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KIDSdatabase
More than 100 former child stars, present and accounted for ...
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(Entries alphabeticized by last names.)
SHIRLEY TEMPLE (b. 1928)
TIFFANI-AMBER THIESSEN (b. 1974)
JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS (b. 1981)
NEW!! HENRY THOMAS (b. 1971)
TIFFANY (b. 1971)
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LARK VOORHIES (b. 1974)
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MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER (b. 1970)
WIL WHEATON (b. 1972)
LISA WHELCHEL (b. 1963)
JOHNNY WHITAKER (b. 1959)
JALEEL WHITE (b. 1976)
BARRY WILLIAMS (b. 1954)
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TINA YOTHERS (b. 1973)
(Heidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
Last seen: Representin' for the former child star. After legendary screen career died in the mid-1940s, the woman who would be immortalized as a tasty non-alcoholic beverage became (a) a mother; (b) a divorcee (she split with first husband John Agar in 1949); (c) a remarried woman (she wed businessman Charles Black in 1950, subsequently becoming known as Shirley Temple Black); (d) a Republican nominee for Congress (she lost -- in 1967); (e) a United Nations delegate; (f) a breast cancer survivor (in 1972); (g) the U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (in 1989); and, (h) an author (the 1988 autobiography Child Star).
(Kelly Kapowski, Saved by the Bell)
Last seen: Dropping the "Amber" from her name; costarring on the ABC sitcom Two Guys and a Girl (1999- ); showing the good sense to check out of Beverly Hills, 90210 (and her stint as bad-girl Valerie Malone) in November 1998.
(Randy Taylor, Home Improvement)
Last seen: Guesting on Smallville (2002); signing to star in the Fox pilot American Soap (2001); attending Harvard University; ticking off Tim Allen (awright!) by excusing himself from the final season of H.I. in 1998 on account of, you know, school.
(E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Last seen: Steady-working kid actor of early 1980s (E.T., Raggedy Man, Cloak & Dagger) went underground during his wonder years, only to return to the screen in the late 1980s as a steady-working adult actor. Recent credits include Gangs of New York (2002) and All the Pretty Horses (2000).
("I Think We're Alone Now")
Last seen: Appearing in the March 2002 edition of Playboy (minus her clothes, natch); releasing her "comeback" album, Color of Silence (2000); doing the VH1 Behind the Music thing (2000); married with one son.
(Lisa Turtle, Saved by the Bell)
Last seen: Making movies (2002's How High, 2001's Fire & Ice, etc.); returning to sitcom land with In the House (1997-99); doing the drama-queen thing on the CBS soap, The Bold and the Beautiful (1995-96).
(Theo Huxtable, The Cosby Show)
Last seen: Costarring in the Showtime sci-fi series, Jeremiah (2002); holding down the Malcolm end of the 1996-2000 UPN sitcom, Malcolm & Eddie; showing off his bod in the 2001 Alaye hunk calendar; performing with the funk-jazz band Miles Long.
(Gordie, Stand By Me; Wesley Crusher, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Last seen: Acting. After exiting Next Generation in 1991, he turned to indie film. Credits include: Foreign Correspondents (1999), The Girls' Room (2000) and Python (2000). Seen regulary on the live, late-night talk show, The J. Keith van Straaten Show, at Los Angeles' ACME Comedy Theatre.
(Blair Warner, The Facts of Life)
Last seen: Authoring the parenting book, Creative Correction (2000); home-schooling her brood of three children.
(Jody Davis, Family Affair; Johnny Stuart, Sigmund & the Sea Monsters)
Last seen: Playing Gary Coleman (we are not making this up) in the San Francisco stage play/talk-show parody, Nighty Nite San Francisco (2001); hosting the radio show, The Dr. Zod and Johnny Show, with his psychiatrist, Dr. Ron Zodkevitch, on the Cable Radio Network; working in artist's management -- clients included the late Dana Plato.
(Steve Urkel, Family Matters)
Last seen: Dropping his Urkel-isms to play buppie J. Calvin Frazier on the UPN sitcom, Grown-Ups (1999-2000 ); attended UCLA.
(Greg Brady, The Brady Bunch)
Last seen: Battling Partridge Family rival Danny Bonaduce in the Fox special, Celebrity Boxing (2002); hyping his 1999 album, The Return of Johnny Bravo; releasing an updated version (in 1999) of his bestselling 1992 memoir, Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg; executive producing a 2000 TV-movie based on the book.
(Jennifer Keaton, Family Ties)
Last seen: Setting an August 2002 wedding date with fiance, Robert Kaiser, an electrical contractor (2002); sporting a short black 'do and fronting the rock outfit Jaded.