The cast of ‘Arrested Development’: Where are they now?

Jason Bateman (Michael Bluth)

Jason Bateman plays Michael, the “normal” one who leads the family business when his old man goes to the slammer — all while raising a son as a single dad and trying to keep his insane family from going off the rails.

As the series goes on, Michael realizes he’s more like his family than he thought, which Bateman reflected on prior to season 4.

“My character thought he was the only sane one, the smart Bluth. And the genes have caught up to him… he’s probably realizing that he is not as smart as he thought he was, so he’s a little bit desperate and trying to maintain the veneer of being the only smart one,” Bateman told EW in 2013. “He’s become more tolerant and more empathetic to the fools that his family are. And maybe he’s starting to realize that he’s a bird of the same feather.”

Bateman was a child star who appeared on Little House on the Prairie and The Hogan Family. Following Teen Wolf Too (1987), he endured a string of short-lived TV shows and a career dry spell that carried into the next century. But it was Arrested Development that officially marked his comeback — and won him a Golden Globe.

The role launched him back to big-screen prominence, from supporting appearances in Juno (2007) and Hancock (2008) to a string of starring roles. That mostly meant comedies — including Horrible Bosses (2011), The Change-Up (2011), and Game Night (2018) — but he also earned plaudits for the psychological thriller The Gift (2015). He additionally voiced Nick Wilde in Disney’s Zootopia (2016) and its 2025 sequel, and joined the star-studded cast of the sports drama Air (2023).

Bateman has continued to score big on the small screen. He played another business-oriented father trying to keep his family together, albeit in a much darker vein, on the Emmy-winning Ozark, for which he also won an Emmy for directing. After channeling his villainous side in Carry-On (2024), he teamed up with Jude Law for the dark miniseries Black Rabbit, which he also executive-produced and helped direct. He then starred alongside David Harbour and Linda Cardellini in the offbeat DTF St. Louis, earning another Emmy as an executive producer when the show won Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.

Bateman also cohosts the popular SmartLess podcast with Will Arnett and Sean Hayes. Next up, he’s set to direct the Netflix crime comedy The Cackling of the Dodos, starring Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson.

In 2001, Bateman married Amanda Anka, the daughter of singer Paul Anka. They have two daughters together.

Jessica Walter (Lucille Bluth)

Jessica Walter perfected the art of the withering backhanded insult as the Bluths’ cold, shrewd, intolerant matriarch, Lucille. It’s hard to imagine any actress relishing the humor in the character’s toxic, dysfunctional cruelty quite like her.

“If there’s a scale of 1-10 for Lucille, she’s a 10, in terms of at her very lowest, worst self…. She reveals and entertains talents she did not know she has!” the actress told EW in 2013.

Walter was a television fixture for the better part of six decades. She landed everywhere from The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Mission: Impossible to The Big Bang Theory and NCIS. She won an Emmy for the title role in the short-lived police drama Amy Prentiss and earned nominations for Trapper John, M.D. and The Streets of San Francisco.

Her big-screen career began in star-studded Hollywood productions Lilith (1964) and Grand Prix (1966) before her Golden Globe-nominated breakthrough as Clint Eastwood’s stalker in Play Misty for Me (1971).

Her performance as Lucille was so iconic, it directly inspired her other long-running late-career role: Malory Archer, the manipulative mother of the title character on the animated spy farce Archer.

Walter died in 2021 at the age of 80. She was survived by her daughter, Brooke Bowman, and a grandson.

Will Arnett (Gob Bluth)

Will Arnett plays the air-headed yet arrogant magician and oldest brother, Gob (technically, G.O.B., or George Oscar Bluth). He’s a man who fails often, and spectacularly, yet never loses his willingness to go for broke.

“Gob thinks his next trick might be the holy grail of tricks,” Arnett told EW in 2013. “Gob is always looking to make a name for himself. He has that thing that he always has, which is he doesn’t feel like he’s getting his just due. And so he’s always looking for grander ways to accomplish that. And they actually seem to be just increasingly sadder ways.”

The Canadian-American actor earned his first of seven (to date) Emmy nominations for the breakout role, opening the door for scene-stealing movie roles in Blades of Glory (2007) and Hot Rod (2007). Meanwhile, playing Jack Donaghy’s nemesis Devon Banks made him one of 30 Rock’s most beloved recurring characters.

Arnett reunited with David Cross for The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret and shuffled through a series of starring vehicles on TV, including Flaked and Murderville. But what’s sustained him most of all has been that voice. His gravelly baritone brought the title characters of BoJack Horseman and The Lego Batman Movie (2017) to life and has been in high demand for two decades.

In recent years, he’s been heard in Twisted Metal and Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022). He also hosted the reality competition series LEGO Masters and cohosts the SmartLess podcast with Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes.

Back in the flesh, Arnett starred opposite Laura Dern in Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? (2025), which he also cowrote and produced. He also appeared on Taylor Sheridan’s drama series The Madison.

Arnett has three sons, including two with his ex-wife, actress and comedian Amy Poehler.

Tony Hale (Buster Bluth)

Tony Hale plays the youngest, most anxious, and most sheltered — yet well-educated — of the Bluth siblings, Buster. His uncomfortably close relationship with his mother is rivaled only by his uncomfortably intimate relationship with his mother’s rival, Lucille Austero (Liza Minnelli).

“Fear and desperation are huge through-lines in his life and that will never leave. One thing I always loved about Buster is he really sees life with a totally different perspective than any other person in the family,” Hale told EW in 2013. “He sees the innocence in life, he sees a sweetness, he’s incredibly naïve, and even though things have continued to spiral way out of control, he’s in the middle of that chaos but still with that same perspective, just like, ‘Oh what’s this door?’ He kind of walks around in this Pleasantville daze.”

Though it was Buster who launched Hale into the comedy stratosphere, it was his subsequent role on Veep, as the title character’s desperately loyal personal aide, that landed him the most hardware. He won two Emmys and received four additional nominations for the part. He later won a third Emmy for his performance on The Mysterious Benedict Society.

In addition to supporting appearances in The Informant! (2009) and Being the Ricardos (2021), Hale has found consistent voice work. He had the standout role of Forky in Toy Story 4 (2019) and Toy Story 5 (2026) and replaced Bill Hader as Fear in Inside Out 2 (2024). He currently voices Ultron on Disney Jr.’s Iron Man and His Awesome Friends.

Hale has been married to makeup artist Martel Thompson since 2003. They have one daughter together.

Portia de Rossi (Lindsay Bluth Fünke)

Portia de Rossi portrays Michael’s supposed twin sister Lindsay, whose marriage is nearly as fraudulent as her commitment to philanthropic causes.

“They’re horrible,” she said of her fellow Bluths. “We argue like siblings, but when we were all worried about the show getting picked up [for a second season], the first feeling I had was ‘I can’t bear the thought of not hanging out with them.’”

This was one in a long string of recurring and regular TV roles for the Australian actress. She was in the main cast of Ally McBeal and followed up Arrested Development’s original three-season run with another cult fave comedy, Better Off Ted. She later became a regular on Scandal and made appearances on Nip/Tuck and Santa Clarita Diet.

De Rossi announced her retirement from acting in 2018, though she made an exception for Arrested Development’s fifth season, which concluded in 2019. She has since focused on her art publishing company, General Public. She has been married to comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres since 2008. The couple moved to England in 2024, though they split their time between the U.K. and California.

David Cross (Tobias Fünke)

David Cross portrays Tobias, a psychiatrist turned aspiring actor completely lacking in talent or self-awareness, shortcomings that carry over into his commitment to keeping his sham marriage alive.

“They wanted me to read for Gob and I did not have a handle on Gob at all. I had no idea how to play that,” Cross told EW in 2019. “Tobias, immediately I knew who the guy was.”

Cross rose to fame through his Grammy-nominated stand-up comedy and the sketch comedy classic Mr. Show with Bob and David. He and comedy partner Bob Odenkirk received three Emmy nominations for the series. Cross also won an Emmy for his writing on The Ben Stiller Show in 1993.

After AD’s initial run, Cross created and starred in the dark comedy The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret and has continued doing stand-up and sketch comedy, including the Netflix revival W/Bob and David.

The comedy veteran has been a reliable character actor in cinemas for years, appearing in everything from Men in Black (1997) and Ghost World (2001) to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and I’m Not There (2007), in which he played poet Allen Ginsberg. More recently, he appeared in You Hurt My Feelings (2023) and Oh, Hi! (2025).

His recent TV roles include HBO’s acclaimed Station Eleven, Justified: City Primeval, The Umbrella Academy, and Elsbeth. He also lent his voice to the animated comedy President Curtis and released the stand-up specials Worst Daddy in the World (2024) and The End of the Beginning of the End (2026).

Cross married actress Amber Tamblyn in 2012. The couple welcomed a daughter in 2017.

Jeffrey Tambor (George Bluth)

Jeffrey Tambor was the corrupt, bumbling real-estate tycoon George Bluth Sr., who begins the show by getting arrested and spends the lion’s share of the series in one sort of legal jeopardy or another. He also played George’s considerably more laid-back twin brother, Oscar.

“My character is on an interesting journey of self-discovery, which took him to Mexico and shady, shady places…. He’s got to do some fast moving. Fear index is high. He’s got to be creative. He will be tested in his most Darwinian sense. He’s got a lot of juggling to do,” Tambor told EW in 2013.

By the time he became a Bluth, the longtime character actor was already a TV history immortal thanks to his role as neurotic talk-show sidekick Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show. He later went on to earn two Emmys and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of a transgender woman on Prime Video’s Transparent.

The veteran actor’s movie career, which dates back to the Oscar-nominated …And Justice for All (1979), got another boost from AD’s popularity. He was a regular in both the Hellboy and Hangover franchises and scored supporting roles in Win Win (2011) and The Accountant (2016). He also voiced characters in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Tangled (2010), and Trolls (2016). He earned widespread acclaim for his dryly satirical portrayal of Georgy Malenkov in The Death of Stalin (2017).

The Bay Area native has been less active since facing allegations of sexual harassment on the set of Transparent, which led to his dismissal from the series in 2018. Tambor has denied the allegations. His most recent credited acting role was in the 2020 comedy Magic Camp. 

Tambor has been married to Kasia Ostlun since 2001. They share four children. He also has a daughter from a previous relationship.

Michael Cera (George Michael Bluth)

Michael Cera portrays Michael’s perpetually awkward son George Michael, who can’t stop crushing on his cousin Maeby.

“I was always really proud of this show and how it’s kind of distilled in perfection, and nothing can take away from that,” Cera told EW in 2013 before the show’s season 4 revival. “So that was the fear, that maybe we could detract from the power of the show and the mythology of its short life. But those fears really subsided very quickly once we got into production.”

A virtual unknown when the show premiered, Cera became a breakout movie star in Superbad (2007) and Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), not to mention being the father of the title character’s unborn child in Juno (2007).

The Canadian actor played a fictionalized version of himself in This Is the End (2013), turned in a sinister scene-stealing performance in Molly’s Game (2017), and had a divisive one-scene appearance on Twin Peaks: The Return. More recently, he played Allan in the smash hit Barbie (2023) and joined Wes Anderson’s acting troupe in The Phoenician Scheme (2025). He also starred in the 2025 indie comedy Sacramento.

And let’s not forget, he went under his old Uncle Gob’s wing as the Boy Wonder in The Lego Batman Movie (2017). In 2025, he reunited with Wright for the remake of The Running Man, starring Glen Powell.

On television, Cera starred opposite Amy Schumer in Life & Beth and reprised his role as Scott Pilgrim in Netflix’s animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.

Cera is private about his personal life, but he and his wife Nadine have two sons, the first of whom was born in 2021.

Alia Shawkat (Maeby Fünke)

Alia Shawkat plays Lindsay and Tobias’ daughter Maeby, who spends years acting out for attention, rebelling against her parents, and running elaborate cons predicated on pretending she’s much older than she actually is.

Shawkat spoke with EW in 2013 about Maeby’s progression — or lack thereof — throughout the series.

“She lost her clout. She used to have all this power, and it completely vanished. It caught up to her for acting older than she was, so she’s at a stage where she has to do the opposite. She has to act younger than she was and it’s a weird ego trip for her,” Shawkat said. “But in a way, she’s still so much Maeby, she’s always plotting and scheming. She’s always trying to get attention from her parents, so that’s still going strong. She’s looking in all the wrong areas.”

Shawkat broke through as a child star on the family dramedy State of Grace, alongside future AD costar Mae Whitman. (Her?) The actress later secured the lead on another highly acclaimed series, the dark satire Search Party, and has since popped up on Transparent and The Old Man. More recently, she made guest appearances on Severance and Poker Face and lent her voice to Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and the animated comedy #1 Happy Family USA.

Over the years, she became something of an indie film darling, appearing in Night Moves (2013), Green Room (2015), and The Final Girls (2015). She also cowrote and starred in Duck Butter (2018) and had a key supporting role in Zoë Kravitz’s starry directorial debut, Blink Twice (2024). In 2025, she starred opposite Callum Turner in the Sundance prizewinner Atropia, followed by the stoner comedy The Wrong Girls (2026), in which she reunited with AD costar Tony Hale and starred opposite Kristen Stewart.

Shawkat gave birth to her first child in 2023.

Liza Minnelli (Lucille 2)

Liza Minnelli plays Lucille Austero, a.k.a. Lucille 2, who ends up in a bizarre romantic affair with Buster, the much younger son of her neighbor and business rival, Lucille Bluth.

Minnelli, of course, needs no introduction as one of the most accomplished performers of her generation. She has four Tonys to her name as well as an Emmy, an honorary Grammy, and an Academy Award for her lead role in Bob Fosse’s classic musical Cabaret (1972).

The showbiz veteran starred opposite such varied leading men as Robert De Niro in New York, New York (1977) and Dudley Moore in Arthur (1981).

Minnelli is Hollywood royalty, the daughter of actress Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli. Her remarkable life and career were chronicled in the 2025 documentary Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, and she published her memoir, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, in March 2026.

Ron Howard (The Narrator)

Ron Howard is the show’s sharp-witted, deadpan narrator.

“I always thought the narrator was a guy who would do this sort of contemporary psychological documentary series about the Bluths…  I tried to be always kind of clinical about it,” Howard told EW in 2013. “Mitch [Hurwitz] always likes the narrator to become a little judgmental or cop a little bit of an attitude — be a little insulted by something that he sees or hears or become a little defensive — and I think that’s pretty funny.”

Howard rose to fame in front of the camera, starring as young Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and as Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. But as time wore on, he gravitated behind the camera.

The one-time child star became one of the most successful mainstream directors around. He established himself with hits like Splash (1984), Cocoon (1985), Willow (1988), and Parenthood (1989) and graduated to prestige dramas like Apollo 13 (1995) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), for which he won the Best Director Oscar.

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His other credits include Cinderella Man (2005), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008), Rush (2013), and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). More recently, he directed the fact-based survival dramas Thirteen Lives (2022) and Eden (2025), as well as the Emmy-winning documentary Jim Henson Idea Man (2024). His latest documentary, Avedon (2026), premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Howard has been married to Cheryl Alley since 1975. They have four kids, including actress Bryce Dallas Howard.