Then they were just high school students, the pretty and the popular, roaming the halls of West Beverly High, but now, after a decade and a half past “graduating” from teen stars to full-fledged adult actors, Snakkle looks back the cast of the original Beverly Hills, 90210.

Denise Richards is about to turn 44. (It’s okay. We were surprised too.) Although she became a tabloid staple for a while—thanks to her relationships with Charlie Sheen and Richie Sambora—Ms. Richards has been acting since the early ’90s, with roles that varied from an uncredited appearance on The Ben Stiller Show to a brief but very memorable stint on Seinfeld. Herein, we present to you a list of memorable Denise Richards guest spots that you never knew existed—until now. And by the way—happy birthday, Denise!

As Cindy Walsh, the Beverly Hills, 90210 mom transplanted from Minnesota, Carol Potter played the quintessential mother-you-could-confide-in. And in some ways, Potter was like this in real life. “What they were looking for with that character was the mom you could talk to,” she tells Snakkle. “And I have cultivated a similar relationship to my […]