Crossroads cast: Where are they now?

Years before she introduced viewers to Meredith Grey or Olivia Pope, Shonda Rhimes was penning the script to a Britney Spears-starring dramedy called Crossroads. Released in 2002, the flick features some huge stars in the earliest steps of their careers. See the cast then and now, ahead.

Fresh off of the release of 2001's Britney, and already having ...Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again to her name, Britney Spears led Crossroads as Lucy Wagner. In one of her first acting roles, the pop princess played a high-achieving high school student who heads west to search for her mother and finds herself along the way.

While she famously focused on her music career after her turn as Lucy, Spears still acted from time to time, popping up in episodes of Will & Grace, How I Met Your Mother, and Jane the Virgin.

After struggling with mental health issues, Spears was placed in a conservatorship in 2008, which persisted through 2021 when the #FreeBritney movement helped lead to her release. She married model/actor Sam Asghari in 2022, with two children from previous relationships.

Anson Mount was the mysterious Ben in Crossroads. Before playing the bad-boy driver, Mount made a 1999 appearance on Sex and the City as Greg, a guy Charlotte (Kristin Davis) had a fling with in the Hamptons.

In the years since, he picked up multi-episode turns on The Mountain, Line of Fire, and Conviction, and hit the big screen in City by the Sea (2002), In Her Shoes (2005), All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), Last Night (2010), Straw Dogs (2011), Safe (2012), Non-Stop (2014), and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

Mount is perhaps best known for the five years he spent on Hell on Wheels as Cullen Bohannan, in addition to his role as Capt. Christopher Pike on Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Zoe Saldaña nabbed the role of Crossroads' Kit early in her career. The future star played the popular high school student after making appearances in Center Stage (2000) and Get Over It (2001).

The same year that Crossroads hit theaters, Saldaña starred in Drumline, going on to earn credits for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), The Terminal (2004), Guess Who (2005), Vantage Point (2008), The Losers (2010), Colombiana (2011), and the Star Trek film series.

Saldaña has also starred in some of the highest-grossing films of all time: Avatar (2009), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). She is the first actor of any gender to be in four films that grossed over $2 billion worldwide.

A few years after making her onscreen debut, Taryn Manning joined Crossroads as Mimi, a pregnant high school student with a traumatic past.

After taking on the role, Manning starred opposite Eminem in 8 Mile (2002), and earned additional credits for Cold Mountain (2003), Hustle & Flow (2005), A Lot Like Love (2005), The Breed (2006), and The Devil's Tomb (2009).

On television, Manning had an extended arc on Sons of Anarchy and Hawaii Five-0, though her biggest role was playing Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett in all seven seasons of Orange Is the New Black.

Dan Aykroyd brought his Saturday Night Live-tested acting chops to Crossroads as Pete Wagner. He played the concerned single father to Spears' Lucy Wagner after earning acclaim for his writing credits — including such titles as The Blues Brothers (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), and Coneheads (1993).

The famed performer continued to act after Crossroads, earning onscreen credits for Bright Young Things (2003), 50 First Dates (2004), Christmas With the Kranks (2004), I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), The Campaign (2012), and Tammy (2014), and episodes of According to Jim, The Defenders, and The Conners.

Aykroyd also reprised his role as Dr. Raymond Stantz in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). He is married to actress Donna Dixon.

In the midst of her run as Sex and the City's Samantha Jones, Kim Cattrall joined Crossroads to play Caroline Wagner, the estranged mother to Spears' Lucy.

She wrapped her small-screen turn as Samantha in 2004, reprising the role in 2008's Sex and the City and 2010's Sex and the City 2. Cattrall earned additional credits for Ice Princess (2005), The Ghost Writer (2010), Producing Parker, and Sensitive Skin. She also serves as the narrator on How I Met Your Father.

In one of his first onscreen roles, a young Justin Long appeared in Crossroads as Henry, Lucy's geeky prom date.

The actor came into the gig after earning credits for Galaxy Quest (1999), Happy Campers (2001), and Jeepers Creepers (2001), and went on to star on the TV show Ed, with film roles in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Waiting... (2005), Accepted (2006), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), and He's Just Not That Into You (2009).

Other film credits include the Alvin and the Chipmunks film series, Going the Distance (2011), Tusk (2014), Jay and Bob Silent Reboot (2019), and Barbarian (2022). He has also popped up in episodes of Mom and New Girl, with a long-standing voice role as Kevin in F Is for Family.

Famed actress and model Beverly Johnson appeared as Kit's mother in Crossroads.

Following the movie's arrival in theaters, Johnson has continued to serve as a model and spokesperson, and earned acting credits for a 2010 episode of Meet the Browns and 2012's Good Deeds.

In 2014, Johnson accused Bill Cosby of drugging her in the 1980s. Cosby sued for defamation, though he dropped the suit in 2016. Johnson's 2015 memoir, The Face That Changed It All, details the incident.

Britney Spears' little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, served as the younger version of the pop star's character of Lucy Wagner. It was the first onscreen acting credit for Jamie Lynn, who was 10 years old when the movie was released.

She went on to pursue an acting career, spending two years on All That and three years on Zoey 101, making cameos in episodes of Just Jordan and Miss Guided, and starring in Sweet Magnolias. Jamie Lynn also tried her hand at music, releasing a country EP in 2014. She reprises her role as Zoey in the Paramount+ movie Zoey 102.