What The Cast Of The Goonies Looks Like Today

One of many '80s classics enjoyed by kids of the era without necessarily being 100 percent appropriate for them, The Goonies is more beloved today than ever—but while those treasure-hunting misfits remain forever frozen in time on our TV screens, the actors who brought them to life have obviously changed quite a bit. Here's what the cast of The Goonies has done since their big-screen adventure, and where they are today.

Sean Astin played Mikey, the gang's asthmatic de facto "leader." After Goonies, he starred in the football biopic Rudy, then took his career to another level by taking on the role of Samwise Gamgee in the massive Lord of the Rings trilogy. More recently, Astin booked a role in the second season of Netflix's hit original series Stranger Things, where he will play Winona Ryder's boyfriend, pretty much insuring he'll never be able to escape invitations for appearances at fantasy and sci-fi conventions.

On a personal note, in the early 2000s, Astin took a DNA test to find out who his father actually was. He was raised by Addams Family actor John Astin, but it was long suspected his father was really Desi Arnaz, Jr. Turned out he was actually sired by family friend Michael Tell (whom his mother married briefly to avoid scandal over her pregnancy); to his credit, Sean maintains a close relationship with all three men.

Kerri Green played the preppy-turned-Goonie Andy Carmichael. After Goonies, she focused on television work for awhile before founding the production company Independent Women Artists, whose projects include the 1999 release Bellyfruit. More recently, she appeared in the bleak domestic drama Complacent alongside Cerina Vincent.

Overall, as a reunion interview with Empire reveals, she seems to feel her real life more fulfilling than anything that might have eventually befallen Andy. When asked what her character would be up to as an adult, she joked that she'd spend her days "still in her mini-skirt, with a cigarette and martini, waiting for [Brolin's character Brand] to come home!"

Jonathan Ke Quan played the gadgety "Booty Trap"-laying character Data. You may also recognize him as Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Since then, he's played mostly stock nerdy characters, eventually scoring a regular gig on the long-running sitcom Head of the Class. His last acting role in America was in Encino Man, and since then he's worked as a stunt coordinator on the X-Men films, among others. Quan, along with Jeff Cohen and Sean Astin, has said he's down for the proposed animated Goonies series, which has been floating in and out of production for years. If it ever happens, Quan has something in his favor: his voice still sounds almost exactly the same.

Robert Davi played Jake Fratelli, one of the family of small-time crooks that act as the antagonists in the film. Career-wise, he's practically the anti-Martha Plimpton. After decades of playing various palookas, wiseguys and grizzled FBI agents in over 140 films, he branched out into singing Sinatra-inspired music and far-right politics. He's been writing a column for extreme conservative blog Breitbart for years, and took over Jerry Doyle's place as the host of Talk Radio Network.

Anne Ramsey knew she wanted to be an actress at the age of four. Unfortunately, she didn't get her chance until she was almost 40. Fortunately, once she got her shot, she rode it for all it was worth—she kept busy throughout her career playing dozens of characters on television and film, but really cemented a name and image for herself in The Goonies as Mama Fratelli. She later had a similarly iconic performance in Danny Devito's Throw Momma from the Train, but sadly, she was already developing mouth cancer and the treatments were ultimately unsuccessful. Ramsey died in 1988 at the age of 59.

Jeff Cohen played Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen, the portly, frequently picked-on Goonie. His acting career ended shortly after Goonies—but for a surprising reason. As a child actor, he'd made a name taking on "fat kid" roles, but during puberty his body changed, and all that baby fat melted away...along with the calls from his agent.

"There were basically about four fat kids in town," he recalled, "so every time there was a fat kid role you saw the same people at the audition. But when I hit puberty, that was a career ender for me." He's indicated a willingness to participate in a potential Goonies animated series, but who knows if or when that'll come together.