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Percy Jackson and The Olympians is coming to Disney+ this week, continuing the franchise first adapted for the screen in 2010.
More than a decade ago, Harry Potter director Chris Columbus brought Rick Riordan's fantasy novels to life with help from some of Hollywood's biggest names. Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman and Rosario Dawson starred in Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief as major figures, gods and goddesses from Greek mythology. They were joined on screen by then up-and-comers Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario, who went on to establish their own big careers.
As the Percy Jackson revival series starts streaming on Dec. 20, see what the original cast members have been up to since The Lightning Thief premiered in 2010.
Logan Lerman
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Logan Lerman appeared in The Lightning Thief and its 2013 sequel, Sea of Monsters, as the titular demigod, a role taken over by Walker Scobell in the franchise’s latest adaptation. Lerman’s leading role as Percy Jackson marked a breakthrough in his career, though he’d previously featured in films like The Patriot and Hoot and starred as Bobby McCallister in the short-lived WB series Jack & Bobby.
In 2012, Lerman continued as a leading man in the teen drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower alongside Emma Watson and Ezra Miller. His following projects cast him with more A-list costars, like Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinnear and Lily Collins in Stuck in Love, Brad Pitt in Fury and Al Pacino in their Amazon Prime series Hunters.
In his personal world, the actor is gearing up to get married: he announced his engagement to ceramics artist Analuisa Corrigan in November 2023.
Alexandra Daddario
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Beyond small cameos in TV shows and minor appearances on the big screen, Alexandra Daddario booked her first major gig as Annabeth Chase, the demigod daughter of the goddess Athena. She continued building a following with recurring roles on White Collar and Parenthood. Like Lerman, the up-and-coming star reprised her role as Annabeth in the 2013 sequel Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
Daddario’s career picked up with a cast spot on HBO’s True Detective and as the lead in 2015’s San Andreas alongside Dwayne Johnson. The actress caught her biggest breakthrough yet in the 2017 movie reboot of Baywatch with costars Zac Efron, David Hasselhoff and Johnson, once again.
Most recently, the Percy Jackson alumna starred in season 1 of Mike White’s satire anthology White Lotus, earning an Emmy nomination and widespread acclaim for her performance.
Daddario — who married producer Andrew Form in June 2022 — currently plays Rowan Fielding in AMC’s supernatural series Mayfair Witches.
Brandon T. Jackson
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Comedian and actor Brandon T. Jackson guided Percy Jackson as his friend and protector Grover Underwood. Before playing the half-man, half-goat in the mythological movies, Jackson was cast as Junior in the 2006 flick Roll Bounce. In 2008, he played Alpa Chino in Tropic Thunder, sharing the screen with Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.
Post-Percy Jackson, Jackson starred in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son with Martin Lawrence, in the 2012 sports comedy Thunderstruck and in the 2016 thriller Eloise. On television, he starred on Showtime’s Californiacation and the sitcoms Deadbeat and Mr. Robinson. Jackson also lent his voice to a recurring character on the animated series BoJack Horseman.
Per his Instagram profile, the stand-up comic is currently bringing laughs on his Still Detroit comedy tour.
Pierce Brosnan
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Pierce Brosnan made his name in Hollywood long before playing Percy’s teacher Mr. Brunner, who is quickly revealed to be an undercover centaur. Though he had a number of prominent roles beforehand, Brosnan is best known for his four-film portrayal of James Bond. He made his 007 debut in 1995’s GoldenEye and finished the spy stint with 2002’s Die Another Day.
In the years between Bond and Percy Jackson, the actor carried his on-screen presence in Laws of Attraction and After the Sunset in 2004. Brosnan flaunted his vocal talents singing ABBA songs in the 2008 movie adaptation of Mamma Mia! with Meryl Streep. In 2018, Brosnan returned for the sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
The Golden Globe nominee boasts screen time with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. During the 2010s alone, he costarred with the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Emma Thompson, Salma Hayek, Liam Neeson, Owen Wilson, Jeff Bridges and more. In recent years, Brosnan has featured in the DC Comics movie Black Adam and the 2023 thriller Fast Charlie.
Three years after The Lightning Thief premiered, Brosnan’s only daughter Charlotte died of ovarian cancer at age 41. The actor is also dad to four sons, Christopher, 51, Sean, 40, Dylan, 26, and Paris, 22; he shares the latter two with his wife of 22 years, Keely Shaye Brosnan. The Hollywood veteran is also a grandfather of four.
Kevin McKidd
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Kevin McKidd broke into the entertainment industry as Tommy in the 1996 classic Trainspotting, nearly a decade-and-a-half before he played Percy Jackson’s father, Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. The Scottish actor largely continued acting in British films, TV series and theatrical productions through the late aughts. From 2005 to 2007, McKidd starred as Lucius Vorenus in the historical drama series Rome, which aired on both HBO and BBC.
In 2008, the actor scored his biggest gig yet: playing Dr. Owen Hunt on Grey’s Anatomy. McKidd joined during the show’s fifth season, and he still remains a main cast member with the show’s 20th installment ahead. He’s also stepped behind the camera to direct several episodes of the medical drama.
Beyond Grey’s Anatomy and his cameos on Shonda Rhimes’ sister series Station 19, McKidd has voiced Lord MacGuffin in Disney Pixar’s Brave and joined his former Grey’s costar Katherine Heigl in 2015’s Home Sweet Hell.
Off set, McKidd’s personal life looks notably different from his Percy Jackson days. In 2017, he split from his first wife, Jane Parker, with whom he shares a son and daughter. The British star remarried in 2018 and welcomed two kids with then-wife Arielle Goldrath before they separated in 2022. McKidd is currently dating fellow Shondaland star Danielle Savre.
Uma Thurman
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While Uma Thurman is now a household name, her breakout role came after about a decade in the industry when she starred in 1994’s Pulp Fiction as Mia Wallace — a performance that earned her an Oscar nod and marked the first of many times she would work with director Quentin Tarantino. She later reunited with the director for both Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2.
After her role as the snake-haired mythical character in Percy Jackson, Thurman has continued to have a vibrant career on screen. She’s appeared on shows like Smash, The Slap, Imposters and in 2022 portrayed Arianna Huffington in Super Pumped. Most recently she reunited with Samuel L. Jackson in 2023’s The Kill Room.
Thurman shares two children, Maya Hawke and Levon Hawke, with her ex-husband Ethan Hawke, and one child, Luna, with ex-fiancé Arpad Busson.
Steve Coogan
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Steve Coogan launched his career in the late 1980s when he landed a role on Spitting Image. From there, the U.K.-born actor continued to appear on both film and TV including creating the character Alan Partridge, whom he appeared as in various projects. In the early 2000s he landed roles in 24 Hour Party People, Marie Antoinette, two Night at the Museum films and Tropic Thunder before taking a turn as Hades in Percy Jackson.
After 2010, his work on 2013’s Philomena earned him two Oscar nominations. He’s since reprised his Alan Partridge character on several occasions as well as lent his voice to films like Minions, Despicable Me 3 and Minions: The Rise of Gru. Most recently, he appeared on BBC’s The Reckoning in fall of 2023.
Rosario Dawson
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Rosario Dawson first broke out in Hollywood back in 1995 with a role in the indie film, Kids. She continued landing roles through the late 1990s and into the early 2000s including 2002’s Men in Black II and in the 2005 film adaptation of Rent as Mimi. Since Percy Jackson, Dawson has continued to act with roles in films like Zookeeper, Gimme Shelter and reprising her role from 2005’s Sin City in the film’s 2014 sequel. She has also lent her voice to various animated projects including The Lego Batman Movie.
More recently, Dawson appeared in The Mandalorian, Dopesick and Haunted Mansion, and in 2023 her Mandalorian character, Ahsoka, received a spinoff on Disney+.
Beyond her work in entertainment, Dawson is politically and philanthropically active. In 2014, she became a mom when she welcomed daughter Isabella by adoption at age 11. In December 2023, Dawson shared that she would soon be a grandmother as her daughter, now 21, is pregnant.
Sean Bean
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Sean Bean’s career spans decades, and when he stepped into the role of Zeus in the 2010 Percy Jackson movie, he had numerous roles on film, TV and stage on his résumé. He began his tenure portraying Richard Sharpe in Sharpe in 1993 and in the early 2000s landed the role of Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — a role he reprised in the following two films of the franchise.
Following his role as the Greek god, the work kept coming for Bean, including on Game of Thrones as Eddard Stark, in 2015’s The Martian and on series like Legends, The Frankenstein Chronicles, The Oath, World on Fire and most recently, Snowpiercer.
Bean is dad to three daughters: Lorna, Molly and Evie Natasha.
Catherine Keener
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When Catherine Keener landed the role of Percy’s mom, Sally, she already had more than two decades of work under her belt. She’d appeared on both film and television dating back to one of her first roles in 1986’s The Education of Allison Tate into the late 1990s and early 2000s, with Oscar-nominated performances in Being John Malkovich and Capote.
Since starring as Lerman’s onscreen mom, Keener has appeared in numerous projects including Begin Again, Captain Phillips, Get Out and both seasons of Jim Carrey’s show, Kidding.
More recently, Keener appeared in the 2022 movie The Adam Project and an episode of Lucky Hank. Looking ahead, the actress is slated to appear in the upcoming Joker: Folie à Deux.
Outside of acting, Keener has spent time advocating for causes she's passionate about and in 2019 was arrested alongside Jane Fonda and Rosanna Arquette at a climate change protest in Washington, D.C.
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