90s Stars We Completely Forgot About90s Stars We Completely Forgot About
The decade between 1990 and 2000 was a special era for television. This is what we should see on TV, TGIF, and those Joey and Chandler haircuts people are still getting as of this writing. Many of the actors who have appeared on these shows, such as Katie Holmes, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Jessica Biel, have forged lucrative careers and interesting public lives (ahem, Tomcat). Others have not been able to replicate their early stardom or are pursuing careers off screen. Here are some of the forgotten stars of 90s TV.
Andrew Keegan
Andrew Keegan's IMDb page reads like a list of the greatest hits of the '90s. He was in Boy Meets World, Party of Five, 7th Heaven and Baywatch. No time for what, 90210? He even took part in 10 Things I Hate About You, which is considered a cornerstone of the teen romcom genre. Near the end of his 7th Heaven run, the spectacle of Keegan's acting became increasingly imperceptible, as in a TV movie called Teenage Caveman Inspectives. He worked in relative obscurity for almost a decade. Then things took a turn.
In 2014, Keegan founded Full Circle, a type of spiritual movement whose mission statement, according to its website, "is to energize the community through heart-centered, upbeat programming that creates space for authentic connection." is." A Vice reporter who visited the church's Venice Beach, California headquarters found Keegan's brand of new-wave spirituality through a lens somewhere in between the LA hipster scene and what those people are doing at Burning Man. was filtered. Asked to explain the church's name, Keegan replied, "Synchronicity. Time. That's all. Whatever it is, the past, some other time. It's a circle; the center is now. That's what it's about." is." And if this makes as little sense to you as it did to us, perhaps this Full Circle follower's description of ABC News' movement will clarify: "Just rad, funky people do rad, funky things." No, still no clue. Oh well, Keegan seems happy, so let's hope it doesn't end with a "special apple sauce" and a new pair of sneakers for everyone.
Marla Sokoloff
Like Keegan, Marla Sokoloff is also an alum of Boy Meets World, Party of Five, and 7th Heaven. Like Keegan, he made the genre-defining film, Dude, Where's My Car? Although technically it was in 2000 and we're not sure "stoner comedy" is an actual film genre. Anyway, unlike Keegan, Sokoloff didn't start a religion that attempts to "endthe conflict between Israel and Palestine" using meditation and water crystals, so it's safe to say that he took a different path. .
While finding continued success with roles in The Practice and Desperate Housewives, Sokoloff married and had two children. No, she didn't marry James Franco, whom Sokoloff dated for four years, and who forsome reason decided to go on The Howard Stern Show and talk about a sex tape he once made with her . Instead, she married some musician friend, and after being a mom for a while, Sokoloff decided to start blogging about it for people. What could go wrong, right?
Well, when she decided to stop saying "no" to her 15-month-old daughter, it sparked some controversy because she felt she was saying so much that it became ineffective in stopping her daughter's behavior. And like any parenting opinion on the Internet, Sokoloff's unique approach to discipline triggered an endless debate to the point where Good Morning America originally asked a parenting expert to refute Sokoloff's method. brought to No harm was done: Sokoloff still works, she still blogs occasionally, and the Internet is still and always will be a place where strangers will argue with each other about literally anything.
Tahj Mowr
Despite being best known for his current long-running role as Tucker Dobbs on Baby Daddy, and the voice work he did on Kim Possible, Tahaj Maury is also Tia and Tamera Mowry's younger brother, Who You Don't Realize. can, but now that you see his face, you're wondering if you might need glasses. Tahaj is not just a sister, she is a mini-me of sister stars. He is a renaissance man of creative genius. Recently, Tahaj expanded his portfolio in music with the release of his EP, Future Funk. He told the Los Angeles Times that music is his passion, and describing his sound, he said, "It's funky, it's upbeat, it's swag, it's got its own point - you can't help it." But can dance."
Sharp-witted readers will also recognize Tahaj as Teddy from Full House. You may remember him as Michelle Tanner's best friend, who ripped audience hearts when she had to move to Amarillo, Texas for her father's new job. She even took on Pinky, Michelle's favorite pig! If you say "Am I dead inside?" If you want to take this clip. Challenge and try to watch it without hesitation. (It's not possible.)
Barry Watson
Barry Watson has done a lot of TV work, but nothing defines him more than his role as Matt Camden, the eldest '90s kid in seventh heaven. Interestingly, it was a role Watson was wary of, despite the show being the brainchild of TV legend Aaron Spelling. In an interview with Refinery29, Watson explained that his hesitation was related to a previous spelling role he had just finished shooting. "I read it, and I was like, 'I don't know. I just played this guy who rapes these girls. Why does he want me for this?' Yes, we can understand why he thought it was weird that his earlier gig had somehow prepared him for the role of a sensitive minister's son, but Spelling is also the man who played the patriarch of a racist family all in. With The Family turned into a widely loved man, the man so clearly knew what he was doing.
When Watson was in 7th Heaven, it looked like he was expanding his portfolio. He got into movies during the show's run and had a few hits with Sorority Boys and Boogeyman, but What About Brian and Samantha Who? After a brief run in the show, opportunities began to dry up. And by dried up, we mean she starred in a Lifetime Christmas movie about a con man who is forced by his parole officer to take a job as a mall Santa, who works for you to manage a retail store. The equivalent of using an MBA is acting.
Jason Behro
Jason Behr is best known for his role in The WB's Roswell, a drama about teenagers who are part alien and part human and have to live in Roswell, NM until they find their way to save their race. Do not return to the home planet. It was a relative hit that lasted three seasons, because as long as a show has hot people and drama, teens will watch it. Unfortunately for Behr, the biggest part he got after Roswell was alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar in the American remake of The Grudge, which came out in 2004. From there, he took on roles that no one would recognize, such as in the movie Dragon Wars: D-War, which sounds like a Bollywood knockoff version of Game of Thrones. At the time of this writing, Behr has not received screen credits since 2012.
However, Behr met his wife on the set of The Grudge. She is fellow actress Kady Strickland, and she continues to work under her husband's dry spell, with roles on The Practice, Secrets and Lies, The Player, and Shut Eye, the only one to give birth to their son Atticus There is a short pause. In short, Behr doesn't have to work, he has a successful actress wife, and has a son named Badass. If that's the definition of "forgot", it really doesn't sound that bad.
Eliza Dushku
When you've starred in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse, your status as a cult TV legend is secure. When you add voicework to animated Marvel shows like the Hulk and Agents of S.M.A.S.H. And Ultimate Spider-Man, you can forget about ever being able to walk through Comic-Con without a full security detail. Eliza Dushku has done all of those things and also landed a juicy part on the Cinemax action series sleeper-hit Banshee. So why do people think she's forgotten?
In 2014, Dushku broke up with NBA star Rick Fox and moved back to her native Boston to attend college at Suffolk University, where she isstudying sociology. According to blogs such as Perez Hilton, that was taken as a possible Hollywood sly, despite the fact that Dushku told the Boston Globe that she was "not leaving the film and TV business, but after 22 years in L.A." , she missed Boston." Feels very cut and dry to us. Plus, she's counted a lot of acting credits since her move, though taking on roles in stuff like PrincessRap Battle proves that Dushku still has a soft spot for the obscure.
Jenna Von Oye
Jenna Von Oye plays Six on Blossom, and you're welcome for us to put the earworm in your head which is the opening piano riff of that show's theme music. After her five-year stint as Blossom's fast-paced bestie, Von Oye went on to play a lot of bit parts until her next long-term role as Stevie Van Lowe on The Parkers, which, to be honest. For, you are lying if you say who you know him from. We all remember her as the girl with the floppy hat who was in love with Joey.
As an adult, Von Oye has begun writing guest pieces for People's Celebrity Baby blog as well as for her own blog, The Cradle Chronicles. She's also written a book called Situation Mommy, because if you haven't guessed by now, she's also a mom. She has two daughters with husband Brad Bratcher, and they all live together in Nashville, Tenn. According to her blog, in addition to feuding with her two kids and five dogs, Von Oye is already working on a sequel to Situation Mommy, so it seems as though her hands are in the mix without returning to acting. Very full.
Beverly Mitchell
Because it seems like Jessica Biel has been the only breakout star from 7th Heaven, Beverly Mitchell is also counted among the forgotten '90s people. After her role as Lucy Camden, she enjoyed a brief resurgence in the mainstream as Caitlin O'Malley on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, another wholesome, family-focused show.
Like her 7th Heaven co-star Watson, Mitchell also found her way into the realm of basic holiday-themed cable movies with roles in Lifetime's A Gift Wrapped Christmas and the straight-to-DVD classic, The Dog Who Saved Easter. . This family-friendly entertainment clearly had a personal impact on him, as Michelle married in 2008 and started her own family. She had two kids, and stop us if this sounds familiar—start blogging about being a mom to people. Was that written in 1990s TV contracts or something? Anyway, she also runs her own blog called Growing Up Hollywood, where she once wrote that she would be open to getting her kids into the entertainment business as long as they stayed grounded and ever. Don't even start thinking "they're better than anyone else." We'll find out in a few decades how it all works out when Michelle's kids get their own People blog, because apparently there's room for everyone. is.
Robert Iller
Robert Iller AJ He had done only commercial work before landing the role. Soprano on soprano at age 12. At the time, he reportedly did not have career ambitions as an actor, but in a 2007 interview with PR.com, which was at the time the HBO smash ended, Iller admitted that he had "[acting] ]" and hoped that he would do it for the rest of his life. Something definitely changed, because since The Sopranos, Ilar has exactly two screen credits to his name: a bit part on Law & Order in 2009 and a role in a 2016 show called Four Kings, which took place in Vegas. High stakes poker is about players, something Iler certainly knows little about.
Ilar spends most of his acting time at the card table. He didn't garner much press after he made headlines for exposing marijuana possession and robbery at age 16, but Poker News spoke to him in 2012, when he was in Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker. Yes, he is so serious for a player. In fact, Ilar told the publication that he had even played in the WSOP for the past five years. As a guest on Artie Lang's podcast, Iller also revealed that playing poker is something he does a lot these days.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Another Sopranos alum to fade from the spotlight after the show's infamous cut-to-black is Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who played Tony's bleeding prodigy daughter Meadow Soprano. Unlike her on-screen brother, Sigler booked steady acting assignments after The Sopranos, although her most notable role was perhaps as a fictionalized version of herself on Entourage, in which she played Turtle's girlfriend. In a meta on top of the meta twist, she and Jerry Ferrara, the man who played Turtle, tried to take their relationship off the screen, but it only lasted a year.
In early 2016, Sigler told PEOPLE that for most of her recent career, she's struggled with symptoms of multiple sclerosis, which she was diagnosed with when she was 20. "I can't walk for long periods of time without resting. I can't walk. There's no superhero role for me. Stairs? I can do them but they're not the easiest. When I walk, I have to take every single step You have to think about it, which is annoying and depressing." Despite that major obstacle, Siegler continues to work. She's also the wife of baseball player Cutter Dykstra and the mother of their son Beau, so even though she's no longer starring in the show everyone's talking about, her plate seems pretty full.
Lacey Cheber
Party of Five star Lacey Chabert probably has the most post-90s credits on this list, but for some reason, she's chosen to focus on voiceover work for the animated TV show. In fact, Chabert was actually the voice of Meg Griffin on Family Guy before Mila Kunis, although the role was uncredited. Why does he like voicing cartoons so much? Maybe it's because her amazing turn as Gretchen Wieners, the heir to the toaster strudel fortune in Mean Girls, inadvertently turned her into a running meme. Chabert told EW that when she was sick, during a trip to the pharmacy to get medicine, a pharmacist told her, "You don't feel like you feel great today." So, it's really no surprise that Chabert chooses to hide in a sound booth.
But it's not just Rando yelling "You can't sit with us!" Which inspired him to take up voice acting. Chabert said that she likes to play characters that she would not have been able to do otherwise due to physical limitations. She also confirmed that everyone always thinks about what would be so cute about being a voice actor. "The upside is that you don't have hair and makeup on. You can go on in your sweats if you want—that's always a plus!"
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Jonathan Taylor Thomas, or JTT as he was known for ripping the tweezers, has been acting since the age of 8. He was 13 when he voiced Young Simba in The Lion King, which means that at an age when most of us were crying about delivering the newspaper, he starred in one of Disney's most famous movies. Was doing. Simultaneously, Thomas starred in Home Improvement, one of the biggest sitcoms of all time, so it was a real shock when he decided to leave the show to pursue education and take a break from fame. . "I wanted to go to school, travel and take a little break. Sitting in a big library among books and students, that was great. It was a new experience for me," he told People.
Just like JTT wasn't just a teen heartthrob he was a teen heartthrob, Taylor didn't go to any old school. He earned his degrees from Harvard and Columbia before returning to guest star in Tim Allen's new show, Last Man Standing. JTT also directed several episodes of Last Man Standing, apparently having two Ivy League degrees was not a strong enough move; He had to get back into the biz and take a leadership position on his former TV dad. like a boss.
Jaleel White
Despite his illustrious career following Family Matters, Jaleel White will always be known as Steve Urkel, the suspender-clad, cheese-loving dork who haunted Carl Winslow both on and off screen. In a 2010 Vanity Fair interview, White confirmed rumors that her sudden stardom as a late addition to the show — Urkel made her debut in the Season 1 finale — certainly made waves with the original cast, especially With Reginald Weljohnson, who should have been the star of the show. Eventually, everyone smoothed things over and created "a load of money," according to White, so it couldn't have been so bad.
White also told Vanity Fair that he was almost cast as Rudy on The Cosby Show until Bill Cosby decided he needed a girl for the role. That means White was almost an icon of '80s TV as well. As far as regrets are concerned, he has none. He doesn't even think typecasting was ever a problem for him. "You're only as good as your chances. The nature of television is that it's a beast with lots of opinions. I don't consider myself to be typecast as Neil Patrick Harris as Doogie Hauser or James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano. "He once told TV Guide. It's a surprisingly healthy perspective for a man whose most recognizable credits since Family Matters are short parts on Boston Legal, NCIS, and CSI, and who also acknowledges that 20 years after the show, He's still told people to do it once in a while. Urkel voice.
Sherry Stringfield
When Sherry Stringfield walked away from her role as Dr. Susan Lewis on the ER after only two years, no one seemed to understand. She was on the hottest show on television, earning $70,000 per episode, and she had already walked away with brief stints on Guiding Light and NYPD Blue. It was almost as if she was allergic to fame. But in an interview with Entertainment Weekly (Via Greenspun), Stringfield clarified that fame was never his goal. She cited extreme working conditions, which ER producers vehemently denied, and a general desire to have "a full-bodied life", which she felt was not possible even though she "worked 18 hours a day". , suffered from lack of sleep, and contracted both viral meningitis and pneumonia." It all makes sense, if we can relate to being on a show that made us have medical procedures for $70,000 an episode.
Stringfield's hiatus from the biz actually only lasted two years. She did a few movies, then went back to network TV, eventually landing a role on Under the Dome, the TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel. She was only on that series for the second season out of three, playing a character who had a definite ending to the arc, which we imagine is now part of the negotiating process for Stringfield when she was a takes a role. “This character seems like a good fit to me, but I would love if you could kill him sooner,” we imagine that producer is saying.
Dana Carve
As a guest on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Dana Carvey opened up about her conscious decision to step away from mainstream show business after her brief and unfortunate foray into the movie business. In the wake of his early '90s Saturday Night Live success, as well as two Waynes World adaptations, Carvey told Maron that he had so many offers coming in, he didn't really know how to choose, and $ To say yes to 3 million per film was almost a no brainer. Similarly bombs like Clean Slate, The Road to Wellville and Trapped in Paradise scared the raid's boss away from the film business.
Instead of pursuing movies, Carvey claims he chose to do massive corporate stand-up gigs for the lure of money – up to $150,000 per appearance – which meant he could only do one of them every weekend, And still mostly be around and take care of her kids. So, in a best-case scenario, he was working one to two hours per week and earning about $8 million per year - schwing! As of this writing, Carvey recently released a Netflix standup special and plans to do an original series on a streaming network soon, which has us asking: Why? If we had to show up to a different Marriott every Saturday night, voice "church lady" to a bunch of insurance brokers at their annual convention, then hop on a jet with 150K in our pockets, we'd never do more. some. Neither should Carvey, except in Wayne's World 3. Let's be honest, we all still want this, and Mike Myers could use work.