Natalie Imbruglia
THEN (featured in EW 3/20/98) The diminutive Aussie/ex-soap star hit big with ''Torn'' and gave Winona Ryder a genuine run for the Most Doe-Eyed Celeb title.
NOW Released her third album, Counting Down the Days, internationally in April; no word on a U.S. release.
Jaleel White
THEN (5/4/90) As ''a whiny-voiced, pratfall-prone seventh-grader, a poster child for post-nasal drip,'' White's Steve Urkel stole the show on Family Matters.
NOW He's developing movies and a live-action animated series; just filmed a role in Who Made the Potatoe Salad? (Dan Quayle, maybe.)
Andre Braugher
THEN (5/1/98) The standout star of Homicide: Life on the Street, Braugher pulled a David Caruso and fled for film roles (Duets, Frequency).
NOW Captaining the ship in Wolfgang Petersen's big-screen Poseidon Adventure remake; shooting the spring '06 FX series Thief.
Patricia Wettig
THEN (5/4/90) In thirtysomething's season 3, her Nancy fights cancer, and that yuppie show thrives as the most unhip, unironic, brilliant show on TV.
NOW Plays Dr. Judy Barnett on Alias; appeared in HBO's Lackawanna Blues; wrote My Andy, a Warhol-inspired drama playing Hartford Stage's Brand:NEW fest in September.
Peta Wilson
THEN (8/1/97) As La Femme Nikita's leather-clad, pistol-packing government assassin, she was TV's reigning cult sex symbol in the late '90s.
NOW After headlining last year's Lifetime movie False Pretenses, the Down Under stunner is reading scripts as she raises her son.
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