Here’s some famous celebrities and what they have been doing since they dropped off our radar…
- Danica McKellar, who played Winnie in The Wonder Years, turned into a hot math geek who now teaches teenage girls that math is cool (and still does some acting on the side)
- Mayim Bialik – once better known as “Blossom†– has a PhD in neuroscience and is writing a book on parenting. (Though she still does some acting as well; you might have seen her on the season finale of The Big Bang Theory.)
- Charlie Korsmo, who I remember best as the kid in Hook, is a law professor at Brooklyn Law School and teaches torts, corporate law, and land use.
- Brian May, lead guitarist for Queen, is an astrophysicist. And he’s currently the chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.
- Ilan Mitchell-Smith, known for his role in Weird Science, has a PhD in English and teaches at California State University Long Beach.
- Greg Gaffin (lead singer of punk band Bad Religion) got his PhD at Cornell. He teaches life sciences and paleontology at UCLA
- Peter Weller, best known as Robocop but more importantly as Buckaroo Banzai, either has or is working on a PhD in Roman Architecture and teaches at Syracuse. He was featured in a History Channel documentary on the same subject.