The Forged of ‘7th Heaven,’ Then and Now

Collins was already identified for motion pictures like Star Trek (1979) and The First Wives Membership (1996) earlier than he stepped into the footwear of the squeaky-clean reverend and father of the Camden household. Through the present’s run, he appeared in a number of different tasks, together with the Diane Keaton/Mandy Moore movie As a result of I Stated So (2007).

After seventh Heaven ended, he appeared in one-off elements on exhibits from It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia to Regulation & Order: SVU and The Workplace. He additionally had multi-episode runs on Non-public Observe and Devious Maids and in 2010-11 was a daily on the short-lived sequence No Unusual Household, which starred Michael Chiklis. He later performed Dr. Gene Porter in NBC’s Revolution.

In 2014, Collins admitted to sexual misconduct with three underage women between 1973 and 1994. He was not prosecuted however was dropped from his company and hasn’t labored in movie or TV since.

Hicks, who performed the Camden household matriarch, additionally had a notable performing profession even earlier than she joined the WB present. An Emmy nominee for enjoying the title function within the TV film Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Hicks appeared reverse Jack Lemmon on Broadway and had movie credit starting from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Dwelling (1986) to a starring function in Baby’s Play (1988).

Through the run of seventh Heaven, she appeared reverse Mark Harmon within the time-traveling TV film For All Time (2000). Afterward, she starred within the short-lived sequence Pushed (2009) and had elements in movies together with Jerry (2009), starring Doug Jones; thriller Break up Second (2009); and Dorfman in Love (2011), together with a spate vacation TV motion pictures. Her most up-to-date credit score was because the voice of a fairy within the Grownup Swim animated sequence JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales, with a solid that additionally included the likes of Linda Blair, Finn Wolfhard and Warwick Davis. The actress, who has one daughter with husband Kevin Yagher, retired from performing in 2023.

Of all of the little one actors on seventh Heaven, Biel — who performed oldest sister Mary (although she’s truly barely youthful than Beverley Mitchell) — is probably the one who most efficiently transitioned to A-list star (and producer, as well). Whereas the sequence that first shot her to fame was nonetheless on the air, Biel starred in The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath in 2003, adopted by roles in 2004’s Blade: Trinity and 2005’s Elizabethtown. The Illusionist (2006), wherein she starred reverse Edward Norton, was one other spotlight of that period.

In subsequent years, she appeared in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), The A-Group (2010) and Complete Recall (2012), simply to call a couple of. Extra lately, she was Emmy-nominated for starring within the first season of USA Community’s anthology sequence The Sinner, which she additionally govt produced for all 4 seasons. She was additionally a star-producer of Hulu’s true-crime miniseries Sweet, enjoying a Texas housewife accused of ax-murdering her neighbor. And in 2025, she starred alongside Elizabeth Banks in The Better Sister, a restricted sequence from Amazon wherein the husband of Biel’s character — who’s additionally the ex-husband of Banks’ character — is murdered.

She’ll subsequent be seen in Apple TV’s October 2026 launch Matchbox, primarily based on the toy automobile model, with John Cena. Biel has been married to Justin Timberlake since 2012, and the couple has two youngsters.

Enjoying eldest son Matt, Watson bought his performing begin on Days of Our Lives in 1990. He was in his early 20s when he was solid as a excessive schooler on seventh Heaven. Through the sixth season, he was recognized with Hodgkin lymphoma, which compelled him to cut back his function within the present, however he returned for all besides the ultimate season.

Afterward, Watson starred in ABC’s What About Brian, from Unhealthy Robotic. That sequence adopted him as a 30-something discovering his method as the one bachelor left in his buddy group and ran for 2 seasons. He was additionally a daily on Samantha Who?, with co-stars Christina Applegate, Jean Good, Jennifer Esposito and Melissa McCarthy. He appeared in a handful of episodes every of Gossip Lady, Hart of Dixie and Masters of Intercourse, and later starred in Date My Dad, which ran for one season on Up TV in 2017.

Extra lately, he performed Lachlan Murdoch within the 2019 Showtime miniseries The Loudest Voice and appeared within the TV film Freeway to Heaven (2021), primarily based on the sequence of the identical identify, in addition to the CW sequence Naomi, which ran for just one season.

He’s additionally dabbled in directing, helming two episodes of seventh Heaven and an episode of The Secret Lifetime of the American Teenager. He lately joined efforts to adapt the quick Bad Survivor, a couple of most cancers survivor, for tv as an govt producer. Watson can be an envoy for Teen Most cancers America.

He’s married to actress Natasha Gregson Wagner, with whom he has one daughter. He additionally has two youngsters from a earlier marriage.

Mitchell began performing earlier than the age of 10, and by the point seventh Heaven completed its run, she had already segued into movie, starring in Noticed II (2005) as Laura, one of many Jigsaw Killer’s victims. Within the years that adopted, she starred within the horror movie The Misplaced Episode (2012) and had a run on ABC Household’s The Secret Lifetime of the American Teenager, which was created by seventh Heaven creator Brenda Hampton. Exterior of performing, Mitchell recorded a rustic album in 2006.

Extra lately, she co-starred with Jodie Sweetin and Christine Lakin in Hollywood Darlings, a Pop TV sequence wherein they performed variations of themselves, adopted by vacation TV motion pictures Hometown Christmas, Rock and Roll Christmas and Sweet Cane Christmas. She additionally appeared within the 2021 thriller Uploaded and comedy thriller Blood Pageant.

The actress, who attended Loyola Marymount College whereas she was nonetheless on seventh Heaven, co-hosts the rewatch podcast Catching Up With the Camdens alongside Mackenzie Rosman and David Gallagher. She has three youngsters together with her husband, Michael Cameron.

A baby actor and mannequin from 18 months of age, Gallagher had a notable early credit score within the talking-dog film Look Who’s Speaking Now, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley, and reunited with Travolta in Phenomenon (1996). On seventh Heaven, he received followers as Simon, the center Camden little one recognizable for his blond mop of hair. (These days, nevertheless, he sports activities a shaved head and beard.)

He left the present in 2003 to attend school and graduated with a level in movie and tv research from USC in 2007, although he did return half time throughout a few of the later seasons. To take care of his absence from the sequence, Simon additionally went off to movie faculty.

Gallagher has voiced the character Riku in quite a few Kingdom Hearts movies and video video games. In 2007, he starred in The Image of Dorian Grey, a contemporary tackle the Oscar Wilde story. He went on to seem on TV exhibits together with CSI: Miami, Bones, Numb3rs, Smallville and The Vampire Diaries. He additionally had a minor half in J.J. Abrams’ Tremendous 8 (2011), along with his most up-to-date TV credit score in a 2020 episode of S.W.A.T.

Gallagher has two daughters and co-hosts Catching Up With the Camdens with Beverley Mitchell and Mackenzie Rosman.

Mackenzie Rosman began performing in commercials on the age of 4. In her function as Ruthie, the newborn of the Camden household till the twins got here alongside, viewers bought the possibility to see the younger actress develop up. Within the years that adopted, Rossman continued to get roles, together with in Proud American (2008), a drama about white supremacy; supernatural horror movie Fading of the Cries (2008); and one other horror movie, The Tomb (2009), starring Wes Bentley.

After that, she appeared in 4 episodes of The Secret Lifetime of the American Teenager and in 2013 was in one other trio of horror movies, together with a starring function in vampire thriller Nightcomer. Exterior of performing, she is an avid equestrian and helps the nonprofit CureFinders in honor of her stepsister, who lived with cystic fibrosis and appeared in an episode of seventh Heaven earlier than her demise in 2008.

Rosman now has a daughter and lives in Maryland. She co-hosts the Catching Up With the Camdens podcast. 

Lorenzo and Nikolas Brino performed the youngest Camdens, twins Sam and David. In actual life, they’re not truly twins — they’re two of 4 quadruplets. Actually, their brother Zachary and sister Myrinda every revamped a dozen appearances on the present once they have been infants. Not one of the siblings continued performing after the present, aside from Zachary, who appeared in two episodes of What About Brian, which — in a full-circle second — starred Barry Watson. Lorenzo died in 2020 at age 21, in a automobile accident in Yucaipa, California.