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Actors Who Keep Being In Teen Dramas
How does Bianca Lawson not age?
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Bianca Lawson
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I think Bianca wins the Most Teen Drama Roles award. She’s been playing a teenager for 20 years.
Roles: Kendra on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Emily on The Vampire Diaries, Maya on Pretty Little Liars, the guidance counselor Marin on Teen Wolf, Shawna on Secret Life of the American Teenager, Nikki on Dawson’s Creek, and Megan on Saved by the Bell: The New Class
2.
Charisma Carpenter
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Appearing on teen dramas since 1994!
Roles: Cordelia on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Kendall on Veronica Mars, Tegan on Greek, Rebecca on The Lying Game, Wendie on Baywatch, and Ashley on Malibu Shores
3.
Susan Walters
The CW, MTV, Freeforrm
You might not know her name, but you know her face. She’s been on a grand total of five teen dramas.
Roles: Principal Rimkus on One Tree Hill, Tyler’s mom on The Vampire Diaries, Lydia’s mom on Teen Wolf, Diane on The Fosters, and Maia on Star-Crossed
4.
Torrey DeVito
Freeform, The CW, The WB
Torrey was briefly married to Paul Wesley, who played Stefan on The Vampire Diaries.
Roles: Melissa on Pretty Little Liars, Meredith on The Vampire Diaries, Carrie on One Tree Hill, and a college student on Dawson’s Creek
5.
Vanessa Morgan
Bettina Strauss / CW Network/Courtesy Everett Collection, MTV, CTV
You probably know Vanessa from Riverdale, but she’s actually appeared on a bunch of teen dramas!
Roles: Toni on Riverdale, Lyria on The Shannara Chronicles, Bird on Finding Carter, and Vanessa on Degrassi: The Next Generation
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Cody Christian
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Cody went from playing Aria’s little brother to being a leading man in his own right!
Roles: Mike on Pretty Little Liars, Theo on Teen Wolf, Asher on All American
7.
Kathryn Prescott
Freeform, E4, The CW
Fun fact: Kathryn has an identical twin, who also had a large role on Skins!
Roles: Carter on Finding Carter, Emily on Skins, and Penelope on Reign
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Chad Michael Murray
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Haley mentioned Dawson’s Creek on One Tree Hill…and Chad was on Dawson’s Creek…did she not notice her best friend Lucas was on the show?
Roles: Lucas on One Tree Hill, Tristin on Gilmore Girls, Charlie on Dawson’s Creek, and Edgar on Riverdale
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Mädchen Amick
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Appearing on teen dramas since 1999!
Roles: Alice on Riverdale, Catherine/The Duchess on Gossip Girl, Nicole on Dawson’s Creek, and Sherry on Gilmore Girls
10.
Marisol Nichols
Fox, Dean Buscher / CW Network/Courtesy Everett Collection, MTV
You probably know Marisol from her Riverdale or Teen Wolf role, but she actually got her start way back in the day on Beverly Hills, 90210!
Roles: Wendy on Beverly Hills, 90210, Corinna (Malia’s mom) on Teen Wolf, and Hermione (Veronica’s mom) on Riverdale
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Ross Butler
David Moir / Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection, The CW, MTV
Ross has been making waves on teen dramas for the last few years, but you probably know him best as Zach from 13 Reasons Why.
Roles: Zach on 13 Reasons Why, Reggie on Riverdale (in Season 1), and Nathan on Teen Wolf
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Matt Lanter
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You probably remember him from 90210, but he’s been on plenty of other teen dramas!
Roles: Liam on 90210, Brody on Heroes, Roman on Star-Crossed, and Nick on Point Pleasant
13.
Sam Page
The CW, Fox, Freeform
You may remember him best as the professor that dated Serena on Gossip Girl.
Roles: Colin on Gossip Girl, Jesse on Point Pleasant, Joel on Greek, and Craig on Switched at Birth
14.
Melissa Ponzio
MTV, The CW, The WB
My personal favorite is definitely as Melissa McCall.
Roles: Melissa (Scott’s mom) on Teen Wolf, Daphne on The Vampire Diaries, Alice on One Tree Hill, Robin on Dawson’s Creek
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Adam Brody
Warner Bros / courtesy Everett Collection, The WB
Best known as Seth Cohen, Adam actually appeared on multiple other teen dramas! Fun fact: He’s married to Leighton Meester, who played Blair on Gossip Girl.
Roles: Seth on The O.C., Dave on Gilmore Girls, and Justin on Smallville
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Arielle Kebbel
The WB, The CW
You probably know her from John Tucker Must Die — but she’s been in a lot of teen dramas, too!
Roles: Lexie on The Vampire Diaries, Lindsay on Gilmore Girls, Paige on Life Unexpected, and Vanessa on 90210
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Kristen Bell
UPN, The CW, NBC
You may not know this, but Kristen Bell actually did all the Gossip Girl voiceovers! And she actually appeared in the finale as a fun nod to her work on the show.
Roles: Veronica on Veronica Mars, Gossip Girl’s voice on Gossip Girl, Elle on Heroes
18.
Milo Ventimiglia
Warner Bros / courtesy Everett Co, NBC, ABC
Of course, we all know him now as the beloved Jack on This Is Us.
Roles: Jess on Gilmore Girls, Peter on Heroes, Greg on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Letterman on Sabrina the Teenage Witch
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Seth Green
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If you don’t know Seth Green (which you should), you definitely know his voice from Family Guy, Robot Chicken, or Guardians of the Galaxy.
Roles: Oz on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sam on Heroes, and Wayne on Beverly Hills, 90210
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Rachel Bilson
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Best known for playing Summer Roberts, Rachel also had a fun guest appearance as herself on the series finale of Gossip Girl!
Roles: Summer on The O.C., herself on Gossip Girl, and Colleen on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Jane Lynch
Adam Rose / Fox /Courtesy Everett Collection, UPN, The WB
Lynch was a teen drama actor far before Glee!
Roles: Sue on Glee, Mrs. Donaldson on Veronica Mars, a nurse on Gilmore Girls, and Mrs. Witter on Dawson’s Creek
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Krysten Ritter
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Krysten was actually meant to star in a Gossip Girl spinoff focusing on a young Lily and Carol in Los Angeles, but the show was scrapped.
Roles: Gia on Veronica Mars, Carol on Gossip Girl, and Lucy on Gilmore Girls
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Rumer Willis
Freeform, Michael Desmond / CW Network / Courtesy Everett Collection
Fun fact: Rumer is the child of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis
Roles: Zoe on Pretty Little Liars, Gia on 90210, and Heather on Secret Life of the American Teenager
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Jessalyn Gilsig
Carin Baer / Fox Television / Courtesy Everett Collection, NBC
Before playing Will’s wife on Glee, Terri appeared on multiple other teen dramas!
Roles: Terri on Glee, Meredith on Heroes, and Shelley on Friday Night Lights
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And finally, Stephen Amell
The CW, CTV
Before winning our hearts as Oliver on Arrow, Stephen appeared on a handful of teen dramas!
Roles: Jim on 90210, Brady on The Vampire Diaries, doorman on Degrassi: The Next Generation
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Variety’s apology to Carey Mulligan shows the film critic’s ivory tower is toppling | Film criticism
Until relatively recently, an apology in the arts review columns of any publication was vanishingly rare, if not non-existent. If crow had to be eaten, it would be the end result of some unprecedented legal action in which defendant and plaintiff had grimly established – through a poker-game exchange of solicitor’s letters – what the likely outcome would be in court.
Not any more. In 2018 the New York Times’s then drama critic Ben Brantley issued an apology after being accused of transphobia for a quip about the Broadway musical Head Over Heels. He had affected a satirical confusion about its star, the trans performer Peppermint whose character identified as non-binary.
Now Variety – a magazine with a first-class roster of film critics – has felt the need to apologise for its review of the Carey Mulligan movie Promising Young Woman, in which the reviewer Dennis Harvey said that he thought Mulligan had been miscast. Harvey wrote that “though a fine actress”, Mulligan was “an odd choice” and appeared to be in “bad drag”. He said the film’s producer Margot Robbie may have been better in such a confrontationally sexual role.
The review was published in January 2020, but after Mulligan attacked it in an interview, Variety has done something that can only be described as having your humble pie and eating it. They have run an apology: “Variety sincerely apologises to Carey Mulligan and regrets the insensitive language and insinuation in our review … that minimized her daring performance.” But they’re still running the review below, with the supposedly offensive passage quite intact.
That is very feeble of them. And in the immortal words of Christopher Hitchens: “Apologies are a bore. What we want is an explanation.” Maybe Mulligan was particularly angry about this review because it appeared in a magazine considered to be the industry bible, vital in awards seasons, and so a review is closer to a school’s Ofsted report than the subjective piece it might be in other publications. And as the Telegraph’s Robbie Collin suggests, it could well be that Variety’s sheepish half-climbdown is due to a cringing fear of the all-powerful studio and talent PRs, ferociously threatening to close down access to the stars in their stable.
But that is not the point. There are legions of women commenting on social media today to say that – guess what – they too are bored, in the withering Hitchens sense, with Variety’s timid semi-apology and what they want is a broader and more diverse range of critical opinions and more women’s voices coming through. And something else too: they will want critical freedom and publications with the intellectual courage to back them up.
For what this is worth, I disagree sharply with Harvey about Mulligan being miscast. She doesn’t just do “English rose” personae. This is a performance to compare more with her brilliantly challenging and transgressive role in Steve McQueen’s Shame. But critics are allowed to have opinions, however disagreeable, and even make remarks about an actor’s image up there on the screen – as long as they are offered in good critical faith, which I think the Variety review was. Mulligan is entitled to her opinion as well, and critics are not immune from criticism.
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