Yahoo News Alias: Where are they now?
Created by JJ Abrams, now known for his cinematic work on the Mission:Impossible, Star Trek and Star Wars movies, and led by Jennifer Garner, spy romp Alias spanned five seasons back in the early noughties.
The duplicitous doings of Sydney Bristow & Co gathered millions of fans over the years until it ended in 2006. But while creator JJ may be doing just fine, what of his cast?
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Jennifer Garner (Sydney Bristow)
While filming Alias, Garner supplemented her role as the CIA double agent with starring roles in diverse movies such as 13 Going on 30 and Elektra. Since then, when not divorcing Ben Affleck, she has dipped in and out of family films (Nine Lives), romcoms (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past) and Oscar material (Dallas Buyers Club).
This year has been a bumper one for the star, with films like Love, Simon and the lead in the upcoming action flick, Peppermint, while she's also starring with David Tennant in HBO's remake of UK comedy Camping, originally created by UK actor/writer Julia Davis.
Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane)
Already a well-established actor when Alias came calling, having been in the 'biz since the '60s, Rifkin hasn't stopped since the show came to an end. Regular roles in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Brothers & Sisters, Limitless and, most recently, in Gotham have followed.
Michael Vartan (Michael Vaughn)
Featuring as Sydney's multilingual love interest in all but ten episodes of the series – for which he was both Teen Choice and Saturn Awards nominated, don't you know – Vartan hasn't found such longevity again in any other show.
The actor was part of the main cast in the short-lived E! drama The Arrangement, loosely based on a famous Hollywood relationship within Scientology, which was cancelled earlier this year.
4. Carl Lumbly (Marcus Dixon)
Post-Alias, Lumbly's career has continued to be hugely prolific, from parts in Battlestar Galactica, NCIS: Los Angeles, Zoo and Grey's Anatomy.
He's even managed to build an impressive career in both animation (Justice League) and video games (the Diablo and BioShock franchises), too. Alas, his time as M'yrnn J'onzz came to an end earlier this year on the CW series, Supergirl.
5. Lena Olin (Irina Derevko)
Certainly not as abundant as some other entries here, Olin seems to choose her projects carefully. And her choices, for the most part, tend to be gold.
On the big screen she could be seen in Oscar-nominated, Kate Winslet-starring The Reader, while on telly Olin has popped up in Martin Scorsese's Vinyl and Netflix's Mindhunter. Currently you'll find her in Sky Atlantic's record-breaking new show, Riviera, with a second season already filmed and hitting screens in 2019.
6. David Anders (Julian Sark)
After his breakout role as the mysterious, allegiance-shifting and possibily British Sark in Alias, Anders followed this up with an impressive array of bit parts in big shows like Charmed, Deadwood and 24, plus recurring characters in the likes of The Vampire Diaries (as John Gilbert), Once Upon a Time (Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Whale), and Heroes (Adam Monroe).
For the last few years Anders has been portraying Blaine 'DeBeers' McDonough in iZombie on The CW, although it comes to an end next year with its fifth and final season.
7. Kevin Weisman (Marshall Flinkman)
It's been non-stop for Weisman since he finished his eccentric role as tech-geek Flinkman, appearing in dozens of shows over the past decade or so (Chuck, Fringe, and Better Call Saul).
He's landed more substantial roles in CBS's Scorpion, Amazon's Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton, and as Stephen Merchant's buddy in Hello Ladies, while you can catch him on screen at the moment as Dale Yorkes in the Marvel television show Runaways, which UK fans can watch on SyFy.
8. Victor Garber (Jack Bristow)
Garber was nominated three times for an Emmy Award for his work as Sydney's dad on Alias and is another prolific, not to mention successful, actor on stage, film and television. Countless one-off parts and recurring roles have been added to his CV – though, sadly, this does include the voice of the titular Charlie in the very short-lived 2011 Charlie's Angels reboot.
Garber has starred in Lisa Kudrow's Web Therapy (adapted in the UK recently on C4 as Hang Ups starring Stephen Mangan) and Seth McFarlane's The Orville, while he's played Simon Stern in Power and Dr. Martin Stein (aka Firestorm) in The Flash, too – and subsequently Legends of Tomorrow (with a crossover on both Arrow and Supergirl).
9. Greg Grunberg (Eric Weiss)
If Grunberg ever takes a break from acting, it certainly doesn't show. Friend of JJ, Greg has teamed up with his pal on numerous occasions, including Abrams-produced fare such as Star Trek Beyond and The Cloverfield Paradox, while Star Wars fans will know him as Resistance fighter Snap Wexley from The Force Awakens and he is due to appear in Episode 9 next year (both directed by Abrams).
Of course, Grunberg came to international fame just as Alias ended when he joined the main cast of Heroes as Matt Parkman and also returned for Heroes Reborn in 2015.
10. Merrin Dungey (Francie Calfo / Allison Doren)
Familiar in US TV for ongoing characters in The King of Queens and Malcolm in the Middle before this dual role in Alias, Dungey made a memorable splash as Ursula on fairy-tale show Once Upon a Time.
Since then, she has hit a one-season wall appearing as part of the main casts in legal drama Conviction, also starring Hayley Atwell, and medical drama The Resident, neither of which reached a second season. Yet she'll be seen as part of the main cast in forthcoming US legal drama The Fix, so let's hope that one lasts a little bit longer.
11. Bradley Cooper (Will Tippin)
Absolutely no idea what this guy's up to. Seriously, if you see him around, give us a shout. Apparently he's voicing a raccoon who's friends with a tree in a fantasy film.
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