Cobra Kai’s Courtney Henggeler Quits Acting After 20 Years

Courtney Henggeler says her time in Hollywood has officially wrapped. 

The Cobra Kai actress shared that she’s retiring after two decades of acting. 

“After 20 plus years of fighting the good fight in the acting business, I hung up my gloves on Friday,” the 46-year-old revealed on a Substack post last month. “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. When prompted to know what I did want to do, I simply replied ‘I want to be the machine.’”

Courtney—who played Amanda LaRusso on all six seasons of the Netflix  hit series—looked back at her career and reflected on the hustle and fast-paced lifestyle, which according to her, didn’t feature a lot of major roles or opportunities, but had the occasional one-liner.

“All I’ve ever known in my professional life was acting,” she said. “But not even the art or craft of acting. All I’ve truly ever knew was the hustle. The hustle, the grind, sprinkled occasionally with the odd acting job. Perhaps a line or two to TV’s Dr. House – ‘Sorry’ (that’s it. That was my line. Genius).”