SABRINA The Teenage Witch was a TV favourite for Nineties' teens - but after it finished many of the stars seemed to magically disappear. The show's first episode T.G.I.F. - Thank God It’s Friday - aired 25 years ago today and drew in more than 17 million viewers on ABC.
Jenna Leigh Green played Libby Chessler on "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," the head cheerleader at Sabrina's high school and a bit of a bully. Since her role on the show, Green has continued acting. She's had guest roles on shows like "ER," "Cold Case," "Castle," and "Bones," and she's also appeared in several films (via IMDb ).
As Ballard explained in an interview with Theater Corner, his career turned around after "Sabrina the Teenage Witch." Apparently, it's still the role that he is most often recognized for.
After it premiered on September 27, fans were treated to a whirlwind of love triangles, magic spells gone wrong and snarky comments from Salem, The Cat. From heartbreak to hilarity, Sabrina fans experienced a range of emotions until the show ended on April 24, 2003.
He began to win every case he had, but it took him a while to realize that all his clients were scum who were actually guilty of the crimes they were charged with. Things came to a head when a client he got off charges of murder broke into Webster's house and killed his daughter.
Josh and Morgan finally break up, due to having very little in common and he shares a kiss with Sabrina in the empty coffee house at the end of the year. Josh pursues his career aspiration to be a photographer and gets a job taking pictures for The Boston Citizen.
Lucas "Luke" Chalfant was a recurring character on Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He was portrayed by Darren Mann. Luke was a warlock who was romantically tied with Ambrose Spellman until he was brutally murdered by witch hunters while serving under the Judas Society.
Zelda gives up her adult years to save Sabrina and reverts to her childhood state. After Hilda moves to the Other Realm to live with her new husband Will, Zelda moves back to the Other Realm as well. She is not heard of or seen until the day of Sabrina's wedding.
Sabrina and Josh got together for a brief period, and things between them got even more complicated when Harvey reappeared. However, Harvey and Josh move away, which crushes Sabrina. She moves on with a man named Aaron, to whom she gets engaged.
After the sixth season, Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick, who had portrayed Sabrina's aunts since the show's premiere, decided to leave the show. When the character of Sabrina started to attend college, the role of her aunts became less important.
Katrina is the evil twin of Sabrina Spellman.
Lilith becomes Queen of Hell and takes him back where he belongs, but not before she restores Sabrina's powers which had been sorely absent since the mandrake absorbed them. This effectively gets her back into fighting form to face what awaits her in Part 3...
Due to a binding spell, he had been trapped in Spellman Mortuary for 75 years until being released by Father Blackwood.
Ambrose Spellman — Ambrose is the nephew of Zelda, Hilda, Edward and Diana, cousin of Sabrina, step-nephew of Father Blackwood, and step-cousin of Prudence.
Sabrina and Ambrose consider themselves to be cousins, as Aunt Hilda (Lucy Davis) raised Ambrose after his father died. His dad was killed by warlocks when Ambrose was just a child, and he sought validation from other father figures.
How did they die?: Hilda is cursed and becomes a giant spider in the final half of CAOS part 3. Zelda shoots her sister, hoping that throwing her sister in the Cain pit in front of the Spellman house will save Hilda. In both timelines, that simple act does not bring Hilda back to life.
Broderick has also worked on many great projects since her days on Sabrina The Teenage Witch. She starred in Under the Dome as diner owner Rose Twitchell and also played Diane Jansen on Lost. She has also appeared on numerous dramas, including CSI:Miami, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Closer, ER, Cold Case, Castle, and Leverage. She even made a guest appearance on a 2014 episode of Melissa & Joey titled “Witch Came First.” (And yes, it was just as adorable and sweet as you might imagine.)
Rhea has been very busy in the last few years. She served as host of The Biggest Loser for its first three seasons and also had her own short-lived talk show, The Caroline Rhea Show. She has also made appearances on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Baby Daddy, and 2 Broke Girls. As far as animated television, she was the voice of Linda Flynn-Fletcher on Disney’s Phineas and Ferb for more than 200 episodes.
"Melissa Joan Hart was never a diva. She is a hard working super smart woman and I adore her. She has a great family and knows what is important in life. She is a treasure."
Prior to taking on her landmark role of Sabrina in 1996, Melissa was already a well-established name.
Nick played wisecracking feline Salem - a warlock who was transformed into a cat as a punishment for trying to take over the world.
Caroline has more than 47 acting credits to her name but her most famous role was as kooky aunt, Hilda Spellman.
In Sabrina, she was the calmer of the aunts and claimed she always “knew [Sabrina] would be a hit” because there was “nothing like it on TV”.
On-screen he was Sabrina's best friend and high-school sweetheart and rode away into the sunset with the young witch in the show’s finale.
As well as being Sabrina’s headteacher, he also dated both Hilda and Zelda while under the influence of magical spells in the show.
Josh was Sabrina’s manager, love interest and the rival of her beau Harvey in the show between 1999 until 2002.
Prior to taking on her landmark role of Sabrina in 1996, Melissa was already a well-established name.
Nick played wisecracking feline Salem - a warlock who was transformed into a cat as a punishment for trying to take over the world.
Caroline has more than 47 acting credits to her name but her most famous role was as kooky aunt, Hilda Spellman.
In Sabrina, she was the calmer of the aunts and claimed she always “knew [Sabrina] would be a hit” because there was “nothing like it on TV”.
On-screen he was Sabrina's best friend and high-school sweetheart and rode away into the sunset with the young witch in the show’s finale.
As well as being Sabrina’s headteacher, he also dated both Hilda and Zelda while under the influence of magical spells in the show.
Josh was Sabrina’s manager, love interest and the rival of her beau Harvey in the show between 1999 until 2002.
Jenna Leigh Green exited Sabrina, the Teenage Witch at the end of the third season likely to pursue a role in the short-lived Cover Me. Jenna Leigh Green – Now. In addition to her variety of film work, Green has most frequently appeared in musicals around the world.
With the new reboot launching soon on Netflix, let’s take a look back and see where our favorite actors from the original are today. Morgan was introduced as one of Sabrina’s college roommates, who ended up becoming a close friend, despite being a little hard to handle at times.
One of the things that made Sabrina so relatable was that besides her magical powers, she was a regular teenage girl dealing with the trials and tribulations of high school. Melissa Joan Hart As Sabrina – Then. That she drifted between our world and the magical world made the fantasy of her life more grounded.
Of course, Libby never knew that Sabrina was actually a witch, but as Sabrina learned to control her powers, she often used Libby as a practice subject to the extent that Libby knew there was something suspicious.
When Caroline Rhea ended her run on Sabrina, The Teenage Witch in 2002, she was ready to make the leap from TV star to movie star. Caroline Rhea – Now. Rhea began starring in a slate of feature films, which included Christmas with the Krank s and The Perfect Man, though she would return to television again in 2008.
Nick Bakay As Salem – Then. As a wise-cracking warlock turned cat, Salem was one of the most integral members of the Sabrina cast. Though Salem had been condemned to his fate for trying to take over the world, being stuck as a cat kept him from his more evil impulses. Nick Bakay As Salem – Then.
Nate Richert – Now. Nate Richert’s acting career began long before he was cast on Sabrina. Though he worked steadily during that time, even earning other roles which pulled him away from the series, Richert found that professional film work was drying up after the show was canceled. Nate Richert – Now.
The sitcom, which followed teen witch Sabrina Spellman as she learned to balance high school and her powers, aired for seven seasons consisting of 163 episodes. The show ended in April 2003.
She is the founder of Momentum, one of the first New York organizations to help assist those suffering with AIDS. She also wrote three plays, A Cup of Joe, Wonderland and Literatti.
In 2009, she competed on Dancing With the Stars and continued acting, leading the sitcom Melissa & Joey from 2010 to 2015 and appearing in multiple movie and TV shows including Holiday in Handcuffs, Nine Dead and No Good Nick. Credit: Paul Buck/EPA/Shutterstock; ABC.
Caroline Rhea. The comedian went on to do multiple stand-up specials after Sabrina. She had her own talk show for one year and hosted The Biggest Loser from 2004 to 2006. She and her former partner, comedian Costaki Economopoulos, have a daughter, born in October 2008.
Nick Bakay. In addition to voicing Salem, Bakay also served as a writer on the sitcom. He went on to write Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Zookeeper and for shows including Two and a Half Men and Young Sheldon. He is a writer and an executive producer on CBS' Mom.
In February 2020 , members of the cast and crew reunited. The woman behind Libby from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Jenna Leigh Green shared the reunion on Instagram, captioning a photo, "Last night close to 100 cast and crew from #sabrinatheteenagewitch gathered to share stories, share wine and share love!
Sabrina the Teenage Witch is one classic '90s sitcom that stands out and still holds up. Fans entered a realm of witches and warlocks thanks to Sabrina Spellman; her aunts, Hilda and Zelda; and, of course, the warlock-turned-cat Salem. Sabrina was also half-mortal, which meant audiences also followed the experiences of a teenager trying to survive high school. And no story set in high school would be complete without a bully. Libby Chessler filled that role, and she was the queen bee of Westbridge High School who tormented Sabrina.
Jenna Leigh Green began her acting career as a child doing musical theater, as she told Jim Conlan, a radio and print journalist. From a young age, acting played a big part in her life. Before she was known as Libby from Sabrina the Teenage Witch – one of Green's first TV/film roles, according to IMDb – she only had small roles in projects. Her first big on-screen acting job was in the 1994 TV movie Death of a Cheerleader, which starred '90s "It girl" Tori Spelling.
She made one-episode appearances on shows such as Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Bones, Quantico, and the ever-popular Castle .
In addition to taking on Broadway, Jenna Leigh Green had the opportunity to perform on London's West End. West End, similar to Broadway, is home to some of the best plays and musicals in the world. In 2008, Green performed in composer and lyricist Scott Alan's concert Never Neverland: The Music of Scott Alan.
The actress who played Libby from Sabrina the Teenage Witch made her Broadway debut in Wicked. After Bare ended, Jenna Leigh Green — aka Libby from Sabrina the Teenage Witch — auditioned for the Wicked National Tour, where she earned the role of Nessarose and was the understudy for Elphaba.
And no story set in high school would be complete without a bully. Libby Chessler filled that role, and she was the queen bee of Westbridge High School who tormented Sabrina. Jenna Leigh Green convincingly played the role of Libby for three seasons. Arguably, Libby Chessler is Green's most notable role, and even though it was a '90s show, ...
Josh is instantly attracted to Sabrina's roommate, Morgan Cavanaugh, when the two meet at a party. Sabrina is upset when Morgan and Josh start dating and realizes that she still has feelings for him. Josh and Morgan finally break up, due to having very little in common and he shares a kiss with Sabrina in the empty coffee house at the end of the year.
When Sabrina has to gamble her true love in order to save her Aunt Hilda, Sabrina tells Josh that "If anything should happen, I'll always love you", the two share their final kiss and sure enough, by the end of the episode, a spell is enacted causing Josh to announce that he is leaving for a job in Prague.
Josh hires Sabrina to work at the coffee house. They start off friends, but Sabrina quickly develops a crush on him. After the two share a kiss and Harvey breaks up with Sabrina, she tried to ask Josh out, but the age difference makes him reluctant to say yes. After realizing how stupid it was to reject her when she rekindles her flame with Harvey, Josh regularly competes for Sabrina's affections. This culminates in a final competition in an Other Realm "Boyfriend Course" (a literal obstacle course that two competitors must complete), however when Josh and Harvey work together to complete it and save Sabrina, it seems the decision still has to be made. This is proved otherwise, when the spell meant to erase Harvey and Josh's memories after the event only works on Josh (because Harvey has reached his "spell quota") and Sabrina's secret is exposed to Harvey.
David Lascher portrayed the role of a character named Josh on the popular '90s teen television series "Clueless.". These two Josh characters are not the same character, which is emphasized by their different last names. Melissa Joan Hart once portrayed Sabrina in a cross over episode of Clueless.
Josh Blackhart. Josh Blackhart is a mortal and was the manager of " Bean There, Brewed That ," a coffee house where Sabrina gets a job at, though he eventually becomes a photo journalist. He attends Emerson College.
The show aired for seven seasons between 1996 and 2003 and honestly, we don’t know a single person who hasn’t seen at least one episode! Sabrina’s clean-cut mortal boyfriend was played by Nate Richert and he was quite the star back in his heyday ...
Despite his step away from the limelight, it turns out the LA local is still pretty pally with Melissa Joan Hart , who played Sabrina, to this day. In fact, the actor has shared a number of snaps of himself enjoying dinner with his TV family over the years and we’re delighted to see they that bond is going strong!
Sabrina’s clean-cut mortal boyfriend was played by Nate Richert and he was quite the star back in his heyday with his cutie-pie face and floppy hair do. These days though, he couldn’t look any more different – gone are those trademark locks in favour of a pretty impressive beard.