Yahoo Movies Where are the original Beetlejuice cast now?
Tim Burton's cultish freakshow first hit cinemas back in 1988.
Tim Burton's bonkers horror-comedy Beetlejuice is finally giving its generations of fans a sequel, after premiering at the Venice Film Festival to promising reviews just a few days ago.
From the 1988 original, this supernaturally crazed continuation brings back Michael Keaton's Betelgeuse; Winona Ryder's Lydia Deetz and Catherine O'Hara's Delia Deetz, as well as introducing Jenna Ortega's Astrid Deetz; Justin Theroux's Rory; Monica Bellucci's Dolores; Willem Dafoe's Wolf Jackson and Burn Gorman's Father Damien for a brand-new round of Afterlife hijinks.
While we count down to Friday, 6 September, let's put Beetlejuice's main cast under the microscope and see what they've been up to for the last 36 years.
Michael Keaton
Set to turn 73 years old the day before Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's theatrical release, Keaton achieved pop-culture immortality by nabbing the title role in 1989's Batman. In that movie, Keaton's super-rich vigilante met his match in Jack Nicholson's acid-scarred Joker, and he'd go on to reprise the comic book character in 1992 for Batman Returns.
Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing adaptation, Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, Christmassy gem Jack Frost, sitcom Frasier, the English dub of Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso, Toy Story 3, Will Ferrell comedy The Other Guys, and the RoboCop remake kept him in the public consciousness over the next couple of decades, yet it was Alejandro González Iñárritu's stunning Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) that truly unchained him again in 2014.
Keaton welcomed his first-ever Oscar nomination for Best Actor in the process and followed that up with a Best Picture winner 12 months later in Spotlight, which dramatised a real-life journalistic investigation into systemic child abuse in Boston. When Marvel Studios subsequently came calling, he strapped on a pair of metallic wings as the villainous Vulture before venturing into the era of prestige TV as the lead of Dopesick.
He has a pair of directorial feature credits to his name, too.
Geena Davis
Davis coupled the unveiling of Beetlejuice with an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress towards the end of the '80s, thanks to her part in romantic drama The Accidental Tourist.
Ridley Scott's iconic road trip thriller Thelma & Louise stands out as the star's legacy moment, sharing the screen with Susan Sarandon and the new kid on the block at that time, Brad Pitt.
She then racked up noteworthy jobs in sports comedy A League of Their Own, which inspired the title of a British game show; Stuart Little, Grey's Anatomy and Netflix's GLOW, while also headlining ABC's doomed sitcom The Geena Davis Show.
You can currently catch her playing Stacy in Zoë Kravitz's surprise psychological package Blink Twice.
Alec Baldwin
Out of all the Beetlejuice cast members, it's Baldwin who holds onto the most interesting workload since portraying the frustratingly deceased Adam Maitland on screen.
Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cooler, Along Came Polly, The Hunt for Red October, Blue Jasmine, the Mission: Impossible franchise, 30 Rock, Still Alice, Will & Grace, and The Looming Tower are projects that each give his career a certain lustre, but it's the various collaborations with the mighty Martin Scorsese (on The Aviator and The Departed) and Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) that speak the loudest.
40 episodes as Saturday Night Live's wigged imitation of Donald Trump across a four-year stretch isn't too shabby, and neither were those cameos in BlacKkKlansman and A Star is Born.
Three years ago, during production on the Western movie Rust, Baldwin discharged a prop gun and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. He was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter but the case was later dismissed by a judge citing prejudice and the withholding of crucial evidence from the defence.
Winona Ryder
Lydia actress Winona Ryder is now arguably better known for her Stranger Things role than any other. In the nostalgic Netflix show, which premiered in 2016 and will conclude with its upcoming fifth season, she plays Joyce Byers - her young son mysteriously disappears in the first season and ever since then the characters have contended with all kind of monstrosities originating from the Upside Down.
Prior to this stick of TV dynamite, Ryder kept her place in the close-knit Burton team with Edward Scissorhands and Frankenweenie, while also securing glossy work for filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola (Bram Stoker's Dracula), Scorsese (The Age of Innocence), James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted), Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly), and JJ Abrams (Star Trek).
She also enjoyed a one-episode gig on Friends as the character Melissa Warburton.
Catherine O'Hara
Award-winning treasure Catherine O'Hara will forever be associated with a demonic dinner scene soundtracked by Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat (Day-O), but the magic didn't stop there in 1988.
As Kate McCallister, she famously forgot to take her son on holiday not once but twice in the Home Alone movies; in The Nightmare Before Christmas she bared her soul in stop-motion as Sally, and up until 2020 the star breathed unrivalled eccentricity into Schitt's Creek mother Moira Rose.
Next up for O'Hara is an undisclosed part in the second season of HBO's The Last of Us.
Jeffrey Jones
Best recognised for his Burton team-ups - he appeared in Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow too - Jeffrey Jones joined the cast of HBO western series Deadwood in 2004, playing journalist AW Merrick for 33 episodes in total.
Two years previous to that, the actor was arrested for the possession of child pornography and soliciting a minor to produce sexually explicit images. He was placed on five years' probation as well as the sex offender's register, and had to undergo counselling as punishment.
Jones has largely remained off-screen since around 2007.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice comes to cinemas on 6 September.
