Do You Remember: Get Real

Cast of Get Real:
Front: Anne and Eric
Back: Jon, Debrah, Christina and Jesse

What do Oscar winning actress Anne Hathaway, Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg and NCIS: Los Angeles fan favorite actor Eric Christian Olsen have in common?

They actually played siblings in the short-lived FOX drama Get Real that aired during the 1999-2000 TV season.

Get Real was an hour-long dramedy that followed the dysfunctional Green family in San Francisco. Parents Mitch and Mary – portrayed by Major Crimes and The Closer alum Jon Tenney and former model turned actress Debrah Farentino – faced midlife crises and their kids, Cameron, Meghan and Kenny, went through their teenage years. St. Elsewhere alum Christina Pickles was also part of the cast.

For both Anne and Jesse, the roles they had in Get Real were their debut performances on the small screen while Eric was relatively new as well with only a few guest starring roles under his belt.

Eric Christian Olsen – Anne Hathaway – Jesse Eisenberg

Get Real included a long list of guest stars many of whom have gone on to have quite interesting careers themselves.

They include the following (in alphabetical order):

Amy Carlson (Third Watch and Blue Bloods)
Chris D’Elia (Whitney and Undateable)
Peter Hermann (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Younger)
Steve Howey (Reba and Shameless)
January Jones (Mad Men and the X-Men franchise)
Mila Kunis (That 70’s Show)
James Lafferty (One Tree Hill)
Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty and Signed Sealed Delivered franchise)
Taryn Manning (Hawaii Five-0 and Orange Is the New Black)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
Ellen Pompeo (Grey’s Anatomy)
James Roday (Psych)
Scott Patterson (Gilmore Girls)
Marissa Jaret Winokur (the Broadway production of Hairspray)

These veteran actors also made appearances on the show during its very short one-season run on FOX:

Ethan Embry (That Thing You Do! and Sweet Home Alabama)
John Glover (Smallville)
Conchata Ferrell (Two and a Half Men)
John Michael Higgins (Pitch Perfect franchise)
Debi Mazar (Entourage and Younger)
Kelly Rutherford (Gossip Girl)
Kristoff St. John (The Young and the Restless)
Brenda Strong (Desperate Housewives)

The pilot of Get Real aired on September 8, 1999 with the final episode airing on April 12, 2000. There were actually 24 episodes of the debut season of the short-lived drama, but only 22 episodes aired.

Do you remember Get Real?