Armageddon Turns 25: Where Are They Now?

Movies By TooFab Staff | 7/1/2018 6:00 AM PT

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Cue the asteroids, animal crackers and Aerosmith as we take a look back at the stars of 1998's Armageddon and what they've been up to since the film's release.

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Bruce Willis (as Harry S. Stamper): Bruce would later star in Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, reprising his role as David Dunn for both Split and Glass. Other major roles since '98 include Sin City, Moonrise Kingdom, Red and the Expendables 2. Willis shares two girls with his wife, Emma Heming, and 3 daughters with ex Demi Moore. In 2022, he retired from acting as his family revealed his aphasia diagnosis. In 2023, they later confirmed he has frontotemporal dementia.

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Ben Affleck (as A.J. Frost): Ben would later star in Shakespeare in Love, Jersey Girl, Argo, Gone Girl and played Batman, most recently in The Flash. He has three kids with his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, and married Jennifer Lopez in 2022.

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Liv Tyler (as Grace Stamper): Since playing Grace Stamper in the blockbuster disaster movie, Tyler scored another blockbuster role in the Lord of the Rings franchise, and then reunited with Affleck in Jersey Girl. She also starred in The Strangers, appeared on the first season of 9-1-1: Lone Star and will reprise her role as Betty Ross from The Incredible Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World. She has a child with ex-husband Royston Langdom and two with current fiancé David Gardner.

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Billy Bob Thornton (as Dan Truman): Billy would later star in Friday Night Lights, Bad Santa and Prime Video's Goliath, for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination. He nabbed an Emmy nom and Globe win for his work on the Fargo TV series as well. He has four children and has been married six times, most recently to his current wife Connie Angland. He was also famously married to Angelina Jolie from 2000-03.

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Owen Wilson (as Oscar Choice): Best known for his humor, Owen later starred in smash hits like Meet the Parents film series, Wedding Crashers, Zoolander and the Night at the Museum movies. He was also the voice behind Lightning McQueen from the Cars films and currently stars on Loki. He has three children with three different ex-girlfriends. In 2007, he attempted suicide, sharing in 2021 that his brother Andrew really helped him get back to a place where he felt "actually good."

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Steve Buscemi (as Rockhound): Buscemi has had a killer resume for a little over 3 decades. He starred in Ghost World, The Big Lebowski, voiced Randall, the lizard-like villain in Monsters Inc and does voice work for the Hotel Transylvania movies. On the TV side, he earned Emmy noms for his work on The Sopranos and Portlandia and won for Boardwalk Empire. He also was a firefighter prior to his acting career and assisted the NYFD after the 9/11 attacks.

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Peter Stormare (as Lev Andropov): He'd appear with Armageddon and Fargo costar Steve Buscemi again in The Big Lebowski. He's also known for his work on Prison Break, John Wick: Chapter 2 and Bad Boys II, as well as voice work. Peter has two kids, one with his ex girlfriend and one with his present wife, Toshimi Stormare.

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Keith David (as General Kimsey): He later starred in Pitch Black, There's Something About Mary, Requiem for a Dream, Barbershop and, most recently, Nope. He's done a ton of voice work, voicing Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog and the Arbiter Thel 'Vadamee in the Halo games. He's been married to Dionne Lea Williams since 2001 and they have two kids.

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William Fichtner (as Colonel Willie Sharp): William later landed notable roles in Crash, Black Hawk Dawn, Blades of Glory, The Dark Night, and on TV series including Invasion and Prison Break. He shares a son with ex-wife Betsy Aidem and another with current wife Kymberly Kalil. He also starred on Mom and, most recently, the since-canceled The Company You Keep.

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Ken Hudson Campbell (as Max Lennert): Ken later landed roles in Coyote Ugly, Dr. Doolittle 2, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and, most recently, did voice work for the movie Wonder Park.

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Will Patton (as Charles ‘Chick’ Chapple): Patton starred in Remember the Titans, Brooklyn's Finest, The Forever Purge and the sci-fi TV series Falling Skies. He most recently appeared in Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends and the TV series Yellowstone, Outer Range and Silo.

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Michael Bay (Director): Bay is known for director action tentpoles, including blockbusters like Pearl Harbor, the Bad Boys films and the Transformers series. His Platinum Dunes production company also released films like remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th and "A Nightmare on Elm Street. He also produced The Purge and Quiet Place films and is an executive producer on The Purge and Jack Ryan TV shows.

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Steven Tyler: Aerosmith's song "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," written by Diane Warren, became the band’s first #1 hit ever. The band later played the Super Bowl, kept releasing new music and going out on tours. Tyler would have throat surgery in 2006, went to rehab in 2009 and was a judge on American Idol, before the band had a Las Vegas residency. In 2022, ex-girlfriend Julia Holcomb -- who was 16 when she dated the then-25-year-old -- accused the singer of sexual assault. He claimed the relationship was consensual and he had immunity as her legal guardian at the time. The case is ongoing.

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Michael Clarke Duncan (as J. Otis ‘Bear’ Kurleen): After his role as Bear, Duncan starred in The Green Mile, alladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Sin City, and The Whole Nine Yards. He passed on September 3, 2012 from a heart attack; he was engaged to Omarosa Manigault at the time of his death.