Troop Beverly Hills: The Girls 25 Years Later

Emily Schulman as Tiffany Honigman

Emily Schulman played Tiffany Honigman, the bold and determined rich girl who mastered the art of manipulation. Emily, who turned 11-years-old during filming, was the youngest of the girls, but she most definitely held her own amongst this talented cast. She is best known for playing the nosy neighbor Harriet in the popular 80’s sitcom Small Wonder. Yup, the show with the robot daughter!

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Emily Schulman--NOW

After Troop Beverly Hills, Emily guest starred on dozens of television shows before turning her attention to working behind-the-scenes where she became one of Los Angeles’ top Commercial Talent Agents for many years. Nowadays, the pretty red head is retired from Hollywood and fulfilling her dream of raising her family on the East Coast. Along with taking care of her husband and their four children, Emily’s a popular Spin Instructor who also works as a drama coach and director at a children's repertoire theater company in Connecticut.

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Heather Hopper as Tessa DiBlasio

Heather Hopper played Tessa DiBlasio, daughter of a Hollywood director and budding therapist. With her big eyeglasses, curly black hair and sharp wit, Tessa always told it like it was and rarely filtered her thoughts. Known on set as being the “funniest girl," Heather was a definite favorite amongst the cast and crew.

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Heather Hopper--NOW

After Troop Beverly Hills, Heather joined the cast of Good Morning, Mrs. Bliss… later known as Saved By Bell and guest starred on numerous television shows including Beverly Hills 90210, where she played a girl completely head over heels in love with Brandon, but then again, what girl wasn't? Nowadays, this talented actress/comedian/host resides in Los Angeles where she continues to perform and host human interest projects. Heather’s strong passion for traveling, humanity and different cultures has led to her trekking across the globe on many exciting excursions.

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Jenny Lewis as Hannah Neffler

Jenny Lewis played Hannah, the daughter of Phyllis & Freddy Neffler. Besides being the glue that held her troop together, we can’t forget Hannah's daring walk across the rickety tree log to help her troop win the Annual Jamboree. Fun movie fact: the tree log was not a prop and Jenny & Shelley's stunt doubles actually walked across it above a treacherous ravine. Those on-screen screams by the girls watching...well...they were real!

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Jenny Lewis--NOW

After Troop Beverly Hills, Jenny starred in a slew of movie roles including the cult classic The Wizard alongside Fred Savage, before shifting her focus to her true passion…music. In 1998, the talented singer/songwriter formed the critically acclaimed indie-rock band Rilo Kiley. Nowadays, Jenny has established herself as an uber-hip solo artist and is presently gearing up for a national tour this summer. Rumor has it that she does "The Freddie" during her shows. Well….no she doesn’t….but we can wish right?

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Tasha Scott as Jasmine Shakar

Tasha Scott played feisty Wilderness Girl Jasmine Shakar, whose sharp tongue got her dad out of traffic tickets and stellar vocal chops helped sell thousands of boxes of cookies. Her performance of the iconic 'Cookie Time’ song is a favorite amongst fans. Tasha was actually quite the singing sensation prior to Troop Beverly Hills, appearing on numerous TV shows including the talent competition Star Search.

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Tasha Scott--NOW

After Troop Beverly Hills, this busy performer continued acting and singing, appearing in a countless TV shows, stage productions and films, including the made-for-TV movie Camp Cucamonga where she rapped and danced alongside Danica McKellar, Candace Cameron, and Jaleel White (aka Steve Urkel). In the late 90's, Tasha starred as Dorothy in the US national tour of The Wiz. Tasha currently resides in Los Angeles, with her focus these days being solely on her music as a recording artist. Tasha’s long awaited debut album due to drop later this year is what she describes as very Urban Pop; with a lot of soul and a twist of Hip Hop. Will there be a ‘Cookie Time’ cover in the future? Guess we'll have to wait and see!

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Kellie Martin as Emily Coleman

Kellie Martin starred as Emily Coleman, the one girl in the group whose family was experiencing financial troubles. Even though Emily tried to hide her problems from her friends, it surfaced when $7.50 had to be collected from each child for patches. You’re telling us that Phyllis couldn’t have just fronted $7.50 for each kid with all the money she had?…but anyway that’s beside the point.

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Kellie Martin--NOW

After Troop Beverly Hills, Kellie went on to star as Becca Thacher in the widely popular TV show Life Goes On, before attending Yale University where she earned a degree in Art History. Today, Kellie resides in Los Angeles with her family and currently owns and operates an online children’s toy store called Romp (ROMPstore.com) which specializes in safe, inspiring and wholesome toys. This busy mother also continues to act on occasion, most recently starring in The Hallmark Channel’s holiday film, The Christmas Ornament.

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Ami Foster as Claire Sprantz

Ami Foster played Claire Sprantz, child star of the fictitious TV show 'Winnie & The Winklemans' and daughter of romance novelist, Vicki Sprantz. Claire desperately yearned to do "something normal" and being a Wilderness Girl fit that bill. Prior to this film, Ami, with her beautiful blonde hair and infectious smile, was best known to 80’s audiences for playing Punky’s friend, Margeaux, in the classic sitcom Punky Brewster.

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Ami Foster--NOW

After Troop Beverly Hills, Ami worked steadily, guest starring on numerous TV shows like Full House, The Wonder Years and even once alongside her Troop co-star, Kellie Martin in Life Goes On. Currently retired from the business, Ami resides in Los Angeles with her family where she’s a dedicated mother to her two beautiful children.

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Aquilina Soriano as Lily Marcigan

Aquilina Soriano played Ms. Sunglasses herself, Lily Marcigan, the oh-so-stylish daughter of Philippines Dictator, Bong Bong Marcigan. Troop Beverly Hills was especially prevalent in the Pilipino community because it was one of the very few American films featuring a young Pilipino girl as one of its cast members, and this was something that Aquilina took great pride in.

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Aquilina Soriano--NOW

Still encompassing a strong connection to her Pilipino roots, Aquilina currently serves as the Executive Director of the Pilipino Workers Center, a nonprofit organization that fights for equal rights for domestic workers, while educating the community on the Pilipino culture. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters and often sings original songs she has written at rallies, marches and meetings.

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Carla Gugino as Chica Barnfeld

And who can forget little Chica Barnfeld? Well, besides her parents of course. Played by a very young Carla Gugino in her onscreen debut, Carla shined bright, acting as the tough and sophisticated neglected child whose parents who were too busy with their own lives to remember her birthday. Good thing Rosa was there to whip up that birthday cake…or birthday enchilada…or whatever that was!

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Carla Gugino--NOW

Troop Beverly Hills was just the starting point for this young starlet as Carla embarked on an illustrious film and television career ranging from Son In Law to Spy Kids to Entourage to Sin City. She's definitely an in demand actress today…just don't forget her birthday. It’s August 29th by the way!

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Dinah Lacey as Cleo Plender

Dinah Lacey played the devious Cleo Plender, the leader of the rival troop team The Red Feathers and daughter of the evil troop leader Velda. Even though Dinah played a “bad girl," in the film, she was actually known as one of the sweetest kids on set and was good friends with all the other girls!

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Dinah Lacey--NOW

After Troop Beverly Hills, Dinah guest starred on numerous television shows like Facts of Life, Life Goes On, most notably playing a tomboy football star alongside Michael Landon in Highway To Heaven. Today, Dinah has retired from the business and currently resides in Los Angeles with her beautiful daughter. Having a strong passion for children and education, she currently works as a pre-school teacher, while attending school herself to earn her degree so she can work with hearing impaired children.

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Tori Spelling as Jamie

In her on-screen debut, Tori Spelling played Cleo’s Red Feather sidekick, Jamie. The two girls not only mocked the Beverly Hills Troop, but also helped sabotage their cookie sales and Jamboree.

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Tori Spelling--NOW

After Troop Beverly Hills, Tori became a household name when she went from being a "Culver City Red Feather" to living in her nemesis' zip code, playing Donna Martin for 10 years on the immensely popular show, Beverly Hills 90210. She can presently be seen along with her husband Dean McDermott on her reality show, True Tori on Lifetime.

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Shelley Long played Phyllis Neffler

In her first starring role since departing from Cheers, Shelley Long played Phyllis Neffler, the glamorous leader of Troop Beverly Hills. Basically you can say that Phyllis was the inspiration for all of the "Real Housewives" characters.

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Shelley Long--NOW

After Troop Beverly Hills, Shelley has appeared in many films and TV shows, most notably as the iconic Carol Brady in not one but three Brady Bunch films and most recently, Shelley returned to the silver screen in a hilarious recurring role on Modern Family as Jay Pritchett's ex-wife DeDe.