What The Cast Of Three Men And A Baby Looks Like Today

By Editorial Staff in Entertainment On 10th February 2017
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#1 Tom Selleck

Selleck played architect Peter Mitchell, who builds skyscrapers for a living, but for some reason, he can only manage to fork up 1/3 of the rent each month. He also got peed on for real by one of the twins who played the baby while posing for the film's poster. He recovered from that and while he was at the height of his popularity with Magnum PI nearing its end, he told reporters he gave up his gig to spend more time with his family. However, the film became a huge success and Selleck didn't stay out of the limelight for very long. He began doing a Jesse Stone movie for CBS each year then signed on for Blue Bloods in 2012, which is highly acclaimed and still doing well considering it is on Friday nights.

He recently told People magazine that there may be a second sequel to the film, Three Men And A Bride, and that all three actors were on board for it. However, Disney claims there is no such project in development.

#2 Ted Danson

Ted Danson was the most interesting member of the cast. He played a deadbeat actor who didn't know he had a child, and somehow got the gang involved in the heroin dealing incident. All that wackiness was what happened in every 80s movie, so it didn't seem that far-fetched to audiences at the time, but he really played a bizarre guy and had most of the gag lines. Danson was already a household name, starring on Cheers, and then moved onto other things like the hit comedy series Becker, and working with Oceana in its exploration of the world's ocean life. He never stopped working and can be seen in a new comedy series, The Good Place, which will be going into its second season.

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#3 Steve Guttenberg

Guttenberg was already a popular name in comedy movies, having done several Polic Academy films from 1984-1993. Somehow, the goofball comedies had audiences laughing and returning for each sequel, though they were considered lowbrow humor and widely panned. The one thing that stood out from the films was Guttenberg. People loved him. You had to kind of feel bad for Guttenberg in the role of a cartoonist named Michael Kellam. Standing almost a full foot below both Danson and Selleck, and with no real subplot to speak of, his character seemed like it was the result of a last minute studio note because someone thought Two Men and a Baby might seem too gay. He had virtually no laugh lines and was forgettable.

With that in mind, it's no real surprise that Guttenberg didn't hit a hot streak afterward. In fact, he has almost no recognizable credits post-Three Men and a Little Lady, the 1990 sequel, except for a year-long stint in Veronica Mars ending in 2006 and Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens (2016). There was once great hope for the actor but studios could never find the right type of roles for him, and the goofball comedies of the 80s and 90s wore off quickly with the audiences.

#4 Nancy Travis

Nancy Travis played Sylvia Bennington, Jack's British baby mama and one-time fling who somehow had the Batman-like detective skills in the pre-internet '80s to find his luxury apartment, gain access to it while transporting a baby in a bassinet, then leave the little one behind for a few months. And no, she's somehow not the villain of this movie. In fact, she has the stones to come back at the end and reclaim baby Mary, at which point the guys somehow collectively agree that she probably won't just drop her off somewhere else when the going gets rough again. But by the laws of '80s movie resolutions, the guys come to their senses and rush to the airport, and Sylvia eventually agrees to move in with them so they can all raise the baby together in some kind of weird reverse Sister Wives situation.

This was Travis's first film role and one that catapulted her to a string of television performances. She reunited with Danson on his series Becker and was a fan favorite, nominated for an Emmy twice. In recent years she has been playing Tim Allen's wife in the Friday night ABC comedy Last Man Standing, which has been airing since 2011.

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#5 Lisa Blair & Michelle Blair Ontonovich

Baby Mary didn't have a lot of acting to do since she was played by twins who were just 4 months old at the time. The character definitely did have that "awe' factor, as the audience fell in love with her cute little face, which director Leonard Nimoy managed to capture in some pretty hilarious ways. In fact, it's her likeability that helped the film earn over $170 million, as everyone wanted to see the cute baby who peed on Tom Selleck.

Neither of the sisters got the acting bug and both claim they do not remember a single thing from the filming, and only Lisa has seen the movies in later years. Lisa works in insurance and Michelle has "a career in customer service," according to their mother, Blair. Michelle can claim that she actually got to urinate on Danson in real life, not once, but twice, on cue.

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#6 Margaret Colin

She is barely in the movie, appearing for 15 minutes in the first half hour, but Colin played a love interest for Selleck's character who moved to New York, like so many people did in 80s movies, to make it big in the insurance industry. Probably best known after Three Men and a Baby for her role as Blair's mom, Eleanor Waldorf, on Gossip Girl (2007-12), Colin also played Constance Spano, the press secretary in Independence Day (1996) who was also Jeff Goldblum's character's ex-wife. However, the film never catapulted Colin to stardom the way she had hoped it would, and roles have been hard to come by.

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#7 Derek de Lint

had a small role as Jan Clopatz, the Hungarian cellist who Rebecca brought over to the guys' apartment to rub it in Peter's face that she was going on a date with him. He only had the one scene in the entire movie, but it was memorable, getting a very big laugh while talking to Selleck about how much the baby "doodled" in her diaper. That was fine with de Lint, who is actually an acclaimed Dutch character actor who usually tackles heavy dramatic roles. He s WWII in Soldier of Orange (1977) and Black Book (2006), as well as held his own in scenes with Daniel Day-Lewis in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

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#8 Philip Bosco

Like Derek de Lint, Philip Bosco is another celebrated character actor, one of those guys you recognize from everything the minute he hits the screen. He played Det. Sgt. Melkowitz, the cop who interrogated the guys over the wacky heroin mix-up, which they got out of by hiding the drugs in the diaper the baby was wearing—seriously. But this was far from Bosco's most memorable role. In fact, Bosco is actually an accomplished stage actor and opera singer, having won a 1989 Tony Award for his performance in Lend Me a Tenor. He has appeared in films like My Best Friends Wedding, Shaft, The Money Pit, First Wives Club, and Little Miss Sunshine.

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#9 Mario Joyner

Joyner was another actor who had a small but memorable role in the movie. He was the cab driver who dizzily rushed the guys to the airport as they attempt to prevent Sylvia from taking Mary back to London. This was his first film role and he was funny because he made the guys feel even worse when they dropped baby Mary off at the airport like a delivery package. He virtually had no career after the movie aside from his stand-up comedy act, which he had prior to filming. In recent years he has been headlining at comedy clubs all over the country and performing regularly with Jerry Seinfeld. His acting roles have mostly been bit parts in movies that had fellow comics as the driving force, such as Chris Rock's Pootie Tang (2001) and Seinfeld's Bee Movie (2007).