Sarah Jessica Parker (aka Carrie Bradshaw)

After leaving Carrie Bradshaw behind (the first time), Parker focused on her big screen career, starring in films such as The Family Stone and Failure to Launch. She also returned to the stage (where she got her start), starring in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying alongside her future husband, Matthew Broderick.

Even though she stated that she’d never do a TV show again, she returned to TV for a guest spot on the fourth season of Glee in 2012. Five years later, Parker announced that she was starring in a new HBO comedy called Divorce. The show ended in 2019 after three seasons.

Now, after reprising her role as Carrie in And Just Like That, the SATC revival, she’ll be doing so again in the show’s second season, which airs on HBO on June 22.

Kim Cattrall (aka Samantha Jones)

Cattrall’s sexually confident Samantha Jones was the show’s breakout character – the role won her a Golden Globe and five Emmy nominations. But since the show ended, Cattrall, 66, has distanced herself from the spotlight.

She’s starred in multiple Canadian TV shows and BBC shows, but nothing has come close to the success she had with Sex and the City. Ironically, she was considered the most famous cast member going into season one.

Her feud with former co-star Parker has put her in headlines along with the tragic death of her brother Christopher.

In the first season of the revival, Samantha was written off by having her character move to London. Carrie and Samantha reunited off-screen in Paris during the season finale. In the second season of And Just Like That, Cattrall will have a cameo, reprising her role as Samantha. According to Variety, she filmed a single scene for the show’s upcoming season, and did so without interacting with her three former co-stars or the showrunner.

Kristin Davis (aka Charlotte York)

Kristin Davis, who is now 58, took a step back from acting after her time on the show and concentrated on activism. She’s slowly making her way back now, having recently starred in Netflix films in addition to the SATC revival.

In 2019, she starred in a Netflix romcom opposite Rob Lowe, Holiday in the Wild. She hosted the reality dating series Labor of Love in 2020. In March 2021, she once again starred in a Netflix film – this time, a psychological thriller called Deadly Illusions.

She’s also an Oxfam ambassador (Oxfam is a collection of international charities focused on ending global poverty), won the Humane Society’s 2010 Wyler Award (an award given to a celebrity who has made news on behalf of animals) and is a patron of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

Personally, Davis adopted a baby girl, Gemma, in 2011, and a boy, Wilson, in 2018.

Cynthia Nixon (aka Miranda Hobbes)

Cynthia Nixon moved away from acting and towards politics – she ran for governor of New York in 2018. Now, at 57, she’s fully returned to Hollywood.

The role of Miranda Hobbes was hugely popular during the original series, but many fans were disappointed by the beloved character’s storyline in And Just Like That. Nixon is set to return to the show for its second season.

Nixon announced her candidacy for governor of New York on March 19, 2018. Though she lost the Democratic primary, she earned a respectable 35 per cent of the vote.

Besides her political life, Nixon has starred in Broadway shows, indie films and long-running classic shows like Law and Order. She won an Emmy for her guest-starring role in a 2008 episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit in which she played a woman pretending to have dissociative identity disorder.

In 2020, she appeared in the Netflix series Ratched and she is currently starring in The Gilded Age, an HBO series created by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.

Nixon shares two children, Charles and Seph, with her ex-husband, Danny Mozes. She and Marinoni welcomed son Max in 2011.

David Eigenberg (aka Steve Brady)

Since his time as Steve, Miranda’s main love interest, first ended, Eigenberg has been working steadily in the world of TV. He has appeared in multiple one-off episodes of popular shows such as Without a Trace, Everwood, NCIS and Castle, among others. He joined the cast of Chicago Fire in 2012 and has appeared on its sister show, Chicago PD, as well. He welcomed his first son in 2009 with wife Chrysti. They had a daughter in 2014.

Fans are hoping for a redemption of Steve in the show’s second season, as many felt his character was done dirty in the revival.

Evan Handler (aka Harry Goldenblatt)

Harry and Charlotte’s relationship was probably the most heartwarming one on the entire show. It taught Charlotte to look past appearances and even led to her conversion to Judaism. The two also dealt with realistic fertility issues, a departure from the show’s generally more comedic tone.

After Sex and the City ended, Handler joined the cast of Californication, playing the main character’s best friend, Charlie. After Californication ended, Handler stayed on TV, most recently appearing in The Astronaut Wives Club, American Crime Story and The Breaks. He starred in the sixth and final season of Power.

Handler, 62, reprised his role as Harry in the revival. Handler and his wife Elisa’s daughter, Sofia, was born in 2007.

Jason Lewis (aka Jerry “Smith” Jerrod)

Though Smith was young, he was perfect for Samantha, and eventually became the most important relationship that she had in the show (and subsequent films). He stood by her through her commitment issues, infidelity and breast cancer.

On the show, Smith was a model-turned-actor: in real life, Lewis, 51, followed the same trajectory. Before his time on Sex and the City, he was a successful model for brands like Guess and Hugo Boss, among others. After the show ended, Lewis appeared on Charmed as the short-lived husband of Phoebe, an episode of How I Met Your Mother, and most recently, starred on Midnight, Texas as a fallen angel named Joe Strong from 2017 to 2018.

In 2022, he appeared on Dancing with the Stars as a contestant and finished in last place. He did not reprise his role in the revival.

John Corbett (aka Aidan Shaw)

Aidan was the only man who came close to actually being a lifelong partner for Carrie, besides Big. The debate still rages on as to which one was the best for her.

During the show, Corbett, 62, established himself as a box-office draw by starring in My Big Fat Greek Wedding in 2002. He also starred in heartwarming films such as Raising Helen and Raise Your Voice, and had recurring TV roles on United States of Tara and Parenthood.

Corbett’s a multitalented man – he has also released two country albums. Since 2002, he’s been in a relationship with actress-model Bo Derek. They tied the knot in 2020. Although Aidan’s story seemed pretty tied up at the end of Sex and the City 2, he will appear in the second season of And Just Like That.

Willie Garson (aka Stanford Blatch)

Stanford was the perennially single ride-or-die friend of Carrie’s, supporting her through numerous relationships and other misadventures, until he finally found his own boyfriend, Marcus, who mysteriously disappeared in the films. He ended up marrying Charlotte’s friend Anthony in Sex and the City 2.

Garson followed Sex and the City with a starring role in White Collar, and guest spots on Girl Meets World and Wizards of Waverly Place. He also had a recurring role on Supergirl.

He adopted a seven-year-old boy in 2010. Garson died while he was filming episodes of And Just Like That, and his character was written off. He died of pancreatic cancer in September 2021 at 57, per CNN.

Kyle MacLachlan (aka Trey MacDougal)

Trey and Charlotte had a whirlwind romance, engagement and wedding – which led Charlotte to overlook some red flags, like his vaguely unhealthy relationship with his mother. The two eventually got divorced, leading Charlotte to her next husband, Harry.

Mario Cantone (aka Anthony Marentino)

Anthony was a super flamboyant gay stereotype. He was happily single throughout the show’s entire run, though he confusingly got married to Stanford in Sex and the City 2. He appeared during the revival and basically took Stanford’s place after Garson’s death.

In 2011, Cantone married Jerry Dixon, a musical theatre director and his partner of 20 years.

Mikhail Baryshnikov (aka Aleksandr Petrovsky)

Carrie’s friends disliked “the Russian” so much that they supported Big in flying to Paris to win her back in the series finale (even though they never liked him very much either).

Before turning to acting, Baryshnikov, 75, was called one of the best ballet dancers in history. Since the show ended, he has appeared in just three things: a TV movie called Place, an uncredited role in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and a recurring role as himself on Doll & Em in 2015.

Baryshnikov told Larry King in 2002 that he didn’t believe in marriage, but he later married his long-time partner Lisa Rinehart (a fellow ballerina) in 2006. Their daughter, Anna, has followed in her father’s acting footsteps and starred in Apple TV+’s Dickinson.

Chris Noth (aka Mr. Big)

Noth, 68, has a penchant for playing polarising characters. Besides Mr. Big, who swung between being Carrie’s perfect partner and being terrified of commitment, he played Peter Florrick on The Good Wife, a disgraced former state lawyer. He also played a police officer on Law and Order: Criminal Intent from 1990 to 1995, and reprised his role from 2005 to 2008.

Noth starred on NBC’s FBI procedural Gone until 2018, and he also appeared in the Discovery Channel’s miniseries about the true story of the Unabomber, called Manhunt: Unabomber. He most recently starred in The Equalizer, a reimagining of the 80s show of the same name.

Big’s (spoiler) death in the premiere of And Just Like That hit Carrie and fans of the show hard, and even inspired Peloton to create their own ad referencing his character’s death.

In December 2021, Noth was accused of sexual assault by two women, per The Hollywood Reporter. The women, who do not know each other, said they spoke up because promotions of the reboot had “stirred painful memories of incidents” for them.

Noth denied the allegations in a statement in December 2022. A year since the reports first emerged, British media noted that Noth had not been charged in connection with any of the allegations, and no civil actions had been brought.