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  • The '90s was a special era in small screen fame.

  • From TGIF and Must See TV to the Rachel Green hair obsession, there was a lot to savor about

  • this decade in at-home entertainment.

  • The TV scene also produced plenty of stars we still cherish today, like the kids from

  • Dawson's Creek and Jessica Biel from Seventh Heaven and the amazing Julia-Louis Dreyfus.

  • But there were some '90s stars who have completely slipped off the radar since their 15 minutes

  • ran out.

  • Here are some '90s stars you may have totally forgotten about...

  • Andrew Keegan

  • This poster boy for the teen beat generation was all over the place in his prime.

  • Not only did he star in some of the biggest small screen hits like Boy Meets World and

  • Full House, but he also had a burgeoning film career in movies like 10 Things I Hate About

  • You, Camp Nowhere, and Independence Day.

  • Somewhere around the end of his 7th Heaven run, though, Keegan's acting gigs became increasingly

  • inconspicuous.

  • That's when he dared to be different...and turned his efforts towards the pseudo-religious

  • instead.

  • In 2014, Keegan founded Full Circle, a spiritual movement of sorts that touts the virtues of

  • synchronicity and the relevance of time and togetherness.

  • That's certainly a strange career twist for the guy who played Joey Donner.

  • Which one do you like better?”

  • Um...I think I like the white shirt better.”

  • Yeah, it’s, it’s more…”

  • Pensive?”

  • Dang I was going for thoughtful.”

  • Marla Sokoloff

  • In another installment of stars from TV gone MIA, you might remember Marla Sokoloff as

  • the girl who got Stephanie Tanner to smoke in Full House or as Joey's pregnant sister

  • in Friends.

  • But her career was quite prolific back in the day.

  • Like Keegan, Marla Sokoloff is also an alum of Boy Meets World, Party of Five, and 7th

  • Heaven and starred in a genre-defining film, Dude, Where's My Car?

  • She didn't go off and start her own religion, of course, but after a couple of regular roles

  • in The Practice and Desperate Housewives she did quietly retreat into a life outside of

  • the spotlight where she raises her kids and blogs for People about motherhood.

  • That last gig got her name back in the newsfeeds for a split-second when parents raged out

  • about her decision to stop telling her baby "no," but otherwise, she's remained fully

  • rooted in the throwback realm.

  • Tahj Mowry

  • Tia and Tamera Mowry might've shared the biggest spotlight of their family, but little brother

  • Tahj was no slouch on the small screen scene either.

  • As a child, he was perhaps best-known for his long-running role on Smart Guy, but he

  • also popped up in a number of other scene-stealing guest roles along the way to his starring

  • role: like when he appeared as Michelle Tanner's playground pal Teddy in Full House.

  • After he ditched the kid’s roles, Tahj found a long-running gig on the show Baby Daddy.

  • But beyond acting, he fancies himself something of a Renaissance man of creative talent these

  • days, also dabbling in music.

  • Jenna von Oy

  • Remember Blossom?

  • Of course you do.

  • The actress who played her got a second career wind courtesy of Big Bang Theory.

  • However, the actress Jenna von Oy, who played Blossom's sidekick, Six, has not been so fortunate.

  • After her five-year stint as Blossom's fast-talking bestie, von Oy moved on to lots of bit parts

  • until her next long-term role in the cast of The Parkers, which wasn't exactly another

  • breakthrough for her.

  • As an adult, von Oy has taken to writing and blogging, with her first book, Situation Momedy,

  • released in 2015, and a sequel due in 2017.

  • But the most memorable thing about her will always be her big hair and those epic crushes

  • she had on the set of Blossom.

  • Sherry Stringfield

  • When this hot-shot actress walked away from her career-making role as Dr. Susan Lewis

  • on E.R. after just two years, no one understood why.

  • She was on the biggest show on television, making tons of money for it, and she'd already

  • walked away from similarly brief stints on Guiding Light and NYPD Blue.

  • It was almost like she was allergic to fame, which she kind of was.

  • The long hours and intense filming schedules for each were reportedly taking a toll on

  • her body, so she bowed out of what might've been long-term opportunities on each of the

  • programs she ditched.

  • Stringfield's hiatus from the biz only really lasted a couple of years before she returned

  • to acting with a few movies and a role on Under the Dome, but her name is nowhere near

  • marquee status anymore.

  • Beverley Mitchell

  • Now let's be real here.

  • Jessica Biel is pretty much the only breakout star of 7th Heaven, which means her slew of

  • on-screen siblings have been left in the dust.

  • One such sad sister is Beverley Mitchell, whose turn as Lucy Camden has yet to be replicated

  • in her career.

  • She did have a brief resurgence into the mainstream on The Secret Life of the American Teenager,

  • which was another wholesome, family-centric show.

  • But if you're looking for her now, chances are you'll have to turn to the terrible TV

  • movie scene and the straight-to-DVD bargain bin.

  • Like so many other actors of her ilk, it seems, she's also now a blogger in her spare time.

  • Barry Watson

  • Pour one out for Matt Camden, the quintessentially '90s-haired eldest child on 7th Heaven, because

  • his real-life counterpart Barry Watson has had some trouble finding his footing in Hollywood

  • after the show's end.

  • He got into movies during the show's run and had a couple of low-budget thriller hits,

  • but after brief runs on the shows What About Brian and Samantha Who?, opportunities seemed

  • to dry up.

  • And by dry up, we mean he starred in a Lifetime Christmas movie about a con man who's forced

  • by his parole officer to take a job as a mall Santa, which is the acting equivalent of using

  • your MBA to manage a supermarket.

  • Yikes.

  • "You go straight for the jugular every time, don't you?"

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