
Center Stage undoubtedly gifted us the most iconic sleepover movie of the early 2000s.
We’d watch the movie about a group of dance students at an exclusive ballet school in NYC over and over, from the comfort of our mattresses on the floor of our mate’s bedroom. Then we’d fall asleep, dreaming of wearing red ballet shoes and… Charlie (Sascha Redestsky).
Well. That was 20 years ago.
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I know, I know – that’s a bit scary, but the 2000 teen drama celebrated its 20th birthday in May, and it got us thinking about what our favourite dancers (plus Zoe Saldana) have been up to in the years since they wore leather pants and tearaway tutus.
Here’s how things panned out for the cast ofCenter Stage.
Amanda Schull.

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Amanda Schull played the determined Jody, the main character and one-third of the movies love triangle.
Schull, now 41, was a real-life ballerina - her mother Susan Schull is the current president of Ballet Hawaii, and she herself studied ballet at Hawaii State Ballet, Indiana University and the San Francisco Ballet School.
Center Stagewas the beginning of Schull's acting career, which continued when she was cast as Davina Mayhan, the title character's older sister on sitcom,My Family and Me.
She also continued dancing for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet, which she retired from in 2008, around the same time her acting career hit another stride.
In 2009 she starred inMao's Last Dancer, and in 2010 landed guest and recurring roles on TV shows likeOne Tree HillandPretty Little Liars.

As Katrina in Suits. Image: USA Network.
Beginning in 2013, she starred as Katina Bennett inSuits, alongside Meghan Markle. Her character was upgraded to a main role for the final two seasons.
Most recently, she starred in an episode ofMacGyver.
In February, Schull welcomed her son Georgie with husband George Wilson.
Zoe Saldana.

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Center Stagewas Zoe Saldana's first role in what has become a very successful acting career.
As Eva Rodriguez, Saldana, now 41, was a talented ballerina with an attitude.
In real life, Saldana's first passion was ballet. She eventually quit dancing because she did not "have the feet" and had too much pride and ambition to just be in the corps de ballet, she told Vanity Fair in 2009.
And now? Well, as of 2019 she's the second highest-grossing film actress of all time, on account of being in some of the most successful franchises ever:Avatar, Guardians of the GalaxyandAvengers: Endgameamong them.
And her money-making is set to continue for a while yet, as she's set to star in James Cameron'sAvatar 2andAvatar 3sequels - scheduled for release in 2021 and 2023, if COVID-19 filming delays don't push them back.
Peter Gallagher.

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Peter Gallagher already had a well-established acting career when he played the American Ballet Academy's intimidating main choreographer and director Jonathan Reeves.
Then he went on the play an even more iconic character: Sandy Cohen, aka sunshine personified inThe O.Cfrom 2003-2007.
He's also had roles inCalifornication,How I Met Your Mother, The Good Wife, New Girl and Grace and Frankie. Gallagher currently stars in Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (which you can find on Stan in Australia).
Ilia Kulik.
Ilia Kulik was already an Olympic Gold Medallist when he starred inCenter Stageas Russian dancer Sergei, after he took out the men's figure skating at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
Center Stagewas his only venture into acting, but his figure skating career continued.
He coached Filipino figure skater Michael Christian Martinez, who came in seventh at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and was the first skater from Southeast Asia and a tropical country to ever qualify for the Games.
Ethan Stiefel.

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Ethan Stiefel, now 47, was a real-life dancer cast as Cooper Neilson, the "modern" choreographer who butt heads with the more traditional choreographers at the Academy, and another third of the movie's love triangle.
He also appeared in TV sequelCenter Stage: Turn It Up,and was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre from 1997 until 2012. He was the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet from 2011 and 2014.
Two fun facts for you: He starred as himself in season four, episode eight ofGossip Girl, and appeared in a 2007 episode of the originalQueer Eyeseries to meet a "straight guy" who idolised him.
This week, he met up with hisCenter Stagecastmates via Zoom and fans couldn't help but notice that he looks quite different. But you know, it has been 20 years.
Sascha Radetsky.

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Sascha Radetsky was a real-life ballerina who took on the role of Charlie, the final piece ofCenter Stage's love triangle and the one precisely everyone was rooting for.
Radetsky continued to dance afterCenter Stage, as a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal with Dutch National Ballet.
He retired from dancing in 2014 and returned to acting, with roles as Ross in TV dramaFlesh and Bone, in the Hallmark Channel movieA Nutcracker Christmas, and inCenter Stage: On Pointewhere he returned to the role of Charlie.
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