Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982
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- Sean Penn - Jeff Spicoli. Stoner and surfer dude Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) spends most of his school days locked in perpetual battle with his straight-laced history teacher, Mr. Hand (Ray Walston).
- Judge Reinhold - Brad Hamilton. For the popular Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold), senior year of high school is kind of a drag. After angering an impossible-to-please customer (you know the type), Brad's fired from his job at All-American Burger, and every new job he gets is worse than the last.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh - Stacy Hamilton. For 15-year-old Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh), life gets more complicated during the search for romance. After losing her virginity to a customer at the pizza parlor where she works, Stacy briefly dates the shy Mark Ratner, but the two break things off after some mixed signals.
- Robert Romanus - Mike Damone. Mike Damone (Robert Romanus) fancies himself something of a casanova and a rebel—scalping concert tickets to make money and regaling his shy friend Mark Ratner with the details of his "five-point plan" for success with the ladies.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Sean Penn
- Judge Reinhold
- Phoebe Cates
- Robert Romanus
- Brian Backer
- Amanda Wyss
- Scott Thomson
- Forest Whitaker
Jennifer Jason Leigh played Stacy Hamilton, a 15-year-old freshman with a job at Perry’s Pizza. Leigh went on to star in Backdraft and Short Cuts throughout the 1990s. For her role as wanted murderer Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist western The Hateful Eight, Leigh was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, wh...
Fast Times at Ridgemont High’s lovable stoner, Jeff Spicoli, was played by Sean Penn. After getting his start in this comedic role, Penn went on to become a respected dramatic actor. He won two Best Actor Oscars for his roles in the sobering mystery thriller Mystic River and the political biopic Milk. Penn played mob boss Mickey Cohen in Gangster S...
Judge Reinhold played Stacy’s older brother, Brad Hamilton, a popular senior bouncing from job to job. Brad isn’t a great boyfriend to Lisa, but he makes up for it by being a supportive brother to Stacy. Reinhold is known for his supporting roles in Stripes, Gremlins, and every movie in the Beverly Hills Cop and The Santa Clause franchises. He also...
Linda Barrett, Stacy’s best friend and Perry’s Pizza colleague, who gives her advice about sex and dating, was played by Phoebe Cates. Cates’ role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High made her a cultural icon. Besides her Fast Times role as Linda, Cates is best known for playing Kate Beringer in Gremlins and its self-aware sequel, the now-beloved Gremli...
Mike Damone, the smooth-talker who turns out to be a lot more vulnerable and insecure than he lets on, was played by Robert Romanus in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Romanus went on to play Natalie Green’s boyfriend Snake Robinson on The Facts of Life and had a supporting role in the 1985 comedy Bad Medicine. Throughout the 2010s, Romanus guest-star...
Brian Backer played Mark “Rat” Ratner, Damone’s nerdy best friend who works as an usher at the Ridgemont Mall movie theater and is in love with Stacy. Backer played A. Bartlett Congdon on the soap opera Santa Barbara and scored guest roles on TV shows like Charles in Charge, Gimme a Break!, and Growing Pains. In 1981, he won a Tony Award and a Dram...
Brad’s girlfriend Lisa, who breaks up with him before he can break up with her, was played by Amanda Wyss. Throughout the rest of the 1980s, Wyss played Tina Gray in the seminal supernatural slasher A Nightmare on Elm Street, Beth in the classic dark comedy Better Off Dead, and Woody Boyd’s ex-girlfriend in two episodes of Cheers. In 2016, Wyss app...
Scott Thomson played Brad’s friend Arnold in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. After his appearance in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Thomson played Chad Copeland in Police Academy, a role he later reprised in Police Academy 3: Back in Training and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol. Throughout the 1990s, Thomson appeared in such hit movies as Clueles...
Charles Jefferson, one of Ridgemont High’s most successful football players, was played by Forest Whitaker. After playing one of his earliest film roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Whitaker went on to become a bigger movie star than most of the other cast members. He has starred in such widely acclaimed films as Good Morning, Vietnam, The Cryi...
- Jennifer Jason Leigh (61) Stacy Hamilton. Jennifer Jason Leigh played 15-year-old Stacy Hamilton, who worked at Perry’s Pizza. Perry’s Pizza was a real place and Leigh actually took a job there to prepare for the role.
- Sean Penn (62) Jeff Spicoli. While Penn played a stoner in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, he has mostly turned to more serious and dramatic roles as his career went on.
- Phoebe Cates (60) Linda Barrett. Phoebe Cates just turned 60 on July 16, 2023, and played Linda, Stacy’s best friend at Perry’s Pizza who gives her lots of dating advice in Fast Times At Ridgemont High and of course that infamous daydream sequence of jumping into the pool.
- Judge Reinhold (66) Brad Hamilton. Judge Reinhold played Stacy’s older brother and boyfriend to Lisa. He also appeared in Gremlins with Cates as well as Beverly Hills Cop and the Santa Clause movies.
Aug 13, 2022 · Brian Backer and Robert Romanus in ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High ... (Phoebe Cates) discusses losing her virginity at 13 and Stacy gets an abortion, would be made today. “We’re going ...
- Ryan Gajewski
Nov 24, 2022 · Brian Backer - Mark “Rat” Ratner Universal Pictures Mark “Rat” Ratner is the heart of the film, as his crush on Stacy is obvious from a mile away, but his shyness and lack of confidence ...
- Rafa Boladeras
Jul 26, 2022 · Brian Backer as Mark “Rat” Ratner, a sweet and sexually inexperienced kid who works at the movie theater in the mall and has a crush on Stacy.
Aug 10, 2017 · Brian Backer (Then) Image Credit: Universal Pictures Brian Backer played Mark “Rat” Ratner, one of the “Fast Times” characters to be clearly based on a real person. Brian Backer (Now)
