‘The Goonies’ Cast, Then and Now

After a memorable turn as Mikey — the de facto leader of the Goonies pack — Astin appeared in films like The War of the Roses (1989), Encino Man (1992) and Rudy (1993) and was Oscar nominated alongside his wife, Christine, for directing the live-action short Kangaroo Court (1994). All of that was before he staked his claim to Hollywood immortality as Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, culminating in the 2004 best picture Oscar winner Return of the King. 

Not content to rest on his laurels, the actor who now has nearly 200 film and TV credits on his IMDb page voiced Raphael in over 100 episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 2012-17. More recently, he had a stint on Stranger Things as Bob, Joyce Beyers’ (Winona Ryder) boyfriend, did voicework on several Captain Underpants TV series and played Becky’s boyfriend Tyler on The Conners. He also reunited with Goonies co-star Ke Huy Quan in the February 2025 release Love Hurts. 

The role of Chunk was a highlight of Cohen’s onscreen career. He continued acting for a few years, with one-off parts on ABC Afterschool Specials, The Magical World of Disney, Family Ties and a few others, but his last screen credit was in Disney’s 1991 TV movie Perfect Harmony. He’s said publicly that he stopped getting roles when he hit puberty and lost his “fat kid” look.

Fortunately, he has other talents. Cohen studied business at UC Berkeley and went on to receive his J.D. from UCLA School of Law before founding Cohen Gardner LLP with Jonathan Gardner in 2002. Cohen practices as an entertainment lawyer, with his clients including former co-star Ke Huy Quan (whose deal in breakout Everything Everywhere All at Once he brokered) and Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh. He was featured on THR’s Power Lawyers list in 2023, when he told THR that Quan’s return to the spotlight had not convinced him to revisit acting himself: “I’ll stay in my legal dungeon where I belong,” he said. “I don’t have to audition and I still get to go to the parties.” 

After making a splash as a child actor in Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and following it up with The Goonies (he was credited as Jonathan Quan in both films, a stage name he used for years), Quan toiled in the industry, mostly in obscurity, including as a stunt coordinator and assistant director. Highlights of this time were the short-lived sitcom Nothing Is Easy (1986-87), in which he played one of several adopted children in the central family; 27 episodes of Head of the Class (1990-91); and a reunion with Sean Astin via a small part as the president of the computer club in Encino Man (1992). Offscreen, he was a stunt rigger on X-Men (2000) — where he met future Marvel head Kevin Feige — and stunt coordinator on the short Enigma (2009).  

The tides changed when Quan worked with the Daniels on a little indie project called Everything Everywhere All at Once. That film, in which he played Waymond Wang, the devoted husband of Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn, would make him the darling of the 2023 awards season, ultimately netting him an Oscar for best supporting actor. In his acceptance speech, he referenced a year spent in a refugee camp during his childhood and said that with his journey to the stage at the Academy Awards, he had achieved the American dream. He also name-checked his “Goonies brother for life, Jeff Cohen” and his wife, Echo, for always believing his day would come.  

In the glow of his renewed fame, Quan appeared in Disney+ series American Born Chinese (again opposite Yeoh) and Loki (as Ouroboros, whom he called “the variant of Data from The Goonies”), and voiced Han in Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) before his starring turn in Love Hurts (2025) — complete with plenty of stunts — as a hitman turned real estate agent who’s forced back into a life of crime he thought he’d left behind. 

The son of actor James Brolin (The Amityville Horror, Traffic), Josh Brolin followed up his role as Mikey’s older brother, Brand, with a starring turn in the very ’80s movie Thrashin’ (1986), about two skateboarding gangs. He went on to appear on TV series including 21 Jump Street (1987) and Private Eye (1987-88), with a lead role in The Young Riders (1989-92), a period show about the Pony Express, opposite Stephen Baldwin.

Moving to film, Brolin appeared in a series of unmemorable movies into the early 2000s, before landing a role in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse (2007) double feature. He then starred as Llewelyn Moss in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men (2007) and as the titular 43rd president in Oliver Stone’s W. (2008), and played Supervisor Dan White opposite Sean Penn in Milk (2008). He reunited with Stone for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) and played writer Roy Channing in Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), outlaw Tom Chaney in True Grit (2010) and a young Agent K in the time-traveling Men in Black 3 (2012). 

Brolin’s star continued to rise when he was cast in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Thanos, first appearing in of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), before going on to be the big baddie in Infinity War (2018) and Endgame (2019). He also played Cable in Deadpool 2 (2018), Matt Graver in Sicario (2015) and its Day of the Soldado sequel (2018), and starred opposite George Clooney in the Coens’ Hail, Caesar! (2016). More recently, he played Paul Atreides’ mentor Gurney Halleckin Dune: Part One (2021) and Part Two (2024). Among his upcoming roles in 2025 are the Knives Out mystery Wake Up Dead Man, as well as The Running Man and Zach Cregger’s horror film Weapons. 

Brolin has been married three times, to Alice Adair (1988-92), Diane Lane (2004-13) and current wife Kathryn Boyd Brolin. 

Feldman played Mouth in The Goonies, and worked steadily in the years that followed, with his biggest fame occurring in the ’80s. He is perhaps most known for Stand by Me (1986), in which he starred with Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix and Jerry O’Connell as a group of boys searching for the body of a missing boy, and appeared alongside Corey Haim in Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987). 

The team-up with Haim took on a life of its own, as the duo became close friends known as “The Two Coreys,” even starring in a reality show by that name before Haim’s death from pneumonia in 2010. However, they both struggled with drug addiction, a fact that took its toll on Feldman’s career. Feldman was also famously friends with Michael Jackson and defended the pop star from allegations of child sexual abuse, though he has backed down from that stance in recent years. 

Feldman also appeared in the Tom Hanks/Carrie Fisher cult comedy The ’Burbs (1989). In between a spate of TV roles, he voiced Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) — which grossed more than $202 million worldwide on a $13.5 million budget — and starred in Meatballs 4 (1992). From 2004-06, he appeared in more than 50 episodes of super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! 

Outside of acting, Feldman is a musician with the band The Truth Movement and has been married three times, most recently separating from Courtney Anne Mitchell in 2023. He also elicited controversy in a 2015 appearance on Celebrity Wife Swap, which went behind the scenes of his management company Corey’s Angels.

Kerri Green played Andy, the cheerleader who is interested in Brand (and accidentally kisses Mikey in the dark). She hasn’t been onscreen since the 2012 film Complacent. 

After The Goonies, she appeared in John Candy film Summer Rental (1985) and acted opposite Corey Haim and Charlie Sheen in Lucas (1986), as the title character’s love interest. She shared the screen with Sheen again, along with Alan Ruck, playing a senator’s daughter in Three for the Road (1987). Her acting résumé is also speckled with TV spots like In the Heat of the Night (1990), The Burden of Proof (1992), Mad About You (1992), ER (2000) and Law & Order: SVU (2001). She reportedly took a break from acting to attend Vassar College, and wrote and directed the film Bellyfruit, about teenage pregnancy, in 1999. 

The daughter of Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton, Martha played Andy’s best friend, Stef, who comes along for the ride. Soon after The Goonies, she appeared in Harrison Ford-starring movie The Mosquito Coast (1986) as Emily Spellgood, the daughter of a missionary. She reunited with River Phoenix, who’d played Ford’s son in Mosquito Coast, when they both were in Running on Empty (1988), and the two dated. That same year, she appeared in Woody Allen’s Another Woman, followed by a turn in Ron Howard’s Parenthood (1989), which starred Steve Martin.

She stayed active in the ’90s, with roles in Stanley & Iris (1990), Samantha (1991) and The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994), in which she starred. She performed onstage as well, including at Steppenwolf Theatre, where she was an ensemble member from 1998-2019, playing the title part in Hedda Gabler (2001). Plimpton has appeared on Broadway numerous times, earning three consecutive Tony nominations for roles in The Coast of Utopia (2007), Top Girls (2008) and Pal Joey (2009). 

Plimpton went on to star in Fox’s Raising Hope, earning an Emmy nomination in 2011, and won an Emmy for her recurring guest role as Patti Nyholm in The Good Wife in 2012. She voiced Yelena, the leader of the Northuldra, in Frozen II (2019), and played Sen. Judith Holt in the Kate Winslet miniseries The Regime (2024). Earlier in 2025, she played Jane Torres in the Apple TV+ series Prime Target, about a mathematician (Leo Woodall) whose area of study becomes life-threatening. 

Outside of acting, Plimpton is a singer and abortion-rights activist. She has several upcoming projects in the works, including the miniseries East of Eden, due out on Netflix in 2026.