{"id":235499,"date":"2026-04-19T21:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/the-facts-of-life-cast-where-are-they-now\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:13:22","slug":"the-facts-of-life-cast-where-are-they-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/the-facts-of-life-cast-where-are-they-now\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Facts of Life\u2019 Cast: Where Are They Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-current\">\n<p>More than 40 years after its premiere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/facts-of-lifes-lisa-whelchel-reunited-with-costar-before-reboot-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Facts of Life<\/em><\/a> is still giving <em>Us<\/em> something to talk about.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The sitcom debuted on NBC in August 1979 as a spinoff of <em>Diff\u2019rent Strokes.<\/em> <em>The Facts of Life<\/em> aired for nine seasons, becoming one of the longest-running sitcoms of the \u201980s.<\/p>\n<p>Before the series came to an end in 1988, the story of boarding school housemother Edna Garrett (<strong>Charlotte Rae<\/strong>) was expanded with two TV movies. <em>The Facts of Life Goes to Paris<\/em> aired in 1982, followed by <em>The Facts of Life Down Under<\/em> in 1987. A third film, <em>The Facts of Life Reunion<\/em>, brought together nearly the entire cast in 2001. (<strong>Nancy McKeon<\/strong>, who played Jo, was unable to participate at the time due to scheduling.)<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down to see where the cast of <em>The Facts of Life<\/em> is now:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/the-facts-of-life-cast-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 years after its premiere, The Facts of Life is still giving Us something to talk about. Thank You! You have successfully subscribed. The sitcom debuted on NBC in August 1979 as a spinoff of Diff\u2019rent Strokes. The Facts of Life aired for nine seasons, becoming one of the longest-running sitcoms of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}