Celebrity crushes I had as a kid
by mk1974 | created - 03 Jun 2012 | updated - 10 Nov 2015 | PublicI grew up in the 80s and 90s, and over the years I had a number of celebrity crushes, some that were pretty obscure. Here are at least a few of them with the main movies/shows I remember first noticing them in (in a crush-like way).
1. Dana Barron
Actress | National Lampoon's Vacation
Dana Barron is an American actress who is best known for her role as the original Audrey Griswold in the 1983 film National Lampoon's Vacation which she reprised in 2003's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure for NBC television. Barron was born in New York City. ...
National Lampoon's Vacation
2. Noelle Parker
Actress | Ernest Saves Christmas
Noelle Parker was born on December 25, 1971 in Woodstock, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Ernest Saves Christmas (1988), Clerks. (1995) and Amy Fisher: My Story (1992).
Ernest Saves Christmas
3. Heather Langenkamp
Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street
Heather Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She got her start in acting when she was cast as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola films The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983), which were both filmed in Tulsa. Her scenes were deleted from the final cut of both films. While studying at ...
A Nightmare on Elm Street
4. Reese Witherspoon
Producer | Wild
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the ...
Man on the Moon (before she was well known)
5. Ari Meyers
Actress | Kate & Allie
Ari Meyers was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday, April 6, 1969. She began an acting career at age 12, with her role as Al Pacino's stepdaughter in Al Pacino's Author! Author! (1982) and hasn't looked back, since. Ari dictated her first play, "The Super Magic Show," for her nursery school ...
Kate & Allie (TV show)
6. Ami Dolenz
Actress | Can't Buy Me Love
Ami Dolenz was born on January 8, 1969 in Burbank, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Can't Buy Me Love (1987), Rescue Me (1992) and Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1993). She has been married to Jerry Trimble since August 10, 2002.
She's Out of Control
7. Danielle Harris
Actress | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Danielle Harris is an American actress and film director from Plainview, New York. She is regarded as a scream queen for her many roles in horror films. Her better known roles include protagonist Jamie Lloyd in "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" (1988) and "Halloween 5: The Revenge of ...
The Last Boy Scout
8. Heather Graham
Actress | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Heather Joan Graham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Joan (Bransfield), a schoolteacher and children's book author, and James Graham, an FBI agent. She and her sister, actress Aimee Graham, were raised by their strictly Catholic parents. They relocated often, as a result of their father's ...
License to Drive (before she was well known)
9. Kellie Martin
Actress | ER
Kellie Martin is an American actress from California. She has often worked as a voice actress in animation. Her most notable roles include the amateur detective Daphne Blake in the animated series "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" (1988-1991), the nerdy daughter Rebecca "Becca" Thatcher in the drama series ...
Troop Beverly Hills
10. Jenny Lewis
Actress | The Wizard
Jenny Lewis was born on January 8, 1976, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her acting debut was in a Jell-O commercial. During the mid-1980s, her parents divorced and she moved with her mom, Linda, to Los Angeles, California. In 1999, she gathered a couple of her friends, Blake Soper, Pierre de Reeder, and ...
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (really bad movie I saw as a teenager). She was in a lot of stuff, but that's where I remember noticing her.
11. Laura Bridge
Actress | Encyclopedia Brown
Laura Bridge is known for Encyclopedia Brown (1989), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special (1990).
Encyclopedia Brown TV series on HBO.
12. Olivia Burnette
Actress | The Quick and the Dead
Olivia Burnette began her acting career at the tender age of 6. The most notable of her first acting jobs was in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) opposite comic superstar Steve Martin.
After several television appearances, Olivia was cast as the lead in the down-home series The Torkelsons (...
The Torkelsons (short-lived TV show)
13. Heather McComb
Actress | American Gigolo
Heather McComb was born in Barnegat, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for American Gigolo (2022), Ray Donovan (2013) and The Event (2010). She was previously married to James Van Der Beek.
Stay Tuned
14. Nicholle Tom
Actress | Beethoven
Nicholle is probably best known for her role as Maggie Sheffield on hit CBS series "The Nanny" or Ryce Newton in Universal's "Beethoven" and "Beethoven's 2nd" feature films.
Most recently Nicholle portrayed Vicky White in the dramatic true story of her jailbreak in TUBI's "Prisoner of Love".
Nicholle...
Beethoven's 2nd
15. Lisa Jakub
Actress | Mrs. Doubtfire
Lisa Jakub was born on December 27, 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Independence Day (1996) and George Lucas in Love (1999). She has been married to Jeremy since June 2005.
Matinee
16. A.J. Langer
Actress | My So-Called Life
Allison Joy Langer was born in Columbus, Ohio. At age 5, her family moved to the San Fernando Valley, just outside of Los Angeles, where she attended Granada Hills High School. She first began using her initials to join an all-boys baseball team, and the nickname stuck. She was introduced to Ernie ...
My So-Called Life
17. Claire Danes
Actress | My So-Called Life
New Yorker Claire Catherine Danes was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Carla (Hall), a day-care provider and artist, and Christopher Danes, a computer consultant and photographer. She has an older brother, Asa. Her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes, was a Dean of the Yale School of Art ...
My So-Called Life
18. Lark Voorhies
Actress | Saved by the Bell
Lark Voorhies was born on 25 March 1974 in Nashville, Tennessee. She first began acting at the age of two but postponed her acting career until the age of 11, when she appeared on Small Wonder (1985). Lark later starred as Lisa Turtle in Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987), the predecessor to NBC's ...
Saved By the Bell
19. Laura Mooney
Actress | Twilight Zone: The Movie
Laura Mooney was born on May 27, 1976 in Westminster, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989) and Potato Head Kids (1986).
Saved By the Bell. Very obscure one - she played Kelly's little sister in one episode, which I happened to have on tape for some reason. Photo here: http://bit.ly/Nu7wMr
20. Holly Robinson Peete
Actress | 21 Jump Street
Holly Robinson Peete was born on September 18, 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for 21 Jump Street (1987), For Your Love (1998) and 21 Jump Street (2012). She has been married to Rodney Peete since June 10, 1995. They have four children.
21 Jump Street
21. Megan Ward
Actress | Encino Man
Megan Ward was born on September 24, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Megan is an actor, known for Encino Man (1992), Joe's Apartment (1996) and Dark Skies (1996). Megan has been married to Michael Shore since July 29, 1995. They have two children.
Trancers II
22. Kerri Green
Actress | The Goonies
Auburn haired Kerri Green was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA on 14 January 1967. In 1984, Kerri decided to skip summer camp and attend some movie auditions in New York City instead. This led her to the attention of none other than Steven Spielberg, who cast her as Andy in Richard Donner's ...
The Goonies
23. Faye Grant
Actress | My Best Friend's Girl
Faye Grant was born in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, in 1957, and was involved in theater as a teenager. She left home at 18, hitchhiking throughout Mexico, the U.S., and Canada. After living in Mexico City, where she did Spanish commercials, she moved to Los Angeles. She played the role of Rhonda on ...
V (TV miniseries/series)
24. Jodie Sweetin
Actress | Full House
Jodie Sweetin was born on January 19, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Full House (1987), Fuller House (2016) and Just Swipe (2021). She has been married to Mescal Wasilewski since July 30, 2022. She was previously married to Morty Coyle, Cody Herpin ...
Full House (TV Show). In the later episodes, when she was a teenager. She was a little young, but I kept noticing her... development.
25. Marla Sokoloff
Actress | The Practice
Born and raised in San Francisco, Marla Sokoloff moved to Los Angeles in 1994 and enrolled in the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, where she studied theater and music. She won numerous awards and accolades for her singing, performing the national anthem at such high profile events as the...
Full House (TV Show)
26. Staci Keanan
Actress | Step by Step
Staci Keanan was born Anastasia Sagorsky on June 6, 1975 in Devon, Pennsylvania. She began her career at age four with fashion-show assignments and magazine work. At age eight, she moved to New York City with her mother and sister and balanced a modeling career with a budding theater career, in ...
My Two Dads (TV Show)
27. Tatyana Ali
Actress | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Tatyana Marisol Ali was born on January 24, 1979, in North Bellmore, New York, to Sonia, a nurse from Panama, and Sheriff Ali, a retired police officer from Trinidad. At the age of four, she started singing and got a taste of fame when she begged her mother to take her to an audition for Sesame ...
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV show)
28. Alicia Goranson
Actress | Boys Don't Cry
Alicia Goranson was born on June 22, 1974 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Boys Don't Cry (1999), The Conners (2018) and Roseanne (1988).
Roseanne (TV show)
29. Amy Jo Johnson
Director | Tammy's Always Dying
Amy Jo Johnson is an American/Canadian actress and filmmaker. Amy grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. As a child she competed as a gymnast, learning skills that would later be of great use to her in her breakthrough role as Kimberly Hart the Pink Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993). ...
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (I was technically an adult when this was out, but I still acted like a kid)
30. Eve Plumb
Self | A Very Brady Renovation
Eve Plumb, the actress and painter most famous for playing the role of Jan on The Brady Bunch (1969), began acting professionally in 1966, appearing in TV commercials. The child actor began getting parts on series television in 1967.
Her place in TV history was cemented when she landed the role of ...
The Brady Bunch (TV show)
31. Larisa Oleynik
Actress | 10 Things I Hate About You
Larisa Oleynik was born in Santa Clara County, California, to Lorraine (Allen), a nurse, and Roman Oleynik, an anesthesiologist. Her father is of Ukrainian and Rusyn descent.
Larisa's big break came when she was eight. She had gotten the part of young Cosette in a production of "Les Misérables". Her...
Secret World of Alex Mack (she was a bit young for me, but I couldn't help but notice her)
32. Josie Bissett
Actress | Melrose Place
Josie Bissett is recognized internationally for her role as the popular 'Jane Mancini' on FOX-TV's "Melrose Place," which ended its successful seven-year run in May 1999. To date, she has graced over 50 magazine covers, including such publications as TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, ...
Melrose Place (TV show)
33. Maia Brewton
Actress | Adventures in Babysitting
Maia Brewton was born on September 30, 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Back to the Future (1985) and Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990). She has been married to Lara Spotts since 2008. They have two children.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose (TV show)
34. Jean Louisa Kelly
Actress | Uncle Buck
Jean Louisa Kelly was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is an actress, known for Yes, Dear (2000), Uncle Buck (1989), as John Candy's mean-spirited, rebellious niece, Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), Luisa in Michael Ritchie's film version of the long running musical The Fantasticks (2001), and Sarah...
Uncle Buck
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