What Has The Cast Of ‘Kindergarten Cop’ Been Up To Since They Realized It Wasn’t A Tumor?

Think of every funny Arnold Schwarzenegger line that’s permeated pop culture over the past few decades. Many (“IT’S NOT A TUMOR”) came from 1990’s action comedy Kindergarten Cop – a movie that even the Terminator called his favorite of his career.

Schwarzenegger plays Detective John Kimble, a hard-ass police officer who has to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to take down a greasy drug dealer. Hilarity ensues, in addition to an anatomy lesson and a lot of one-liners delivered by six-year-olds. Cute kids, man with a funny accent, procedural police drama – it’s a recipe for success. And while the movie didn’t fare too well with critics, it’s gone on to become a cult classic.

So, who is your daddy and what does he do? Just kidding. But here’s what the cast does now…

Arnold Schwarzenegger – Detective John Kimble

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Ahh, the Governator before his governing. So much has happened for Schwarzenegger since the 1990 flick. Immediately following the film, the Austrian star reprised his role as the Terminator, then there was True Lies, Jingle All the Way and Junior.

The star “retired” when he decided his next role should be in politics: Schwarzenegger served two terms as governor of California from 2003 to 2011, before again returning to acting.

2011 also marked another major life change for the actor: the end of his 25-year marriage to Maria Shriver. His public perception took a big hit when it was revealed he’d fathered an illegitimate child with the couple’s housekeeper and kept it hidden for 14 years – although he insists he didn’t realize the boy was his own until the kid was around 7 or 8.

But Arnie is back. Next up, he’ll replace the Trump-anator as the host of The Celebrity Apprentice for the reality show’s upcoming season and then he’ll star in the recently announced, Darren Aronofsky-produced 478The revenge thriller finds a widower seeking vengeance against an air traffic controller that caused his wife and child’s deaths in a plane crash.

Penelope Ann Miller – Joyce Palmieri / Rachel Crisp

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Just three years after Kindergarten, Miller starred opposite Al Pacino in thriller Carlito’s Way – her role as a stripper even nabbed her a Golden Globe nod.

She appeared in 10 episodes of cheesy summer drama Mistresses, played Mary Kay Letourneau in a made-for-tv movie, and popped up in the Morgan Freeman film Along Came a Spider.

She made it to the big screen again in the 2011 Best Picture winner The Artist as Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin’s wife.

Currently, Miller portrays Eve Carlin in the ABC’s American Crime (season 2 coming soon), and she’s joined the list of other actresses unafraid to call out the film industry for sexism and ageism.

“I’m getting mother roles — or not getting mother roles, but [those are] the roles that there’s interest for me for — it’s not the girlfriend roles,” she said earlier this year.

Oh, and fun fact: before Amy Poehler, Miller was Mrs. Will Arnett from 1994-1995.

Pamela Reed – Detective Phoebe O’Hara

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Pamela Reed is one of those “OH, her!” actresses. In the ’90s, she teamed with Arnold again in Junior, was in the 1997 Mr. Bean film, and then provided the voice of Ruth Powers on The Simpsons.

Reed had a main role in Jericho, but most will recognize her as Leslie Knope’s snarky and powerful mother Marlene Griggs-Knope on Parks and Rec.

The actress began playing Mrs. Deeks, Eric Christian Olsen’s mother on NCIS: Los Angeles in September and has read books for the SAG Foundation’s Storyline Online, where stars read children’s stories in free videos.

Linda Hunt – Miss. Schlowski

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Hunt was already an Oscar-winner (definitely stream The Year of Living Dangerously) by the time she took on the role of the school principle Miss. Schlowski.

Now 70, the pint-sized actress has been in a slew of films, including 91’s If Looks Could Kill. Attention, Disney fans: she also voiced Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas.

She’s spent a lot of time on the stage, and has earned 2 Obie awards and a Tony nod, but Hunt worked most steadily in television. The actress was in 24 episodes of ABC legal drama The Practice before securing her first series regular position in 2009 as Hetty on NCIS: Los Angeles, a role she even nabbed a Teen Choice Award for two years in a row.

The actress is happily married to retired therapist Karen Klein.

Richard Tyson – Cullen Crisp, Sr.

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Tyson, who played über creep and certified bad guy Cullen Crisp, Sr. in the film has grown up – but still retained his questionable ponytail.

The 54-year-old (whose wife is Kris Kristofferson’s daughter) has been in everything from Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary to Me, Myself & Irene and Black Hawk Down.

The Alabama native has over 114 credits to his name, and in 2016 and 2017 alone (so far) he’s set to star in 5 films – including an action flick called Blood Runs Red, a Western, a sci-fi flick with Steven Seagal and a horror flick with the questionable title Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust.

Tyson loves his home state so much he’s always pushing for more movies to be filmed there – even if he has to write them.

“I am getting close to bringing these movies home that I wrote about Alabama,” Tyson said in 2008. “They are Alabama stories. I want to tell them. I want to produce them. I want to act in them, and I want to direct one at least. We hope to do one in 2009.”

Carroll Baker – Eleanor Crisp

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Doesn’t it seem like there’s always a creepy, conniving mother behind the movie jerks?

The 84-year-old, who played Cullen Sr.’s mother, was once a young ingenue and Broadway blonde bombshell. Baker covered the pages of Playboy and achieved sex symbol-status with notable roles in films like How the West Was Won and Baby Doll.

She later played a housekeeper in David Fincher’s The Game, appeared on L.A. Law, Roswell and Murder, She Wrote. Baker formally retired from acting in 2003.

Joseph and Christian Cousins – Dominic Palmieri / Cullen Crisp, Jr.

The Cousins twins often shared roles throughout the 90s, most notably as Bobby Gibson Ewing in 1993 on Knots Landing. They once starred opposite each other  in 94’s Twin Sitters before leaving Hollywood behind the next year.

Not much is out there about the brothers, but, according to their Facebook pages, Christian is the former director of key accounts at a California furniture company called Pastel Furniture. It looks like Joseph was also in the furniture business and used to work for a California company called Brownstone Upholstery.

Odette Annable – Rosa

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Annable, formerly Yustman, was one of Kimble’s kids, but didn’t have many other roles until she was a little older. The brunette made a comeback in Cloverfield, and then appeared in October Road, ABC’s Bryan Greenberg and Laura Prepon drama about an author who returned to his small town to face the people he bashed in his bestseller, as Aubrey.

She grabbed a role on House‘s last season, and a few other recurring TV parts before finding a part on The Astronaut Wives Club, ABC’s 2015 summer period drama.

She met her hubby Dave Annable after appearing on his series Brothers and Sisters, and the couple just welcomed a baby girl in September: Charlie Mae Annable.

Miko Hughes – Joseph

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Miko Hughes is probably the most recognizable of the child stars in the movie: the year before Kindergarten, he played the kid in the movie version of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.

The now-29-year-old was also was in Beverly Hills, 90210, Doogie Howser, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, Melrose Place, played Michelle’s BFF Aaron on Full House and Tom Hanks’ son in Apollo 13.

Next year he’ll be in 2016’s The Untold Story about a middle-aged bachelor starting over, and in the meantime, he’s pretty active on social media for those who want to snoop.

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BONUS: Angela Bassett – Stewardess

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In one of her first feature film roles, Bassett very briefly appeared as a stewardess on Kimble and O’Hara’s flight. She’s gone on to have one of the most successful careers out of the Kindergarten bunch – just last year she was nominated for an Emmy for her part in American Horror Story: Freak Show (she is also in the show’s current season and was in Coven).

She was up for an Academy Award as Tina Turner in ’93’s What’s Love Got to Do with It, and has hit the big screen in Akeelah and the Bee, ER, and much, much more. She also directed this year’s Lifetime Whitney Houston biopic (which didn’t go over too well with the late star’s family).

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