Snakkle Tracks Down the Residents of 4616 Melrose Place to Find Out Where They Are Now

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Heather Locklear as Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place

It would probably demean Amanda Woodward if we reduced her memory to just the beds she has been in, but let’s face it, there were a lot. Shrewd in business (remember how she used to chastise Alison in the conference room!?) but even more so when it came to relationships, Amanda was never really comfortable unless she was in the power position. Yet the series often showcased her vulnerability, whether it was with a miscarriage or a couple of attempted rapes or even perhaps a surprising deep affection for friends old and new.

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Heather Locklear, Today

In the post-Melrose Place era, Locklear took a turn keeping up her special guest star title by appearing in everything from Ally McBeal to Two and a Half Men, with an extended run on Spin City. In 2009 Locklear reprised her role on the CW’s remodeled version of Melrose Place, but she was a softer, gentler Amanda that surprised and made suspicious the longtime fans of the original series. Ultimately the series was canceled before we could learn if Amanda was just involved in another long con, like when she faked her death to elope with Peter. But Locklear went on to star in two TV movies. Unfortunately these days her headlines feel ripped from a soapy Darren Star plot, as she has battled anxiety, depression, and, it's been speculated, alcoholism.

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Laura Leighton as Sydney Andrews on Melrose Place

Young Sydney came to L.A. to visit her big sister with misguided intentions but a good heart. Or so it seemed. Very quickly, though, she spiraled into a web of lies and deceit and schemes, most notably that of trying to steal her sister’s longtime love Michael. Sydney was opportunistic but a poor judge of character, and though you spent a lot of time wanting to push her into the complex’s pool, you couldn’t deny that watching her self-destruct was a ton of fun.

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Laura Leighton, Today

Leighton was one actor who jumped from the spin-off to the original. In 1998, right after her Melrose Place run, she joined the cast of 90210 in a new role Aaron Spelling created specifically for her but with enough similar character traits that fans of both wondered if Sydney was just masquerading. Leighton had memorable stints on Skin and Boston Legal before returning to Sydney in the reboot of Melrose Place in 2009. These days, though, she plays a protective mama on Pretty Little Liars, which is probably much more akin to her actual life, where she is married to and raising four children with former Melrose Place costar Doug Savant.

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Grant Show as Jake Hanson on Melrose Place

If you were looking for a true bad boy with a heart of gold in the '90s, Jake Hanson was it. Sure, he wore leather jackets, rode a motorcycle, and later owned a bar, but he was the most stand-up straight guy on this series! Sure, he slept around, but who didn’t at 4616 Melrose?

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Grant Show, Today

With a face made for TV, Show did not disappoint. In his post-Jake years, he has appeared on acclaimed dramas like Six Feet Under, Strong Medicine, Dirt, Swingtown, Private Practice, and Big Love. He's currently on Marc Cherry’s post-Desperate Housewives series Devious Maids.

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Andrew Shue as Billy Campbell on Melrose Place

Billy Campbell was a young up-and-comer with a charmed life, it seemed, when he first became Alison’s roommate, but it appeared that starting out “just as friends” is what doomed the couple. Of course, all of their other personal relationships didn’t help. It got sticky when Billy was tied to Amanda so tightly because of her pregnancy and eventual miscarriage, but even more so when Alison fled their own wedding because she was never able to face up to some childhood trauma. Timing wasn’t on their side, and Billy ended up marrying two other women before ultimately moving to Rome with Jennifer Mancini.

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Andrew Shue, Today

Shue was pretty fresh-faced when he appeared on Aaron Spelling’s prime-time soap opera, but the show thrust him into the industry and taught him more than just acting. In 2007 the former soccer star wrote, produced, and starred in his passion project, Gracie. These days his passion has shifted to nonprofit work, and he currently serves on the board of DoSomething.org, which he founded, as well as working with CafeMom, a social networking site for mothers and mothers-to-be that he cofounded. Shue has said that in his mind, Billy finally came to his senses about Alison being his true love and reunited with her.

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Courtney Thorne-Smith as Alison Parker on Melrose Place

Alison Parker was the quintessential “this town will eat you alive” type of girl that parents warn when you tell them you want to move to Los Angeles. Deep demons of her past crept up in her life, creating problems with alcohol, men, and her work at D&D Advertising. Every time Alison got close to happiness—with Billy or with Jake—she stepped in and sabotaged herself, believing they were better off without her. We hope she was able to work through that in her Atlanta rehab facility.

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Courtney Thorne-Smith, Today

After playing the self-destructive Alison for so many years, it’s no wonder Thorne-Smith continued her career in sitcoms. We would just want to laugh all day too! After a comedic stint on Ally McBeal, she spent eight memorable years as Jim Belushi’s suburban wife on According to Jim, and she boozed it up once again as Alan’s on-again, off-again love interest on Two and a Half Men. Though Thorne-Smith did not appear on the CW’s Melrose Place reboot, she has stated recently that she would be up for another reunion project of some kind.

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Jack Wagner as Peter Burns on Melrose Place

It’s a good thing we don’t know much about our doctors’ personal lives, because after watching Peter Burns drug Amanda, abuse Taylor, fall for a psychotic, and scheme with Michael, we can’t help but question his judgment! Yet, through all that, we couldn’t help but root for him and Amanda, so maybe we should question our own judgment…

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Jack Wagner, Today

With his deep background in soap operas, Wagner is still staying true to his roots, even today. He starred as Dominick Marone on The Bold & the Beautiful, and took some time away to work on the 14th season of Dancing with the Stars. In 2013, he reprised the role of Frisco Jones on General Hospital.

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Thomas Calabro as Michael Mancini on Melrose Place

Usually fame goes to one’s head in Hollywood, but for Michael Mancini it was just general wealth and power. Once an eager, earnest med student who managed an apartment building to pay his bills, he soon became a womanizer and notorious schemer. He would fall in and out of love as quickly as he should have been changing his surgical gloves—and always with women who were bad for themselves, let alone him. Though he became a man who we, let alone Jane, could barely recognize from his humble beginnings, Michael was suddenly a lot more TV-fun and to this day remains one of our favorite characters of all time.

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Thomas Calabro, Today

Michael Mancini tried to smooth-talk everyone, and similarly, Calabro has put his own voice to good use in his post-Melrose Place days, working steadily as a voice-over artist for a number of commercials and projects in addition to his busy guest star career. He had memorable turns on Touched by an Angel, Cold Case, Nip/Tuck, and Greek before slipping on his doctor’s coat once again for the 2009 reboot of Melrose Place on the CW. That year he also appeared in the independent vignette film Locker 13. And once again, post-new Melrose, he has focused on making a big mark as a guest star on shows like Castle and Glee.

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Jamie Luner as Lexi Sterling on Melrose Place

The rich and troubled Lexi Sterling spun off the rails when she and Peter Burns split up (but then again, who didn’t!?). She was clearly introduced as an additional conflict for Peter—and Amanda and Michael—and she did that job extremely well, through seduction, blackmail, and, well, mainly sex.

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Jamie Luner, Today

Immediately after Melrose Place, Jamie Luner spent two years on the tail end of the crime drama Profiler, stepping in when Ally Walker left. But since then she has stayed closer to her Melrose Place roots by appearing in a number of TV movies and starring as Liza Colby on All My Children from 2009 until the show’s unfortunate cancellation last year. Most recently, though, she guest-starred on the CW’s Supernatural as a hunter who meets an untimely fate.

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Doug Savant as Matt Fielding on Melrose Place

Matt Fielding was a revolutionary character for television in the '90s. An openly gay man deeply devoted to social work and community outreach, he wasn’t a walking after-school special, though he did experience a number of teachable moments, including gay bashing and a boyfriend with HIV. Sadly, though Matt was the most grounded character, he was the one character who, when he was killed, was done so permanently.

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Doug Savant, Today

Immediately after Melrose Place, Doug Savant made the rounds as a guest star on a number of other dramas and an actor in TV movies, but it wasn’t until 2004, with his role on 24, that he seemed to get his TV groove back. From there he guest-starred on higher-profile network shows, including NCIS and CSI and the acclaimed FX drama Nip/Tuck. Savant recently wrapped an eight-year run as Tom Scavo in ABC’s prime-time soap Desperate Housewives and a guest spot on Hot in Cleveland. He is still married to former Melrose Place costar Laura Leighton, and the two are raising four children in Los Angeles.

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Marcia Cross as Kimberly Shaw on Melrose Place

Was there a better moment in television than when Kimberly attempted to blow up the apartment complex in her rage-filled delusions? Okay, probably when she ripped off her wig to reveal her brain surgery scar. Thomas Calabro has said that he feels Amanda was always Michael’s perfect match in how equally powerful they both were, but we’re inclined to think Kimberly was actually the one for him. Her insane schemes were the only ones that ever rivaled his own.

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Marcia Cross, Today

Marcia Cross was always best on Melrose Place when she was playing just slightly off-kilter, but after a number of years of guest-starring on an equal number of dramas and sitcoms (and a year on Everwood), she transformed into the uptight, Stepford wife of Wisteria Lane Bree Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives, where she spent eight years crafting a character that seems eerily close to one of Kimberly’s alternate personalities…

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Rob Estes as Kyle McBride on Melrose Place

Kyle McBride seemed like such a good-natured though easily led astray guy, but he had a dark side too. His experiences in combat, coupled with the combative women around him, led him to drink too much and ruin the one good relationship he seemed to have going for him. But in the end, he came out of it and proved goodness trumps anger when he agreed to raise Michael and Jane’s baby as his own and kept the secret that Amanda really didn’t die in that plane crash.

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Rob Estes, Today

The bright-eyed and eternally youthful Rob Estes took a number of more grown-up roles after his time as eye candy on Melrose Place came to an end. From roles on Providence to Suddenly Susan to Gilmore Girls, the guys he played were always infused with his boyish charm but allowed him to be seen as a versatile actor as well. In 2006 he returned to series television more permanently with The Evidence and went dark for a turn on CSI: Miami. He also costarred in the short-lived Women’s Murder Club and did a stint on the CW’s modern version of 90210 from 2008 to 2010. Most recently he guest-starred in an episode of Psych. He has three children with former Melrose Place costar Josie Bissett.

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Josie Bissett as Jane Mancini on Melrose Place

Jane Manicini took more abuse (not necessarily physically) than any other character on Melrose Place simply for being ensnared in Michael’s web of lies for as long as she was. Though you wanted to see her succeed—whether in her design business or by finally telling off Sydney—it couldn’t be denied that the break she took to move back to Chicago might have been the best thing for her.

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Josie Bissett, Today

After Melrose Place, Josie Bissett went on to do a handful of TV movies that dealt with women’s issues similar to the ones brought up within the series. Since 2008, Bissett has played a mom on ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Bissett and former Melrose Place costar Rob Estes have three children together. She is also the author of three books: two parenting projects called Little Bits of Wisdom and Making Memories and a children’s book entitled Tickle Monster.

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Patrick Muldoon as Richard Hart on Melrose Place

The fashion-savvy Richard Hart seemed too good to be true when he first seduced Jane, and it turned out... he was! So jealous that Jane still had feelings for Michael, Patrick turned violent and raped his once-fiancee, leaving Jane no choice but to plot his death. Unfortunately she brought her bumbling sister Sydney along, so their attempt at burying him did not go as planned. Fortunately for them, the police later finished the job.

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Patrick Muldoon, Today

For some children of the '90s, Patrick Muldoon is known for the guy who cheated on Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell, but he went way darker for Melrose Place and for a number of the independent films and made-for-TV original movies he starred in after. He has gone back not only to his soap opera roots, but to one of his very first roles, returning in 2011 to Days of our Lives as Austin Reed, a character he first played in 1992.

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Rena Sofer as Eve Cleary on Melrose Place

Poor Eve! Any old friend of Amanda’s was a friend who got stepped on as Amanda clawed her way to the top. And Eve, stuck in a women’s prison for a murder she didn’t even technically commit, had no idea just how little her friend actually had her back. When she found out, she cracked, leading to perhaps the most memorable instance of cheerleader gone bad on prime-time network television to date.

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Rena Sofer, Today

Maybe it was Eve’s cheerleader breakdown that allowed casting directors and producers to see Rena Sofer in a more comedic light, because after Melrose Place, most of her standout roles were in lighter-hearted hour-longs (Ed in 2001) or sitcoms like Just Shoot Me! (2002) and Coupling (2003). In 2007, Sofer returned to more serious drama with her role as Marilyn Bauer on 24 and followed it up with stints on Heroes in 2006 and NCIS in 2010. Most recently, she has guest-starred on Covert Affairs in 2011 and House in 2012.