“Clueless” turns 30! See the celebs of the ’90s teen traditional, then and now

Clueless is 30 years previous, and we're like, completely buggin'.

When Amy Heckerling's free adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Emma hit theaters on July 19, 1995, audiences fell for the materialistic, big-hearted valley woman Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) and her many makes an attempt to steer everybody else's love lives whereas having zero route of her personal (as a result of, hey, she's "a virgin who can't drive").

With its endlessly quotable teen slang, closet-envy trend, and popular culture references, the movie stays an epochal '90s film that hasn't misplaced a sew of appeal or relevance. Now, an entire new wave of followers are about to be obsessive about Cher, because of a follow-up collection creating at Peacock, with Silverstone set to reprise her iconic function and govt produce alongside Heckerling.

As we have fun three many years of Clueless, let's meet up with the OG stars since their final time "rollin' with the homies."

Alicia Silverstone (Cher Horowitz)

Alicia Silverstone effortlessly embodies Cher Horowitz, a “sporadically” clever younger lady with a deep closet and a wealthy vocabulary.

Silverstone's first movie look was within the 1993 thriller The Crush. She additionally appeared in a number of Aerosmith music movies like “Cryin’” and “Loopy” round that point, however Clueless was her breakout function. Her subsequent main film was the 1997 superhero blockbuster Batman & Robin, by which she performed Batgirl.

She made her Broadway debut in 2002 in a stage model of The Graduate. The next yr, she starred on the NBC comedy-drama Miss Match, which gained her a Golden Globe for Finest Actress — Tv Sequence Musical or Comedy. Silverstone quickly advocated for plant-based consuming and wrote a guide about vegan vitamin, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet, in 2009. This was paired with an internet site, The Form Life, which continues to be energetic.

In 2012, Silverstone reunited with Clueless writer-director Amy Heckerling for the vampire comedy movie Vamps. She additionally had a recurring function on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory alongside her Clueless castmate Jeremy Sisto. Extra lately, she's appeared in The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017), Book Club (2018), Bad Therapy (2020), Reptile (2023), Y2K (2024), and Fairly Factor (2025).

Silverstone stepped again into her iconic yellow plaid outfit in February 2023, reprising her Clueless character in a Tremendous Bowl advert for the web buying platform Rakuten. She was joined by formercostar Elisa Donovan as Amber, reenacting the movie's debate scene.

Reflecting on her connection together with her Clueless cohorts, Silverstone advised EW about her particular bond with Heckerling, whom she's now collaborating with on the upcoming follow-up collection.

“Amy and I’ve seen one another rather a lot over time," she stated in 2023. “The truth is, not till I used to be about 30 did we actually, deeply reconnect, simply because life goes on and also you simply type of go about your corporation. However when the film saved getting retrospectives, we simply got here collectively and we now have this particular bond, a love and respect for one another."

Silverstone was married to rock musician Christopher Jarecki from 2005 to 2018. Their son, Bear, was born in 2011.

Stacey Sprint (Dionne Davenport)

Stacey Sprint owns each hallway as Cher's bestie, Dionne, who dazzled audiences together with her assortment of hair equipment.

Sprint began working in Hollywood within the Eighties, notably showing within the Richard Pryor comedy Transferring (1988). She later labored within the Damon Wayans movie Mo' Cash (1992) and the Danny DeVito film Renaissance Man (1994) earlier than touchdown her breakout function as Dionne. The truth is, she was amazed to safe a gig portraying a teen in Clueless.

"I used to be 27, and I used to be enjoying this highschool scholar," Sprint advised EW in October 2012, "and I had a son at house who was 6 years previous."

Nonetheless, she was an ideal match for the half, happening to play Dionne for 3 seasons on the Clueless spinoff sitcom, which aired on ABC and UPN from 1996 to 1999. Years later, her character was set to steer a separate reboot for Peacock, however the undertaking was canceled in 2021.

Exterior of Clueless, Sprint appeared within the Kanye West music video for "All Falls Down" in 2004. She later reunited with Clueless director Amy Heckerling within the movie I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007). As for tv, she had a recurring function on the CW drama The Sport from 2009 to 2011 and starred in season 1 of the Queen Latifah VH1 collection Single Women (2011). In 2014, Sprint grew to become a contributor for Fox Information, a place she held till 2017.

Sprint's relationship with Alicia Silverstone continues to be going robust. In 2022, they reunited in a candy TikTok, proclaiming, "Perpetually Cher & Dionne BFFs."

Sprint has two youngsters: a son, Austin, and a daughter, Lola. She’s been married 4 occasions. Her most up-to-date marriage was to lawyer Jeffrey Marty from 2018 to 2020.

Brittany Murphy (Tai Frasier)

Brittany Murphy performed Tai, the brand new woman in class whom Cher takes beneath her wing, however she secretly falls for the mistaken man.

Clueless was Murphy's breakthrough movie, kicking off a powerful however tragically quick profession. In 1997, she started voicing Hank's (voiced by Mike Choose) niece, Luanne, on the Fox animated sitcom King of the Hill, contributing to all 13 seasons. In 1999, she performed supporting characters within the psychological drama Girl, Interrupted and the comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous.

In 2023, Alicia Silverstone fondly recalled assembly Murphy. "I at all times bear in mind when she auditioned for the half," Silverstone advised EW. "It was the primary time I used to be in a casting room the place I used to be not auditioning. I used to be simply there to assist them facilitate chemistry reads. I simply bear in mind when she got here in and did hers, as a result of when she walked out of the room, I used to be like, 'You guys! Did you see that?' As in the event that they wouldn't know. They had been like, 'Sure, we noticed that!' They had been excited too, but it surely was my first time. She was simply so good."

Murphy landed extra movie tasks within the 2000s, together with the 2001 biopic Riding in Cars With Boys, the 2002 drama 8 Mile (as Eminem's love curiosity), and the 2003 rom-coms Uptown Girls (reverse a younger Dakota Fanning) and Simply Married (reverse Ashton Kutcher). She additionally appeared within the crime anthology movie Sin City (2005) and voiced a penguin within the animated musical Pleased Toes (2006).

Murphy married Simon Monjack in 2007. She died immediately in 2009 at age 32 resulting from unsure circumstances. The official reason for demise was pneumonia, with problems from anemia and intoxication from authorized medication. The next yr, Monjack was additionally discovered lifeless on the house they used to share. Like Murphy, the coroner attributed his demise to pneumonia and anemia.

Paul Rudd (Josh Lucas)

After starting his profession with TV appearances on Sisters and Wild Oats, Paul Rudd made his characteristic movie debut in Clueless as Cher's "form of a Baldwin" stepbrother, Josh — a job he nearly misplaced after getting a buzz reduce simply weeks after his audition.

"I went right into a restaurant and Amy Heckerling was consuming there. She checked out me and froze and stated, 'What did you do?! What did you do to your hair??!'" Rudd recalled throughout a Might 2025 look on the Good Hang With Amy Poehler podcast. Based on Rudd, Heckerling adopted up with: "You auditioned for this half — you had been possibly gonna get this half, however you’ll be able to't reduce your hair."

Fortunately, Rudd bought the gig, which helped launch his movie profession with comedies like The Object of My Affection (1998), 200 Cigarettes (1999), and Wet Hot American Summer (2001). In 2002, he joined the solid of the NBC sitcom Friends as Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) boyfriend — and eventual husband — Mike.

Within the mid-2000s, Rudd started a fruitful collaboration with Judd Apatow, showing in lots of the director-producer’s movies, together with Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), and This Is 40 (2012).

Rudd joined the MCU in 2015, starring because the pint-sized superhero Ant-Man. Up to now, he's been in 5 Marvel motion pictures and is ready to seem in Avengers: Doomsday in 2026. He’s additionally develop into a fixture of the revived Ghostbusters franchise, with the most recent movie, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, premiering in March 2024.

You’ll have additionally noticed the actor on Hulu's hit mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Building when he joined the solid beginning in season 3, or alongside Jenna Ortega within the A24 horror comedy Death of a Unicorn (2025). You may catch him subsequent in the upcoming Anaconda reboot with Jack Black.

Rudd married screenwriter and producer Julie Yaeger in 2003. They’ve two youngsters, Jack and Darby.

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Donald Faison (Murray Duvall)

Donald Faison "retains it actual" as Dionne's boyfriend, Murray, who irritates her by shaving his head and continuously referring to her as "lady.”

Faison didn't anticipate Clueless to be as profitable because it was. "Once we had been making the film, you don't suppose the film's going to be good,” he advised EW in 2012. “You suppose, 'I'm making the subsequent License to Drive.' You suppose, 'This film's going to be only for youngsters and that's it.'"

After the movie was successful, Faison appeared on the Clueless sitcom.

Faison costarred within the Denzel Washington characteristic Remember the Titans (2000) and reunited with Clueless costar Brittany Murphy in Uptown Women.

The actor is finest recognized for his starring function as Dr. Chris Turk within the ABC/NBC medical comedy Scrubs, which ran from 2001 to 2010. Following that hit collection, Faison led the TV Land sitcom The Exes from 2011 to 2015 and NBC's Prolonged Household from 2023 to 2024.

Faison and Lisa Askey had been married from 2001 to 2005. Collectively, that they had three youngsters: Kobe, Kaya, and Dade. He married his second spouse, CaCee Cobb, in 2012, and so they have two youngsters, Rocco and Wilder. He additionally has a son, Sean, with ex-girlfriend Audrey Ince.

Elisa Donovan (Amber Mariens)

Elisa Donovan steps into the function of Amber, Cher's jealous highschool rival who popularized the hand gesture for "no matter."

Donovan was one other Clueless star who went on to seem on the spinoff collection. She then moved on to the ABC sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, enjoying Morgan Cavanaugh within the present's final three seasons from 2000 to 2003.

In 2009, Donovan costarred within the ABC Household TV film The Canine Who Saved Christmas with Dean Cain and Mario Lopez. She quickly appeared within the 2010 sequel and 4 extra direct-to-DVD movies over the subsequent 5 years.

Donovan wrote a memoir in 2021 known as Wake Me When You Go away: Love and Encouragement by way of Desires From the Different Facet.

She married Charlie Bigelow in 2012. The couple shares one daughter, Scarlett Avery Bigelow.

Breckin Meyer (Travis Birkenstock)

Breckin Meyer earns additional credit score as Travis, the skateboarding burnout who wins Tai's coronary heart.

Meyer was usually acknowledged following his look within the hit film, telling EW in 2012, "Somebody got here as much as me as soon as and — very critical and teary-eyed — stated, ‘I simply need you to know that after I noticed Clueless and I noticed Travis determine to enter a 12-step program, that’s after I determined to get sober.’ There was part of me that was like, ‘Wow, that’s wonderful.’ And there was one other a part of me that was like, ‘Are you critical? As a result of I’m fairly certain Travis may need relapsed. However I’m completely happy you discovered that.'"

After Clueless, Meyer starred within the comedy movies Street Journey (2000), Rat Race (2001), and Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) whereas voicing Joseph Gribble on the animated collection King of the Hill with Clueless castmate Brittany Murphy from 2000 to 2010. He additionally performed Jon Arbuckle in two live-action Garfield motion pictures (2004, 2006).

Meyer costarred with Mark-Paul Gosselaar on the TNT dramedy Franklin & Bash from 2011 to 2014, and he appeared within the ultimate season of NBC's crime drama Good Girls (2021).

Meyer was married to screenwriter and director Deborah Kaplan from 2001 to 2014. They share two daughters, Caitlyn and Clover. In February 2024, it was confirmed that Meyer is courting influencer Kelly Rizzo, the widow of comic Bob Saget (who died in 2022).

Jeremy Sisto (Elton Tiscia)

Jeremy Sisto provides '90s himbo power as Elton, the preferred boy at Bronson Alcott Excessive, who misinterprets Cher's makes an attempt to set him up with Tai. A long time later, he's nonetheless marveling at being in Clueless.

“I’m simply type of honored to be part of it," Sisto told TV Insider in July 2023. "I don’t even perceive why it’s as particular as it’s as a result of after I watch it, I used to be there and I can’t type of get my head across the magic of it, however no matter that magic sauce is that makes it in a position for anybody going by way of that point of their lives to hook up with and simply take pleasure in [it] a lot is basically particular and really troublesome to tug off.”

Sisto adopted his Clueless success with elements within the crime thriller Suicide Kings (1997) and the indie drama Thirteen (2003). He additionally portrayed the title character on the Italian miniseries Jesus (1999).

From 2001 to 2005, Sisto performed Billy Chenowith on the acclaimed HBO drama Six Feet Under. In 2008, he joined the long-running NBC police procedural Law & Order, showing as Det. Cyrus Lupo in seasons 18 by way of 20. The actor led the ABC sitcom Suburgatory, which ran from 2011 to 2014; within the first season, Clueless star Alicia Silverstone performed his love curiosity. He at the moment stars in Dick Wolf’s crime drama collection FBI, which started airing in 2018.

Sisto wed actress Marisa Ryan in 1993. Although they separated two days later, the couple remained legally married till their divorce in 2002. He had a daughter, Charlie, with girlfriend Addie Lane in 2009; the pair married later that yr. In 2012, they welcomed a second little one, son Bastian.

Dan Hedaya (Mel Horowitz)

Dan Hedaya runs a decent ship as Cher's litigator dad, one of many “scariest sorts of attorneys."

"The entire expertise was stunning, working with Amy [Heckerling] and dealing with Alicia [Silverstone], Brittany [Murphy] — might she relaxation in peace — and Paul [Rudd]," Hedaya told Today in July 2020. "It's found by every new era. The film, for a teen, is bursting with life…and there's an awesome spirit in regards to the film."

Mel Horowitz is one in every of many supporting elements in Hedaya's profession, which incorporates Blood Easy (1984), The Addams Family (1991), The Usual Suspects (1995), The First Wives Club (1996), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Dick (1999), and The Crew (2000).

Hedaya can also be remembered as Carla Tortelli's (Rhea Perlman) ex-husband on the NBC sitcom Cheers, a job he started in 1984. The character later had a short-lived spinoff, The Tortellis, in 1987.

Wallace Shawn (Mr. Corridor)

Wallace Shawn is well lovable as Mr. Corridor, the well-meaning instructor whose grading softens after Cher pairs him with Miss Geist (Twink Caplan). Reflecting on the movie years later, Shawn sees the movie as one thing genuinely warm-hearted.

"The Clueless followers, after all, they are usually somewhat good and folks of excellent will," he told Today in July 2020. "I meet individuals on a regular basis who love that film, in all probability as a result of it's a world the place persons are very keen on one another and the paranoia and hatred of the true world is left far behind."

Shawn and André Gregory wrote and starred within the uncommon 1981 comedy-drama My Dinner With Andre, which consists of a single dialog over dinner. He’s additionally well-known for taking part in Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987) and voicing the dinosaur Rex within the Toy Story franchise since 1995. Along with Clueless director Amy Heckerling’s comedy Vamps, he’s additionally landed gigs in The Incredibles (2004) and Marriage Story (2019).

As for tv, Shawn appeared in season 1 of the Clueless sitcom in 1996 and had recurring elements on The Cosby Present, Star Trek: Deep Area 9, The L Phrase, Gossip Lady, and Younger Sheldon.

Shawn lives together with his associate, author and professor Deborah Eisenberg.

Twink Caplan (Miss Geist)

Twink Caplan performs Miss Geist, the frazzled instructor whose runny stockings and smudged lipstick are "screaming for a makeover" from Cher and Dionne.

"Kudos to Amy Heckerling as a result of this film that she wrote and directed was so wonderful and put each one in every of us actors within the stratosphere due to it, and he or she's so beloved," she told Today in July 2020. "The one wonderful factor about Clueless is you’ll be able to watch it time and again and over, and the strains nonetheless resonate — and the jokes — and it's nonetheless related right this moment."

Caplan performed Kirstie Alley's finest good friend in Amy Heckerling's 1989 blockbuster Look Who's Speaking and returned for the 1990 sequel. Following her success as an actor and affiliate producer in Clueless, she reprised Miss Geist in season 1 of the spinoff sitcom, for which she additionally served as an govt producer.

Caplan produced the movies Loser (2000) and I May By no means Be Your Lady (2007). She's additionally appeared in episodes of Frasier, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Neighborhood, and Unhealthy Instructor.

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