'Can't Hardly Wait' Cast: Where Are They Now?

Jennifer Love Hewitt as Amanda Beckett

Jennifer Love Hewitt lit up the screen in Can't Hardly Wait (1998) as the cool cheerleader and crushable prom queen Amanda Beckett. Before scoring the role, Hewitt already had a great deal of teen-star clout from her four-year stint on Fox's coming-of-age drama Party of Five. Since the '90s, the actress has remained a multi-faceted industry mainstay.

She followed the 1998 cult classic with other hits like Heartbreakers (2001), costarring Sigourney Weaver; Garfield: The Movie (2004) and a cameo in Tropic Thunder (2008). Hewitt also landed the lead roles on CBS' The Ghost Whisperer and Lifetime's The Client List, as well as appeared in a season-long arc on Criminal Minds. Since 2018, she has played Maddie Buckley, a strong-willed but sensitive 9-1-1 dispatcher on Fox's 9-1-1.

The pop culture icon has had her fair share of success with music and writing. In the years after Can't Hardly Wait, she released the well-received single "How Do I Deal" on the I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) soundtrack, with the song reached No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite her popularity, she hasn't been particularly active in music since 2004. She penned her first book, The Day I Shot Cupid, in 2010 and joined The New York Times best seller list thanks to her playfully raunchy takes on love and dating.

Hewitt had a slew of highly-publicized relationships throughout the '90s with celebrities including Carson Daly, Patrick Wilson, John Mayer and Jamie Kennedy.

She has been married to her former Client List costar, Brian Hallisay, since November 2013, and the couple share a daughter, Autumn, and two sons — Atticus and Aidan.

Ethan Embry as Preston Meyers

Ethan Embry stole the show as outsider Preston Meyers, who longed to win over longtime crush Amanda during a fateful graduation party. The actor went on to star in a number of well-loved movies and TV shows in the following years.

He was featured in the Reese Witherspoon box office smash rom-com Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Vacancy (2007) and played astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. in Damien Chazelle's First Man (2018). Embry made an even bigger splash on TV with roles on Brotherhood, Once Upon a Time, Sneaky Pete and Grace and Frankie.

He married actress Amelinda Smith in 1998, and they welcomed a son, Cogeian Sky, the following year. The couple divorced in 2002, and Embry married actress Sunny Mabrey in 2005. They divorced in 2012 but remarried in 2015.

In 2017, Embry opened up on Twitter about his opiate addiction, encouraging others to seek help when they need it. He revealed he had been drug-free for six years.

Seth Green as Kenny Fisher

Back in 1998, Seth Green amused America as Kenny Fisher, a high school senior with big plans to lose his virginity before graduation. Today, the multitalented actor is pretty much everywhere.

After Can't Hardly Wait, Green continued to act in the Austin Powers franchise, playing Dr. Evil's angsty teenage son. Other credits include Knockaround Guys (2001), The Italian Job (2003) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).

Besides his iconic part as werewolf Daniel "Oz" Osbourne on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Green's résumé standouts are primarily voice-acting roles. Since 1999, he has provided the voice for Family Guy's dorky son, Chris Griffin. In 2005, Green co-created the Emmy award-winning adult stop-motion sketch comedy show, Robot Chicken, where he voices various characters, produces, directs and writes.

Other voice-over credits include Phineas and Ferb, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot and Howard the Duck in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2019, Green wrote and starred in Changeland, his feature directorial debut, starring Brenda Song and Macaulay Culkin.

Green has been married to actress, model and his creative collaborator Clare Grant since 2010.

Peter Facinelli as Mike Dexter

Peter Facinelli hammed it up as jock Mike Dexter, who was ready to let loose before realizing that breaking up with Amanda wasn't a wise idea after all. Since then, he has dabbled in TV, acting on Glee, Nurse Jackie, Supergirl and S.W.A.T. In 2021, Facinelli starred in the crime drama, The Ravine.

On the film-front, Facinelli is known for playin Dr. Carlisle Cullen, the patriarch of the found family of vegetarian vampires at the center of The Twilight Saga, appearing in all five movies of the blockbuster franchise from 2008 to 2012.

The multihyphenate star runs his own production company, Facinelli Films, and he wrote and produced Hallmark's Accidentally in Love in 2011. In 2015, he co-wrote a futuristic sci-fi novel, After the Red Rain.

Facinelli is divorced from actress Jennie Garth, with whom he shares three children: Luca Bella, Lola Ray and Fiona Eve. In 2020, Facinelli became engaged to fiancée Lily Anne Harrison, and in 2022, they welcomed a son, Jack Cooper.

Lauren Ambrose as Denise Fleming

Lauren Ambrose played Denise Fleming, who begrudgingly attends the high school bash with her best pal Preston and unexpectedly falls into an intimate conversation (and more) with Kenny. Ambrose is an Emmy and Tony Award nominee for her work on Six Feet Under and Broadway's My Fair Lady. She is also known for her voice work in Where the Wild Things Are (2007) and costarring in Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk with Me (2012).

Since 2019, Ambrose has starred as Dorothy Turner on Apple TV+'s series Servant, which is executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan (who also directs several episodes). In 2021, it was announced that Ambrose would star in Shymalan's upcoming thriller, The Vanishings at Caddo Lake. Starting in season 2, Ambrose is a series regular on Showtime's Yellowjackets as the adult version of Vanessa "Van" Palmer.

Ambrose has been married to writer Sam Handel since 2001, and the couple share two children, a son born in 2012 and a daughter in 2016.

Charlie Korsmo as William Lichter

Charlie Korsmo played a determined nerd, William Lichter, seeking revenge on bully Mike before getting a little too tipsy as his mission goes awry. In the early '90s, he was known for his parts in Dick Tracy (1990) and Hook (1991). Since Can't Hardly Wait, Korsmo has only held one role — Herr Director in 2018's Chained for Life.

In 2006, the actor made a 180 and received his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, and subsequently became a law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Korsmo is married to his wife, Adrienne, with whom he shares son William and daughter Lilah.