Random Cast Of 'Mean Girls': Where Are They Now? (15 items)

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  (#13) Neil Flynn

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  Most people know Neil Flynn from Scrubs, but his turn as Cady's dad Chip in Mean Girls shows an entirely different side of the star. Rather than exercising his cutting wit, Flynn shows the depths of his compassion, even when he tries to keep the peace between his daughter and his wife. After spending over a decade as a zoologist in Africa, he's lost on how to be a dad but he does his best.

  The production of Mean Girls fell in the middle of his 166 episodes of Scrubs, so that's mostly what Flynn was doing after the movie was released. After that show ended he continued working on a ton of TV shows; according to Deadline, he's actually appeared on 17 consecutive television seasons as of 2018. 
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  (#2) Tina Fey

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  More than just the writer of Mean Girls, Tina Fey also stars as Sharon Norbury, the school's calculus teacher. In the film, Fey delivers fewer of the sharp lines she became known for on Saturday Night Live, but she acts as the moral center and straight man, letting everyone else blow up the movie with their manic energy.

  Since Mean Girl's release in 2004, Fey's kept busy. In 2006 she created and starred in 30 Rock, she co-hosted the Golden Globes with Amy Poehler, and she created Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - and somewhere along the way she also wrote her autobiography Bossypants. 

  In 2018, Fey brought Mean Girls to Broadway and garnered 12 Tony nominations in the process. 
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  (#11) Amy Poehler

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  Not a regular mom but a cool mom, June George painfully tries to emulate her queen bee daughter to hilarious results. She acts just like a Plastic, and she even lets her kids drink (as long as they keep it in the house).

  Amy Poehler already existed as a comedic powerhouse prior to Mean Girls, but after the film's release she went on to appear in beloved shows like Parks and Recreation (for which she won a Peabody) and movies such as Baby Mama with comedy partner Tina Fey. Behind the camera, Poehler served as a producer on both Broad City and Difficult People. In addition to her film career, she also started the website Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, a site dedicated to helping creative young women cultivate their work, and wrote a book titled Yes Please.
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  (#4) Lacey Chabert

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  Prior to Mean Girls, Lacey Chabert starred in the long running Fox series Party of Five, but in 2004 she took on the role of Gretchen Wieners, a member of the Plastics who craves validation from Regina George.

  Unfortunately, that was the last major feature film role for Chabert (though she's starred in a number of Hallmark movies since 2014), but she's lent her voice to a ton of animated projects like Justice League Action and Voltron. In November 2018, she told OK! Magazine that even though she couldn't remember the Christmas dance during the filming of Mean Girls, whenever "Jingle Bell Rock" comes on "it makes me think of that moment and how much fun we had filming that."
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  (#6) Lizzy Caplan

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  Oh Janis Ian, the only goth at North Shore High School, you're so cool. Janis becomes one of Cady's first friends, and she acts as the audience's primer for the cliques of the school. Also you've got the coldest heart on the planet if you don't tear up when Cady breaks her Spring Fling tiara into multiple pieces and hands one of them to Janis.

  Since Mean Girls, Lizzy Caplan's appeared in everything from cult classics like Party Down to Masters of Sex and magic heist movie Now You See Me 2. Amusingly, she appears in The Disaster Artist as herself. In 2018 she stopped by the Broadway adaptation of Mean Girls and gave the new Janis her approval with some pics. 
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  (#12) Ana Gasteyer

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  As Betsy Heron, Ana Gasteyer has the thankless job of trying to parent a young woman who tries to fit in with the cool girls at school. A research zoologist who spent the last 12 years in Africa with her family, she's now stuck trying to figure out the societal norms of suburban Illinois.

  Like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Tim Meadows, Gasteyer is a Saturday Night Live alum who knows how to shine in a guest spot. If you watch shows like Suburgatory, Younger, or People of Earth then you've seen her work her comedy chops. When Gasteyer takes a break from television, she's on Broadway in shows like First Wives Club. 

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