After the Attack: The Cast of Independence Day, Where Are They Now?

The dashing President Whitmore (Pullman) had a tough enough time balancing his work running the county and spending time with daughter Patricia (Whitman) without aliens coming along and blowing up his house.

After strapping into a fighter jet and helping to save the world, Bill Pullman went on to act in Brokedown Palace, Igby Goes Down and Too Big to Fall. Recently he played President Dale Gilchrist on the TV series 1600 Penn. Mae Whitman has appeared on Jag, State of Grace, Arrested Development, Family Guy, In Treatment, and breaking our hearts inParenthood. These days, she voices April O'Neil on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

First Lady Marilyn Whitmore showed grace and humanity in the face of disaster, but ended up paying the ultimate price.

After her sad departure in ID4, Mary has appeared in Donnie Darko and Scream 4. On the small screen, Mary has had recurring roles on ER, Grey's Anatomy, Battlestar Galactica (switching gears from playing a First Lady to playing the President!), and as Kyra Sedgwyk's nemesis on The Closer. She takes the lead in TNT's spin-off of The Closer, called Major Crimes, as Captain Sharon Raydor.

The regulars at the local coffee shop dismissed Russell Casse's alien abduction stories as the ramblings of a madman. Alright, he was a little mad (and a lot drunk), but he was right about those nasty space invaders. After sobering up, the Vietnam vet sacrificed himself and saved humanity from certain destruction.

A well-known character actor, Quaid can be spotted in Not Another Teen Movie, Brokeback Mountain, The Ice Harvest, and Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach, among many others.

One morning, the world woke up to hundreds of alien spacecraft parked over major cities. Captain Hiller (Smith) reassures girlfriend Jasmine (Fox) and her son (Bagley) that everything will be just fine. They will totally not need to run from a massive explosion and give medical assistance to the First Lady in a matter of hours!

Since ID4, Vivica A. Fox went on to land film roles in Set It Off and the Quentin Tarantino movie Kill Bill: Vol. 1. In 2003, she famously dated rapper 50 Cent, before landing the roll of a mother of a family displaced by a hurricane and taken in by Larry and Cheryl on the TV cable cult hit Curb Your Enthusiasm from 2007 to 2009. She has no fewer than nine projects coming up in 2014.   Ross Bagley has graced the small screen in Providence, voiced a character on The Wild Thornberrys and appeared on Judging Amy in 2004. Bagley will next be seen in the thriller Dead Ringer. And as for Smith? You may recognize him from his megastar movie roles in films like Men in Black, I Am Legend, and 2012’s After Earth. He was last seen with a small role in Winter's Tale.

The brains behind the operation, David Levinson (Goldblum) cracked the alien code, impressing his father (Hirsch) and his ex-wife (Colin), and earning a sweet ride on Air Force One.

After the fictitious White House was destroyed, Press Secretary Margaret Colin got another gig playing Blair’s critical mother, Eleanor Waldorf, on TV’s popular Gossip Girl which ran from 2007 to 2012. In addition to a recurring role on Law & Order: CI, Jeff Goldblum appeared in The Switch, Morning Glory, and has graced the stage in London’s West End. He also completed a less-than-speedy lap as “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” on the popular 2002 British series, Top Gear. You can see him recently on the big screen in Le weekend or The Grand Budapest Hotel. Judd Hirsch has gone on to star in George and Leo, and has appeared in A Beautiful Mind, Numb3rs, and regularly on the hit series Damages from 2011 to 2012.