Before hashtags, before TikTok dances, before aesthetic edits turned adolescence into currency, there was The Baby-Sitters Club. A squad of preteens ran capitalism-lite in Stoneybrook, Connecticut, wearing pastel scrunchies and plotting like pint-sized CEOs. These girls did not just babysit; they built empires between juice boxes and algebra homework. For kids of the ’90s, they were Beyoncé before Destiny’s Child. Now, thirty years later, the nostalgia machine demands an update. Where are the original sitters who taught us hustle culture with friendship bracelets?

While TikTok stars are still trying to monetize their morning routines, these girls were monetizing nap time in the ’90s. Three decades later, here are all The Baby-Sitters Club stars now.

Kristy Thomas was the tomboy boss, but Schuyler Fisk had another résumé line: daughter of Oscar-winning Sissy Spacek. Nepotism discourse, anyone? Yet her casting was more happenstance than Hollywood machinery: her cousin casually suggested her for the role after a lead dropped out. Lucky dice roll. Since then, Fisk has bounced from Snow Day to Hallmark+’s The Chicken Sisters, while also becoming a folk singer. Three albums, three EPs, and a marriage later, Kristy Thomas grew into guitar strings and indie cred.

From accidental auditions to acoustic albums, Fisk’s journey mirrors a Gen Z pivot career, random but aesthetic. Now, swap tomboy energy for wallflower charm as Rachael Leigh Cook enters the chat.

Rachael Leigh Cook once played shy Mary Anne, the quiet one who still managed to boss her way into an entire career. “Honestly, if I hadn't gotten that role, I don't think we'd be talking today,” Cook admitted to Collider Ladies Night in 2020. She became Hollywood’s ’90s sweetheart with She’s All That, Josie and the Pussycats, and enough holiday films to fill a Hallmark advent calendar. Now, she is even reuniting with Freddie Prinze Jr. in a film that deserves a spot on Netflix’s Christmas must-watch list.

Cook’s career proves that sometimes a quiet start leads to the loudest legacy. But while she leaned into teen royalty, Larisa Oleynik leaned into cult status with The Secret World of Alex Mack and beyond.

Before she played Dawn Schafer, Larisa Oleynik was already Nickelodeon royalty with The Secret World of Alex Mack. But even with fame, she claims the film forged lifelong bonds. “I am on a text chain with all of the Baby-Sitters,” she told Netflix Family in 2020. Oleynik went on to star in 10 Things I Hate About You and appear in everything from Pretty Little Liars to Mad Men. She recently discussed the film’s messy age-gap subplot on Pod Meets World, proving nostalgia always comes with fine print.

If Oleynik’s career was about keeping teen chaos relevant, then Tricia Joe’s was about ducking out entirely, and Claudia Kishi swapped screen time for dance degrees.

Claudia Kishi was the art girl, the one who made friendship earrings look like couture. But Tricia Joe? She ghosted Hollywood before ghosting was even a word. After three credits, she pivoted completely, graduating in dance from Fullerton College in 1999. Now, her rare Facebook updates feel like artifacts for fans still hoping Claudia might resurface with bold outfits and sarcastic one-liners. In a lineup of stars who doubled down on acting, Joe remains the ultimate enigma, part fashion legend, part forgotten file.

Joe’s exit proves that sometimes the coolest move is disappearing. Meanwhile, Bre Blair kept things cinematic with a steady reel of shows, from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation to Station 19.

Stacey McGill was the chic one, the New Yorker who made babysitting look like a Vogue internship. Off-screen, Bre Blair became just as prolific. “There was a lot of bonding happening, and we were all very different,” she told Vulture in 2020. Her credits read like a Netflix scroll bar: 90210, Game of Silence, and S.W.A.T. Throw in movies from Cherry Falls to 2025’s Gunslingers, and Blair’s résumé proves Stacey McGill never retired her city-girl hustle; she just got union benefits.

If Blair stayed steady on the acting grind, Stacy Linn Ramsower went full plot twist, ditching Hollywood scripts for motherhood scripts as a doula in Arizona.

Stacy Linn Ramsower had her Hollywood year in 1995 with Mallory Pike, Tank Girl, and The Quick and the Dead. But beyond that, she chose not to linger on-screen. Instead, she leaned into a different kind of care work: becoming a doula and mother of two. Now, her practice, Dark Art Mother Studio, proves babysitting was not just a gig; it was foreshadowing for careers in nurturing.

Mallory Pike’s real-life maternal pivot sets up the perfect contrast with Zelda Harris, whose path went from Spike Lee films to Princeton classrooms.

Zelda Harris was already a Spike Lee alum with Crooklyn before she played ballerina Jessi Ramsey. Post The Baby-Sitters Club, she starred in He Got Game, graduated from Princeton in 2007, and became a teacher. When Harris reflects on the books, she credits the franchise’s spirit of self-belief. From Spike Lee sets to school desks, her career proves Jessi Ramsey’s ballet shoes were always about balance.

While Harris grounded her story in classrooms, Marla Sokoloff stayed with Hollywood’s playground, bringing back mean girl chic before Instagram knew what to do with it.

Cokie Mason was not a club member but the antagonist who gave girlbossing some opposition. Marla Sokoloff already had the résumé, playing Gia on Full House before pivoting to Whatever It Takes, Grey’s Anatomy, and even making a cameo on Friends. Her career is a masterclass in consistency: Desperate Housewives, Party of Five, Fuller House. Off-screen, she married musician Alec Puro and raised three kids. Who knew Cokie Mason would become the relatable mom friend of Instagram’s dreams?

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