By Wonderwall.com Editors
7:38am PDT, May 8, 2018
In the 1994 movie "Little Women," based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name about a family of sisters experiencing life during the Civil War, Susan Sarandon played the mother of the March sisters, who were portrayed by Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Winona Ryder, Samantha Mathis and Trini Alvarado. Christian Bale, Gabriel Byrne and Eric Stoltz all had supporting roles in the star-studded film too. To celebrate the May 13, 2018, debut of PBS's "Little Women" three-part miniseries, Wonderwall.com is taking a look at what the cast of the '94 flick is up to now…
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We haven't seen that much of Trini Alvarado since she starred in "The Frighteners" in 1996. She's taken on small roles on TV shows like "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and in moves like the crime drama "All Good Things," in which she teamed back up with Kirsten Dunst, but she seems content staying out of the spotlight with her actor husband, Robert McNeill. She's seen here at a theater expo in 2014.
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Eric Stoltz played John Brooke, the man who tutored family friend Laurie. He falls in love with and eventually marries Meg March.
After "Little Women," Eric Stoltz enjoyed a lot of success starring in supporting roles in movies like "Jerry McGuire" and "The Butterfly Effect" and on TV shows like "Mad About You" and "Chicago Hope." Currently, he has a recurring role on the CBS drama "Madame Secretary," a show he's also directed multiple times. Eric has worked steadily as a television director for years now with series including "Glee," "Nashville" and "Private Practice" on his resume. After ending a high-profile romance with Bridget Fonda in the late '90s, he reportedly married Irish singer-songwriter Bernadette Moley, with whom he has a daughter, Catalina, in 2005.
Kirsten Dunst played little Amy, the youngest of the March sisters, in "Little Women."
The same year "Little Women" was released, Kirsten Dunst earned acclaim for her work alongside Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in "Interview With the Vampire." Since breaking out at the age of 12, she's had strong roles in many memorable flicks like "The Virgin Suicides" and the "Spider-Man" trilogy. We've seen her step out with Jake Gyllenhaal and Garrett Hedlund, but fiance Jesse Plemons — whom she met while working on the TV show "Fargo" — is the man she's decided to start a family with. The couple welcomed their first child together, a son, in May 2018.
Samantha Mathis took over for Kirsten Dunst as Amy March when the character gets older and falls for Christian Bale's Laurie.
After "Little Women," Samantha Mathis teamed back up with Christian Bale to star in 2000's "American Psycho" and later moved on to TV, where she's appeared on shows like "Grey's Anatomy," "Under the Dome" and "The Strain." She was River Phoenix's last girlfriend and was with him the night he died from a drug overdose in 1993. Over the following two decades, she was romantically linked to "ER" star Noah Wyle in the mid-'90s and Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz and actor-filmmaker Colin Hanks in the aughts.
Christian Bale played Theodore Laurence — better known as "Laurie" — who's the grandson of the March family's affluent neighbor. He eventually ends up marrying Amy March.
Christian Bale's career was just heating up when he starred in "Little Women." Over the next decade, he took on three characters in particular that cemented his status as one of the acting greats: Patrick Bateman in 2000's "American Psycho," Trevor Reznik in "The Machinist," and Bruce Wayne/Batman in 2005's "Batman Begins," the first movie in filmmaker Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy. He briefly caused some controversy in 2009 when audio tapes of him going on an angry tirade on the set of "Terminator Salvation" were leaked, but he recovered from the incident and went on to win an Oscar for his performance in the 2010 film "The Fighter." He went on to earn two more Oscar nods for his work in 2014's "American Hustle" and 2016's "The Big Short." He has two children with wife Sibi Blazic, whom he wed in 2000.
Claire Danes played Beth March, the sister who contracts scarlet fever and eventually passes away from the illness, in "Little Women."
After 1994's "Little Women," Claire Danes — who'd picked up a Golden Globe for her work on the TV show "My So-Called Life" that same year — starred in a slew of movies from Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" to Steve Martin's "Shopgirl." She added more awards to her mantel when she landed the role of bipolar CIA operative Carrie Mathison on the Showtime series "Homeland," for which she's received multiple Emmys. She married actor Hugh Dancy in 2009 and gave birth to their son, Cyrus, in 2012. In April 2018, she announced that she's pregnant with baby No. 2!
Winona Ryder took on the role of Jo March, the sister who takes the plunge and moves away from her family, settling in New York City to become an author.
Who would have thought Tim Burton's muse, who was beloved for her work in movies like "Reality Bites" and "Girl, Interrupted" — and who dated leading men like Johnny Depp and Matt Damon — would end up getting arrested for shoplifting?! Not us! But that's exactly what happened to Winona Ryder in 2001. After taking a long hiatus from Hollywood, she's now back and killing it on Netflix's eerie hit series "Stranger Things."
Gabriel Byrne starred in "Little Women" as Friedrich Bhaer, a tutor in New York who marries Jo March.
Gabriel Byrne appeared in many films after "Little Women" including "The Usual Suspects" and "The Man in the Iron Mask" before starring as a therapist on the HBO drama "In Treatment," for which he won a Golden Globe. He and Ellen Barkin, with whom he had two kids, divorced in 1999. In 2014, he married longtime girlfriend Hannah Beth King. They welcomed a baby girl in 2017.
Susan Sarandon played the March sisters' mother, Marmee, who's forced to leave her kids to care for themselves while she tends to her husband after he's injured fighting in the war.
The year after "Little Women" hit theaters, Susan Sarandon was nominated for a best actress Academy Award for her work in "The Client." She won an Oscar a year later for her performance in "Dead Man Walking." She memorably starred in "Stepmom" in the late '90s, earning a Golden Globe nomination for that one, and has worked steadily in film and television since then, racking up three more Globe nods, including one for her portrayal of Bette Davis on the FX TV series "Feud" in 2018. Susan split from longtime partner Tim Robbins, with whom she has two adult sons, in 2009 and later made headlines when she dated her much younger SPiN table-tennis bar business partner, Jonathan Bricklin, from whom she split in 2015. She's also now a devoted grandmother to actress-mommy blogger daughter Eva Amurri Martino's two young kids.
