The OC: Where are the cast of the hit Noughties series now?
The OC is 12 years old - that means a whole generation of almost-teenagers who've never even heard of Seth Cohen, Captain Oats, Little Miss Vixen or Oliver Trask.
Alright, so maybe that last one's not so bad.
Get ready for a rush of nostalgia as we chart the journey of Californiaaaaaaa's finest, from 'right back where they started from' to the present day!
Benjamin McKenzie
Benjamin McKenzie - shortened to just plain 'Ben' from season two onwards - was Ryan Atwood, the brooding boy from Chino who turned The OC upside down when he moved into The Cohens' pool-house.
Since bidding Ryan farewell, McKenzie has landed two significant lead roles on US television - from 2009 to 2013, he was Officer Ben Sherman on the searing cop drama Southland and since last year, he's played another cop - Jim Gordon - on a rather more fantastical series, the Batman prequel Gotham.
Adam Brody
You can keep your Big Bang Theory - Seth Cohen was the ultimate loveable TV geek. His passion for X-Men comics, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Death Cab was rivalled only by his love for dream girl Summer Roberts.
Post-Seth, Adam Brody has landed some decent film parts in Jennifer's Body (2009) and Scream 4 (2011), though his attempt to make a TV comeback in Amazon's The Cosmopolitans was cut short when the pilot failed to secure a pick-up.
This year though, he landed a regular gig on DirecTV's unconventional 'step-siblings in love' rom-com Billy & Billie from playwright Neil LaBute.
Mischa Barton
Poor little rich girl Marissa Cooper won Ryan's heart the moment he rocked up in The OC, but their romance was not to be and an altercation with bad boy Volchok (Cam Gigandet) cut her life tragically short.
Controversially quitting The OC ahead of its fourth and final season, Mischa Barton appeared in 2007's St. Trinian's movie remake - and attempted to recapture her early success in 1999's The Sixth Sense by starring in a string of low-budget horror flicks.
In 2012, Barton took to the stage for a well-received Dublin stage production of Steel Magnolias and though her last outing as a TV regular - The CW's The Beautiful Life - lasted just two episodes, she's slated to appear in ABC Family series Recovery Roadin 2016.
Rachel Bilson
Summer Roberts went on a more significant journey than perhaps any other OCcharacter - transforming from a shallow gossip girl into an eco-warrior across 92 episodes.
Originally intended to feature in just a few episodes as a minor character, Bilson's screen charisma saw her become a regular player - and in the past 8 years, she's guested on Chuck (in 2007) and recurred on How I Met Your Mother (from 2010 to 2014).
Most notably though, she fronted her own show - the 'NY girl heads to the South' comedy-drama Hart of Dixie - from 2011 until earlier this year, when the show was dropped after four seasons.
Peter Gallagher
Uber-mensch Sandy Cohen was the ultimate TV Dad - always ready with a quip, a sound piece of advice or sometimes both.
Gallagher has kept busy since The OC - he's recurred on Californication (2009),Rescue Me (2010) and Law & Order: SVU (2014) and played the regular role of CIA operative Arthur Campbell on frothy spy series Covert Affairs until 2014.
He's also about to join The Good Wife for its seventh season - oh, and in case you were wondering, those eyebrows remain as magnificent as ever.
Kelly Rowan
Kirsten Cohen would often find herself caught up in the battle between her husband Sandy and father Caleb. A workaholic who cared perhaps too much, she came to love adopted son Ryan as one of her own.
Rowan's most notable role after The OC was opposite Eric McCormack on crime series Perception - playing the dual role of Natalie Vincent, the imaginary friend of McCormack's schizophrenic, and Dr Caroline Newsome - the real-life basis for Natalie.
Melinda Clarke
Clarke was amazing on The OC as Newport Beach's most cunning socialite Julie Cooper - Julie could be cold and manipulative, but shared a genuine friendship with Kirsten.
In 2005, mid-way through her OC tenure, Clarke began recurring on Entourage and continued to appear on the show (as herself) until 2011.
She also played the leading role of villain Amanda on Nikita between 2010 and 2013 and later this year will reprise her role of Lady Heather for the CSI series finale, a part she first played on the CBS series way back in 2001.
Tate Donovan
Jimmy Cooper just couldn't catch a break. After stealing money from clients, going bankrupt and enduring more than one beating from those he'd wronged, Jimmy left Newport for good in the third season - with daughter Marissa ordering him never to return.
Tate Donovan's fate has been less grim - he's played the plum role of shady Tom Shayes on acclaimed legal thriller Damages, was a part of the Oscar-winning movieArgo in 2012 and appeared in the recent 24 revival.
Chris Carmack
Carmack was a regular on the first season of The OC as Marissa's jock boyfriend Luke - his most memorable moment was delivering the iconic line, "Welcome to the OC, bitch!" in the series pilot.
In 2005, he landed a guest spot on Smallville and that same year co-starred with Amanda Bynes in cinematic masterpiece Love Wrecked.
After working the US TV 'guest star' circuit for a few more years, Carmack found regular work again on Nashville, sporting a fetching cowboy hat as aspiring country singer Will Lexington.
Alan Dale
New Zealand-born Dale is one of US TV's most prolific character actors - his speciality is uncompromising men of influence, a part he's played in everything fromLost to 24 to The OC, where he was ruthless businessman Caleb Nichol.
Caleb died of a heart attack - a fate that also befell Dale's character on Aussie soapNeighbours and Bradford Meade on his next show Ugly Betty (2006-2007).
Next up was Ben's nemesis Charles Widmore on Lost - felled not by a dicky ticker, but a bullet - and recurring roles on Entourage, The Killing, Once Upon a Time and most recently Syfy's Dominion, on which Dale plays General Edward Riesen. We told you he kept busy.
Autumn Reeser
Reeser was uptight Taylor Townsend on The OC - initially introduced as a rival for Summer in the third season, she later replaced Marissa as second female lead (and Ryan's love interest) in the show's final run.
In the eight years since, Reeser has remained a popular face on US TV - with major parts on HBO's Entourage, CBS' Hawaii Five-0 and two short-lived ABC series, No Ordinary Family and Last Resort.
Most recently, she's come full circle by signing on to play Julie Cooper in a musical production of The OC - no, we're not kidding.
Willa Holland
The second actress to play Marissa's little sister Kaitlin, Willa Holland debuted as an older, more troublesome version of the character in episode 3.12, 'The Sister Act'.
After The OC, Holland recurred on Gossip Girl as wild young model Agnes Andrews and, since 2012, has inhabited another 'sister' role as Oliver Queen's sibling Thea onArrow - now a fully-fledged superhero!
No-one knows what became of the first actress to play Kaitlin. She probably didn't amount to much.
Bonus: What happened to everyone else?
This list wouldn't be complete without a few of the supporting players who gracedThe OC set between 2003 and 2007.
Logan Marshall-Green (the second and best Trey Atwood) starred in Prometheus(2010) and will front new Cinemax series Quarry in 2016, while Amanda Righetti (Hailey) became a regular on The Mentalist which also featured Samaire Armstrong (Anna) in a recurring role.
Navi Rawat (Theresa) became a regular on Numb3rs, Taylor Handley (bonkers Oliver) starred on short-lived CBS series Vegas, while Michael Cassidy (Zach) was one of TBS's Men at Work until the sitcom was axed last year.
Shannon Lucio (Lindsay) recurred on Prison Break and True Blood, Ryan Donowho (Marissa's wet admirer Johnny) was in horror movie prequel Cabin Fever: Patient Zero last year, and Cam Gigandet (Volchok) was in the movies Twilight and Never Back Down - for the latter, think Step Up with more fighting.
Olivia Wilde (Alex) is now hot stuff in Hollywood after a stint on House, while Chris Pratt - who played Summer's college buddy Che Cook - is also doing alright for himself.
Alright, so maybe that last one's not so bad.
Get ready for a rush of nostalgia as we chart the journey of Californiaaaaaaa's finest, from 'right back where they started from' to the present day!
Benjamin McKenzie
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Benjamin McKenzie - shortened to just plain 'Ben' from season two onwards - was Ryan Atwood, the brooding boy from Chino who turned The OC upside down when he moved into The Cohens' pool-house.
Since bidding Ryan farewell, McKenzie has landed two significant lead roles on US television - from 2009 to 2013, he was Officer Ben Sherman on the searing cop drama Southland and since last year, he's played another cop - Jim Gordon - on a rather more fantastical series, the Batman prequel Gotham.
Adam Brody
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You can keep your Big Bang Theory - Seth Cohen was the ultimate loveable TV geek. His passion for X-Men comics, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Death Cab was rivalled only by his love for dream girl Summer Roberts.
Post-Seth, Adam Brody has landed some decent film parts in Jennifer's Body (2009) and Scream 4 (2011), though his attempt to make a TV comeback in Amazon's The Cosmopolitans was cut short when the pilot failed to secure a pick-up.
This year though, he landed a regular gig on DirecTV's unconventional 'step-siblings in love' rom-com Billy & Billie from playwright Neil LaBute.
Mischa Barton
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Poor little rich girl Marissa Cooper won Ryan's heart the moment he rocked up in The OC, but their romance was not to be and an altercation with bad boy Volchok (Cam Gigandet) cut her life tragically short.
Controversially quitting The OC ahead of its fourth and final season, Mischa Barton appeared in 2007's St. Trinian's movie remake - and attempted to recapture her early success in 1999's The Sixth Sense by starring in a string of low-budget horror flicks.
In 2012, Barton took to the stage for a well-received Dublin stage production of Steel Magnolias and though her last outing as a TV regular - The CW's The Beautiful Life - lasted just two episodes, she's slated to appear in ABC Family series Recovery Roadin 2016.
Rachel Bilson
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Summer Roberts went on a more significant journey than perhaps any other OCcharacter - transforming from a shallow gossip girl into an eco-warrior across 92 episodes.
Originally intended to feature in just a few episodes as a minor character, Bilson's screen charisma saw her become a regular player - and in the past 8 years, she's guested on Chuck (in 2007) and recurred on How I Met Your Mother (from 2010 to 2014).
Most notably though, she fronted her own show - the 'NY girl heads to the South' comedy-drama Hart of Dixie - from 2011 until earlier this year, when the show was dropped after four seasons.
Peter Gallagher
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Uber-mensch Sandy Cohen was the ultimate TV Dad - always ready with a quip, a sound piece of advice or sometimes both.
Gallagher has kept busy since The OC - he's recurred on Californication (2009),Rescue Me (2010) and Law & Order: SVU (2014) and played the regular role of CIA operative Arthur Campbell on frothy spy series Covert Affairs until 2014.
He's also about to join The Good Wife for its seventh season - oh, and in case you were wondering, those eyebrows remain as magnificent as ever.
Kelly Rowan
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Kirsten Cohen would often find herself caught up in the battle between her husband Sandy and father Caleb. A workaholic who cared perhaps too much, she came to love adopted son Ryan as one of her own.
Rowan's most notable role after The OC was opposite Eric McCormack on crime series Perception - playing the dual role of Natalie Vincent, the imaginary friend of McCormack's schizophrenic, and Dr Caroline Newsome - the real-life basis for Natalie.
Melinda Clarke
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Clarke was amazing on The OC as Newport Beach's most cunning socialite Julie Cooper - Julie could be cold and manipulative, but shared a genuine friendship with Kirsten.
In 2005, mid-way through her OC tenure, Clarke began recurring on Entourage and continued to appear on the show (as herself) until 2011.
She also played the leading role of villain Amanda on Nikita between 2010 and 2013 and later this year will reprise her role of Lady Heather for the CSI series finale, a part she first played on the CBS series way back in 2001.
Tate Donovan
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Jimmy Cooper just couldn't catch a break. After stealing money from clients, going bankrupt and enduring more than one beating from those he'd wronged, Jimmy left Newport for good in the third season - with daughter Marissa ordering him never to return.
Tate Donovan's fate has been less grim - he's played the plum role of shady Tom Shayes on acclaimed legal thriller Damages, was a part of the Oscar-winning movieArgo in 2012 and appeared in the recent 24 revival.
Chris Carmack
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Carmack was a regular on the first season of The OC as Marissa's jock boyfriend Luke - his most memorable moment was delivering the iconic line, "Welcome to the OC, bitch!" in the series pilot.
In 2005, he landed a guest spot on Smallville and that same year co-starred with Amanda Bynes in cinematic masterpiece Love Wrecked.
After working the US TV 'guest star' circuit for a few more years, Carmack found regular work again on Nashville, sporting a fetching cowboy hat as aspiring country singer Will Lexington.
Alan Dale
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New Zealand-born Dale is one of US TV's most prolific character actors - his speciality is uncompromising men of influence, a part he's played in everything fromLost to 24 to The OC, where he was ruthless businessman Caleb Nichol.
Caleb died of a heart attack - a fate that also befell Dale's character on Aussie soapNeighbours and Bradford Meade on his next show Ugly Betty (2006-2007).
Next up was Ben's nemesis Charles Widmore on Lost - felled not by a dicky ticker, but a bullet - and recurring roles on Entourage, The Killing, Once Upon a Time and most recently Syfy's Dominion, on which Dale plays General Edward Riesen. We told you he kept busy.
Autumn Reeser
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Reeser was uptight Taylor Townsend on The OC - initially introduced as a rival for Summer in the third season, she later replaced Marissa as second female lead (and Ryan's love interest) in the show's final run.
In the eight years since, Reeser has remained a popular face on US TV - with major parts on HBO's Entourage, CBS' Hawaii Five-0 and two short-lived ABC series, No Ordinary Family and Last Resort.
Most recently, she's come full circle by signing on to play Julie Cooper in a musical production of The OC - no, we're not kidding.
Willa Holland
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The second actress to play Marissa's little sister Kaitlin, Willa Holland debuted as an older, more troublesome version of the character in episode 3.12, 'The Sister Act'.
After The OC, Holland recurred on Gossip Girl as wild young model Agnes Andrews and, since 2012, has inhabited another 'sister' role as Oliver Queen's sibling Thea onArrow - now a fully-fledged superhero!
No-one knows what became of the first actress to play Kaitlin. She probably didn't amount to much.
Bonus: What happened to everyone else?
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This list wouldn't be complete without a few of the supporting players who gracedThe OC set between 2003 and 2007.
Logan Marshall-Green (the second and best Trey Atwood) starred in Prometheus(2010) and will front new Cinemax series Quarry in 2016, while Amanda Righetti (Hailey) became a regular on The Mentalist which also featured Samaire Armstrong (Anna) in a recurring role.
Navi Rawat (Theresa) became a regular on Numb3rs, Taylor Handley (bonkers Oliver) starred on short-lived CBS series Vegas, while Michael Cassidy (Zach) was one of TBS's Men at Work until the sitcom was axed last year.
Shannon Lucio (Lindsay) recurred on Prison Break and True Blood, Ryan Donowho (Marissa's wet admirer Johnny) was in horror movie prequel Cabin Fever: Patient Zero last year, and Cam Gigandet (Volchok) was in the movies Twilight and Never Back Down - for the latter, think Step Up with more fighting.
Olivia Wilde (Alex) is now hot stuff in Hollywood after a stint on House, while Chris Pratt - who played Summer's college buddy Che Cook - is also doing alright for himself.
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