‘Mamma Mia’ Cast: Where Are They Now?

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‘Mamma Mia’ Cast: Where Are They Now?

They’re still dancing queens! The cast of Mamma Mia quickly stole viewers’ hearts when the film debuted in 2008 — and the movie’s popularity has only grown since.

Meryl Streep stars as Donna Sheridan, a down-on-her-luck inn owner living on Greek island Kalokairi with daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried). As Sophie prepares for her wedding, she gets curious about the identity of her father and invites three of her mother’s former flames to stay with them before the ceremony. Based on the 1999 jukebox musical of the same name, the characters weave the romantic tale through some of ABBA’s greatest hits, including “Dancing Queen,” “Super Trouper” and “The Winner Takes It All.”

Written by Catherine Johnson and directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the movie made a big splash when it hit theaters, earning $609.8 million at the worldwide box office. Fans flocked to see the ensemble of famous faces belt out the band’s chart-topping hits, and in July 2018, much of the cast returned for sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. While movie lovers are hopeful for a third installment, Seyfried doesn’t think they should get their hopes up.

“Listen, every single person in that movie would say yes in a heartbeat, because we want to hang out with each other,” she told Collider in June 2020. “That’s what we talked about last time, like, ‘Did we ever think that we’d end up here again on an island in Croatia?’”

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While the You Should Have Left star is always ready to reunite with her beloved castmates, she pointed out that they don’t have much left to work with in terms of music.

“I wish there was a Mamma Mia! 3,” she continued at the time. “But I’ll tell you what — I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and I hope I’m wrong again. I don’t think there are enough ABBA songs to make a third movie. Because we’d have to use ‘Super Trooper’ again and we’d have to use ‘Mamma Mia’ again and have to use them in a different way.”

Stellan Skarsgård, who played Bill Anderson in the first two movies, remained equally as enthusiastic and hopeful about making a third film in the musical franchise.

“I wish I could say [what it would take to make a new movie],” the Thor actor told ScreenRant in October 2021. “It took 10 years between Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! 2 — if it’s going to take another 10 years, then I’ll be dead. I’m worried we might not get there. But if they call, I will say yes immediately because the experience of doing those two films was fantastic.”

Scroll down to learn more about where the cast of Mamma Mia is now!

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Amanda Seyfried (Sophie Sheridan)

Before singing along to ABBA tunes, the Pennsylvania native scored her big break in Tina Fey’s 2004 hit Mean Girls. She’s also known for her work in 2010’s Dear John, 2012’s film adaptation of Les Misérables and 2017’s First Reformed. Seyfried reprised her role as Sophie in 2018’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again alongside Cher and Lily James. In March 2017, she wed Thomas Sadoski, with whom she shares two children.

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Meryl Streep (Donna Sheridan)

The 21-time Oscar nominee never fails to draw a crowd to the box office. Before Mamma Mia, Streep appeared in The Hours (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009). In 2011, she reunited with Mamma Mia director Phyllida Lloyd for the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady, for which she earned her third Academy Award win. Not only is she a celebrated star of the big screen, but Streep has also dipped her toe into the world of TV, joining the cast of HBO’s Big Little Lies for season 2 in 2019.

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Pierce Brosnan (Sam Carmichael)

Known for playing James Bond in four of the franchise’s films from 1995 to 2002, Brosnan makes a big splash in Mamma Mia as one of three men who Sophie believes could be her father. He later appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Some Kind of Beautiful (2014) and returned for the Mamma Mia sequel in 2018. Brosnan was named one of The Irish Times’ top 50 Irish film actors of all time.

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Colin Firth (Harry Bright)

With roles in 1998’s Shakespeare in Love, 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and 2003’s What a Girl Wants, the “Brit Pack” actor quickly became a rom-com casting staple. Since appearing as another one of Donna’s suitors in the 2008 musical movie, Firth’s career took a more serious turn with 2010’s The King’s Speech, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of King George VI. More recently, he appeared in the Kingsman franchise and in 2018’s Mary Poppins Returns.

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Stellan Skarsgard (Bill Anderson)

The Swedish actor got his start in the Scandanavian country before appearing in his first American movie, Noon Wine, in 1985. Apart from Mamma Mia, fans may recognize him as Dr. Erik Selvig in several Marvel movies, including 2011’s Thor and 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and as Bootstrap Bill Turner from the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Four of his six children — Alexander, Gustaf, Bill and Valter — are also actors.

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Julie Walters (Rosie Mulligan)

The British actress steals countless Mamma Mia scenes as one of the former members of Donna and the Dynamos. A two-time Oscar nominee, Walters is also known for playing Molly Weasley in each of the eight Harry Potter movies. After being diagnosed with stage III bowel cancer in 2018, Walters was forced to miss the premiere of the Mamma Mia sequel. She has since taken on fewer roles, but told the U.K.’s The Times in October 2020 that she would consider coming out of retirement for a third Mamma Mia movie.

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Christine Baranski (Tanya Chesham-Leigh)

Throughout her career, the Juilliard alum has been nominated for 15 Emmys and two Tonys. Apart from Mamma Mia, Baranski has gained acclaim for her performance as Diane Lockhart in CBS legal drama The Good Wife, which aired from 2009 to 2016. She later reprised the role in spinoff series The Good Fight. She shares daughters Isabel and Lily with late husband Matthew Cowles, who died from congestive heart failure in May 2014.

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Dominic Cooper (Sky Ramand)

An icon of both stage and screen, Cooper is known for playing Jesse Custer on AMC’s Preacher (2016 to 2019) and young Howard Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He returned to the fictional island of Kalokairi in 2018’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again alongside Seyfried, who he previously dated from 2008 to 2010. He has also been linked to actresses Ruth Negga and Gemma Chan.

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Rachel McDowall (Lisa)

The U.K. native made her film debut as one of Sophie’s close friends in the 2008 movie musical and has had few major roles since then. In May 2014, McDowall married Bachelorette alum Constantine Tzortzis, who ditched Ashley Hebert’s season of the ABC dating series in week nine after realizing he didn’t have feelings for the leading lady.

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Ashley Lilley (Ali)

Having primarily worked in theatre, Mamma Mia was the Brit’s first movie appearance. She reunited with Seyfried in the 2010 romantic comedy Letters to Juliet and took a hiatus from performing after tying the knot with her longtime partner, Paul Wright, in 2011.

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Philip Michael (Pepper)

The British actor and singer got flirty with Baranski’s character on the Greek beaches in Mamma Mia and is otherwise known for playing Joshua Udenze in Irish soap series Fair City.

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Chris Jarvis (Eddie)

Before taking a role in the ABBA-themed musical, Jarvis appeared in the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. More recently, he worked on 2015 horror flick The Shattering and 2018 rom-com The Princess Switch.