Joey Lauren Adams made her film debut in 1997 with a minor role in the horror movie Exorcist II: The Heretic. The American actress then rose to stardom in a major role in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, portraying the character Simone. In the same year, she was cast in the Saturday Night Live spinoff film Coneheads as Connie Conehead’s friend.
A couple of years later, Joey Lauren Adams starred in Mallrats, which was written and directed by Kevin Smith. Following the film’s production, Adams and Smith started a relationship, and this became the inspiration for the former’s next movie, Chasing Amy. Adams became somewhat of an indie film hit for her work in Chasing Amy, but sadly, it proved to be the end of the road for her career as a Hollywood star.
Erika Christensen
Erika Christensen has worked in various films throughout her career as an actress, including roles in Traffic, Swimfan, The Banger Sisters, The Perfect Score, and more. For her role in Traffic, she was awarded the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. She also received a Gracie Award for her role in the NBC family drama series, Parenthood.
Though many will best remember Erika Christensen as the fanatical character in Swimfan. Following her various awards and accolades for her role in Traffic and Parenthood, her career became somewhat stagnant. Today, Christensen stars on ABC’s drama series Ten Days in the Valley, together with Kyra Sedgwick.
Hayden Christensen
Hayden Christensen started acting when he was still a 12-year-old boy. At 13 he gained attention for a small role in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, landing him gigs in Goosebumps, The Virgin Suicides, and Are You Afraid of the Dark?. His part in Life as House earned him a Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations, as well as the National Board of Review's Award for Breakthrough Performance of the Year.
As the lead character and protagonist, Anakin Skywalker, in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, he got Best Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Revelation Award. Sadly, though, Anakin’s dull dialogue and awkward vibe with the character Amidala, played by Natalie Portman, wasn’t enough to propel his career outside the fantasy world of Star Wars.
Josh Lucas
Josh Lucas started acting in films and TV shows when he was still a 19-year-old teenager after he relocated to Hollywood following his graduation from high school. The American actor was featured as a guest star on a number of TV sitcoms during his 20s, such as Fox's True Colors and Parker Lewis Can't Lose, the family drama Life Goes On, and CBS's Jake and the Fatman.
Lucas entered the international stage after his performances in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and the character Glenn Talbot in Hulk. He enjoyed further global recognition in a string of leading roles in films like Glory Road, Poseidon, and Stealth. Nevertheless, none of those films managed to transform him into a true icon on the big screen. Josh Lucas currently stars in the police procedural The Mysteries of Laura.
Kerri Green
After a bunch of teen dramas, the American actress enjoyed a breakthrough in her career after she was chosen to play the role of a cheerleader who became an adventurer, Andrea "Andy" Carmichael, in the 1985 movie The Goonies. Green achieved even more global praise after she starred in the film Lucas in 1986 as the focal point of a love triangle between Corey Haim and Charlie Sheen’s characters.
Her next film though, Three for the Road, ended poorly even though she co-starred with Charlie Sheen and Alan Ruck. Kerri Green made an appearance in an episode of Heat of the Night, two episodes of the television sitcom Mad About You, and worked on an indie film called Blue Flame.