the she is ready to retire from Hollywood at the young age of 24.

According to her twitter account "Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem" and she expresses her disgust with the industry. She wrote "If I don't love something anymore, I stop doing it, I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it."

Amanda is a former Nickelodeon star working on shows as "All That", "The Amanda Show" and ever her own sitcom "What I like About you". From TV she went on to movies and appeared in the films "She's the Man and "What a Girl Wants". Her latest film "Easy A" will hit the theaters this fall.

Not only did she complain about the industry but also about her roles saying "I've never written the movies & tv shows I've been a part of. I've only acted like the characters the producers or directors wanted me to play."

It's a bit strange seeing such a young promising actress retire from Hollywood but as she told the world through her Twitter account: ""I know 24 is a young age to retire but you heard it here first I've #retired."

She will surely be missed from Hollywood and all we can hope is that this act will not be something other young actors will follow.

Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3, 1986, in Thousand Oaks, California. The youngest of three children, she became interested in acting and performing from the age of three, when she would say her older sister Jillian's lines with her while she performed in plays. It was from then on that her family and friends knew that she would be a star someday.