Penned by future Oscar-winner Cameron Crowe, Fast Times launched the careers of many then-unknown actors, including Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

When a 26-year-old customer named Ron shows up at the mall restaurant where she works and asks her how old she is, Stacy tells him she’s 19, and he asks her out. On their date, he takes her to “The Point,” the dugout of a baseball field where teens go to hook up.

At the start of the film, Stacy is a 15-year-old virgin looking to gain dating and sexual experience. When a 26-year-old customer named Ron shows up at the mall restaurant where she works and asks her how old she is, Stacy tells him she’s 19, and he asks her out.

Profession high school student. Not only does Stacy have to deal with the social minefield that is Ridgemont High, she also has to make sure that she does well in school so she can get into a good college. It’s a tough balancing act for anyone, especially an idealistic fifteen-year-old girl.

Who played Meg Ryan’s sister in the Cut?

Leigh had a brief role as a doomed gangster’s wife in Sam Mendes ‘s Road to Perdition (2002) and co-starred as Meg Ryan ‘s brutally murdered sister in Jane Campion ‘s erotic thriller In the Cut (2003).

Leigh had a nonspeaking role at the age of nine for her film debut Death of a Stranger (The Execution) (1973). At the age of fourteen, she attended acting workshops, taught by Lee Strasberg, and the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in Loch Sheldrake, New York.

For the role, Leigh dropped to 90 pounds (41 kg) and sang all of her songs live, including a rambling 8 1. /.

Leigh found more success in the gritty crime drama Rush (1991), portraying an undercover cop who becomes a junkie and falls in love with her partner, played by Jason Patric.

Who was the actor in Fast Times?

The biggest little known actor in Fast Times was easily Nicolas Cage, whose character basically stood around and high-fived Judge Reinhold throughout the entire flick. Cage, who was then billed as Nicolas Coppola, his birth name, decided to change his last name to Cage after the film—a move that was at least partly influenced by the comic character Luke Cage —and get serious about acting.

While Stacy was young and confused and thus made bad decisions all over the place, her portrayer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, has exercised some pretty decent decision-making, at least where her role selection is concerned.

Sadly, Schiavelli passed away in 2005 after battling lung cancer.

Stoltz played one of Spicoli’s spaced out stoner buds with a penchant for removing his shirt upon entering most premises (seriously—he was literally billed as Stoner Bud in the film). After Fast Times, Stoltz made a name for himself with memorable turns in Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, and Pulp Fiction.

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Throughout his entire career, Ray Walston worked continuously, and with great success. After Fast Times, he starred in everything from movies like The Stand to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager (he played Boothby on both). In the 1990s, he won two Emmys for his portrayal of Judge Henry Bone on Picket Fences.

Yep. Goose was in Fast Times too, and like Eric Stoltz and Nic Cage, his role was also very blink-and-you’d-miss-it. Before he became a household name as Tom Cruise’s doomed radar intercept officer, Anthony Edwards was Spicoli’s other Stoner Bud, a lowly, floppy haired surfer with a mere cigarette to his name.

Since Fast Times ended, Reinhold has continued to work steadily in the business, with memorable parts in both television and film, from Detective Billy Rosewood in the Beverly Hills Cop series to his guest appearances on Arrested Development to his role as Neil Miller in The Santa Clause movies.

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