ok i find it a bit strange that practically nobody in this show did much after the show ended. I'm not talking about small bit players like Jessica Alba.
Michael Blakley, Dorian Lopinto, Darris Love, Meredith Bishop, Benjamin Kimball Smith have done nearly nothing. Even Larisa Oleynik is having a tough time right now.
Last I heard, Louan Gideon (Danielle Atron) is into real estate.
shareWell that's what happens when you star on a kids-only T.V. show. Your career might not successfully go anywhere after that. But maybe they decided it was time to quit acting and move on to real jobs, like Louan Gideon being a real estate agent.
Larisa decided to go to college instead. I'm not saying that was a bad choice, but for a child actor/actress, if you're offered movie roles and starting to live large, forget about college. Apparently she went down the other road instead, practically fell off the face of the planet for about 4 years, and can't get any major movie deals. Now she's stuck with playing minor roles and direct-to-DVD movies.
She had a couple of big hit movies such as "10 Things I Hate About You" and "A Time for Dancing". That was around the time before she started going to college (I think from 2000 - 2004). If you notice, pretty much everything after that, it was either a minor T.V. character or a low-budget film.
I can't say much for the rest of the cast, but I'm sure they'd have no problem working for Nickelodeon. I hope things pick up for Larisa, but only time will tell. She's not going to stay young forever, but I've seen actors/actresses that were well into their mid 40's/early 50's who were starting to get noticed and their careers took off pretty well.
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You are so right Utpe about Larisa's college choice. That was the only thing I didn't agree about when it came to her decisions.
So many actors go through hoops in order to try and make it into the business, let alone hold onto the success they've achieved. Now Larisa, who had a semi-decent string of good roles going during her teenage years, suddenly decided to drop it all off for the good old college life.
While I'm not saying it was a bad decision (college is always a noble thing), it's the timing that was horrible. This was truly one of those things where the college classes will always be there to take, it's the acting parts that are very limited. She could've even done classes through correspondence courses. Instead she dropped off the face of the Earth during those years, and once she came back, no doubt it became one hell of struggle for her to get her foot back in the door.
She seems to be doing alright now, with parts in Mad Men and the upcoming Hawaii-Five-O, so so who knows.
For what it's worth, Meredith Bishop has been in commercials the last few years.
"I think Homo sapiens and Lebanese should be left to their own devices."-Fred Scuttle
Yeah, I heard that Meredith was in one of the old Geico commercials. The "Small House" one, if I'm not mistaken.
shareI remember the one who played Nicole was on Sister Sister and Kenan + Kel.
shareI know this was a long time before TSWOTM aired, but Dorian Lopinto was in a 1981 episode of Three's Company.
shareDon't forget Larrissa was also in 1997 movie Babysisters Club as Dawn.
Meredith Bishop she had some movie called Klepto I brought it from amazon.com to see what it was all about. The movie was actually alright I'll give it a 5. My mom watched half the movie with me and was about to fall asleep on it.
I searched online for the girl who played Robyn, and ended up finding her facebook page. She looks great!
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