The cast of Melrose Place has changed a lot since 1992

In 1992, Melrose Place hit the small screen, portraying a dramatically enmeshed group of beautiful people, who lived in an apartment complex on — you guessed it — Los Angeles’ Melrose Place.

Cast members Josie Bissett, Laura Leighton, and Heather Locklear appeared on the May ’94 cover of Rolling Stone, and the show was nominated for five Golden Globes. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly deemed the show a “New Classic,” and it was revived in 2009 with a new cast for one magical season. Later, in 2015, Lifetime released The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story.

So where are the residents of Melrose Place these days? Here’s a look.

Calabro’s character, Dr. Michael Mancini, was the only one to last the entire run of Melrose Place. After the show ended, Calabro went on to Nip/Tuck, Touched by an Angel, Castle, NCIS, CSI: NY, Greek, and the reboot of Melrose Place, among others. 

Calabro, who has three children, has also gone on to do voice-over work. In 2017, TVLine announced that Calabro would be starring in the fifth season of TNT’s The Last Ship.

On Melrose Place, Thorne-Smith played Allison Parker, a Midwestern transplant with a serious penchant for drama. The actress then moved to another hit show, Ally McBeal, after leaving MP. She then spent five years on According to Jim, and joined the cast of Two and a Half Men in 2010. In 2016, Thorne-Smith appeared on Fresh Off the Boat in an episode paying tribute to Melrose Place. And in 2017, she was cast as archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Hallmark series Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery.

Thorne-Smith told Good Morning America that after seeing a picture of herself in a magazine article about actresses who were too thin, she decided to break the cycle of obsessive diet and exercise she’d been in for years. “I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13, or 14-year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she’ll do what I did.”

Thorne-Smith is the author of the novel Outside In, and is married to author Roger Fishman, and has one son, Jake.

After playing Billy Campbell on MP for six years, Andrew Shue became an internet mogul as one of the creators of CafeMom, an online hub for all things parenting. He, and his childhood buddy, Michael Sanchez, also created Do Something, an organization aimed at motivating young people to take action through community service.

Shue worked with his sister, actor Elisabeth Shue, on the 2007 film Gracie, which is not only the story of Elisabeth’s experience playing on her high school, all-boys’ soccer team, but also of the loss of their brother, Will, who died in an accident in 1986.

In 2010, Shue married ABC News correspondent Amy Robach. The two each had children from previous marriages: Shue had three sons from his marriage to Jennifer Hageney, and Robach had two daughters from her marriage to Tim McIntosh.

Before she was Charlotte York on Sex and the City, Kristin Davis played the pregnancy-faking Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place. In addition to SATC, Davis was the voice of Miss Spider on the cartoon series Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends, and in 2014, played Ginny Taylor-Clapp on CBS’s Bad Teacher.

Davis, who adopted daughter Gemma Rose in 2011, was rumored to be dating Aaron Sorkin in 2012, but she told Haute Living that she’s not rushing to the altar any time soon. She works with the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to raise awareness for endangered elephants. She was honored for her activism at the 2015 Environmental Media Awards, admitting to People that she has a surprising phobia. “I am deathly afraid of speaking in public, but for the elephants, I’m always thrilled to represent them,” she said.

Matt Fielding, Savant’s Melrose Place character, was at the forefront of openly gay characters being portrayed on television. After leaving MP in 1997, Savant’s next major role was as Craig Phillips on 24, before joining the cast of Desperate Housewives in 2004, alongside MP alum Marcia Cross. He later appeared on Castle, Criminal Minds, the The X-Files reboot, and most recently, Notorious.

Savant turned down the offer to reprise his role as Matt in the 2009 Melrose Place reboot, saying that he was too busy at the time with Desperate Housewives, but he admitted, “Here’s the truth: They need to get us old-timers back for a real old-school Melrose Place reunion. I’d come [back] for that.”

On Melrose Place, Estes first played Sam Towler, and then Kyle McBride, whom he played from 1996 until the show’s end.

Estes then guested on Gilmore Girls, and had recurring roles on CSI: Miami, and Women’s Murder Club before returning to the Spelling franchise to play Harry Wilson on the remake of Beverly Hills, 90210 in 2008. In 2016, he joined the cast of VH1’s Daytime Divas, based on Star Jones’ novel Satan’s Sisters.

After spending several years living in Seattle with ex-wife Josie Bissett, Estes and wife Erin live in California with their son, Makai, 5, and Mason, Estes’ teenaged son, with Josie Bissett. 

Fans of Melrose Place certainly remember the scene in which Cross’s character, Dr. Kimberly Shaw, pulls off her wig, revealing an intense scar. Cross left the show in season five, but that moment will live forever (along with the time she blew up the apartment building). 

After MP, Cross guest-starred on basically every relevant television program at the time — including Seinfeld, Boy Meets World, and Ally McBeal — before spending a season on the WB’s Everwood.

Cross married stockbroker Tom Mahoney in 2006, and gave birth to twin daughters Eden and Savannah in 2007. After yet another memorable role wrapped for Cross on Desperate Housewives in 2012, the prolific actress joined the cast of ABC’s Quantico in 2015.

Zuniga’s Jo Reynolds lived on Melrose Place from 1992 until 1996. Zuniga later reunited with Melrose co-star Grant Show on the ABC series Beautiful People, and played characters in numerous TV films before joining the cast of One Tree Hill in 2008.

According to Zuniga’s website, she’s at work, developing a half hour comedy, in which she plans to star. In 2009, she was appointed by then Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, to the Board of the LA River Revitalization Corp, and is also an avid supporter of Equality Now. In 2007, Zuniga made a documentary called The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED.

In October 2012, the Melrose Place cast reunited for a segment on Good Morning America in which they reflected on their favorite moments on the show. For Thorne-Smith, it was playing “Drunk Allison,” and for Leighton and Bissett, who played sisters, it was the countless times they couldn’t stop laughing. Savant, for his part, remains proud of his Matt Fielding role becoming part of the lexicon of gay characters on network television.

While the apartment doors of Melrose Place are closed, one thing is certain: the actors on the show remain an important part of ’90s nostalgia, one that can never quite be replicated.